When I was a kid growing up in Iran, one of my favorite places to go was to my grandparents' on weekends. Sometimes they'd would order out Chelo-Kabab (lamb kebab with rice), and while many Iranians like their yoghurt drinks, for us no soft drink could complement Chelo-Kabab quite like an ice-cold Coke, or Koka, — Continue reading »
Beavis and Butthead Return
📆 July 23, 2011
📂 Music,Social # Beavis and Butthead, MTV 🗨 No Comments
Beavis and Butthead, the cartoon series about two mischievous, conniving, simpletons in high school is coming back on MTV in October. We're not talking the reruns of the old episodes that ended nearly 15 years ago. These are brand new episodes with the original creator, Mike Judge, at the helm and still doing the voices — Continue reading »
No Soliciting Sign
📆 July 9, 2011
📂 Social # Signs 🗨 No Comments
Magazine peddlers, religious preachers, and other door surfers seem to always ring the doorbell at the worst times. Is there a good time for this anyways? To put an end to this incessant parade of annoyance, I went looking for a simple "No Soliciting" sign on the Internet to tape to my door. I couldn't — Continue reading »
Snow in Tehran
📆 January 28, 2011
📂 Environment,Social # Snow, Tehran 🗨 No Comments
It has been an interesting winter season. Here in the Northeast US we've been getting a good dose of the white stuff in what seem to be endless days of snow. No complaints from me. I actually like shoveling the stuff. But as fate had it in for me, I also got to shovel snow — Continue reading »
Sun Chips Noisy Bags
📆 December 19, 2010
📂 Business,Social # Sun Chips 🗨 No Comments
Wouldn't call myself a fan, but I like the regular Sun chips and I sometimes get a small bag to go with my sandwich. I've been hearing about the new noisy bags for some time but until last week I had no idea what the complaints were all about. So last week I was at — Continue reading »
Wealth and Philanthropy
📆 June 20, 2010
📂 Social # Philanthropy, Warren Buffett 🗨 No Comments
Wealthy people who like to flash their material possessions rub me the wrong way. But that's not Warren Buffett's style and I admire him for it. I'm not sure what kind of person I would have been if I had his kind of wealth, but if a person is destined to become filthy rich, then — Continue reading »
Bananas
📆 June 13, 2010
📂 Social # Bananas, Costco 🗨 One Comment
Today while shopping at Costco, I had to pause and contemplate how weird us humans really are. It happened when I was grabbing a bag of bananas. Being a wholesale store, you can get a ton of bananas in bags for $1.32 at Costco. Some bags may have 10 while others may have 12 bananas. — Continue reading »
The Bahamas
📆 May 2, 2010
📂 Social # Bahamas, Beach, Nassau 🗨 No Comments
A beach resort isn't exactly my idea of a vacation spot. I'm more of a desert and mountain type and I like it cheap. The Bahamas has no mountains and it's not cheap, but keeping a promise to my children, I recently visited the country and came back rather positive about the experience. Ok, no — Continue reading »
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