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superamit:

Two weeks ago I got a call from my doctor, who I’d gone to see the day before because I’d been feeling worn out and was losing weight, and wasn’t sure why.

He was brief: “Amit, you’ve got Acute Leukemia. You need to enter treatment right away.”

I was terrified. I packed a backpack full of clothes, went to the hospital as he’d instructed, and had transfusions through the night to allow me to take a flight home at 7am the next day. I Googled acute leukemia as I lay in my hospital bed, learning that if it hadn’t been caught, I’d have died within weeks.

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I have a couple more months of chemo to go, then the next step is a bone marrow transplant. As Jay and Tony describe below, minorities are severely underrepresented in the bone marrow pool, and I need help.

A few ways to help:

1. If you’re South Asian, get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy.
2. If you’re in NYC, you can go to this event my friends are putting on.
3. If you know any South Asians (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, or Sri Lanka), please point ‘em to the links above.

*NEW* Organize a donor drive near you (the most helpful thing you could possibly do!) email 100kcheeks@gmail.com. They’ll send you kits, flyers, tell you what to say, and make the whole process easy cheesy.

jayparkinsonmd:

My friend Amit Gupta founded my favorite photography site Photojojo. A few weeks ago, he was diagnosed with leukemia. Amit is one of the nicest, most genuine, most creative people you could ever meet. Prior to founding the awesome Photojojo, he also co-founded Jelly in 2006 in NYC, a coworking community, that’s now spread to 60 cities across the world and helped spark the coworking revolution. It looks like Amit will need a bone marrow transplant quite soon. We can help him with that.

tony b:

Unlike blood transfusions, finding a genetic match for bone marrow that his body will accept is no easy task. The national bone marrow registry has 9.5 million records on file, yet the chances of someone from South Asian descent of finding a match are only 1 in 20,000.

This is where we come in. We’re going to destroy those odds.

How? By finding and registering as many people of South Asian descent as we possibly can.

Tests are easy– a simple swab of the cheek. If you’re a match, the donation involves an outpatient procedure. It’s not fun, but it’s not dangerous either. And doing it could save a life.

We are encouraging anyone of South Asian descent to take a test to see if you’re a match. 

You can get a free test by mail, or, if you’re in New York, you can join us Friday, October 14th for a special party to rally support.

We’ll have test kits on hand at the party, as well as music, booze, and maybe even a photo booth. It will, for the first time, combine a House 2.0-style party with a New Work City-style party, and if you’ve ever been to either, you know they are always something special.

Please spread the word and please do everything you can to help Amit beat leukemia. He’s a superstar.

Much thanks to Tony and pals for organizing this event, and EVERYONE who’s been tweeting and reblogging.

Please help get the word out any way you can. My life quite literally depends on it.

david-noel:

My friend Amit was just diagnosed with leukemia. He is one of the most positive, creative, caring, fun-loving people I know. Right now, Amit is in the hospital at home in Connecticut receiving treatment and far from friends in SF (where he lives) and NYC (where he used to live). We can’t visit him yet because of germs and the type of treatment he’s getting, so we’re stuck with the internet to send him good vibes, laughs, and hugs. Please help out!

Amit loves: photos, jokes, mac & cheese, bright colors.

Send photos, cards, candygrams, etc. to him:

Yale New Haven Hospital
Amit Gupta 11 220
Simlow Cancer Center 11 North
20 York St.
New Haven, CT 06511

Oh, also: fuckyeahamitgupta.tumblr.com.

P.S. This photo is from brunch at Katherine & Tony’s place in SF c. 2008. Grace took the pic. (via Chrysanthe)

Amit is the man. Hands down one of the friendliest, warmest, supportive and bestest people I had the chance to meet in San Francisco. We actually met for the first time in Berlin during a dinner with some tech folks but get the chance the catch up with him whenever in SF. I was shocked and at the same time inspired learning about Amit’s leukemia. He’s approaching the disease with his ever-positive attitude and I’m confident he will beat that fucker in the face. 

Let’s all help him with that. Send him warm thoughts the digital or physical way to the addresses above. 

We’re rooting for you, Amit! 

Right about now you are rockin’ to the best!

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At $4,200 invested per reader, Rupert Murdoch’s iPad only publication, ‘The Daily,” can easily be deemed a flop. Via AllThingsD: “The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s once-hyped iPad newspaper, has 120,000 readers a week, according to a media buyer who works with the publication. An executive at Zenith Optimedia told Bloomberg that the 120,000 figure includes both paid subscribers and free visitors. That circulation figure, Bloomberg notes, puts the paper at the same level as the Toledo, Ohio, daily Blade. News Corp. also owns this Web site.” Want to make a small fortune in iPad only publishing? Start with a large one. At least if you’re the man who owns The News.

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Skull Candy?

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theatlantic:

Parking Space

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sporkme:

Chili and Chocolate Kangaroo with Roasted Pumpkin and Tomato Salad

Sorry Skippy, if you weren’t so delicious I probably wouldn’t have eaten you for dinner.  I forgot how much I liked kangaroo… I tried something a bit different with it, it needed a bit of brown sugar to put it over the top, so I’ll pop it in the recipe.  Sounds weird, but think of it like that rich sauce in a chili!

Ingredients (salad):

• Half a butternut pumpkin, chopped
• 1/4 cup chopped thyme
• 3 tomatoes, cut in half
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• Salt and pepper
• Shredded cos lettuce
• Juice of half a lemon

Toss the pumpkin, tomato, oil, thyme, salt and pepper together and roast on high heat for 30 minutes until golden.  Set aside and cool off before putting it on top of the lettuce and finishing with the lemon juice and some of the reserved oil from the roasting tray.

Ingredients (kangaroo):

• 2 kangaroo steaks
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tbsp chocolate powder
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 1 tsp paprika
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• Sea salt

Coat the kangaroo in the spices and let sit for at least 30 minutes.  Grill (inside or out) for about 3-4 minutes on each side, depending on how thick it is.