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I’ve been back for just over a week, over jet lag and back in the swing of things. I had a great time during my trip, but I’m glad to be back home. 
A few things I missed:
To name a few.
Got back from Delhi around 2 pm. My flight leaves tonight at 11:45 pm, so I’ve got a few hours to kill.
Delhi and Agra were cool, and the Taj was awesome. It’s so impressive on so many levels. No point in me regurgitating a bunch of info that’s already been written a thousand times; go read about the Taj Mahal on Wikipedia if you’d like. I will, however, post pictures I took that have no doubt been taken millions of times. The pic shown above, for example.
You’ll probably hear from me once again upon my return to the US.
I’m headed to Delhi for the weekend to check out the Taj Mahal – can’t wait. When I return on Sunday, I’ll need to pack up because my flight home departs at 11:45 pm that night. Send some good weather karma my way.
For anyone who hasn’t gone and might go in the future, there’s three options to get there:
Looking forward to posting some nice pics upon my return.
Feel like killing some time? Great. Read on.
The following games are extremely addictive and will most certainly result in a massive, non-productive black hole once you begin. I’m glad we’ve cleared that up.
All of these games have been around for a while, so there’s a good chance you’ve seen one or two(or three – slackers!). The first one is my favorite; i.e., I’ve spent youdontevenwanttoknowhowmany hours playing.
object of the game: kill the creeps as they run across your desktop by designing the best defense system y0u can.
Go ahead, I dare you. If you decide to check this game out before reading the rest of this post, well then I’ll just plan on not hearing from you for a while. My best score was 7043 on ‘medium’ difficulty, back in version 1.02. Looks like they have new versions out; great.
object of the game: get the block into the hole using the least amount of moves possible.
I think I’ve only got up to about level 14 or so, need to put in some more time. Easy game to pick up. Just use the arrow keys to move the block around. It also has a cool and easy to follow set of instructions at the beginning.
object of the game: shoot the target with the gun.
You have a gun, and a target. The twist here are these gravity pods scattered between you and the target, which will either push or pull your shot, depending on how close your shot comes to the pod. I forget which level I got stuck on.
Eating in India has been fun. I’ve never had real Indian food(I’m not counting samosas at work), and I usually enjoy new types of cuisine. We stuck with the places which were recommended to us by previous Googlers, or by the local drivers who take us everywhere we need to go.
Here’s a run-down of the different Indian restaurants I’ve tried so far:
Anywhere we go, it’s recommended we try the biryani, which is a type of spiced rice dish. Hyderabad is famous for their biryani. I think it’s good, but I’m more of a bread fan, so naturally I love most of the naan. I think Fusion9 had my favorite so far, but most of them have been great.
Update: the above are all Hyderabad restaurants, as opposed to the entire country of India.
Check out these cool pics of a praying mantis on the hunt. I’ve never actually seen one in action like this. I’m guessing Bryan snapped these from his back yard. Thanks Bryan, keep’em comin’.
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I’ve refrained from blogging about many things due to the fact that I work for Google. Anything even closely related to Google I wouldn’t even consider touching; I just didn’t want the added worry about posting potentially sensitive information. So to make things simple, I just didn’t do it.
Now that I’ve been around a while and have a few posts under my belt, you’ll probably be seeing some Google-related stuff here. You’ll also notice the obligatory disclaimer on the right side of the blog.
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