What's your rule of thumb for sending December holiday cards and parcels? Do you try to get them out by, let's say, 5 business days prior to the 25th? Do you assume it'll take 3 …
You may be aware that Indians, like so many others, have an expansive sense of hospitality. Admire one of your host's items of property out loud at your own peril; s/he may give you it, …
All our music -- ripped CDs, Creative Commons stuff, ripped tapes, and Amazon MP3 purchases -- now lives in the MythTV media center that Leonard built, making for about 3 days of music. I recently …
Blogging, and reading blogs, got me my husband, a job at Fog Creek (and thus my move to New York), and friends such as Brendan, Gordon, Andrew, Claudia, and Zed. Watching John Rogers's new TNT …
On the plane from Heathrow's infinite Terminal 5 to JFK, I saw bits of It's a Wonderful Life and The Dark Knight, and all of Mamma Mia!. I pay a different kind of emotional attention …
Back in my own bed, with superfast internet and my sweetie. I now own copies of 80-90% of the extant English-language Amar Chitra Katha titles. There's an 80% likelihood that I'm going to She's Geeky …
Mysore's university has a museum of Karnatakan/Kannadiga craft, art, literature, and folklore in general. I had the pleasure today of getting a two-hour guided tour from its founding curator, a friend of my parents. It …
I miss you, Frances. I wish I could have met you, Roy.
Thanks to Riana, Brendan and Kara for putting me up during my trip to the Pacific Northwest. I have vivid memories that I now must shake out of my head to catalog.
