the game of life

Parades and Second-Line Shootings

May 13, 2013
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This Mother’s Day weekend, we attended our first Art Car Parade since moving to Houston. It is a once-a-year welcome addition of color, music and a carnival-like atmosphere to the otherwise sterile streets of this city. Tame as the parade was parade watchers’ reaction to a pretty funky spectacle was compared with the level of [...]

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I Made A Pretty Robust Well-To-Seismic Tie

April 26, 2013
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One of the tools in the geophysical workflow is the well-to-seismic tie. This is a calibration step involving the generation of a “synthetic seismic” from well data and comparing it to actual seismic data collected over the area. It ensures robustness or goodness of fit, i.e. that interfaces and intervals interpreted on the seismic data [...]

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April 25, 2013

Incidentally, no new books have been posted to the sidebar as I am re-reading William Gibson’s Neuromancer after almost two decades. The first time around, I was fresh out of high school and well-traveled for my age, so the book spoke to the cosmopolitan idealist in me but was pretty opaque in terms of references [...]

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The Ones Who Left

April 2, 2013

Nitin Sawhney tweets, “My dad – One of that generation who came to England with a few pence and a heart full of humility… took all the racist crap for our future.” These words fill me with love, sadness and anger, directed mainly at Sawhney’s father and mine. Why did these sweet, humble men put [...]

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6000-Year-Old Texas

January 22, 2013

Alas, the horrible creationist Louisiana Science & Education Act (SB70) wasn’t repealed, but the Orleans Parish School Board doesn’t want anything to do with it. On December 18, 2012, the board voted unanimously  to prohibit the use of any textbooks that include revisionist history (as in Texas) or creationism, including intelligent design (ID). They also [...]

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Sick and Better

December 19, 2012
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Amazing. Two weeks to the day after losing my voice, it is back completely. On my way to the doctor, a friend told me not to bother as “it’s a 14-day thing that’s going around in the south” and will disappear on its own with rest and hydration. Who ever heard of a two-week virus? [...]

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November 27, 2012
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Love, love, love work but it has me pinned under a landslide of maps, volumes and other deliverables. Yes, I used the word “deliverable” on this blog, which should tell you something about my current state of mind. Before you think I’m turning droid, other upcoming products include chana masala (pictured above), pedas and apple [...]

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All Saints Day

November 1, 2012
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