Hi friends…

It’s about midnight and I’m struggling to stay awake. It’s been a good day here.. THe meeting was really interesting.. and I also managed to get some good day job work done. that’s the advantage of working in two such different timezones..

I am feeling sort of lonely and disconencted here.. Last night I did aomehting I rarley do when I travel.. I acaually went out and ate dinner by myslef. Usually when I travel by myself I only eat when there’s a group f folks goign out.. Last night I was too hingary to sleep.. so I went down to the resturant and ordered a meal.. just liek all the other guys eating by themselves.. I didn’t feel social.. and evindently neaher did they. we all ate in silence.. Actually.. it asn’t to bad. the food was excelelnt.. I even took pictures.. I call them ;Still life with okra’ ..

It was by far the best okra I’ve ever eaten.. My dad loves okra.. but I
wouldn’t touch the stiff as a kid.. now I love it.. Just one of the
many good traits I picked up from my folks..

For dessert I took Pan.. the wierd Indian concoction made of beetle leaf, lm e as in calcium carbonate.. not the citrus fruit), sugar, silver flakes, cardamon and (sometimes tobacoo all wrapped in a beetle leaf.. It’s got to be the weirdest thing eaten on the entire planet.. It tastes a bit like toothpaste mixed with wood chips wrapped in newspaper.. but for some reason I just love it.. ‘sposed to be good for your digestion.. and a billian indians couldn’t all be wrong.. could they ?

I got up at 6:30 this morning.. did some yoga and wentdown staris to have breakfast with einds. My driver Salim met me at 8:30 and we went out to battle our way to teh ibm site.. As we left.. I took a pictue of the most ignored sign in all of Delhi..

I love driving through this place. it looks familiar to me now.. I love the color. the people and the general disorder

THere’s some serous roadwork goign on here (a new metro maybe ?) .. I loved the signs they had plasted on the road works. The english is close, but no tobacoo leaves stuffed inside tobaco leaves.

The took ?!

And my personal favorite for all your crytographers and number theorists out there..

I just realized that it didn’t rain today !.. Though.. the streets are still pretty flooded.

The IBM Researhc lab here is beutiful and gleaming.. a perfect place for a meeting…

We worked from 9 till 6:30 then headed back to the hotel.. these cutre street puppies were foraging ouside the plant.. The mma was there too… they looked pretty helathy

It is pretty hot and steamy here.. I think this picture captured the feel of the late afternoon atmosphere .

We got back to the hotel in time for a 7:30 dinner.. Great conversationn. I partculary enjoyed the conversation tonight . I spoke with Chieko-san.. She’s a blind researcher at IBM Tokyo Lab who works on alternat ecomutere interaction. . Bo from Beijng, Eric from theCongo by way of S. Aftrica, Paul from NY, Nitendra from Delhi, Chalire from Minnesota and several others… I had to break for a half hour in the middle of dinner to take a work call.. but got back in time or the rest of the meal. Dinner was great !

Not muchelse to report here.. I’ve used some of the time here to catch u on the SamStone palcement and findings. I put about 15 new ones on the map today including the following ones..