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[wabishtar]

Everyone has things they blog about

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[wiktowasichu]

So tell me Sean, how do you feel about the book "Robots of Dawn"?

Hell i'll even do your little repost thing if it increases the chances of getting other people to hear that rant.

[wabishtar]

All right, lemme see how much of this rant I can remember. It'll be different, though. Rants are like snowflakes

[temtan]

Damn, I should have lived in the 50's. All the hot geek action I could handle... On the other hand, would have been an utter social outcast due to sexual no-no's, and OH MY GOD, awful poodle skirts. So maybe not...

[wabishtar]

Nah, you could have been a sexy Beatnik chick. With the the extremely long hair, dressed all in tight fitting black clothes that show off your figure and flaunt your disregard for social convention, along with a look in your eye that shows you live outside of the box with complete disgust for the button down Madison Avenue scene of the squares. You'd have been hot.

In case you can't tell, I kind of think the 50s were really, really sexy.

[temtan]

Tell us some interesting social differences in India, and your reaction to them. I'll even cross post.

[wabishtar]

The first thing that pops into my head is how thoroughly laid back things are here. No one thinks anything of it if you show up a half hour late or so for work. The other day I stopped into a store to buy minutes for my phone, and the man in the store told me that the guy who handles that is out, and he'll be back in an hour or so. Then he offered me a cup of tea, and said I should wait there. Think about that. He just basically assumed that it would be no big deal for me to just wait there for an hour. That kind of attitude permiates the society. Every time I go into a shop, they want to sit and have a talk with me. Every time I get in a rickshaw, they want to hear my life story. It was charming at first, and it still kind of is, but to tell you the truth, a lot of the time I just want to get stuff done. People over here don't really understand the notion of conducting a financial transaction without getting to know the person, at least a little, and the bigger the transaction, the more you need to know them. Most of the

[iaminyourhead]

If one could tan deep enough to pass as not white, that could be pretty awesome. I don't want to be bowed to all over the place, but I could deal with some laid back stuff.