December 2004

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• holydays

  Snap Year Apostrophes: 2004

  12.31.04 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  You have some nerve. You couldn’t be one of those years in the late 70s or mid 80s who all blend into each other. You couldn’t be like the late 80s when status quo dictated solid pacing, good character development and adversity that is conquered through hard work and dedication. I didn’t expect you to [...]

• holydays

  Hibernate

  12.21.04 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  What she said.
  Look for me in the new year [except for one special post scheduled for dec. 24].
  I wish all my readers a warm and bubbly break and I hope that 2005 knocks your socks off.

• homistan

  Free Bajaj

  12.20.04 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Been a bit slow here lately. ‘Tis the holiday season after all. There are some exciting things happening lately in India though. This whole MMS [multi media service - trans. sending and storing video clips on your cell phone] mess, for example.
  Some Delhi school kid recorded a tryst with his girlfriend back in November [...]

• optical character recognition

  Sunday Reading for The Writer

  12.19.04 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  It is absolutely freezing outside but we went to get a xmas tree. What is with the tree? Really. This pagan wants to know. Maybe I should put in a request to the great Sharon Howard.

  In the NYT, Curtis Sittenfeld wonders aloud about the sexual magnetism of writers and their prose. Jhumpa Lahiri is namechecked. [...]

• optical character recognition

  On Telling Stories

  12.15.04 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  I have not read any of the Series of Unfortunate Events books but there are certain members in the sepoy household that hold them very near and dear. I have been toiling away in hopes to buy winter solstice presents for those individuals and not having much luck. Graphic novels? Why can’t Neil Gaiman be [...]

• wizbango! tech

  The Oracle of Mountain View

  12.14.04 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Via Cliopatria I learned of Google’s partnership with libraries at Stanford, Harvard & c. to digitize their entire holdings. Copyrighted materials will only be available in selections and out-of-copyright texts (manuscripts!?) in their entirety. Here is the NYT piece and here is more information about Google Print (beta). Rob has a good post on similair [...]