Random Notes

From 'Talk of the Town' in The New Yorker of July 9, 2007 :

"Global Spa Summit at the Waldorf-Astoria (is) fostering "thought leadership" in the forty-billion-dollar-a-year spa industry. One of the keynote speakers was Steve Case, the co-founder of America Online. He now owns a spa in Arizona called Miraval, whose motto is "Life in Balance".

In his address, Case said, "Four years ago, I was pushed out of my comfort zone by the revelation of how to transform industries in need of change. ....It was a profound moment. I found balanced living, We are the modern healers. I don't just want to feel better. I want to be better. ...Remember when the man who started Nike was selling his sneakers from the back of a truck? I want that unique collaboration between real estate and spas. Destination spas! Wellness must go beyond just the facial and the massage. We are building what I call 'the Nike of Wellness"

Newyorker notes that "Gerald Levine, Case's partner in what was then AOL Time Warner, "has also made a second carreer of self-improvement, running a holistic mental-health institute in Los Angeles"

This is what the world really needed - The Nike of Wellness. I feel better already.

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Just finished the upgrade to 3.35. The upgrade itself was painless, but getting Stylecatcher to work work with my site the new stylesheet to apply correctly to the archive was a frustrating experience. Right now, most things seem to be working the way they should; although my links and About section are obviously wiped out. I would bring them back in on a later date.

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We used to have an attic in our ancestral home which did double duty also as the worship room. As a kid, during my summer vacations, I used to find all sorts of interesting knick knacks browsing through stuff in there. These days, for apartment dwelling, moving-house-every-other year kind of people like us, only our old laptops can yield such pleasures ...

I saw this movie over a year back. I quite liked it. I had loved its prequel even more. It was a terrific film.

I had downloaded these images from somewhere or other at that time; I wanted to include these on a post about Before Sunset. But I stopped blogging soon after and forgot all about these until found them again this weekend while trying to organize my laptop.

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