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A Bucket List Item and Other Random Notes

I must make a bike trip to Rohtang Pass or some other adventurous place like Manali or Dehra Dun on a bike before I kick the bucket.

These guys have went to Lahaul-Spiti and Anuranjan Pegu has done a fabulous job of documenting the trip on his blog.

This is about table manners in restaurants; specifically, to be kind to the waiter. I guess the same can be said about India too though here the class barriers are higher.

People don't normally go from being waiters to actors or writers and so on in India. I think I have seen some misbehavior with waiters in restaurants but then I don't frequent restaurants.

The MOOCs are on the march of course. And lazy institutions who are not part of this revolution will inevitably fall behind.

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