Love this song!

Love the lyrics and melody. A little touchy-feely but touchy feely in a good way ;) . (This reminds me of a trader at work who lost money, and when asked replied , "Yeah I lost money, but I lost money in a good way.")

Enron Redux

200,000 emails sent by Enron employees from 1999-2003. Quite interesting to browse. Never know what you might find ;).

Enron Explorer.

Le Smoking

..has gone up in smoke.

Ai ai ai yoo..

Been plagued with recurrent knee pain :(. I think its the new running shoe I have been running with for the last 4 weeks, as the knee has steadily deteriorated over the period. My old shoes were brilliantly left at my friend's place in London. My advice to you is to avoid like the plague these colorful new fangled shoes that claim to do all these crazy things. All the techno messes up your natural balance and cranks up your injury risk. The worst ones are those with a raised heel that leave you feeling tall, pumped and bouncy - they increase the pressure on the front of your foot which then levers into your knee. Given this, I don't understand why women wear high heels! It can so easily turn into a nightmare, where a heel slips, ankle twists or worse still a ligament tears. (The sacrifices people make and risks people take to look good ;) ). Moral of the story : stick to simple shoes for athletic activity. Wear the fancy shoes (heels for example) if you want to look good.

'tis the season to be married!

More precisely, it appears to be the weekend to be married. The city seems to be overflowing at the gills with couples getting hitched. Every hotel I walked past had at least 3 marriage receptions going on. Michigan Avenue and Grant Park had like 20,000 couples looking to frame their greatest moment most beootifully. Limos everywhere, from sedate black Lincoln town cars to out and out outrageous stretch Humvees with screaming inhabitants. Every other passerby on the street was either a bridesmaid in flowing primary colors or a black suited best-man. For a little bit I wondered if I was having a delusional hallucination of deep hidden issues that really have no other way to find the light of day, but my friends corroborated my observations. Either they are having similar hallucinations as well, or it is indeed true that everyone everywhere has decided to get married at the same time.

One for the road

Urbana-Champaign
The Blind Pig

Chicago
The Grill Room
Pepper Canister

London
The Volunteer
The Long Acre

The Oil Drum

The Oil Drum.

Guess who?

Was walking past a theater back entrance on State and Lake on my way home from work and a cop stopped me on the sidewalk to let someone pass. Guess who ? Dolly Parton!