So, I looked at some of my entries and...I complain..a lot. Really, it is a standard method of expressing affection in DeWalts Guidebook for Grumpy Old Men. Anyway, here is a link to something that I love about Singapore ( Read more... )

Today is the 14th of January. I've been out of the apartment since the 12th of Dec. So far it (meaning the states and then Singapore) has been great but it looks like I will be in Bombay until the 22nd and then maybe in Chennai which means that it will return just around 1.5 months since I stepped out of my apartment. Mysteries mysteries. I threw ( Read more... )

Hey, I may be (as in I'll try to be) around in D.C. near or on the 31st/ first. It would be great to meet up with y'all if you are around

In Boston now. It's snowing. All luggage apparently somewhere in the Dubai airport. I stopped at target two nights ago, delirious from lack of sleep (22hrs India to JFK, six hours (incl airport) JFK to Boston) and attempted to pick a wardrobe to replace the one siting in a small red bag sixteen hundred miles away. Sat through the next two days of ( Read more... )

The last three days have been annoying: I arrived home from Bombay at 12:30 in the morning and found that the power had been cut. Turns out that the bill had been delivered on the 7th of October, when I was in Singapore, and the Kerala state electricity board sent someone out to pull the fuses from the junction box to my apartment five days later, ( Read more... )

Long day today. Went on a walk through Dharavi (the single largest shanty towns in India and possibly the largest in Asia) in the morning, with a local guide and four engineers interested in making a better version of the blue tarp that seems somewhat ubiquitous. Turns out that Dharavi is not really the right place for this (most of the housing is ( Read more... )

Spent the weekend out at the Periyar Tiger Reserve, near the Kerala/ Tamil Nadu border. Katie and I went on a private tour with a guide, a shooter and six crew members who set up tents and made meals & etc. No tigers spotted (just as good since we were on foot) but we did spend time dodging through the underbrush in order to avoid some apparently ( Read more... )

So ah, Vietnam

Noodles (Bun) in the morning from a street vendor in Hue. K and I have passed through Hue twice now and have spent probably four mornings here which in longer maybe than we should really spend but it is a small quiet town, than this makes the vacation more relaxing. The noodles are kept in a plastic bag and there are tother ( Read more... )

Weekly update (for this week at least):

Let's see: The bulk of the week was pretty slow.

A lawyer called a few days ago and told me to expect a subpoena related to the work that I was doing in 2002/2003/2004 (I can't remember which year). Someone is suing someone else and apparently I was involved in a project that has some bearing on the case ( Read more... )

I am fortunate enough to run across all sort of interesting things in my field of work

here, for example, is the Australian Society of Baking Creed

I think that I've found purpose in life

Australian Society of Baking Creed

The ideals of the ASB are best expressed in its Creed, drawn up by the founders and read by a member before each ( Read more... )