Archives – The Tao of Sam

Chapter 161: Death of an Associate
Chapter 160: Four Pasta Dishes that Changed or Saved My Life
Chapter 159: The Man Who Drowned on Freedom
Chapter 158: Expecting
Chapter 157: I saw a man pursuing the horizon
Chapter 156: Road Trips and the feeling of Floating
Chapter 155: Life is about saying yes to things
Chapter 154: The day I learned about Santa
Chapter 153: El Ruedo de la Malagueta
Chapter 152: How climbing a mountain is like examining a patent
Chapter 151: My business trip to El Salvador
Chapter 150: Redefining Sam
Chapter 149: Interview of Sam, Ed and Monty, circa 1992
Chapter 148: The problem with people who talk about Software Patents
Chapter 147: The City in the Desert
Chapter 146: Learning Predicate Logic with Slim Thug
Chapter 145: Live by the sword, Die by the sword
Chapter 144: This gun is not for me
Chapter 143: At the Mountains of Madness
Chapter 142: Maybe Tomorrow
Chapter 141: The Malabar Express
Namaste!
Chapter 140: The darkness of Dharavi
Chapter 139: The clouds are afraid of Rajasthan
Chapter 138: The Golden Triangle Hustlers, a story in three parts
Chapter 137: Of sand and Intellectual Property
Chapter 136: A day in Abheypur
Chapter 135: Decompression is for suckers
Bombay The Hard Way: Sam goes to India
Chapter 134: Relativity, or Why I don’t drive very fast
Chapter 133: Stuck in the 3AM doldrums
Chapter 132: What portion of the night sky have you never seen?
Chapter 131: The making of an American Mutt
Chapter 130: Index of the Great American Road Trip
The Great American Road Trip
Chapter 129: The night I asked the Moon for a favor
Chapter 128: On not understanding women
Chapter 127: Overheard at work
Chapter 126: Where I’m actually ‘from’
Chapter 125: Where are you from?
Chapter 124: The REAL difference between US and Canadian healthcare
BREAKING: The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg all trashed by f’ing Yanks
Chapter 123: Sanity Answering Machine
Chapter 122: How Jobs are like Girlfriends
Chapter 121: The Devil went out to Utah
Chapter 120: Waiting
Chapter 119: Sam’s Halloween Spectacular
Chapter 118: Things to avoid when naming your pet
Chapter 117: The Day After
Chapter 116: The day I met a polar bear
Chapter 115: Moving to Pittsburgh
Chapter 114: Why I write
Chapter 113: Learning Mathematics with R. Kelly
Chapter 112: Sam’s Index, part 1
Chapter 111: Pop vs. Soda, or Why the Human Race is Doomed
Top 10 searchs terms that put me on Google’s front page
Chapter 110: Life is about many things
On Japan in general and Jpop in particular
Chapter 109: Coffee’s for Examiners
Chapter 108: You are now free to be non-threatening
Chapter 107: Finding inner peace at a metal show
Chapter 106: Hair Today, Dead Tomorrow
Chapter 105: Ten things I learned in Japan
Chasing the Gaijin: Tokyo to Osaka
Chasing the Gaijin: Sam goes to the land of the Rising Sun
Chapter 104: Why Karaoke is so damn important
Chapter 103: The Definitive Guide to bagging States and Countries
Silk Underwear
Chapter 102: Why I have no future in IT
Chapter 101: How to work 15-hour days for a week straight
Chapter 100: A year distilled into just 10 short words
Atmosphere – Trying to find a Balance
Chapter 99: In defense of Awkward
My proudest moment
Chapter 98: Hot Indian Avatar reminds me of My Good Habits
Faithless – Bombs
Chapter 97: Being dysfunctional on Election Day
Chapter 96: Muhammed walks into a bar
Chapter 95: How to do a Skid Turn
Chapter 94: Getting philosophical with DJ Dills
Chapter 93: Why I go on so many dates
CSS Shenanigans
Chapter 92: Lost myyyy virginity
Chapter 91(1): Five years later
Contextual Advertising to the rescue!
