In New York, I kept winning all of the random bets that I made. I felt unstoppable. I've lost every bet I've made in India. Tessa has won every bet, I lost my poker earnings at Bollywood and I just lost 100 Rs to my friend, Pratsut, on the Madrid-Barcelona soccer game. I felt cocky in cheering aganst Madrid to needle him even though he almost made we walk home. Thirty seconds after I bet 100 Rs that Barcelona would score first, Madrid put in a beautiful goal. I think I should be worried that Pratsut bets I will not be able to last out my six month lease in Santa Cruz. I wonder if that fishing boat job in Australia is still available.
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the completed blog of my adventures through India with my sister, life on the March to Tibet with the snow lions and my short exploration of Cape Town
- Lex Pelger
- NYC, United States
- An American scientist who moved to Mumbai, switched to journalism and wound up on the March to Tibet. After a quick stop in South Africa, he finally made it back to the Big Apple. pelger@gmail.com
visitors (dec 12, 2007)
my articles on the march
Like No Other
- Boingboing - my favorite blog, "a collection of wonderful things"
- Postsecret - my first Sunday activity, people mail in their secrets on postcards
- Strange Maps - a collection of interesting maps
- Improv Everywhere - "We cause scenes" - improv jokes on unsuspecting people
- Jan Chipchase's Future Perfect - an anthropologist for Nokia who finds people's elegant solutions to small problems during his travels
- Rules of Thumb - helpful little rules on a crazy array of topics
- Dezeen - excellent design blog
- Mod Blog - not for all eyes/stomachs, piercings and much more
- English Russia - because something interesting happens every day on a 1/6 of the world's surface
- Morbid Anatomy - "Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture"
Politics & Economics
- Nicholas Kristof - one of the leading journalists of this generation, instrumental in bringing the Sudan genocide to the world stage
- Jon Taplin's blog - my favorite for analysis of economics
- Open Congress - open source info on every bill in Washington
- Daily Kos - the liberal blogger
- Instapundit - Libertarian
- Wonkette - dirtiest (and funniest) mouth in political blogging
- Phayul - the Tibetan news source
- Danwei - excellent source for internal Chinese news with a daily summary of Xinhua's top stories
- TIME: China blog - excellent analysis, a must-read if interested in China
Comics & Fun
- Everything is Wrong With Me - the funniest blog I read, not safe for work
- XKCD - my favorite comic
- Fireland - a twitter feed (144 chars or less) of funny and twisted lines, makes me spit up milk
- Fig Crumbs - funny poetry
- Qwantz - dinosaur comics with a philosophical bent
- Indexed - comics on index cards
- Drinking for Two - funny and disturbing observations
- Wondermark Comic - Victorian engraving comics, much funnier than it sounds
Science
- Evolgen - molecular population and evolutionary genetics
- Genomicron - exploring genomic diversity and evolution
- John Hawks Anthropology blog - paleoanthropology, genetics, and evolution
- Pharyngula - "Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal"
- Richard Dawkins - a link list to atheism and science news by the man himself
- ScienceBlog - links to new research in all disciplines
- Wired Science - has the mag's unique taste for cool
Friends
- Dad's book and business, be his friend on facebook
- ConstructionKnowledge.net - Dad's construction encyclopedia
- Prependuum - David Goligorsky's excellent design blog
- green, how i want you green - Nadia's blog with her writing and excellent photos from her worldwide travels
- Goodtymes, Bad Times... - email the lazy bastard and tell him to keep writing
- The Wreck of the Mary Murray - my trip to an abandoned Staten Island Ferry
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