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Pakistan 2004 – a photoset on Flickr

By Shabbir | November 29, 2006 | Comments Off on Pakistan 2004 – a photoset on Flickr

I’m headed back to Pakistan in a few weeks with my dad, my sister and her family.  This is probably the last time I’ll go for many years.  I’ve gone through and whittled down some of the photos from my last trip in December 2004 to the very best and placed them in a photo…

YouTube – Team Three is the Beastmasters

By Shabbir | November 9, 2006 |

The Beastmasters have announced themselves as team three! Link: YouTube – Team Three is the Beastmasters.

Croogle announces

By Shabbir | November 7, 2006 | Comments Off on Croogle announces

Another team in our upcoming crime scene investigation at work has announced themselves with a clever Google knock off. Link: Croogle. The Croogle team had a bug on their page that prevented it’s viewing, and so the first team responded with a video on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjAJ0ie83Ic&mode=user&search=

Results from my trip to AC

By Shabbir | November 5, 2006 | Comments Off on Results from my trip to AC

So Sarah’s high school reunion was this last weekend up in NJ.  I decided to skip it so we sent the dogs to camp and headed off our seperate ways, Sarah to her hometown with the baby to see Grandma and all her high school chums that don’t talk right, and me to Atlantic City.…

random thoughts on poker and the election

By Shabbir | November 4, 2006 | Comments Off on random thoughts on poker and the election

Isn’t it funny how politicians spend millions on negative ads that make people so cynical that they don’t want to vote, and then have to spend millions on turn out the vote campaigns? Even if the Democrats don’t win both houses, Republican senators will probably work with them on the assumption that this election was…

Mindshare’s annual adventure

By Shabbir | October 31, 2006 | Comments Off on Mindshare’s annual adventure

Every year my company has a retreat.  The planning of the retreat is complicated but I’m given sole responsibility for the fun activity that precedes it.  This year it’s a Crime Scene Investigation involving a robbery.  (I’m being a little cagey because I know several employees read my blog) Every year we create the teams,…

Comments from Sarah about the New Yorker article

By Shabbir | October 19, 2006 | Comments Off on Comments from Sarah about the New Yorker article

Sarah’s blog is all about knitting nowadays, but she had a response to my post about the New Yorker article in an e-mail to Aaron, and she’s allowed me to repost it here.  It adequately describes the issues with a C-section from the patient’s point of view, something I’m not able to capture adequately. I’d…

Do we have to give up natural childbirth to save infants?

By Shabbir | October 18, 2006 | Comments Off on Do we have to give up natural childbirth to save infants?

My friend Aaron Pressman recently asked me what Sarah and I thought about the October 9th New Yorker article on the rise of the Caesarian section (C-section) as a child birthing method.  (Sarah hasn’t seen it yet)  If you’ve read the story of the birth of our first child, you know this isn’t an abstract…

The Sandbox

By Shabbir | October 16, 2006 | Comments Off on The Sandbox

One of my new favorite blogs is called The Sandbox, from Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau.  He’s basically republishing blog entries from military personnel from their own blogs.  Occasionally I think he’s also publishing letters. It’s an excellent, unfiltered look into the minds of the soldiers both deployed and home, and the writing is all pretty…

Starbucks to sell hot breakfast sandwiches in United States

By Shabbir | October 6, 2006 | Comments Off on Starbucks to sell hot breakfast sandwiches in United States

This is a really good idea.  Starbucks’ food engineers have figured out how to make a breakfast sandwich that tastes a lot better and a lot fresher than most other fast food places but whose preparation is really very little work.  (the associates just stick it in a warmer/toaster) I’ve become addicted to them, and…