My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Occupation	Professor, I-Banker
Location	New York, New York, United States
Introduction	Just completed a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York.
Interests	Music, Movies, Books, Travel, News, Geopolitics, Development Economics, Telecommunications, Emerging markets, long-run economic change, world history, cosmology.
Favorite movies	2001: a space odyssey, dr.strangelove, lost in translation, no man's land, anything by werner herzog, anything by stanley kubrick except ews
Favorite music	Rock (Stones, Zeppelin etc), Dido, Phish, Grateful Dead, Blues, Jazz (modern), Electronica (Thievery Corporation, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Karsh Kale, Talvin Singh) especially of the ambient sort, Goa trance, world music, fusion
Favorite books	LOTR, Hitchhiker's Guide, The Outsider, Brave New World, Alice in Wonderland, Childhood's End, Midnight's Children, God of Small Things, and any amount of non-fiction.

You can punch a hole in an apple using a straw. How do you think that makes your milkshake feel?

solitary, short, nasty and brutish.