Author: Roger Barr

  • Blog: May-June 2014 Mysore

    pictures at: https://plus.google.com/photos/112626303020209938096/albums?banner=pwa Let me know asap if the link doesn’t work for you. TV Debut at Coorg Escapade I’m a TV star. I made my TV debut at the Coorg Escapade (see their website and mine for pics) which was a 10K run through the Coorg (aka Kondagu) jungle and shade-grown coffee plantations. Coorg…

  • blog: Mysore 2014

    I’m sorry it taken so long to write this blog. I have this strong feeling that nobody really cares to read whatever I write. I hope that’s not the case. Let me know. Check out my pictures at https://picasaweb.google.com/rrandor  Food for thoughtlessness This morning I was invited to visit a friend’s workplace. She had arranged…

  • Blog: Bangalore, Jan 2014

    I’m writing this in reverse chronological order because it’s easier to remember things this way. You can see my random photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/rrandor Night before last I got back late in the evening after a bus tour of Bangalore and my bathroom was thrashed. There were feces, toothpicks and dirty footprints all over the bathroom. A…

  • Smoking and Depression

    Teenagers who smoke cigarettes may damage more than their lungs – they could be endangering their mental health. A study in the journal Pediatrics finds that teen smokers are four times more likely than non-smokers to develop symptoms of depression. In the study, researchers looked at data on 15,651 teens that participated in national study…

  • How to Pull an All-Nighter

      How to Pull an All-Nighter…the Healthy Way Since the calamitous death of the Canadian soldiers during the Afghanistan war as a result of errors in judgement by our pilots due to fatigue and amphetamine use on long flights, there has been a search for a safe effective alternative. http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/speedforwar.html My brother gave me a…

  • Homeopathic Proving of Mus musculus, Common Household Mouse

    Preliminary Homeopathic Proving of Mus musculus, Common Household Mouse (Mus musculus, Family Muridae, Order Rodentia) picture source Encyclopaedia Britannica 2004   Ubiquitous Rodent   “It had need to bee a wylie mouse that should breed in the cat’s care.” – John Heywood, Proverbs (pt. II, ch. V)   This is not a full proving of house mouse. It…