June 2005

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• homistan

  First Day of Summer

  06.21.05 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Outside our Nani’s house was a canal - taking water from the central Lahore Canal to the army fields in the cantonement. On my first trip alone to Lahore - this was seventh grade? - I sat along Joray Pull canal and, um, wished I could jump into the rushing muddy water. When we moved [...]

• optical character recognition

  Sunday Reading for Pater Familias

  06.19.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Love, hugs and kisses to abba gee on this Father’s Day. the weather is nice today but it is supposed to REALLY heat up this week. Ugh. Next weekend, the iowocity crew is coming to town [hopefully], so I am psyching up for it. Anyways, off to the links, eh?

  Prithvi called to attention an op-ed [...]

• wizbango! tech

  Missing Apples in Benares

  06.17.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Have you heard of the Apple’s announcement that it will switch over to Intel processors? You must have. I have had many, many emails from readers asking what is my take on this amazing development. Ok, by “many, many” I mean “one”. And by “one”, I mean, “myself”. Seems like CM is not the go-to [...]

• homistan

  Free Mukhtar Mai

  06.14.05 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  In a bid to present the softer side of Pakistan, The General has restricted all movement of Mukhtar Mai - including any overseas travel. See, the softer side of Pakistan does not include any promotion of the fact that women get gang-raped by community consensus [panchaiyat or jirga] - when they are not bought, sold [...]

• optical character recognition

  On the Summer Docket

  06.13.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Mid June and it is finally hot as all hell here in Chicago. Just when I was beginning to think that this summer will be tame. Ha. The weekend was great. Some superb hanging on-s with friends and lovers. Some discussions of plans for the summer as well. All of this reminded me that I [...]

• univerCity

  Empire Week VI: Back to the Colony

  06.10.05 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Well, it’s been fun doing this Empire thing [I should have called it Empire Days {why do clever things always occur to me post facto?}]. I have a lot more to say and this isn’t even my field which makes all that I have to say, circumspect from the beginning. But, there will be other [...]