Archive for November, 2005

“Dress up a bear” drive

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Harini dressed up a bare bear for a charity. I believe the bears are given back to poor orphan kids as gifts from Santa. I got their snaps before she was sent on her way to a new home.

Thanksgivings weekend

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

It has been very travel-intense weekend. To Stamford, connecticut and back on Thursday and then to Fairfax, Virginia on Friday-Sunday. We followed the American tradition of burning cheap fuel during the Thanksgiving! [Gas prices went under $2 (rather surprisingly but timely) for the first time in quite some time and my sweet old buddy Honda [...]

Sun TV gone!

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

I just unsubscribed Sun TV willfully without much grief that I am dropping the only Tamil channel I had access to. Of late, Sun’s programming has been awful and their attitude turning arrogant. I will certainly miss a couple of good series, but in a modern democratic society where every consumer purchase denotes a vote [...]

Napoleon Dynamite

Monday, November 14th, 2005

We had the chance (after all my classes and mid-term tests, I found a bit of time) to watch “Napoleon Dynamite” this past weekend. Off the bat, you have to have grown up (or at least know a lot about) in the middle-America to appreciate the content of the movie. If I hadn’t read [...]

A eArtist in the making

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

Harini has started collecting her animation and graphic design works at another blog at blogspot. Its got everything that she created from the day 1 of her basic animation/illustration classes. Its fascinating to see a budding eArtists in the making. Moving on to advanced classes this winter, we can expect some more cool [...]

Weathery season

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

The weather in this part of the world has been sporadic with windy days, stormy showers, ice cold nights and occasional sun, if at all we are lucky. As I hear from my kith and kin in South India, the weather there has also been less merciful. With relentless flooding and rain in the past [...]