Sunday, October 31, 2010

Congratulations to Today's Marathon Runners.

Today, two marathons took place in the US, and each of these marathons saw a different one of our cousins participate in it:

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Chiastic Phrases and Their Ability to Convey Profundities - Serious or Humorous.

We have always come across interesting phrases and twists of words. Recently, my brother mentioned, in the context of healthy living, that we should engage activities that add

"life to years, and
not years to life". 


Sunday, September 26, 2010

3 UVCE Alumni Friends at Mt. Madonna

When you meet friends from college days or from years past, the dimensions in which you can converse increase substantially. In the video shown here, which was taken when three of us — M. S. Chandrasekhar, K. Ramesh Babu & K. H. Sathyanarayana Rao, all UVCE graduates in Electronics & Communications Engineering (1971) — visited Mt. Madonna near San Jose, CA, you get a glimpse of that variety.


Monday, September 13, 2010

A R Rahman in Jai Ho Concert at the Oracle Arena

After nearly 75 days of waiting, we finally got to take in the A R Rahman Jai Ho concert at the Oracle Arena in Oakland yesterday. The original date of the concert was June 26, and an accident in an earlier concert forced the rescheduling of the Oakland event. You can see a video of the introduction here.

The concert was an audio-visual treat that I had not experienced in recent years. (Disclosure: I am not much of a concert-goer). Specifically, the thin translucent screen was used to great visual effect, particularly when a Lata Mangeshkar number was presented on the screen along with A R Rahman's live singing.


Thursday, September 9, 2010

A Brief Visit to Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, WI, is a nice place to visit during early September. We went there to see some relatives as the primary purpose, and this blog post is to recount what we did during this sojourn.

Friday, 3 September 2010

  1. General sightseeing in the town of Madison.

  2. Taking in a concert by the group Nay Palm Bones at the School of Music in the University.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

A New Blogging Home.

This blog will from now on deal with non-technology matters that are dealt with in my other blog, Musings of a Computer Professional, which is purely going to deal with matters that somehow involve technology.