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Texan Whiplash

July 15, 2011

Yesterday’s Houston Chronicle: Texas’ main electric grid operator is warning customers to reduce their usage during the peak power demand hours of 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. today as high temperatures and unexpected power plant outages will stretch supplies. Today on Capitol Hill: An amendment from Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) defunding the Energy Department’s standards for [...]

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Mumbai Bombed Again

July 14, 2011

There’s a very high probability that all of you who read this blog know about the IED blasts across Mumbai yesterday that claimed 18 lives, injured many others and has understandably increased the stress levels of an already put-upon city. Just imagining a surviving Mumbaikar thinking “It could have been me or someone I love” [...]

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Ge(neal)ogist

June 20, 2011

While talking with my dad yesterday, he mentioned that now that both of his parents have passed, he often performs a Hindu ceremony called Amavasya Dharpanam in their and other ancestors’ honor. This ritual is conducted on the day of a new moon, and to keep a long explanation short, is the equivalent of the [...]

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Back In The Land Of Hurricane Season

June 1, 2011

Me: “Hey, it’s the first day of hurricane season.” D: “Oh, boy.” Jeffrey may not evacuate New Orleans, but I will Houston. It’s never the hurricane itself that I worry about, but the aftermath, which involves the human inability to plan ahead. We’re not staying here for two weeks of no power (experienced by many [...]

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Court Intrigue

May 31, 2011

This is probably the best picture I took on the tectonics field trip to Utah last week, and it was with my brand spanking new iPhone. Now powered by Verizon, thank you. Created by fracture-controlled weathering of sandstone, just like the rest of the rock formations and arches of Arches National Park, this group looked [...]

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In Which D And I Move. Again.

March 12, 2011

Today, I took a Taiwanese-British girl who speaks Dutch and lives in Holland shopping for cowboy boots in Houston, Texas. It was only slightly less weird than the time I was standing behind two white boys during a bluegrass concert in a dive bar and they began to speak to one another in proper Tamil. [...]

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HamsterLand

February 27, 2011

We cruised by a store called FishLand today. Me: “So, they sell, um, all fish at FishLand?” D: “Yeah.” Me: “Like halibut and tuna. Fried or blackened.” D: “No, they sell fish as pets. It’s a pet store.” Me: “A whole store dedicated to pet fish instead of a fishmonger. Okay, then where’s HamsterLand?” D: [...]

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What A Couple Of Weeks

February 21, 2011

Here I sit in a friend’s living room in New Orleans with a few moments to myself. A rare luxury these days. When things happen in my life, they tend to happen all at once. 1) The Packers won the Superbowl! It all happened so fast – we went from possibly wild card to laying [...]

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Green Bay Packers, Superbowl Champions

February 7, 2011

February 6, 2011, 22:10 EST – @maitri: “We won the Superbowl, Packer nation! The Lombardi trophy goes home! Titletown! Aaaaahhhhahahahaha! LOVE LOVE LOVE!” That is all. I am going to be in bed for the rest of the week watching the highlights reel over and over again. Tweet

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Someone Pinch Me

January 24, 2011

Rodgers, Shields, Matthews, Kuhn! Superstars! The defense rocked (Dom Capers, I am still naming our hypothetical son after you), but last night’s MVP was #90, The Fat Man, The Freezer: Busari Raji, Jr. To quote fellow Packer fan, Athenae, “If you like it, then you shoulda put a belt on it!” Tweet

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