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easyJet blues
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Over the past few years, the domestic airlines industry in the US has seen a steady decline. Faced with the recession, they have been devising ever new ways of squeezing money out of unsuspecting customers. There are a few exceptions (such as Southwest), but by far, flying is usually not a very pleasant [...]
Blue balls
Most Americans I talk to feel that I was raised here, because I don’t have the “Indian accent”. I don’t know about that, but what I do know is that cultural differences can show up in the least unexpected places. I’m reminded of an incident that happened in my second year in grad school.
We were [...]
Earth Hour
As you can see from the bar on the top of the site (if you are reading this in your RSS reader, take a break and step out to the real site for a minute), Floating Sun is participating in Earth Hour. What is Earth Hour?:
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million [...]
Quick note about the formatting issues
If you see some formatting issues with the content here, it is because I have disabled the WP-Dokuwiki plugin temporarily while I investigate some performance issues. In the meantime I am also trying to convert the content to plain old HTML where possible. So please bear with me and drop me a note if something [...]
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