Sharma Family Journal

Are you looking to study the life of the Indian community in San Francisco bay area? Look no further than this thread!

In spite of a large number of problem reports, Honda doesn’t seem to be doing anything about it.

My dealer hit me with the same problem on a 2004 odyssey with 70k miles.

You’re probably not alone if you got the marketing literature about the “bi-weekly payment plan” and how its going to save you a boat load of money. Since I didn’t want to deal with a third party – I tried to do this through my bank’s bill pay service.

For some strange reason, the mortgage vendors want to block this and make you go through their advertised plan. Their standard party line is: we don’t apply partial payments. You have to go through the hassle of calling customer service and opening tickets to combine the two half payments into one.

Sigh. I’ll be going back to my regular monthly payment plan. This was Citi Mortgage.

Seekingalpha is running a story today on Agriculture.

For example, in 1985 the average Chinese consumer ate 44 pounds of meat per year. Today, it’s more than doubled to 110 pounds. That in of itself is impressive, but when you consider that it takes 17 pounds of grain to generate one pound of beef, you begin to see how grain demand can rise exponentially to population growth with even modest changes to diet.

I wonder if there will be more vegetarians inhabiting the planet 100 years from now.

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Hello xxx has sent you a friend request through yyy social networking service. Click here to login and accept.

Sounds familiar? This beats replica watches, Nigerian scams and Viagara in the amount of spam generated. My empathies to folks with names like jsmith.

Number of “Arun Sharma”s on facebook? Felt a bit bored this morning and clicked through the list. Final tally: 290+. No wonder I get so much spam in my inbox (firstname.lastname@gmail.com). Many of them are just cases of mistaken identity or phishing in the name of some bank that does business in India.

I’m still alive. I survived a nearly 24 hour email blackout. You don’t believe it? Here’s a tip for other people attempting this stunt. Read lots of news. After you’re done, search for more news. Then some gadget blogs, followed by message boards. Don’t forget to drink lots of water.

It didn’t help that xname crashed around the same time. It was excruciatingly painful to click on network tools to see the TTL on my SOA record go down to zero at midnight. The final piece of the puzzle was to disable the DSL firewall (which is on by default to keep the kids safe).

Hopefully the site is faster now. Do let me know if you see problems.

If your kid sometimes decides to show off his drawing skills on a $600 LCD monitor that you use everyday and you want a quick solution (no, water doesn’t work) here is one:

I used the tiniest amount of isopropyl alcohol (generic walgreens brand) with a moist wipe to clean it up. It worked well for me.

Reading about Potty parity and the world toilet summit, I sometimes wonder if these guys have too much time in life…

While we’re on this topic, my sister told me a joke about the autorickshaw (3 wheeler cabs in India) driver in Bangalore, who thought that Infosys made most of its money from the pay-per-use toilets the wife of the chairman built as a public service