Archive for April, 2007

Protected: Weird interviews

30Apr07

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FairTax in Pakistan?

29Apr07

I put a new article on the Nairang Foundation website, this one about the idea of FairTax, a new tax scheme that one of the Democratic candidates for US President is promoting. Check it out.

The Onion does video!

27Apr07

Great, another way to waste time. See here. In The Know: The U.S. Moat

Ridiculous, insane strength

27Apr07

Syed sent me a link to this guy, a former gymnast who now chronicles his training for parkour and is just ridiculously strong. Like, one-arm chinup ridiculous, and clapping handstand ridiculous. Anyway, I figured YouTube was bound to have something interesting on the topic of ridiculous strength, and sure enough I came across this. The first time [...]

Unifying forces

20Apr07

Bemoaning the lack of a single culture or socio-political aim to bring Pakistanis together to end the perpetual cycle of corruption, nepotism and stagnation is probably the activity Pakistanis indulge in most often. I was talking to SB in Karachi when she told me that they suffered 20-hour-a-day power cuts last summer and were expecting [...]

Random update

20Apr07

Y’know, I wonder sometimes just how perfect life would be if my only responsibility was to feed myself. I mean, daaaaamn, I’m good at it. I got back from Pakistan on Sunday and am catching up on my studying, which lost out to Mac and Irti for my time during the trip. So far it’s been [...]