What a great film! Top writing, amazing production values and that certain je ne sais quois which imbues every frame with meaning far beyond it’s 1/24th of a second would warrant. The film deals with the nasty politics and business of oil told from the viewpoints of…
I hadn’t been this excited about going to a show for a long time. I’ve been a fan of Mike Stern ever since I heard his album Play. Play was particularly important for me because it pulled me out of a long funk wherein I had…
My attorney has never been able to agree with the concept, often espoused by former drug users, that you can get a lot higher without drugs than you can with them. And frankly neither have I. Or should I say, had. Ever since this trip started I’ve been…
David Smith was one of the leading abstract expressionist sculptors of America and is on display at the Guggenheim. I really liked his work, even though I have spent precious little time looking at sculptures and really have no specific tools to analyse or describe what I saw, but I…
Full-power avant garde jazz. We got there late and the show finished early, so all we got to catch was a forty minute set and I say - thank God for small mercies. It’s not that the music was bad, it’s just that avant-garde music with…
This happened in January but I figure it’s not too late to write about my bike ride to Goa and back, especially since I count these two rides as the best of my life and real formative experiences in my motorcycling life. When Anoop and I did this…
I spent the afternoon writing an XML-RPC server and client in Excel for accessing the National Stock Exchange’s order books. This is great if you want to just get the current bid and offer prices for various options or futures contracts in a portfolio. The RPC server scrapes…
Great news - Project Carpool is now on Sourceforge. Details here…
…the weekend was a resounding success. A dream came true. I met someone with the same name as I. I met someone I’m connected to in perfect synchronicity and when she sang, she left me reeling, unbalanced, my soul trying to find its feet and right itself…
…after 72 hours of… …and its attendant lifestyle benefits.…