19 March 2015

Since when has Google Maps been cussing?

I had to get up very early morning and hit the road to get to an early morning flight. I guess I was a little sleepy or the onramps to I-94 from downtown Milwaukee were too confusing – I landed up taking a couple of wrong turns.

You could almost detect a faint sense of frustration come thru Google Maps as the voice sternly asked me to take a “slight left turn”. Except that there were two left turns there and the last time I took the “slight” one, I landed up on the wrong road and had to come back up again. Which apparently led Google Maps to get slighted.

So, I glanced down to see if I could get some visual clues from the phone. And that is when I caught Siri cussing “f” words at me 🙂

Jokes aside, what was that all about?

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18 March 2015

Early morning sun rays breaking thru the sky…

Taken during this morning’s run in midtown Atlanta. Reminds me of a great song by Amjad Sabri…

“Andhere Mein Dil Ke Chiragh-e-mohabbat
Yeh Kiss Ne Jalaya Savere Savere
Tasawwur Ke Suraj Ki Aik Aik Kiran Se
Naya Noor Paya Savere Savere
Lagan Jis Ke Dedar Ki Lag Rahi Thi
Qareeb Aur Aaya Savere Savere”

Roughly translated (with some assist from Qazi and Ritesh)…

“In the deep dark corners of my heart, who is this
Who lit the sparks of love, so early in the morning
This Sun of my own imagination – each and every ray of it
Has showered so much new light, so early in the morning
(She) who I have always persevered to feel near me
Suddenly has come very close to me, so early in the morning”

 

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17 March 2015

Dressed for the run! Dressed for the day!

My office colleague -Tim, was in town for some meetings. He lives in beautiful Oregon and is an active trail runner. Last night we had decided that we will put in a run together this morning. Met him in his midtown hotel this morning and we went around running in Georgia Tech campus.

The sharp eyed amongst you, no doubt have noticed that my running clothes were totally compliant with St. Patrick’s day :-). Tim, on the other hand, realized at the last moment that he had forgotten to pack his running shorts. We agreed to go ahead with the run with Plan B – his blue polka-dotted boxer shorts 🙂

It was a great run. Beautiful cool morning and Tim slowed down enough that I was able to post one of my fastest runs 🙂

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