Four Indian Firms Hogged 10,000 H1B Visas
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Politics | No Comments »See article at IndianExpress.com I am not wild about the H-1B program, but if it were about individual Indians I would be a fan. Admittedly it is a selected subset that I meet here, but they are generally intelligent, hard working, friendly ...
Obama gives me hope
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Posted in Politics | 9 Comments »I just watched Mr. Obama's speech to Congress. What a refreshing change to have a leader lead, to have a leader concerned about the run of mill citizen, to have a leader paint a picture of a shared future. Obama gives me ...
Oscars outsourced to India
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Posted in Movie Reviews | No Comments »With Slumdog Millionaire winning 8 Oscars, John Stewart of the Daily Show, quipped last night that they had been "outsourced to India". Hollywood watch out here comes Bollywood... Great movie though, well worth your time to go see.
Paradise Now
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Movie Reviews, Politics | No Comments »I had read or heard about this Arabic language movie, and I was very interested so I bought a copy. Just as an aside, I told a coworker and friend that I had purchased the film. He is Egyptian and ...
Adding a second language
Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Randomness | No Comments »I'm in the process of trying to learn/relearn Italian. Many moons ago I lived in Italy for 3 years during my Jr. High years. I was never fluent, but I spoke enough to not be cheated in the markets and ...
Article on Global Household Wealth Distribution
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in Politics | No Comments »To my redneck way of thinking the biggest problems globally are: Overpopulation - whatever happened to the conversation on this? Religion, especially the Abrahamic religions Lack of acceptance of other cultures/viewpoints Misdistribution of wealth See embedded article for stats.
Political anti-Darwinism???
Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Politics | No Comments »It's the birthday (February 16th) of historian and philosopher Henry Adams, (books by this author) born in Boston, Massachusetts (1838). His grandfather was John Quincy Adams, and his great-grandfather was John Adams. He hated public speaking, he had no interest in ...
Ill wind blows in Information Technology
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 Posted in Immigration, Politics | 1 Comment »I sent the following letter to every presidential candidate at the beginning of the campaign...when there were about 100 of them. I also sent it to each of my Senators and my Congressman. Two of the campaigns sent me a letter ...
Bad jokes wanted
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Really Bad Jokes | 29 Comments »Well not bad jokes, but jokes that make you laugh and other folks groan. Those are the ones that tickle "me fancy". Just add a comment to this posting to share your "bad" joke.
Your Curmudgeon story, please
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Life, Trials and Tribulations | 1 Comment »The following comment was posted to this site: I can't find a way to send a suggestion, so I'll post here, since it seems to have the floor at the moment. (Teach me the right way!) You are not legitimately a Curmudgeon ...
