MSP430 & TI fanboys

Kortuk

4:20 PM

@Dean ~2 days

Anindo Ghosh

Hiya Kortuk

Kortuk

@AnindoGhosh allo

Anindo Ghosh

@Kortuk Is it OK to make a chatroom like this one and keep it open? If not, I can drop it.

Kortuk

@AnindoGhosh It is 100% okay.

It is what chat is for.

Anindo Ghosh

@Kortuk cool. :-)

Kortuk

4:24 PM

@AnindoGhosh Off to make breakfast with family. Quite a bit of my family drove up for Thanksgiving.

Anindo Ghosh

@Kortuk Happy thanksgiving. I'll be off to have dinner in a few... Opposite timezones

Kortuk

Yeah, I know your time zone offsets a bit. My company is Belgian so I have to constantly adjust to such a situation

Anindo Ghosh

@Kortuk I can imagine - I led a 3-timezone life for 10 years when I was a corporate cog. CTO for a British+Singapore firm, then director of IT for Aon Corp India (UK and Chicago split HQs)

Kortuk

@AnindoGhosh Interesting. That sounds like a nightmare.

I just have to show up early early in the morning for meetings.

Anindo Ghosh

@Kortuk It had begun to affect my health. Hence I gave it up and went full-time into a photography career for a few years.

Kortuk

4:29 PM

@AnindoGhosh yeah, the rotating shift stressed my health also.

Anindo Ghosh

20-hour meeting calendars can be a bit exasperating.

Kortuk

@AnindoGhosh ha. Yes.

Anindo Ghosh

@Kortuk You should visit India sometime. We're overrun with multishift slaves. ;-)

Kortuk

@AnindoGhosh I believe it. I am hoping my company will sell a center there and I will have a paid trip. The closest I can get right now is Korea, which is not that close.

Anindo Ghosh

@Kortuk True. What does your company do? "Sell a center..." intriguing.

But I guess I am keeping you from breakfast. Sorry.

Kortuk

4:32 PM

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@AnindoGhosh I am actually distracting myself.

Anindo Ghosh

Oh, interesting. Given that India is becoming a default destination for medical tourism, the opportunities certainly exist. There's Apollo group in Delhi and Chennai, Lilavati and a few others in Mumbai, which are totally state of the art.

State of the art healthcare groups - hospitals, surgery, latest technology, the works.

Kortuk

@AnindoGhosh Yeah, the center costs ~100 million so it is currently the most expensive treatment you can do.

@AnindoGhosh We are friends with one of the head doctors at one of the military medical schools through my mother in law.

Anindo Ghosh

Even better - It would be cheaper to do in India than elsewhere.

Kortuk

@AnindoGhosh A lot of the cost is just the hardware, I have to go now, they noticed I am goofing off.

Talk to you later.

Anindo Ghosh

@Kortuk The main military medical school is Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.

Bye!

Kortuk

5:26 PM

@AnindoGhosh I would have to check, I think he is in mumbai.

Anindo Ghosh

@Kortuk Oh, ok... that's where I live

Kortuk

I would like to visit both Mumbai and Bangalore.

Anindo Ghosh

Try and avoid the rains, and I suspect you'll find summers unbearable too.

Kortuk

@AnindoGhosh I hate heat, I was going to aim for monsoon season.

Anindo Ghosh

Mumbai has two seasons, sweat and swim.

Take your pick :-)

Kortuk

5:58 PM

@AnindoGhosh Swim, always swim.

Anindo Ghosh

@Kortuk Cool, then come on over. I can promise you an awesome food tour of Mumbai, and perhaps some contacts in both Mumbai and Bangalore if needed. I worked in Bangalore for 4 years, flying to and from Mumbai every week.

Kortuk

@AnindoGhosh That sounds exausting

I dont make the sales, I do the centers.

Making sales is not my problem :)

Anindo Ghosh

Well, then not business contacts, but I could connect you to friendly foodies and generally helpful folks in both places, and in Delhi and Gurgaon too :-)

Kortuk

@AnindoGhosh Ha! In Bangalore I have a grandmother-in-law. and an uncle(mama to my wife).

Anindo Ghosh

So you're of Indian origin, at least in part? :-)

Kortuk

6:09 PM

@AnindoGhosh My wife is :)

I am not, unless you mean Native American.

Here as people would say, dot or feather?

I am feather, wife is dot.

Anindo Ghosh

@Kortuk Hehe I was going to say that, but wasn't sure if it was PC or not.