It was a hectic day at home, I was going about my work when all at once my dome went abuzz with the need to shirk and compose what I call a pome. And here, it, the pome, is, if this were a song this would be a bridge. The…Continue reading→
Everything!
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Updated About
The “About” page has been updated. Actually a new menu item has been added. Hopefully, confusion will diminish and readers will understand the blog a wee bit more.
if grammar is dying
The immediacy of internet tools, such as Twitter and WordPress, and the ease with which anyone with time, little or no talent, and nothing original to say, can write and be published seem to have broken the shackles with which grammar bound the lazy and diffident, and the modern reader…Continue reading→
Nasal Blues
So – I need help. Yeah, Yeah – I know! It seems the nose job 18 months ago didn’t quite take. And as things stand I may have to go under the knife again. That was depressing – so I took me aside and wrote down this song. I just…Continue reading→
New! Improved! now with real fruit!
Really? No! Just an updated menu to make finding things easier in this crazy, mixed up blog. The blog has so many different flavors, as the two personalities write contrasting pieces. But, while there is no real fruit here, we are happy to announce that yet another personality will be…Continue reading→
Soup – Butternut Squash
Many moons ago, I was asked at an interview if I was a “recipe maker” or a “recipe follower”. My prompt reply was “recipe maker” – the interview effectively ended at that point. Like the Slo-Man I am not known for living on blind faith in “leaders”. Unlike Col. Haathi,…Continue reading→
Mr Deka's Nightmare – Part 3
Click for Part 1 of the Story Click for Part 2 of the Story That night the three of us did not get to bed as Anirban took apart every card, every peripheral and reassembled the machine and the cycle of testing continued. I learnt to use a multi-meter that…Continue reading→
Mr Deka's Nightmare – Part 2
Part 1 Elsewhere in the city, I was busy doing the rounds of my 5 installations, each in different stages of readiness, some where the air conditioning was not installed to some where the printers supplied were the wrong sort. Of the 5 only one of the computers, or as…Continue reading→
Mr Deka's Nightmare – Part 1
Anirban was still putting the panels back on as Deb rebooted the computer and Deb it was who saw it first. And with Mr Deka standing at Deb’s shoulder the game was afoot. I was elsewhere in the same city, dealing with problems with my own set of installations. But…Continue reading→
10.10.1985
I hardly knew him at all. A pewter bowl full of boiling, scalding water, a hand-held mirror, shaving brush, safety razor and a tube of shave cream in the pre-dawn semi-darkness at the corner of the dining table next to the window is my enduring image of him. Another early…Continue reading→
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