29 October
2016
29 October
2016
Quick 5 mile run in a beautiful fall morning
27 October
2016
Somebody has a sense of humor!!
This is the first thing to hit us as two of my colleagues and myself walked into a winery half an hour away from Portland after all our meetings yesterday. I startled my friends – Anand and Mark – and all the people around with my loud laughter.
That is an amazingly great pun with a perfect sense of location!! And I am such a sucker for puns!!
23 October
2016
Half marathon!
Two weeks back, after posting 10K everyday for 7 days, my quads, IT bands and the right knee was a mess. To give them some rest, I stayed off the running trail for a whole week. Went back to the trail this afternoon hoping to put in a short run to test out how the recovery has been. And while those unsuspecting muscles and joints were not watching, quietly put in a half marathon in 2 hours and 10 minutes. I am pretty sure I am going to pay for this tonight 🙂
22 October
2016
From the bartender’s corner – Tamarind Ginger Tantra
Inspired by the drink made in East India Co bar in Portland that I wrote of this week. As reported before, this has tamarind (I used paste), ginger, date, vodka and peach schnapps. Note that the bar had used ginger infused vodka. I used fresh ginger to get a better flavor.
The taste came out pretty good.
22 October
2016
Made for my Gujrati friends
22 October
2016
Side effects of internet getting hacked down?
21 October
2016
Royters News: Now what do we do?
A massive DDOS attack (from of a hacking attack) has brought down a lot of social media as well streaming sites like Netflix, Spotify in the US. On a Friday evening! No less!!
Now people have been left with no choice but to (gasp!) talk to each other. Unfortunately, most of their sentences so far have been constructed with the words – “Like”, “Retweet”, “Share” and “Pound Sign” :-)(Apparently some did not get the memo that it is called HashTag 🙂 )
https://www.cnet.com/news/internet-outage-dyn-ddos-attack-twitter-spotify/
21 October
2016
Tried a unique cocktail – Tamarind Ginger Tantra
16 October
2016
From the bartender’s corner – Rusty Nail
While various predecessors of this drinks – BIF, D&S, Little Club 1, Mig-21 to name some – existed since the 1930s, the final formulation of a Rusty Nail is credited to the bartenders at Club 21 in Manhattan in the early ’60s. And this got the final seal of approval when it was mentioned in New York Times by the chairwoman of Drambuie Liqueur Company.
This very traditional cocktail comprises of Scotch and Drambuie (which itself is a Scotch based liqueur very rich in herbs, honey and spices).
