• Heading to Milk and Cookies in the W Village. #
• @juliehamwood YT needs a rating system that can mark videos separately from such montages. They’re frustrating as was NBC’s slow posting #
• Podcast OH: “We don’t make many things anymore. Our economy is based on confidence.” #
• Just learned Carlin had over 1500 files of bits and writing and used these archives and large screen to sort and place. #

• @Mickipedia *hug.* Maybe set up a special with Austin roller derby chix for SxSW. I’ll skate. This is not the end of your wheels. #
• Obama emailed me yesterday at 6 to tell me about Biden pick. Then again 7 hours later to try to sell me a 1st Edition Obama-Biden Car Magnet #
• Nancy Pelosi reminds me of a realtor. #
• Biden moment. M- in-law: “Let’s not talk about politics. Especially at the dinner table.” me:”That’s how they do it in China.” #
• Yesterday totally turned around when I got to stand next to Mel Brooks’ old beach house. First shrine since India. #

• The day turned around when I got to see Mel Brooks’ old beach house. My reverence softspot. #
• Having a planned family “let’s be together and have fun” moments, which is turning out to not be so fun. Prop 8 or not, I am so married. #
• …and it’s ….white guy! #

• er, @jenbekman I meant. Damn you iPhone autocomplete. #
• @jennekmam and I will finally meet f2f on Monday. Huzzah! A server somewhere will observe a minute of silence to honor the occasion. #
• @jdlasica Hotel Rex. Tell em I sent her. #
• I bicycled around a little island today and enjoyed it. I must be getting old. #

• A rickroller beat NBC to post Usain Bolt’s 200m WR Gold Medal. I’m still looking for actual video. #

• Cows are India’s composting program. #
• @jasonCalcanis Without taxes how are we gonna pay off the deficit?Sell the country to Google? #
• @maximolly learned in India that lavender oil or lemongrass oil are nice-smelling mosquito kryptonite #

• After a summer in India, a hamburger. Yay! #
• Back on American soil. What beautiful,beautiful air to breathe and water to drink. #

• Looking for someone to stay with in London on the 16th. We have Indian spices… #
• @georgeruiz @moth New show idea: competitive cleaning. Pilot episode: my mum vs. my wife vs. German gay man. ;-) #
• Looking at the 4th day of monsoon pouring rain in Goa. #

• My Jewish lady dessert-worshiping character is a hit with the South Indians. #
• Most popular question from Indians, Muslim and Hindu alike: Obama? Will he really be President? #
• Traveling makes US reality seem much more obviously relative. #

"The nurture of your child is safe in our hands", originally uploaded by subvert.com.

Ads like these are *everywhere* even in the smallest fishing village. The focus on education here in India and especially in Kerala (where literacy nears 100%) is remarkable. Education through med school will run someone something like $10,000 US cmpared to private US education which would run you closer to half a million I think.

It’s a literal sign of the cultural focus. Even if much of it is on memorization, just a quick comparison to the American advert focus on consumer products like beer tells you something about the direction of both countries.

Plenty of strong smells here but the strngest is growth.