The Onion, basketball success and Bill Gates

I've been a fan of The Onion for several years now and it never amazes me that they are able to maintain the level of hilarity. To be honest, when The Onion from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City I thought that it would lose some of its independent bite, and although I think that might be partially true, I still find myself laughing about at least one article a week. It really shows how much humor you can find in current events. When you think about it, The Onion is really a print version of The Daily Show, and both are definitely two of my favorite news media.

In any case, I was searching for funny articles on TheOnion.com and I found this one about India.

I especially like the "Manhattan-or-maybe-London Project"...

India's Top Physicists Develop Plan To Get The Hell Out Of India

Also, I forgot to mention in my last post that the IndiaIT basketball company won the 2005 Genie Inter-Corporate Basketball Tournament! Exciting, eh? I gotta tell ya, it's nice playing basketball in India. In the US I'm nothing special, but here I can really run the court. It's very nice feeling like you're way more talented than you are. Isn't that really what we all want? To feel like better people than we actually are?

On a work-related note, Bill Gates is currently visiting India and tonight on New Delhi Television (a very big network in India) they will be televising a discussion between the chairman of IndiaIT and Bill Gates that is happening in Delhi. You can't imagine how big it is when Bill Gates comes to India. So much of this nation is focused on information technology, you can understand how Bill Gates is seen as a somewhat of a deity. We're using this event as a marketing tool, and a media event is happening today at the Taj Palace in Delhi where Gates will be taking part in interviews as well as this discussion on Indian entrepreneurs. Well I wrote the questions for the Q&A section of the program. If I can find a video clip or a transcript I'll be sure to post it.

Later.