Category Archives: writing

Memories of a lost friend

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

Do you have some songs that immediately remind you of someone? For me, Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley takes me back to the brief period that I knew a certain AF. I met her almost exactly ten years ago when … Continue reading →

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Musings: Horizons

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

Back a few posts ago, I reviewed some of the albums from 1991 that were particularly influential for me and a whole host of Gen-Xers (or are we considered Gen-something-else?) including Achtung Baby by U2. Somehow, that thought led me … Continue reading →

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9-11-11: Looking Backwards and Forward

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

This is a solemn day in rememberance of the catastrophe of September 11, 2001. I remember being at my desk in Les Ulis a little after lunch and having a colleague say (in French), “what the fuck!” and when ever … Continue reading →

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Is José Bové the Lorax?

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

You may recall my post about Seuss from a week or so ago. I turned my Persian part-time nanny onto the Lorax and she loved it too! My son’s ONLY ENGLISH is text, rhymes, and funny words from this book … Continue reading →

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Dreams and Memory: color and refraction

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

In a similar way that Proust linked the sense of taste and smell with deep-seated and long-forgotten memories, it seems to me that mine are linked with music and color as well. It also seems that at least for color, … Continue reading →

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A Nerd Looks (Back) at Forty

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

Inspired by ‘A Pirate Looks at Forty’ by Jimmy Buffet (1974) Mother fucking FORTRAN, I remember your function calls Wanted to get rid of your leading spaces and that isn’t all At least you weren’t Cobol, at least you weren’t … Continue reading →

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The Blank Page Syndrome

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

I suppose that my attempt to blog every day has run me up against the famous Blank Page Syndrome where one gets writer’s block starting at the black sheet. I find it especially to be the case when I attempt … Continue reading →

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