A personal history of video games
Oct 7, 2018
I still vividly remember the first time I saw a video game. I was in grade 6 or 7 when the whole class of 40 or so pupils was ushered into the newly
A very warm July
Aug 26, 2018
Like many parts of the world this summer, The Netherlands saw temperatures break old records and set new ones. I plotted the historical temperature
Day Calendar as a plot device
Jun 10, 2018
On a flight recently, I finally paid heed to the wife’s advice and tempered my selection of mainstream Hollywood movies with some world cinema. The
The tiled façades of Porto
Apr 21, 2018
It’s impossilbe to visit Porto and not notice the colourful, ceramic tile-adorned façades of houses there. Tiled Façade of a house at Porto Tiled
Two Hong Kong trips seventeen years apart
Mar 13, 2018
My first visit to Hong Kong in the year 2000 had left quite an impression on me. I was there again last year. Visiting a country after seventeen
2017: My year in music
Jan 1, 2018
Montage Kurt Vonnegut in Timequake:
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a
Man and machine
Nov 26, 2017
We all experience moments when it seems like the whole world is out to get you. You can issue and return books from the public library in Amsterdam
The photos in the corridor
Nov 4, 2017
The corridor of our apartment floor would sometimes feels a bit gloomy. Except for a large black and white photograph - taken from the North Exit of
Spoke too soon?
Oct 16, 2017
Me a week ago:
We packed away the fan last weekend and I’d be surprised (and worried) if it needs to be assembled again before May.
The
Summer is over
Oct 8, 2017
Second week of October is pretty late in the year to be saying this, but I wanted to be sure. We packed away the fan last weekend
Zippers
Oct 1, 2017
Despite years of wearing jackets with full-length zippers, the wife and I found ourselves struggling with zipping and unzipping while trying on new
My top three favourite movies
Sep 26, 2017
Some movies manage to become the staple of in-flight entertainment. I discovered Edge of Tomorrow on a flight and it became an instant favourite of
Summer 2017 in Amsterdam…
Jun 25, 2017
…as panels of an imaginary comic: In June, days in Amsterdam stretch on for 16+ hours. The afternoon sun, even on partly-cloudy days when it’s a
Appreciating Trees
Jun 16, 2017
I came across an article in The New Yorker that prognosticates how Greenland would change as the global warming progresses and causes the years old
Seville - Day 2
Jun 5, 2017
We walked through the warren of narrow streets in the old town in search of a place that’d serve us breakfast. Along the way we encountered several
Rainbow over Brouwersgracht
May 24, 2017
April doet wat hij wil - April does what it wants - goes the Dutch saying about tempramental April weather. A few days ago I was walking to work on
Phone cameras and depth of field
Apr 24, 2017
Some four years ago, while playing with Hipstamatic’s TinType addon, I had remarked:
My biggest gripe with phone cameras is the lack of depth of
Seville - Day 1
Apr 21, 2017
The words “two-and-a-half-hour flight” get me nostalgic about numerous flights I used to take between Bangalore and Delhi. In Western Europe, a
Spring
Apr 4, 2017
in Amsterdam always takes me by suprise. After just four months of looking at dull, wintery landscape you forget how colourful and vibrant
Blue skies and teapots
Mar 19, 2017
I spent considerable time in the 90s tinkering with the POV Ray ray-tracer. You’d use a C-like language to describe placement of camera, lights and
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