Kamal S. Prasad

My first profession of choice when I was really young was to be a medical doctor. That all changed when I had to get my blood taken out for some medical exam. I could/can not handle needles too well.

The second thing I remember wanting to be was a scientist. I had setup a fake lab and everything in my yard and I used to scare the neighbors kids (much younger than me) that I could blow up their house if I wanted to.

Anyway, as time progressed, I still wanted to be a scientist but also wanted to so many more things. I wanted to be a teacher, a doctor (via the virtue of a Ph.D.), a writer, a school bus driver, a movie maker, etc.

I have worked to achieve some of those goals… I studied physics in college (although I don’t consider myself a bona fide scientist yet), I wrote a children’s book, and plan to write others, I was a teacher for a while (although I did not consider myself to be very successful at the task), and I am working on a writing a screenplay for a feature movie.

I don’t think I could picture myself doing the same thing for the rest of my life. I have a very understanding wife who indulges me in my dreams and I am supportive of her in hers. Did I mention I was very lucky?

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I just finished playing the single player campaign of Halo 3 and here you will find my impressions of the game. Well, it is mostly about how the game ends so be advised that there spoilers ahead. If you continue reading, the ending will be spoiled for you.

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Some of you may know that I have written a children’s science picture book entitled, “Why Can’t I Jump Very High? - A Book About Gravity.” I published the book myself and do not have a marketing budget for it. As I have a full time job, I also do not get to publicize my book as much as I would like. It is only available from a handful of places, Amazon.com being one of them.

This last week, my book reached its highest sales rank ever and was in the bestseller list (#14 for best physics book for children) for a brief period. These numbers change by the hour, so it is likely that my book was ranked higher before I noticed it. Given that there is no active publicity campaign for the book, I guess that is pretty good.

Amazon.com sold all copies of my book that they had in stock and for some reason, even though they ordered more and I shipped it to them right away, my book was listed as unavailable. Someone thought they could make some extra money by selling my book for $210 when Amazon.com’s price is just over $10. Maybe they were trying to pass it off as a rare item.

Hello, World! Welcome to my blog (again). I started a blog sometime ago but got too lazy and caught up in other things to give it the attention it deserved.  I shall venture to do better here.

Over the come coming weeks I will be transcribing my enteries from my old blog to this one.  Bear with me as I bring things up to date.  I shall pepper those enteries with new ones as the muse strikes me.