Heather Gold

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-23

• The day turned around when I got to see Mel Brooks’ old beach house. My reverence softspot. #
• Having a planned family “let’s be together and have fun” moments, which is turning out to not be so fun. Prop 8 or not, I am so married. #
• …and it’s ….white guy! #

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-22

• er, @jenbekman I meant. Damn you iPhone autocomplete. #
• @jennekmam and I will finally meet f2f on Monday. Huzzah! A server somewhere will observe a minute of silence to honor the occasion. #
• @jdlasica Hotel Rex. Tell em I sent her. #
• I bicycled around a little island today and enjoyed it. I must be getting old. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-20

• A rickroller beat NBC to post Usain Bolt’s 200m WR Gold Medal. I’m still looking for actual video. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-19

• Cows are India’s composting program. #
• @jasonCalcanis Without taxes how are we gonna pay off the deficit?Sell the country to Google? #
• @maximolly learned in India that lavender oil or lemongrass oil are nice-smelling mosquito kryptonite #

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-18

• After a summer in India, a hamburger. Yay! #
• Back on American soil. What beautiful,beautiful air to breathe and water to drink. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-14

• Looking for someone to stay with in London on the 16th. We have Indian spices… #
• @georgeruiz @moth New show idea: competitive cleaning. Pilot episode: my mum vs. my wife vs. German gay man. 😉 #
• Looking at the 4th day of monsoon pouring rain in Goa. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-11

• My Jewish lady dessert-worshiping character is a hit with the South Indians. #
• Most popular question from Indians, Muslim and Hindu alike: Obama? Will he really be President? #
• Traveling makes US reality seem much more obviously relative. #

beer transformed to math = India

"The nurture of your child is safe in our hands", originally uploaded by subvert.com.

Ads like these are *everywhere* even in the smallest fishing village. The focus on education here in India and especially in Kerala (where literacy nears 100%) is remarkable. Education through med school will run someone something like $10,000 US cmpared to private US education which would run you closer to half a million I think.

It’s a literal sign of the cultural focus. Even if much of it is on memorization, just a quick comparison to the American advert focus on consumer products like beer tells you something about the direction of both countries.

Plenty of strong smells here but the strngest is growth.

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-08

• Vote for my SxSW panel on social networx future: Everything I Need to Know About the Web I Learned from Feminism http://snurl.com/3cypp #
• Vote for my SXSW Panel with @skampy: Making A Living Being Yourself
  http://snurl.com/3cypa #

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-07

• Our Brit (Conservative MP staffer) pal just read the horoscope for marriage time for our hosts’ daughter. I love traveling. #
• Our train yesterday to Kottayam literally ran over a man and split him in two. Fellow passenger passed around their mobile video of it. #