More on Polanski

Many of those who believe Polanski forcibly raped Geimer rely on the Grand Jury testimony as their primary piece of supporting evidence. So I think it would be nice to also take a look at the actual probation report, made at the time of the incident, by Santa Monica deputy Irwin Gold. The whole report [...]

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Auld Lang Syne

No particular reason to post this here, except that I truly love this song and it brings back so many associations and memories.

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Road tripping the west: The third (and final) week

(For the second week, click here. For a google maps summary of the route for the first two weeks, click here. For a summary of the route for week three, click here.)
Day 15 (July 14), Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington.
I dropped off AM at the airport early in the morning (this time she didn’t miss [...]

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Road tripping the west: The second week

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Day 8 (July 7), Park City, Utah to Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
I had asked AM a day or two earlier if she would like to fly in to Portland and go to Crater Lake with me over the weekend. Got an email from her in the morning. It was a yes.
Which meant, instead of [...]

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Road tripping the west: The first week

The idea of road tripping the American southwest and mountain-west first occurred to me a month ago when I was wondering how to spend the five free weeks I would have before my planned early August departure for Switzerland. The way I had envisaged it, it was going to just me, doing a grand circle from California [...]

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Random notes

1. I am currently in Hawaii. It is most wonderful. And there is something truly special about doing math on the beach. Some day I hope to find out if it is as good as having sex on the beach.
2. I am in the final couple of months of my US stay. This is not [...]

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A small update

I know I haven’t posted in a fair while.
It’s been a busy time. I finished writing up my thesis and defended last Monday. Then there was a whirlwind trip to Zurich and Milan over the last four days. The next month I will be busy wrapping some things around here; also my mom will be [...]

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Verbatim

When I walked out of the bathroom, she was still singing the same tune. She had been singing it on and off for the past several days. The song was now stuck in my head. I loved the song and loved her singing it.
A thought struck me.
“You know what, I just realized something.”
“What?”
“I have started [...]

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Classical music that makes me happy

Despite the title, this post is not going to be a complete list but more of a little story.
One day when I came back from a rather stressful day of school and in a really bad mood — I was thirteen at the time — my mom suggested I lie down on my bed, close [...]

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The full circle

Certain events reminded me
of this funniness I once wrote.
So I called up K –  he told me
of she he was with no more;
So I asked him about the circles
And he said he’d come a full circle.
For some reason that makes me  sad.

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A ski helmet rant from ten years ago

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I can bike in Switzerland without feeling outraged!

In London (my British friend informs me) it is illegal to ride a bicycle without wearing a helmet. I find that amusing because Londoners can jaywalk legally; so it is the precise opposite of California, where helmets are not mandatory for adult cyclists but jaywalking is illegal. Actually I think that both jaywalking  and riding [...]

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Very cute short film

The film reminded me of a Bangalore classroom years ago. Me and this-girl-who-was-not-yet-my-girlfriend were communicating via notes scribbled on paper. It was supposed to be a study session of course but when have such details dampened the excitement that comes with the early stages of a romance?
Come to think of it, [...]

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The Pasadena freeway separates the boys from the men

I like driving fast. And no urban freeway rewards the skilled, fast driver more than the historic Pasadena freeway, the  section of the 110 north of downtown LA .
In many ways, the Pasadena Freeway is an anomaly. The oldest freeway in the US, it connects the business district of Los Angeles to the city of [...]

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Practising rappel skills near Mt. Baldy summit

I am the guy with the blue helmet.
(Photo courtesy of Stephan)

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