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brigdhSo, I'm not dead! Nor have I abandoned LJ. I just, uh, went to rural India for three months and forgot to mention to LJ that I was doing so.
As a side note, I don't want to give the impression that India doesn't have internet access. I am still in India at the moment, in fact, and the internet is here and easily accessible. More so than in the US, perhaps, since India has these amazing things called 3G tabs, which appear indistinguishable from a regular thumb drive. But 3G tabs allow you to plug them into a laptop and thus connect to broadband internet anywhere, anytime (well, okay, not anywhere. You've got to be in a large enough city that it has a good 3G network). Why do we not have this technology in the West? Between this and the invention of cold coffee with ice cream, India is the new superpower of my heart.
But archaeology tends to happen in extremely remote areas, and rural India is much like rural anywhere: not known for its wifi hotspots.
As for how I managed to forget to post about something like that, let's just say that it turns out that Seasonal Affective Disorder is not just a one-time thing. Who knew! I am now morally obligated to start acquiring drugs as soon as October starts. (Still, another thing India has: sunlight!)
But I've missed you, LJ! How are you all? What's been happening? I hear American politics and the media has gone a little crazy, re: birth control/Santorum/Republican nomination/basically everything. Here the major scandals involve a General's birthday (don't even google it; it is the most boring news story ever and yet somehow people have been writing thousand-word articles about it every week for months) and cellphone networks (also boring).
Also, I've succumbed and finally signed up for twitter. I'm not going to be doing the thing where I post my tweets to LJ, so if you're interested, you can follow me at @brigdhs or click this link. I think? I'm not sure how this works yet. And let me know if you have a twitter, so I can follow you!
As a side note, I don't want to give the impression that India doesn't have internet access. I am still in India at the moment, in fact, and the internet is here and easily accessible. More so than in the US, perhaps, since India has these amazing things called 3G tabs, which appear indistinguishable from a regular thumb drive. But 3G tabs allow you to plug them into a laptop and thus connect to broadband internet anywhere, anytime (well, okay, not anywhere. You've got to be in a large enough city that it has a good 3G network). Why do we not have this technology in the West? Between this and the invention of cold coffee with ice cream, India is the new superpower of my heart.
But archaeology tends to happen in extremely remote areas, and rural India is much like rural anywhere: not known for its wifi hotspots.
As for how I managed to forget to post about something like that, let's just say that it turns out that Seasonal Affective Disorder is not just a one-time thing. Who knew! I am now morally obligated to start acquiring drugs as soon as October starts. (Still, another thing India has: sunlight!)
But I've missed you, LJ! How are you all? What's been happening? I hear American politics and the media has gone a little crazy, re: birth control/Santorum/Republican nomination/basically everything. Here the major scandals involve a General's birthday (don't even google it; it is the most boring news story ever and yet somehow people have been writing thousand-word articles about it every week for months) and cellphone networks (also boring).
Also, I've succumbed and finally signed up for twitter. I'm not going to be doing the thing where I post my tweets to LJ, so if you're interested, you can follow me at @brigdhs or click this link. I think? I'm not sure how this works yet. And let me know if you have a twitter, so I can follow you!
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Date: 2012-04-11 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-04-11 02:11 pm (UTC)We do have this technology, if what you're talking about are USB modems. Like this:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneOverviewByDevice&deviceCategoryId=15
or this:
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-details/?device=AT%26T+USBConnect+Momentum+4G&q_sku=sku5320283#fbid=18_E1oCSHZe
or this:
http://shop.sprint.com/mysprint/shop/phone_wall.jsp?flow=&tabId=dt_mbc
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Date: 2012-04-15 06:31 pm (UTC)Must say that now I'm curious as to the General's birthday -- I think birthdays are always better news than most of the politics? :)
Also I just succumbed to twitter too, so I'm going to add you, but we'll see if it works. :)
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Date: 2012-04-28 06:55 am (UTC)The General's birthday controversy is that he says he was born in 1951 (and this is his birth date on most official paperwork, although apparently he doesn't have an actual birth certificate, but I think maybe most people born in India in the 1950s don't have one), but the army's paperwork says he was born in 1950. If he was born in 1950, he legally has to retire at the end of May; if he was born in 1951, he doesn't have to retire until next year. If he retires now, a different dude gets to become the head of the Indian army; if he doesn't retire until next year, they both will be too old, and the second dude will never get to be head. It's all weirdly complicated, and yet boring!
And awesome! I have now followed you, too.