July 2006

Day 329: Drive Silicon Valley

July 23, 2006

Goodbye Detroit, hello Cali? Why does this remind me of If Microsoft Made Cars? Silicon Valley racing ahead with electric cars: Silicon Valley thinks it can do what Detroit could not — create a thriving business selling electric cars. In the 1990s, General Motors and other automakers spent billions to develop battery-powered vehicles, but they [...]

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Day 327: A Trip To Algiers Point

July 21, 2006

Amanda has moved across the river to Algiers Point instead of leaving town altogether. *There was much rejoicing!* Rent on a well-equipped shotgun in a decent and relatively safe neighborhood is much more bearable over yonder, and parking is available and free (always worth saving up for). Our weekend rumbles in the Quarter may be [...]

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Day 326: Saffron To Sassafras

July 20, 2006

Guess it’s India/Food week at VatulBlog. Maisnon Esq. informs me that “SFist talks about a cookbook called Saffron to Sassafras – Indian and Cajun recipes. Proceeds to help the Baton Rouge Capital Area Battered Women’s Program and other charities for women and children in Louisiana.” The new release authored by board members of the Sharing Shores Indian Women’s Association [...]

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Day 325: Karen

July 19, 2006

My newest friend and fellow New Orleans blogger, Karen Gadbois, is the mind behind Northwest Carrollton, the online voice of a portion of Uptown on the far side of the Crescent from the French Quarter. Aside from her duties as a parent and homeowner in a part of town that flooded, Karen toils nonstop for [...]

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July 19, 2006

July 19, 2006 – New City Council members Arnie Fielkow (Wisconsin law grad) Arnie Fielkow’s Chief of Staff, Shelley Midura some dude and Stacy Head (my councilwoman) are at One Shell Square today. They are touring the facilities here, including the Virtual Reality Center I once ran. Coincidentally, I am in a geophysics class on the [...]

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Day 325: Of Cowboys And Indians

July 19, 2006

If he continues to refer to me as a dothead, Adrastos had better buy me this AWESOME t-shirt (via Sepia Mutiny): I’m glad to be back on the Sepia Mutiny wagon, especially during the repercussions of the train bombs in Mumbai. Recently, I learned that Indian netizens can no longer access Blogger or TypePad-hosted blogs. [...]

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Day 324: Coconut Curry Casserole

July 18, 2006

Once I’d perfected a representative dish from each region of my history – sambar from South India, chana masala from North India, tabouleh from Arabia and brownies from America – there was no stopping this woman in the kitchen. After The Exile, I was so happy to be back in my own house that cooking [...]

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Day 323: Global Warming, Disappearing Coastline, Renewable Resources

July 17, 2006

Fifteen years ago, if you had brought up the topic of global warming, I’d have laughed at you because we’re going into another Ice Age. Then, I studied geology and understood the geologic time scale vs. the human one. With the growing evidence, global warming is now irrefutable. Last night, I couldn’t take my eyes off “Global [...]

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Day 322: Now That The Cake Has Been Eaten

July 16, 2006

Are there any other Human Barometers out there? In other words, does anyone other than me begin to experience a severe and debilitating headache before and during the approach of a low-pressure front, dispelled only when it begins to rain? Forget weather radars and models – just use the Maitri-o-graph! Yesterday sacrificed to treating Mi [...]

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Day 320: It’s A Small World After All

July 14, 2006

This is too wacky not to share with the internet, given that it was the internet that caused it. A few hours ago, I received an email from a woman who lives in Abu Dhabi (that’s in the Middle East, for you geographically-challenged). Sifting through the Kuwait forums on orkut (which I haven’t touched in ages [...]

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