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DECEMBER 3, SATURDAY

INDIAN VISA Todd, Susie and I have been traveling to Europe and India for 15 years. Years ago we got ten year visas to India which would allow us to come and go without having to apply for a visa,

DECEMBER 3, SATURDAY

INDIAN VISA Todd, Susie and I have been traveling to Europe and India for 15 years. Years ago we got ten year visas to India which would allow us to come and go without having to apply for a visa,

DECEMBER 1, THURSDAY

ANTICIPATING MUSSOORIE I was born on the Landour hillside section of Mussoorie in the Landour Community Hospital, in what is now the living room of a private house. I attended Woodstock School, which was then a red roofed missionary boarding

DECEMBER 1, THURSDAY

ANTICIPATING MUSSOORIE I was born on the Landour hillside section of Mussoorie in the Landour Community Hospital, in what is now the living room of a private house. I attended Woodstock School, which was then a red roofed missionary boarding

NOVEMBER 30, WEDNESDAY

SPELL CHECKER, IDENTITY CHECKER Another article on artificial intelligence. It is much more ubiquitous than I had thought. It is one thing for robots to take away the mind numbing assembly line type work that robots are doing. That threatens

NOVEMBER 30, WEDNESDAY

SPELL CHECKER, IDENTITY CHECKER Another article on artificial intelligence. It is much more ubiquitous than I had thought. It is one thing for robots to take away the mind numbing assembly line type work that robots are doing. That threatens

NOVEMBER 29, TUESDAY

CHARGPT This morning I was amazed that only 2 million years ago Greenland was a lush forest and that humans have only been here 100,000 years. But that is science which is a foreign country to me and I can

NOVEMBER 29, TUESDAY

CHARGPT This morning I was amazed that only 2 million years ago Greenland was a lush forest and that humans have only been here 100,000 years. But that is science which is a foreign country to me and I can

NOVEMBER 28, MONDAY

TRUST AND UNDERSTANDING I went to Asheville Retinal Associates to get the second injection into my eyeball to protect me for a blood clot in the back of my right eye. This time I was a little calmer than I

NOVEMBER 28, MONDAY

TRUST AND UNDERSTANDING I went to Asheville Retinal Associates to get the second injection into my eyeball to protect me for a blood clot in the back of my right eye. This time I was a little calmer than I

NOVEMBER 27, SUNDAY

CHANCE A second article in the Atlantic is about coincidences and chance and how we respond to it. One way to understand the universe and our place in it is that the universe is a result of an incomprehensible Big

NOVEMBER 27, SUNDAY

CHANCE A second article in the Atlantic is about coincidences and chance and how we respond to it. One way to understand the universe and our place in it is that the universe is a result of an incomprehensible Big

NOVEMBER 26, SATURDAY

HUGE I read a series of articles in the Atlantic this evening. I only find these articles that upend me because of Apple News, because someone at Apple News scours a wide range of newspapers and magazines and selects articles

NOVEMBER 26, SATURDAY

HUGE I read a series of articles in the Atlantic this evening. I only find these articles that upend me because of Apple News, because someone at Apple News scours a wide range of newspapers and magazines and selects articles

NOVEMBER 25, FRIDAY

MEMORIES After writing about my house in India yesterday, I realized that I am the only one I know who knew the house as it was when I was a boy. It is still clear in my mind but that

NOVEMBER 25, FRIDAY

MEMORIES After writing about my house in India yesterday, I realized that I am the only one I know who knew the house as it was when I was a boy. It is still clear in my mind but that

NOVEMBER 24, THURSDAY

YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN When Susie and I were in Varanasi, India, in March of 2012 we decided to go to the city of Allahabad and visit where I had lived during my grade school and high school years

NOVEMBER 24, THURSDAY

YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN When Susie and I were in Varanasi, India, in March of 2012 we decided to go to the city of Allahabad and visit where I had lived during my grade school and high school years