Quarantine Diaries, Day 18
Apr 2, 2020
19:00 After close to 3 weeks of video conferencing I am getting sick of the constant lag, dropped frames and choppy audio. In person meetings will
Quarantine Diaries, Day 17
Apr 1, 2020
19:20 Went on a grocery run with the wife so that we could divvy up the list and get done sooner. Turns out that under our current social distancing
Quarantine Diaries, Day 16
Mar 31, 2020
22:30 The dishes are done! Was listening to the recent episode of Peter Attia’s Podcast. No matter which way you slice the numbers, Covid-19 is
Quarantine Diaries, Day 15
Mar 30, 2020
22:16 No desire to do the dishes again. When two adults eat 3 meals at home and drink several cups of tea and coffee, it’s a lot of dishes. Today’s
Quarantine Diaries, Day 14
Mar 29, 2020
23:07 Not sleepy and not feeling like doing the pile of dishes in the sink. 18:30 Woke up from strange dreams. Of late I’ve been dreaming of crowded
The old cassette player
Jan 16, 2020
Illustration: the old cassette player The mono cassette player at our home was one of the earliest pieces of electronic gadgetry we were allowed to
2019: My year in music
Jan 1, 2020
This is the fourth year I am sharing my selection of 50 or so tracks that I really enjoyed that year. Like years before, and unlike most mainstream
A day trip to Capri
Dec 6, 2019
Two days into our vacation in Naples, on a relatively sunny November day, we took a day trip to Capri. It was a 40 minute walk from our hotel to the
A gable stone for a time traveller from the past
Nov 23, 2019
The municipality of Amsterdam recently posted a short article about the life and works of George Hendrik Breitner. The post included a picture of
Patterns of bricks on sidewalks of Amsterdam
Oct 18, 2019
Over the past few days, I’ve become quite interested in patterns of bricklaying on the sidewalks and streets of Amsterdam. There seem to be 4 major
Listening to the soundtrack of Tezaab after 25+ years
Sep 28, 2019
I grew up in Delhi at a time where there were only two TV channels. They would broadcast government sanctioned programing for limited hours in the
Heatwaves
Sep 9, 2019
The heatwave in July this year led to record temperatures across the Netherlands. Eight weather stations logged maximum temperatures higher than
Impressionism in Canada
Sep 2, 2019
A work meeting in Munich a couple of weeks ago got canceled at the last minute. That left me with a free day to look around. A quick internet search
Postcards from New York City
Jul 20, 2019
On a visit to New York City a few weeks ago, we took a boat tour in the Hudson river with our friends. The tour offered wonderful views of the
Spring Snow
Jun 23, 2019
Come May and the elm trees in Amsterdam disperse clumps of their seeds into the air. A thin, pale-white veneer of these seeds settles down on the
Spring
Apr 28, 2019
A visit to the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid
Apr 7, 2019
We were in Madrid last week. It’s a 2½ hour flight from Amsterdam. The wife and I mused that it’s the same duration as the Delhi-Bangalore flight
A day in Pisa
Feb 17, 2019
After a couple of leisurely days in Florence, we1 started looking for nearby places we could visit. Pisa stood out - not only for a chance to see
The bathroom drain
Jan 12, 2019
The tiles around our bathroom drain are asymmetric: The misaligned bathroom drain I am severely myopic but I don’t bathe with my glasses on. So even
2018: My year in music
Jan 1, 2019
Montage When I shared a list of my favourite songs from 2016, I wasn’t sure if it was going to be a one-off exercise or if I’d be able to repeat it
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