Monthly Archives: August 2008

“Unaccustomed Earth” by Jhumpa Lahiri

Listened to the audio book in August 2008.  On the way to Rhode Island to attend Adam’s wedding. This collection of short stories from Lahiri was not at the same quality as “The Namesake”.  Each short story does a great … Continue reading

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Tweets for 2008-08-27

Google Reader, no new posts! Success! Thousands of posts unread, but alas must start somewhere. Right? # trying to warm up by drinking some sugar-free hot chocolate. yay # Daily emails from Barack Obama resemble spam (like iTunes) but I … Continue reading

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Tweets for 2008-08-26

It’s time for sleep, early morning tomorrow for a glorious deployment. Yay captaining again. # @sunilgarg Obama assassination attempt just bizarre, def. read the story. Once again drugs make the world go round. # In release downtime pulled my product … Continue reading

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Tweets on 2008-08-25

Trying to figure out how to find people who are currently using Twitter… # is experiencing my first Twitterific failure to talk with Twitter… # ‘Fully’ integrated with Twitter, added TwitterBerry to my phone and Twitter Tools to by blog, … Continue reading

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“Family Matters” by Rohinton Mistry

Read from July 2008 – August 2008. I followed up “A Fine Balance” with another Mistry novel.  This one does not span several years and keeps the story simply confined to one family.  But Mistry ,covers a lot of ground … Continue reading

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