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Apartment hunting woes

I've been crawling the web-pages doing apartment hunting in Silver Spring. Having lived in a ghetto for two years, I feel its time to look for slightly more comfortable living, even at a cost. But this...

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Who is right here?

The last few months would have been riveting for anyone with an eye on the economy and the market. Starting with the fall of Lehman brothers, we've seen a string of collapses with behemoth institutions...

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A tentative philosophical point

I can see that my last few posts have been rather effusive, or shall we say, diffusive, about the joys of writing equations. Indeed, I think I've generally settled into a happy state of disenchantment,...

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Heil Amundsen

Presently, I am watching a very nice broadcast from PBS showcasing Amundsen's passage across the north west. It is most fascinating, and not not uninspiring to the u. Some day, perhaps, one may have...

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Reticulate venation

Talk about the economy has several shades. Currently, depending on the light shed on it, it usually settles on an unbecoming shade of greenish white, metaphrasing lines from Mrs. Packletide's tiger (in...

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Aburrimiento

I am extremely bored. Being on perpetual vacation has some drawbacks, and this is one of them. The computer, embellished as the much abused one, is to bear the brunt of my boredom. It can't complain,...

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New day, new age

I've decided to post again. I had decided that my the old writings were to be buried but have apparently returned again. To fill the gap, let us just say that a new phase in life has begun. I had...

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Waiting for Paganini to finish

Few things have changed since I posted last time, and there's not really much to comment upon. I am filling the gap while I listen to the Rhapsody on a Theme from Paganini, by Rachmaninoff, played by...

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To kill, or not to kill

I have been thinking of obliterating this blog for sometime but shy away from doing so for some reason. I might yet come back to do so some day. It seems like one of those poignant reminders one's...

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No dearth of undone activities

This is probably going to be a little rusty. I've grown so used to using verbiage that the natural order of things has most likely been disrupted. It's more like dissonances from Prokofiev that come...

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On taking the transcontinental trip and others

After having given this some thought, I've come to the conclusion that some of my happiest moments in the last five or six years have been in the plane, believe it or not. In recent times, it has been...

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On Plasma Physics

After years and years of shilly shallying (or dilly dallying, if you will) circumstances have so arranged themselves - I will not make use of 'propitiated', for we cannot comment on that - that I am at...

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The death of the mobile phone

I am currently slightly inebriated. Lucky as I am not to be caught by the humble law enforcement officer in the three or so miles that separates the pub in downtown Walnut Creek from Acalanes Ridge...

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Mindgasm

The infrequency and episodic nature of this blog, which we may perhaps without vanity or emotion describe as being frozen in time, does not necessarily lend itself to the epithet that we may attribute...

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Far from the madding crowd

A recurring theme that occurs in these posts is that of solitude, and my pointless reflections, divergences and rambling sentences that they occasion. It is my hope that some day, the words flow out...

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Optimistic pessimism

Despite the obvious contradiction in the entitling of this post, I am hopeful that it piques the senses of the reader (we will just assume that they exist) in some way. In my own magniloquent universe,...

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On existence

There comes upon everyone's life a time when they question why, if they were a sperm whale, they were a sperm whale. They thrash about based on the observations, deductions made and the individual...

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The age of ADD

I shall add to the existing canons of literature denouncing ADD in its manifestations in the modern era. Not that it will be of any use because one never learns. History, as it were, repeats itself....

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Fanfare for the common man

Aaron Copland had created a great piece which he named as in the title of this post. I wonder what he meant by that though. What was his intended audience, and what does he mean specifically by...

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On reality

I had propounded, rather uselessly some few months ago, that the construction in our heads of reality is an approximation, which is of course, upon some slight reflection, obvious. I am given to...

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