Archive for May, 2009
As I mentioned earlier, Mona and I are in the midst of planning our wedding. We had fairly specific criteria for our wedding: Since we’re Indian, needed a venue that allowed Indian food, preferably from a place like Shalimar or Ronguli We love being outside, and prefer to have an outdoor ceremony. Because Michigan is [...]
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Tags: Henry Ford, Henry Ford Museum, Lovett Hall
Mona and I are having a very difficult time figuring out our wedding plans, so we figured that writing a few things down might help clarify our thoughts. We had fairly specific criteria for our wedding: Since we’re Indian, needed a venue that allowed Indian food, preferably from a place like Shalimar or Ronguli We [...]
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Tags: Dearborn Inn, wedding
Rationality vs. Animal Instincts
The New Yorker had an interesting book review/article that tied 3 recently published books together in order to determine the origins of our current economic crisis. Fool’s Gold by Gillian Tett Of the 3 books listed, this one seems the most likely to find a spot on my reading list. Written by a Financial Times [...]
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Tags: economics, finance, JPMorgan, psychology
Earlier today, Microsoft unveiled its newest $100 million attempt to compete with Google in the highly lucrative search engine category. Named “bing”, the search engine will be launched next week. According to this TechCrunch article, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the decision to name the site Bing rested on: Short matters. Being able to [...]
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Tags: Bing, Google, Microsoft