| 4 Sep 2004: | Have been reading "sangopan" from Anil Awachat's "swatahvishayi". There are some interesting points he brings up regarding schooling. | |
| 5 Sep 2004: | Sudu-Sriram, Raghupathi sir; Mangesh-Ulka are here for the Labour day weekend. | |
| 6 Sep 2004: | Over the last few days watched "Seabiscuit" and "Galaxy Quest". Though not among the best ones, both are good. |
Galaxy Quest (1999) Seabiscuit (2003) |
| Ways to reduce television watching (in children) | TV addiction | |
| 11 Sep 2004: | Had been to New Orleans. It is an interesting place. Too much is made of Bourbon street, so much so that weekends seem like mini marches. | A few photographs |
| 15 Sep 2004: | Watched "A Passage to India." It is interesting, but does bend towards "drama." |
A Passage to India (1984) |
| 19 Sep 2004: | The locate database on mac: a tutorial and weekly script. Parts of it won't
work for recent systems. Actually, there is not much about locate there per se,
but using it I got the db going by running sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb which resulted increating /var/db/loacte.database |
Weekly script tutorial |
| 20 Sep 2004: | Learnt a bit about fonts on mac including its fontbook. subak works and I can see BBC hindi, but not sakal, ma taa, hitguj etc. | |
| 21 Sep 2004: | Watched "What women want". Turned out to be better than I had expected. It is good that they did not overdo it. |
What women want (2000) |
| 22 Sep 2004: | Officially its fall! Even California turns a leaf and we need to be hunting for colors. Plumas county, or Inyo or even inland empire.
Here is a plan around Lassen: Take 80 From Bay area upto 89. Take 89 through Plumas upto Lassen and beyond to McArthur Burney, Castle Crags and return via 5. Or a shorther one in Inland empire: Take 215 to Silverwood lake, 215 to 10 to 243 to Mt. San Jacinto and back via 74, 60. |
California State parks Upadted California reports Plumas county - Lassen is nearby Fed link to all states |
| 23 Sep 2004: | "Phantom of the Opera" was not as good as I had hoped. The acting was, and the plot had promise, but turned out to be a bit lame. Am I getting used to movies that are too slick? Perhaps I should try the original version? |
Phantom of the Opera (1962) |
| 25 Sep 2004: | Ganesh chaturdashi. Went to Malibu temple. Like always more people turn up for this event than any other. Over 500. | |
| 28 Sep 2004: | "The kid" has some interesting aspects. Anu felt it was a bit like Dr. Phil and I thought it is so easy to tie all loose ends together. Did rusty bring his 'plane away from his house on his 8th birthday? | The Kid (2000) |
| 28 Sep 2004: | Satrted reading Gribbin duo's book on Richard Feynman. The very first anecdote is an attack on "botany", just knowing the names of birds, something I have appreciated, but never had been able to put it so aptly. |
