Monday Personal Notes

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• I recently bought some coffee from McDonald's. It was really great. One impressive thing about their coffee cups - McDonald's uses 1/8" thick styrofoam cups wrapped in a four-color glossy paper print. This leaves the cup feeling very, very sturdy. A revolution in consumables! I was really impressed by the cup and the coffee.
• Some American pop music today is totally pornographic! Just an observation.
• From a recent article in Business & Commercial Aviation magazine, written by a pilot of a Global Express (Bill Gates has one of these private jets). Their crew had just shuttled around the chairman of an anonymous company to four cities - Hong Kong, London, back to Singapore, then Rome - in just six days.

  I smile when I hear people describe corporate airplanes as a "perk." They're the same type of perk as e-mail, easier than writing, but try doing business without instant communication. Large international companies pay for everything you've read about here in less than two minutes of operations. Any one of those meetings in any one of those countries could generate enough income to fund the flight department for over 100 years. The truth is that corporate airplanes let you do more business. That's all. If you're not doing your business correctly, you'll lose money faster with a jet because you do more business badly.

• Interviews in the gym with Condoleezza Rice on NBC - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
• I have had the most fun at old school-type hip hop concerts. I should really make an effort to go to some more. I have a hard time dancing to anything else because the beats in old school hip hop are pretty deliberate and easy to follow. This is an example of a random thought that I can write on Monday Personal Notes. For good, decisive and intelligent writing - go somewhere else. For consistent updates on my life, stay tuned.
• Haven't practiced much Hindi lately. I rented Maine Pyar Kiya and watched it with Greg on Saturday morning after our ritual 8am IHOP breakfast. It was generally entertaining. Cute story that featured sometimes ridiculous moments of escalation - mutlub (meaning), a peaceful party would turn into an all-out gang war after only two phrases exchanged by rivals.
• On Saturday afternoon I went to Piedmont Park for the first time. It was pretty cool - like a small version of Manhattan's Central Park right in downtown Atlanta. There were thousands of people. Suha pointed out that most of them were either drinking beer, holding hands with a man or walking a dog.
• Later that night we went to a bluegrass ballet performed by the North Carolina Dance Theatre at the Ferst Center. It was bluegrass music that ballet-trained dancers performed to. Really, really cool.
• Sunday afternoon featured another beautiful bouldering session at the top of Sawnee Mountain Preserve. I even had a small audience of little kids and worried mothers for a few minutes. Note to self: My cardio is terrible. Need to jog more.

Alright, that's it. Special shoutout to Meg in Portland who corrected me on my use of for all intensive purposes for all intents and purposes. Getting corrections from friends is sometimes painful, but a healthy process overall.

Update: Corrected the Bollywood movie title that I rented on Saturday morning, Maine Pyar Kiya.