Brown Motion

There is a lot of ground to cover if one wanted to visit all the 190 plus officially recognized countries in our world. A lot of them have even more water to cover to get to them. But the family all aligned on the merits of burning fossil fuels to appreciate other cultures embarked on few voyages in the past two decades and came back with lots of pictures and memories to last this lifetime. Below are glimpses from the five of seven continents we touched down on..in no particular order.. and merely arranged based on the laziness of finding these gems by yours truly Above pic is of my breakfast in Pune, India High calorific content amidst a humid and noisy ambience not captured in the picture the rice lentil crepe is a crispy delight. Above vista is a ski slope near the Tahoe basin of the Sierra Nevada range in winter in Northern California. Bull. No really ... it is a big deal in India.  It is what Shiva the destructor of this universe rode on.. as myths go i...

Coming to America 25 years back I did not know of this Tom Hanks. As it happened my introduction to this great actor was watching a Bob Zemeckis directed film called 'Forrest Gump'.  And it clicked.  It went on to win the Academy award for best picture and so on but I was introduced to a prolific character actor. Much like Forrest I consider myself somewhat dimwitted in many matters but am never one to back down form a challenge. The 'life is like a box of chocolates, you're never sure what you're gonna get' line resonates with me except it also takes the form of people I meet, or the kimchi I get or the donut that may or may not exist when I walk upto the checkout counter. The donut collection at a local boba tea place The pickled collection at a local Korean barbeque One of my favorite things... a sweet elixir from Hungary..the puttonyos or sweetness is what you want to watch.  My favorite is a six.  At the local warehouse store that ...

The internet is a wonderful thing.  So is curiosity.  Put two and three together and sometimes you get more than six. I stumbled upon a lot of interesting people and facts simply reading about a subject online.  Only to later discover that I could actually land a book about that subject at the local library. So it was I discovered a Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos (pronounced Air Dash).  Someone who learned about negative numbers at age three, did not ever cook in his lifetime or learn how to tie his shoes till age 11, he was an odd specimen that graced this earth. I recently read a biography about Erdos titled, 'The man who loved only numbers' by Paul Hoffman.  Born to a set of Jewish math teachers, Paul lived the life of a monk in the pursuit of mathematical truth. After reading the book I am still trying to decipher what I had just read and how this amazing mind was able to see what others could not see.  Similar mind bending ideas came to lo...