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Wow. You don't expect to be in New Zealand, open a national newspaper, and see a friend from the US pictured on the front page:Nekredeble. Oni ne atendas esti en Nov-Zelando, preni tutlandan taggazeton, kaj vidi amikon usonan sur la frontpaĝo:
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Earlier, I posted about New Zealand commercials. I figure I could do the same about some that I saw in India.Antaŭe mi afiŝis pri televid-reklamoj nov-zelandaj. Mi supozas ke mi povas same fari pri reklamoj kiujn mi spektis en Barato.Well, the first thing I want to mention isn't a commercial, but a billboard ad that I saw around town. It had a ( Read more... ) -
Free Trade / Libera Komerco
With elections in the US and now with the lending/banking crisis, I'm really assuming this time that my American readers haven't heard about the US joining free trade talks with New Zealand, Singapore, Chile, and Brunei.Dum alproksimiĝas la prezidenta voĉdonado en Usono kaj nun okazas la prunta/banka krizo, mi vere supozas ĉi foje ke usonaj ( Read more... ) -
Trip to the Hasan District
Last weekend, my co-worker here in India arranged a roadtrip out of Bangalore and into the countryside. The plan was to drive 200 km west to Belur to see the 900 year old Chennakesava Temple and then either go see the bigger temple that they built 100 years later (Hoysaleswara Temple) in Halebidu or go to Shravanabelagola where the 1000 year old, ( Read more... ) -
Bangalore: Whitefield
Yesterday I met up with an Esperanto speaker here in Bangalore. The shortened form of his name is Venki, which means "to conquer" in Esperanto (often used metaphorically). Here's he is with his car and obligatory "Esperanto" bumper sticker.Hieraŭ mi renkontiĝis kun Esperantisto ĉi tie en Bengaluro. La mallonga formo de lia nomo estas Venki, do ( Read more... ) -
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With election coverage being all the rage in the US, I'm guessing that the developments in US-India nuclear relations aren't in the US news at all. Anyone hear about any of this? (It's been front-page news since I got here, mostly because of a leaked letter from the US government which has India feeling like they've been misled, and so has fired ( Read more... ) -
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
crankyotter has been (rightfully) bugging me to post something. I've been up to a lot, but now I forget what I should blog about :)crankyotter (prave) pikadis min por instigi novan enskribon. Mi multon faris, sed nun forgesas tion pri kio mi verku :)I'm right now hanging out with mollishka in Columbus, OH. We're about to make muffins, so this post will be written in spurts... ( Read more... ) -
Minuteman Trail
Last week's Boston Globe had an article on my local rail trail: Popular bike trail gets even betterPasint-semajne, la ĵurnalo Boston Globe enhavis artikolon pri mia loka bicikla vojo [en la hispana oni diras "verda vojo" kaj en la angla oni diras "rela pado" por esprimi ke la vojo antaŭe estis fervoja sed nun estas por biciklantoj kaj promenantoj ( Read more... ) -
Purgatory Cove
Yesterday evening, after the cafe where I spent the afternoon had closed, I decided that I would go for a walk, because it was still nice out and I had been sitting all day. My neighborhood is bounded by the Charles River on the west, but there's an intersection where people often turn that looks like it ought to go right into the water. I've ( Read more... ) -
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I have a question. With films, you can talk about pacing: a movie can be edited to an appropriate length; you can talk about the amount of time spent on this scene or that scene. With a novel, I assume that you can also talk about pacing: a story could be written in 50 pages, but instead it's 400; and the events are distributed in a particular ( Read more... )