Friday, February 22, 2013

New Apartment

Three weeks ago I moved into a new apartment. 700 square feet, nice and cozy, close to bayou and various shopping necessities. Also within sight of Torah Vachesed, a Sephardic shul run by Rabbi Yaghobian. Two most interesting Shabboses have been spent there now. We are coming up on Purim, for which my costume will be a mad (as in insane) chemist.

Here are some moving-in (and out) pictures.
Empty Living Room


Packing books



Surprisingly Larger than expected balcony


Night Photo of hydroponic setup and crowded balcony


First bed setup


Kitchen ready to go
 Despite the kitchen being first to be set up, only relatively primitive things were created in it as I learned to feed myself for the first time.

Strawberry Banana smoothie




Expandable table can seat 8

The first bookshelf goes up

The first real meal

Home for 17 years is repainted and converted to guest room


Happy Purim!!

The first attempt at hamantashen was interesting. Here we see what happens when overly liquid raspberry jam is used as filling. Nonetheless, the chocolate and prune/nut hamantashen came out quite well.


Finally, the cat the lack of which is sorely felt.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Sita is two years old now





Ears in attack position


Moshers, Heavy Metal and Emergent Behaviour

The collective behaviour of moshers at heavy metal concerts is mathematically similar to a disordered 2D gas, say physicists.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/511216/moshers-heavy-metal-and-emergent-behaviour/