Tweet A PlanetRead Saturday is a day unlike any other. To truly understand and appreciate the PlanetRead Saturday, one must first understand Fridays at PlanetRead. Fridays at PlanetRead are notably casual and relaxed, as employees trade in button-downs for t-shirts and slacks for jeans. Yesterday was a quintessential PlanetRead Saturday. Having planned to leave the [...]
Browsing Posts in India – 2007
Tweet Over this past weekend, Brad and I had the chance to watch an English movie (Harry Potter no less!) in an upscale Indian theater. After our half-day Saturday at work was over, we met our landlord back home to head off towards Chennai. We even booked tickets to the movie online using the theater’s [...]
Tweet So here at PlanetRead/BookBox, I’ve been doing a variety of tasks but for the most part I’ve been working closely with the chief Web Developer, Sena. A few weeks ago we were working hard trying to determine the best way to manage and restructure the BookBox website so that it would be better positioned [...]
Tweet I would like to take a minute to say a few words about my housing situation in India… I live on the first floor of Tamarind House, the abode of Manoj Dixit, renown artist, restaurateur, renter of rooms, and Pondicherry socialite. Although I could easily dedicate an entire post to adventures involving Manoj, to [...]
Tweet So here is a second post, now that I am settled in here in Pondicherry… Date: June 21, 2007 Time: 10:00 AM Delayed Reactions: Jet Lag & Sleeping: Jet Lag isn’t fun. For the first week after I got here… I kept waking up at the wrong times. In all fairness, I’m not sure [...]
Tweet I wrote this blog the weekend I got here… but it never quite got posted. So read it now, but imagine yourself 3 week ago…. Date: May 26, 2007 Time: 2:12 AM Initial Reactions: Air Travel: So getting here was a bit of a fiasco. I left my home in Rochester, NY at 2:50 [...]
Tweet Well, I think we can attribute the lack of blogs from me and Brad due to some confusion early on and then just plain procrastination. Anyway, I’ll just give everyone a quick and dirty blog of our past few weeks. First off, Brad’s connecting flight through Frankfurt was delayed so I didn’t meet up [...]
