Look at this link, and tell me if I am crazy or what! http://www.economist.com/obituary/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14209766 64lb fish named Benson died. And he/she is featured in the Obituary section of the current issue of the Economist. The piece was carefully written, the craft and space deserving of queens and kings. I don’t know if I should have…

It must have been in the early 70’s when I watched Woodstock the movie on the big screen (this took place in Saigon). My Cinema Paradiso. And I must have watched it more than once. I played some guitar, sang in the band. But nothing near what I saw on the split screen. But most…

Electric guitar inventor Les Paul died. I can hear “my sweet guitar gently weeps” by Eric Clapton and George Harrison at the Bangladesh concert. Or visualize Pete Townshend jumping up high, swinging his arm and concluding the set by banging his Les Paul. Six strings, a lever to prolong the sound-effect it, all solid wood.…

The guy said nothing you could do about it. Just go ahead and buy some insurance. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125002419177123735.html That’s the expert advice from the 40-year old whose mission in life is to trace the cause and find the cure for airline lost luggage . He himself has to go shopping for new clothes 7 times this…

I used to joke with old friends that we cannot do without caffeine and endorphin, but they can keep the morphine . Now I realize that there is another Caffeine we cannot do without: Google’s new search, code name Caffeine. It is a clever code name . To produce endorphin, you need to work out…

There is nothing more hyped than anticipating huge venues like the Olympic. And there is nothing more eerie than the post event that follows. LA (We’re gonna party performed by Lionel Riche), Atlanta, and Beijing. As soon as the press, the players and the public got their eyes full, they are gone, as fast as…

In “the Day the Earth Stood Still”, the undercover alien played by a Chinese actor told Keanu Reeves that “they (human species) have a capacity for self-destruct…but I won’t be going back. I like”m, and glad to have lived at all (as human)”. BTW, they chose McDonald to evade FBI manhunt, and McCafe as a…

He wore sunglasses and played the saxophone. They danced to the tune of rock and roll during the Inauguration (Don’t stop, thinking about tomorrow). And now the band is back. Not 40 years after Abbey Road. It’s Bill and Al. Former President Bill Clinton got a hair cut in formerly Saigon, and stopped by a…