Zinn and Chomsky on The Lord of the Rings
Chapter 90: The ‘new’ Facebook and the reality of an Online World
Chapter 89: Sunshine on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 88: Corrupted caches cause cerebral clarity
Chapter 87: The Patent Examiner’s Song
Chapter 86: Facing the Ivory Army
Chapter 85: Living for the Story
Chapter 84: Life, and where you should live it
Chapter 83: The American Dream
Chapter 82: Friday Night Insight
Chapter 81: Sad songs make me smile
Chapter 80: Perfectionism and the Other Bank
Chapter 79: Public Transportation is Important
Chapter 78: Letter of Recommendation for Chase
Chapter 77: Pragmatism and the End of the World
Chapter 76: My neighbor just got Life in Prison
Chapter 75: Deafening Experiences
Chapter 74: Thank you for Smoking
Chapter 73: The secret life of Sam
DARPA’s Grand Challenge
Chapter 72: Nicknames and Social Constructs
Chapter 71: The Woman Crying on the Metro
Chapter 70: Lack of Originality
Other “Tao of Sam”s
Chapter 69: Monkey Handler vs. Patent Examiner
Chapter 68: A case of the Mondays
Chapter 67: Why you go to Europe
Chapter 66: Ten things Magic the Gathering has taught me
Chapter 65: The Parable of the Rock Climber
Chapter 64: CIA World Factbook – Sam’s Apartment
Chapter 63: Submarines that Swim!
Chapter 62: Solving the problem of Dating
Chapter 61: Fixed Formatting, or A College Graduate
Chapter 60: Specific Problems with the General Solution
Chapter 59: Everyone has a use
Chapter 58: Sam’s Guide to Historical Censorship
Chapter 57: Learning Humility
Chapter 56: Living the dream
Chapter 55: Get Involved! or The leaves have already fallen
Chapter 54: Mountain Shortcuts
Chapter 53: A bad 21st birthday
Chapter 52: Teke is getting married
Chapter 51: When faced with an army of sheep, your only choice is to run
Chapter 50: I came up with Determinism on my lunch break
Chapter 49: We were only freshman
Chapter 48: Bringing thought to paper
Chapter 47: The World According to Justin Lukas
Chapter 46: Poetry Slam
Chapter 45: Talking to yourself
Chapter 44: The World According to Branden Klien
Chapter 43: Playing with Sound
Chapter 42: Constant Abuse
Chapter 41: Heather’s Bookmark
Chapter 40: Clueless guy or psycho girl?
Chapter 39: Full Conditions
Chapter 38: Fredericks of Hollywood
Chapter 37: Baconize
Chapter 36: Adventures at Eat N’ Park
Chapter 35: Death of a Stuffed Bunny
Chapter 34: Conversation with an intoxicated Matt Farmer
Chapter 33: Zeta Psi
Chapter 32: Playing games with Sam
Chapter 31: Today is my 19th birthday
Chapter 30: Engineers
Chapter 29: September 11th
Chapter 28: On the move
Chapter 27: I do not believe . . .
Chapter 26: Self induced Pleasure
Chapter 25: Thanksgiving
Chapter 24: Sky Bright
Chapter 23: Teamwork
Chapter 22: Evolution of Sexism
Chapter 21: Freedom in a crowd
Chapter 20: Major decision?
Chapter 19: I am a big monkey
Chapter 18: I am Sam’s masculinity
Chapter 17: Soap Opera Hoes
Chapter 16: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Chapter 15: Female Friends
Chapter 14: There is no postgame
Chapter 13: Instant Patriotism
Chapter 12: Material Things
Chapter 11: Mosh Pit
Chapter 10: The World According to Sean Murphy
Chapter 9: Striking home
Chapter 8: The day the World went away
Chapter 7: Peace in Nature
Chapter 6: My Quota
Chapter 5: Lost
Chapter 4: My eyes are open
Chapter 3: A thousand me’s
Chapter 2: Her power over me
Chapter 1: Is she hot?