April 2005

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• univerCity

  Welcome to Chicago

  04.28.05 | Permalink | 17 Comments

  One hears rumors that speakers coming to the University of Chicago [I speak here of History, Anthro and South Asia] to give a talk get apprehensive. They have heard the stories of harsh questions and severe grillings. They have heard about the graduate students. When they approach Foster 103, the speakers, all nervous like a [...]

• not baseball

  The God of Batting

  04.26.05 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  A few days ago, I hit a perfect drive over mid-on. It was a gorgeous shot, really. The bat moving as an extension of myself. I saw the very moment that the ball hit the pitch and, seemingly, slowed down for me. I have hit that shot hundreds of time, in real matches even. During [...]

• talkies, wizbango! tech

  Original Copy II

  04.26.05 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Meanwhile, how do these DVDs get to The Shop in the first place? This is a long and complicated story. And my telling of it starts in another shop. G. Electronics, in a market in Lodi Colony.
  S. G., the owner of G. Elec, is a movie fanatic with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Hollywood [...]

• talkies, wizbango! tech

  Original Copy I

  04.25.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  [Names have been changed for obvious reasons.]
  January in Palika Bazaar. A day before the beginning of a major conference on Inequalities, Conflicts and Intellectual Property. I am with Brian Larkin, who is here for the conference, and we are looking for DVDs. Palika Bazaar, an ëundergroundí market in more senses than one, is of course, [...]

• optical character recognition

  Sunday Reading for Quixotics

  04.24.05 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  It is way too cold for late April. I must migrate to the south, if I can. Last night was some discussion of what I would do to get a job at the University of Hawaii. It may not get as dire as that but Chicago weather isn’t helping right now.

  Friday was the 400th [...]

• holydays, imperial watch

  morto un papa se ne fa un altro

  04.21.05 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I nearly underwent the Catholic Rite of Christian Initiation in the mid-nineties, after spending a few months ravenously devouring all the information on Catholicism I could find, both good and bad. I had become convinced that Catholicism, after a few fits and starts may have got it right after all. The social issues that concerned [...]