Photographs


Another photo that seems to capture what India is always like - people everywhere at high densities. I often found myself wondering where they think they will put more people as there isnt a ...

Another photo that seems to capture what India is always like...

The Chaos That Is Rail Travel.jpg

The Chaos That Is Rail Travel.jpg

This is another typical street scene in Jaipur. People selling fruits and vegetables along the side of the road. It was an orgy of color and hard to resist eating!

This is another typical street scene in Jaipur. People selling...

Tommy Tso Alabaster Bear

Tommy Tso Alabaster Bear

I wanted a photo with me and India's 'high speed rail'. I made some kind of mental error thinking that this train would be more like the Ave in Spain or the ICE in Germany. Oh no! It is expr ...

I wanted a photo with me and India's 'high speed rail'. I made...

Nathan Trying to Reconnoiter.jpg

Nathan Trying to Reconnoiter.jpg

Fisheye at the top of the pitch!

Fisheye at the top of the pitch!

A candid of me walking along this narrow walk walk at the top of the Hawa Mahal.

A candid of me walking along this narrow walk walk at the top...

Holiday Reflections

I warn you, this is a ramble or sorts, and It definitely might make you wonder what I am up to on a Saturday afternoon, but my intent is to be though provoking. I observe Shabbat as much as I can, and a day of no technology and thinking, well makes a guy think!

I [...]

Newfest ’08: Be Like Others

7245|200For years now I have been going and seeing movies that are part of Nefest, the NY GLBT Film Festival. Besides the obvious silly gay films from around the world, I am often struck by some of the documentaries. I tend to see about 12 movies, with a 50/50 breakdown of serious to fun.

Last [...]

Editorial on Latest Islamic Campaigns in Gaza

I don’t have much to ad. This sums is all up!

The rulers of Gaza cannot bring themselves to accept the concept of sharing the Holy Land with the Jews.

The best that the rulers of Gaza can do, is to bring an end to hope among their own people and ours as well.

They [...]

War by Other Means — Building Complete and Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency

I have an RSS feed to my desktop of newly published Rand reports. I tend to read the summaries instead of the long studies, as even a student of the world doesn’t need to know the detail invovled in 700 pages treatises on a particular subject.

The report cited in the title, War by Other [...]

Cross Currents: Seamless Clothing

It would seem there is an interesting nexus in Islamic tradition and in what our very own Moses was up to.

From a web page about participating the the Hajj: It is Haram (prohibited) for men to wear sewn or stitched clothes in Ihraam (state of participating in the Hajj).

What did Moses wear while [...]

Throwing a Pig Head at Muslims

On the cover of YNet this morning. This is really, very, very, funny. He threw a properly attired pig’s head into a mosque. I am still laughing. Adam, did you have anything to do with this?

Can Biodiesel Save Rural America?

Listening to NPR this morning there was a fun report on the topic of biodiesel. The more and more I read about the subject, the more I think this just might be it!

Hand-painted biodiesel fuel tanks at Carl’s Corner. “We want to create an alternate fuel city. Wind power, diesel power, solar power, soybeans, [...]