02.26.06
Posted in General at 11:41 am by BestFriendChris
It is now 11pm Sunday night and I just realized that I haven’t really written anything in a while. That being said, I’m not really going to write anything now, either. 
I would, however, like to direct your attention to the small map on the right hand side of this page. If you click on it, you can see a map of the world with red dots showing from where people have visited my site. Aside from the excellent showing from Iowa and Bangalore, we’re also getting a respectable number of hits from Istanbul (Quick shout out to Ozge’s family).
So, in the spirit of global harmony (not to mention my own curiosity), I’d like for everybody and anybody who is checking this website for updates on us TWU-ers to add a comment with:
- Name
- Who you know here at TWU
- Where you’re from
Hopefully this won’t be lame. At the very least, it might encourage me to update my blog more often, and, possibly, get my freaking pictures from our trip to Mysore last weekend up.
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02.19.06
Posted in Thoughtworks at 7:27 am by BestFriendChris
Today I saw my very first cricket match, and so I’ve decided to inform all of my friends and family from the states what the rules are:
- Start with baseball
- Puff the Diamond out into a circle
- Move the bases in the center of the circle
- Remove the outfield wall
- Remove the 1st and 3rd bases
- Move the pitcher behind 2nd base
- Put a runner on 2nd base, next to the pitcher
- Take the remaining bases and replace them with sticks in the ground
- Replace the baseball with a ball that will hurt more when you catch it
- Remove any sort of gloves that will make catching the ball not hurt
- Add as many outfielders as you can
- Remove the concepts foul ball, strike, infield-fly rule, 3 outs to an inning
- Force the pitcher to take a running start when pitching
- If the pitcher hits the stick, the batter is out
- If the batter hits the ball, he can run if he wants to
- If the batter runs, the person on 2nd base is forced to run as well
- When the person on 2nd base gets home, he can run back to 2nd base again to get another point
- The two runners can do this as many times as possible
- If a runner is not on the base, they are out if the ball knocks over the stick representing the base they were last on
- Tagging a runner with the ball does nothing
- If the batter knocks the ball out of the park, he only scores 6 runs
- If the ball bounces out of the park, he scores 4 runs
- Each inning is a certain number of pitches (12 in our case, 50 in a normal game)
- If a pitcher throws a ball, 1 point is given, and the pitch doesn’t count (for purposes of ending the inning)
For the most part, much like in baseball, the best part of cricket is watching a game and drinking with your friends.
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02.14.06
Posted in General at 8:20 am by BestFriendChris
- Josh
I was trying to decide what to write about, and couldn’t think of anything. Josh, as helpful as always, suggested that I write about the new Hindi phrases I have picked up since I’ve been here. So, in a shocking expose, I present to you:
The words I know
Chod do: Leave (Especially effective with the little beggar children that tend to cling to my side when I walk by them)
Shukriya: Thank you (Especially effective at getting waiters to chuckle every time they see you again)
Khana kana hai: Do you want to eat?
Shopping karna hai: Do you want to go shopping?
Peena hai: Do you want to drink?
Namaste: Hello.
Aap kaisa ho: How are you?
Accha hua: I’m doing well.
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02.09.06
Posted in General at 9:47 pm by BestFriendChris
So, after something like 729 hours of flying (time travel confuses me), I finally arrived in India at 1:30 in the morning. Only one of us lost their luggage, so 3 of us waited for him at the airport while he filled out the paperwork. Finally, at 3am, I got to bed and fell asleep. No sooner than three hours later, of course, I was wide awake again. Excellent. We all met at the office at 10am, and started a fun day of checking email, setting up our computers, and trying not to fall asleep too early. Later that evening we all went out to eat Masalla Dosa (which was excellent) and Ice Cream (also, excellent). Finally, at around 9pm, I went back to my apartment and crashed.
This morning, at 4 in the freaking AM, I woke up. Optimistically, I tried to fall back to sleep. An hour later, I decided to give up and go for a run. Scratch that, I went for a jog, which turned into a walk, back to a jog, a walk again, a slow jog, a walk, and, finally, an elevator ride back up to my apartment. Turns out I’m not in shape. Or rather, the shape I am in is not conducive for running. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
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02.07.06
Posted in General, Thoughtworks at 10:54 am by BestFriendChris
So, I recently (as in, an hour ago) noticed that my website looks like crap on windows machines… (For the record, it was only looked slightly better on Safari on my Mac, but that had more to do with my minimal website design experience than render and layout issues) So, I decided to choose a professionally designed layout for now.
I’m in the middle of posting some pictures from my trip to Shedd Aquarium with Sarah on Saturday. It’s taking a bit, since the internet here seems to be capped, but I’ve already got several up. The website for my pictures (which I’m also going to add to the links on the left) is lookat.bestfriendchris.com.
In other news, I had my first day of work yesterday. It was a little overwhelming, but I am looking forward to working here. I received my laptop (a Dell Latitude D610) which I’m using at the moment to type this post. Plus, most importantly, I learned how to submit my expenses.
Well, I’m off! See you in India!
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