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Better late than never…
I know it’s old news now but I’m back from TAM 5.5 as well and a little late for blogging about it – my fellow skepchicks have definitely done a great job of it without me. I’ll stick with a few personal thoughts/gloats about my favorite moments about the weekend: Read the rest of this entry Hanging out on Friday…
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Things to do next year…
It’s a cold, rainy (finally) day in Atlanta. I was considered being productive but the weather is cruddy, my puppies are warm and snuggly so I decided to just have a quiet, lazy Sunday. Tomorrow is the last day of 2007 and I’ve been thinking a lot about the year I’ve had. It’s been busy and I’ve accomplished a lot…
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Moonstruck
Back when I started blogging at Masala Skeptic (nearly a year ago now!), I mentioned one of India’s religious figures, Satya Sai Baba. (pronounced “Sigh BAH Bah,” as if he were a despondent sheep). His devotees consider him a living god. Everyone else considers him an idiot. He uses sleight of hand to materialize ‘holy’ ash and other items and…
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The Dogs Must Be Crazy
I am beset with crazy people, as usual. Either here in Georgia with their gods or over in India with their dogs. To crib from one of the corniest jokes around, this is a dyslexic’s nightmare. I bet she looked fetching… A dude in India married a dog. MY India. He did it to try to make up for the…
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Skepticism in stories …
A couple of weeks ago, I was in New York for work. I found out before I went, that I was going to be there at the same time that The Wolves in the Walls was playing in New York. For those of you who don’t know, The Wolves in the Walls is a children’s book, written by the most…
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Psychic aliens in our convenience stores…
A couple of interesting South-Asia-related stories in the news the past couple of weeks. First, an article about a convenience store owner who got duped with some pretty standard cold-reading techniques to hand over about $1,000 from his cash register. Two men (Sylvinder Brownyani and Jaswinder Van Praagni, no doubt) told the store owner they could read his mind. They…
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Never get involved in a land bridge in Asia…
Thanks to Rebecca for letting me contribute to Skepchick! One of the Skepchick readers sent in this article about the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project. In 2005, the Indian government launched a project to create a canal in the sea that separates India from Sri Lanka. The canal will create a navigable sea route close to the coast and reduce travel…
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