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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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12 June 2001 - 8:58 pm
For the past hour or so I've been watching the PBS show Nova. It's a rather typical Nova show, some American experts go overseas and try to figure out how people from thousands of years built some major structure. In this case, an American engineering professor and a timber expert went to China to help some Chinese scholars build the "Rainbow Bridge." Normally I wouldn't mention this to you, but this show is a bit different. The American engineer's name is Bashar, and he looks to be of Indian descent. He is also crazy. At least twice during the show, they've shown him blowing up at someone if they aren't building the bridge the way he thinks they should. Halfway through the show he fired his translator because he thought the guy wasn't telling the work crews what he said. (He was wrong about this, he just couldn't ever remember what he'd told them to do). The whole show, mainly because of Bashar, almost seems like a spoof of the other Nova shows of this genre. It's definitely worth seeing, should it be repeated (which, given that this is PBS, it most likely will be).
Later.
Posted by on 12 June 2001 at 8:58 PM
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