Monthly recap (June 2017)
Big highlight: Tara’s cousins were visiting. We went to San Francisco over a weekend, then drove further up north to a small beach town near Bodega Bay (my second good AirBnB experience; slightly les…
Media Summary: May 2017
Random stuff from last month: * The SpaceX launch happened * There was this thing called the “Fyre Festival” which imploded and yielded immense parody (a leaked pitch deck featured tons of groan-wo…
Monthly recap (May 2017)
Big highlight: finally finished the 1000-piece puzzle I had been working on (will share a full album later). Sold my 7-year old second-hand Civic and bought a new Subaru Outback (so we can finally ta…
Media Summary: April 2016
* There are such things as Paleoburrows, dug by “mega fauna” in the past. “So if a 90-pound animal living today digs a 16-inch by 20-foot borrow, what would dig one five feet wide and 250 feet long?…
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…