Monthly recap: April 2016
* Big highlight: our trip to Japan (will have to write a separate post on this!) * Tara started some swimming (well, no: the two of us went into a pool twice … but it’s still something) * Attemptin…
Media Summary: March 2017
Random stuff read online last month: * The story of the guys who created Superman (Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster) is … dramatic (also, Superman as initially conceived, was actually a villain). * The…
Monthly recap: March 2016
A few miscellaneous highlights: * Prepared for a trip to Japan (more on that later) — very smooth application process. * Jogged on a treadmill for the first time in five months. * Took Tara for he…
Media Summary: January/February 2017
(I think I missed the entry for January, clubbing that here too …) So, random stuff read, heard, seen: * This old man is clearly a role model * Feel bad for Nancy Pelosi to be put on the spot, but…
Monthly recap: February 2016
February was the last month of any formal recovery; my physical therapy came to an end, and I can pretty much do most normal things now (except for climbing down stairs, that’s still a work in progres…
Monthly recap: January 2017
I went back to work, and things are slowly (but strangely!) getting back to normal. I can almost walk up and down stairs, which is the last “normal” barrier. I even dropped Tara to daycare and picked…
Media Summary: December 2016
 * This may only be interesting from a curation/archival point of view, but still: the folks at the “Long Now Foundation” (responsible for that big clock) have a “Manual for Civilization”, which is…
Annual recap: 2016
(being a digest of all the monthly recap posts this year) * Started running again this year, did the San Francisco Half-Marathon * India (New Delhi, Bekal) trip in March * Wrote a trippy mini-nove…
Monthly recap: December 2016
I guess the theme of this month is “recovery”. I’ve slowly started using my leg more and more, going from 0 to 25 to 75 to 100 percent of body weight allowed on it. This meant a bunch of small milest…
Media summary: November 2016
* Someone made a list of the 25 best films of the century so far (the number one spot goes to David Lynch, so I won’t argue with it) * A new aircraft carrier, quite fancy, but with a hefty price tag…
Brainstorming digital tool chaos
I used to think that I alone struggled with various tools and apps to manage, track and digest all the things I want to keep track of, but I now suspect this is a pretty common source of discontent.…
Monthly recap: November 2016
This month was mostly about healing, with a lot of help from my wife and dad. Resumed a bit of normalcy, in terms of eating out and driving around, etc (and this was a rainy month, see the photo abov…