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…
Personal Media Summary: October 2016
Meta: This is delayed by a few weeks, and I’m ending the short experiment of cross-posting to Medium. A few things I saw or read the last month and half: * Watched a lot of episodes of Midsomer Mur…
Monthly recap: October 2016
A lot of other stuff happened in October, but the main event turned out to be a silly accident. At some point I'll share the X-ray, but basically I had multiple fractures in my tibia/fibula. Book…
Broken leg, Part 1
Some quick facts, so that I can record this somewhere: On Thursday, I sustained multiple fractures in my left leg. A spiral fracture in the tibia, a single fracture in the fibula, and some indetermin…
Resolutions on Writing
Around 2013, I decided to try a few therapeutic writing exercises, and got hooked. Since then I’ve written a lot for fun, though almost entirely pseudonymously. I’ve written poems off and on at Hello…
Personal Media Summary- September 2016
Random reads from September: * As a sign of the times, some Democrats are now nostalgic1 for Romney. * In the speculative archaeology section, links2 between China and ancient Egypt (specifically,…
Monthly Recap: September 2016
Finally made a New York trip after six years (!) and met up with a bunch of old friends (some of them after 15 years) -- and Tara went to her first zoo. Bunch of other miscellany: switched to a more…
Personal Media Summary: August 2016
Random reads from August: * I try to start with a “blast from the past”, so here1 is * A rambling but heartfelt account2 of the paradoxes of ‘Brexit’ * Someone discusses their experience of trying…