from the desk of stinkpot

finally found the time to download, cull, and upload the photos from my family’s recent trip to california. it’s gotten bad – i take far too many pictures and spend an inordinate amount of time deleting a majority of them. in any case, i thought i’d share some of the photos i took and use […]

slipped back into boston today. each day i spent in california was surprisingly delightful. the consistently pleasant weather and the abundance of hiking/biking has really chipped away at my aversion to moving out west. all the time i spent with family has also finally convinced me that it’s fun – not awkward – to live […]

i’m not superstitious – that’d be bad luck.

a quick post before my pitifully anemic powerbook battery expires … the wedding was amazing. the ceremony was 3/4 hindi and 1/4 filipino and terribly beautiful. all those saris, the hindu priest, henna tattoos and bhangra – so easy to photograph. so much work to do though … i should have gotten an earlier plane […]

am shipping off to san jose in about 5 hours. will be gone (and hopefully, internet-removed) for about 1 week. looking forward to seeing old friends; attending family reunion under mild duress. i’ve been to california a couple of times now – i don’t know what it is, but i really don’t like the place.  […]

warm summer nights put me in a soldering mood. i’ve dedicated a bunch of my free time lately to jacks, plugs, and cables (leaving our kitchen table a mess). motivating the orgy of wires has been a recent resolution to wire our entire apartment. i’ve got this web-based mp3 box piping music through my home-made […]

note to self: changing the password to your DSL account and forgetting to update your modem will probably cause your webserver to go down.  may also result in lost hour of life, as you double-check obscure static-ip settings and port forwarding nonsense.

christina has been taking her first steps towards med school this summer. the hah-vahd post-bac program accepted her and she’s nearly completed with her first general chemistry class. i’m so proud of her – she’s been kicking the class’ ass. that having been said, i worry sometimes that she’s in a little too deep. for […]

i think i am in love with dr. laura garwin (pictured above). i half-heartedly agreed to go to a talk she gave today at school. the biological engineeers here had arranged for dr. garwin to speak about post-doctoral careers outside the sphere of pure research. specifically, she was to talk about her own experiences in […]

this week has been full of long days. i looked in the mirror on monday and saw stains on the edges of my teeth. these stains were both toothbrush and fingernail resistant. even worse, the stains were mildly conspicuous since they were on my front teeth. concerned, i asked christina if she had noticed them […]