Category: Random Thoughts & Idle Chatter
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Fellow blogger Namit Arora sent me the link to an intriguing news item reported in the Indian newspaper, The Economic Times. Apparently during a fence mending meeting, a month before the last elections, Barack Obama kicked around the idea of sending Bill Clinton as a mediator to the disputed territory of Kashmir in order to…
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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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Accidental Blogger completes three years of its existence today – an unremarkable fact but still worth noting. The milestone probably qualifies as middle age by the standards of the blogosphere. I am less surprised by the blog’s longevity on this anniversary than I was last year. Blogging has now become more or less a daily…
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I will be leaving for India tomorrow and will return toward the end of the month. Unless I have something really interesting to report, I will not be posting during this period. My co-authors will keep the front page refreshed as often as time permits. They may not be able to post daily or as…
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In the last few weeks since Ike struck the coast of Texas, you have heard a lot about my thirteen days without electricity, entire neighborhoods without power and water and massive havoc wreaked on the infrastructure of Galveston and the Bolivar Peninsula. All that pertains to man made edifices of modern living. Ike was a…
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The electricity in our house is back after thirteen interminable days of power outage. On Thursday at 9:45pm while I was in my neighbor’s kitchen boiling water to fill the thermos, a utility truck came by and at 10:15pm, the house was humming with familiar sounds of whirring appliances. The funny thing is that I…
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This morning I began day twelve without electricity and as usual found myself feeling hot, mildly grumpy, anxious and a bit more dispirited by the failure of Center Point Energy to restore power at our corner of the street. After my morning cup of tea (the hot water was obtained from a neighbor’s kitchen last…
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In my home and at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Today is the sixth consecutive day that our house is without electricity. We are minimally functional with borrowed electricity from our neighbors through an extension cord. After six days, I am getting used to it and learning to improvise around the limited access to electricity – a situation which would otherwise have been a debilitating…
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Thanks Sujatha, for putting up the post about Ike – that was very accurate reporting. Thanks also to everyone who had called or emailed to enquire after our safety – many of them fellow bloggers. I have access to the computer today. So a quick update on Ike and Me. Most of you have seen…
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Those of you who have been paying attention to the news in the past couple of days must already know about Hurricane Ike which is poised to crash somewhere on the Texas coastline within the next twenty four hours or so. Ike is a huge storm that is expected to cut a wide swath and…
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Came across some funny anti-motivational posters (via Shunya’s Notes). Also discovered that the website lets you create your own parody posters. I designed a few using some photos in my computer archive. Click for enlargement and let me know what your message would be for these photos.
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My blogging frequency is going to be slow for the next couple of weeks. In the coming days I plan to recycle some old posts and resort to links mostly. Here is an email I wrote to friends and family in September 2005 during the turbulent hurricane season when Katrina and Rita created havoc across…
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