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jim comey and his apologia [x-posted from my blogspot]
I finished reading James Comey's new book A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership. I normally don't buy into publicity stunts like this. For instance, I resisted buying Fire and Fury, because I didn't want to give money to a guy for telling us what we already knew - that Trump's a tool -, and the juicier bits of gossip, whether true or not, ( Read more... ) -
writers and their media [x-posted from my blogspot]
A lot of writers today still favor longhand. A writer's medium of choice is often a central feature of his or her art. Gore Vidal wrote on yellow legal pads. Stephen King and John Irving write longhand. Jeffrey Archer, when I went to see him at Landmark in Hyderabad, one of many excellent bookstores that city had to offer at one point that had a ( Read more... ) -
yoguh: a follow-up to "apoplectic" [x-posted from my blogspot]
Returned from the "yoga getaway" about which I'd written recently in such vituperative terms. My final verdict is that it's a decent place generally, but one must take pains to guard against brainwashing and insects alike. The people who live and work there are as wonderful a lot of people as you can expect to find anywhere, as are the majority of ( Read more... ) -
apoplectic [x-posted from my blogspot]
I'm traveling to Bangalore tomorrow for a day to visit the yoga getaway I adverted to earlier. My dad's importuning came to a head sometime last week, and I must have decided that it was better to satisfy his wish and get it over with then to endure a decade of hearing about how I squandered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the ( Read more... ) -
school and x-files [x-posted from blogspot]
In the midst of all the madness, I never really got a chance to talk about life in general after the summer ended. Of course, at Tech one is introduced early on to the notion that life is work and work is life, as much as people who have the luxury to do so would like to insist otherwise, and so work will be the theme of this post. I must add, it's ( Read more... ) -
first entry
I keep deleting my LJ account, because I find it hard to maintain more than one blog. Lately, however, I've increasingly found myself faced with the choice of posting crazy on my regular blog or relegating it to the hinterland of my mind, and have realized that a second blog is a desideratum, if I don't want to perish from craziness ( Read more... )