Category: People, Places & Friends
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On my last trip to India, I did not have an opportunity to go to an art gallery or museum but I did have two enjoyable art related encounters. One was the search I undertook for a recently published but hard- to- find book about my first art teacher, the late Abani Sen, which put…
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(Cross-posted from Fluff’ n’ Stuff) I nearly talked myself out of it quite successfully. I hate crowds and queues, I get migraines when I have to be in enclosed spaces for more than a couple of hours, couldn’t manage the timing with the kids getting back from school, they were going to cover the event…
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With the difficulties Ruchira has been having trying to get out even short posts while in India, she has asked me to post this for her. Ruchira: A great illustration of putting lipstick on a pig. It seems that the RNC spent money to dress up the entire Palin clan. So much for small town…
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Paul Krugman has won this year’s economics Nobel Prize. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/paul-krugman-wins-economics-nobel/?hp (Thanks for the link, Ruchira.) In a charmingly self-deprecating interview on the New York Times: “For economists, this is a validation but not news. We know what each other have been up to,” Mr. Krugman said. “For readers of the column, maybe they will read…
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The Nobel prize for medicine this year has been awarded to HIV and HPV pioneers: Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of France (HIV) and Harald zur Hausen of Germany (HPV). "Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of the Institut Pasteur won half the prize of 10…
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I just spoke briefly with Ruchira a short while ago.While they are currently without power, there’s no structural damage to the home and the water is still on. It may be a few days before Ruchira gets back online, though. She said that it was a very bad storm, the worst that she has ever…
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Too much lipstick on everybody’s brains and the airwaves. (Word origin c. 1880,as per Merriam Webster Collegiate dictionary, history going back 5000 years all the way to ancient Egypt) Whether it’s on a pit bull or a pig or a Vice presidential candidate, it has exploded into the news cycle like nothing else, despite the…
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Although the tabloid-style argument over the family shenanigans of the Palins has brought McCain’s VP pick into sharp focus, there’s another side to the much-vaunted abilities of Gov. Palin that you may not know of yet. This is who McCain has nominated for VP: "On March 27, the state House passed House Bill 256, Gov.…
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Fellow blogger and law professor Ethan Leib, whose views on friendship and the law were discussed here at some length a while ago has a gig as a columnist on NYT’s Freakonomics blog. Ethan’s first post is up and it is about the legal aspects of friendship, natürlich. At least two more articles authored by Ethan…
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My short vacation last week took me to the beautiful little town of Brixen in the south Tyrolean region of northern Italy. Here are some photos inside and outside the historic Elephant Hotel where I stayed, the hotel’s gardens and of the main cathedral in the town square. Although we didn’t meet, I learnt that the…
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A few days ago marked the passing of Randy Pausch, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, from pancreatic cancer. His most remarkable achievement, apart from the legions of students and colleagues whom he inspired, was his Last Lecture, given on September 18, 2007 in front of a full auditorium of students and colleagues-…
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I am a conscientious recycler. Every Tuesday evening I set an assortment of paper, aluminum, cardboard and plastic (but no glass) items out on the curb side, neatly bundled and arranged in the blue recycling bin for pick up the next day. The recycleables are duly collected by the waste management company of my county.…
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Circa December 2006, a new meme started creeping around the blogosphere. It’s hard to pinpoint the originator, but it is lost in the mists of the hoary internet past. No one is willing to take ownership of the first time this game of Blog Tag was started. It is simple: Tell five secrets about yourself…
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Depending on the topic at hand, our writings frequently reflect our personal feelings, opinions and experience to varying degrees. But that does not necessarily make all our stories "personal." In my inaugural post I had promised readers that Accidental Blogger would serve mostly as a conversational tool between its author [there was only one author at…
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