Photographs


Josh took this impressive photo of a cute goat as we were leaving the fort.

Josh took this impressive photo of a cute goat as we were leaving...

Ceiling Detail at Amber Fort.jpg

Ceiling Detail at Amber Fort.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...

It is the yesterday that freaks me out!

It is the yesterday that freaks me out!

Esplanade Mansion in Kolkata. All I have been able to figure out is that it was built in 1910 by Martin and Co and josh says it is Art Nouveau (and he knows his architecture). It would also  ...

Esplanade Mansion in Kolkata. All I have been able to figure...

Talmud Tidbit: What is a Koy?

A randomish note in tractate Nazir 34a: the koy. An animal that is speculated to be one of the following:

off spring of a he-goat and a hind
a distinct species, not a hybrid
unknown if it is a domesticated animal (בהמה) or a wild animal (חיה).
it is indeed kosher

The implication in this Gemara revolves around a “bet” about becoming a nazir if [...]

aquaDRAMA update

I have not posted on aquaDRAMA in a long time! Here are some of the things that have changes over the last couple months:

Some kind of strange slime as growing on the back of the tank, and when I tried to remove it there was a serious decline in oxygen levels in the tank. This resulted in [...]

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 Means [...]