When I received the e-mail that I was invited to join the CrossFit gym in a nearby neighborhood, I took it to be spam. In the year since I sent my application, I had forgotten I signed up for the waiting list. This was the beginning of my very Danish CrossFit journey. The gym was…
Another of my friends got Monk & Robot hardcover from me for her birthday as a gift. When I chose it for her, I told myself that it was because her research was related to AI and that she may appreciate some fiction with a positive spin. Then I noticed how many times I purchased…
Went on a stroll around Frederiksund and the Roskilde fjord. The leaves were turning and it looked really beautiful. I found yet another American inspired restaurant. This became a sort of a running joke between me and some of my friends. Danes really do have a fondness for America. They truly believed that they were…
I attended the Dell Technologies Forum today. It had lots of what you get at an industry conference; vendors organize these things to sell you stuff, after all. One thing that was interesting to observe is how Dell was pitching on-prem inference. They are really leaning on on-prem inference and playing on unpredictable costs of…
When I talk to management to explain what the cybersecurity regulation means for our vendor management practices, it takes no time for them to grasp security reviews. From there, it is an easy step to show them how a vendor holding certifications and audit reports makes the review simple: you ask for the certifications and…
October Patch Tuesday saw over 1,400 vulnerabilities being patched. This is a new record. What makes it interesting is that it comes after new records in July and September. October alone has patched more vulnerabilities than all of 2025 (over 1,100). I am quite skeptical of claims about AI, especially about business value. But this…
After a tough break up, I spent some sleepless nights writing mediocre poetry, as one does… We shared a love for Rumi, and the opening is a shared reference to “Out Beyond Ideas”.
[There are no spoilers ahead for anyone who watched the news in the past years.] I just saw the documentary in the theater. It was an intense experience. From the first moment they introduced the term NAZA, I couldn’t stop thinking about what Nazi war criminal Eichmann said about Amtssprache. He noted that the language…
My first brush with Scrap Mechanic was when I wanted to play with my then-six-years-old a game that was like Minecraft but with better graphics. . We sank many long hours into it before it fell by the wayside, languishing in Steam Greenlight. We played a lot of Minecraft after that. Recently, I discovered the…
Went on a short hike around Gribskov area. It was less manicured compared to some of the other places I hiked around in Sjælland. I did not see a single bench for a long long part of the hike. That didn’t stop me from getting my coffee kit out and enjoying some Turkish coffee on…
This time I wasn’t the one doing the painting. I mainly just watched as the kids did all the work.
I read Leviathan Wakes when I was still in school; that was over ten years ago. Recently, I got back to reading everything in the Expanse universe and am enjoying it so far. I’ve read the two novellas, The Churn and The Gods of Risk, and am now reading Cibola Burn. It’s not surprising that…
I had a short weekend getaway in Bornholm over the weekend, and fit in a short hike while I was there. I walked the Almindingen trail in Echo Valley. It was a pleasant hike. The area is more hilly than what we get in most of Denmark. The hike took us through a forest, two lakes,…
I recently finished reading Democracy Project by David Graeber. It was part a trip down nostalgia lane and part a refresher course on politics. I would say the book revolves around Occupy Wall Street. I was living in the US while all of that was happening and remember the sense of hope at the time….
I wrote this one to tell my girls what I was up to when they weren’t around. I guess one reading of the story may be me meeting other people.
I was living in the US, and they had just elected Trump in 2016 for the first time. The university I worked at was dragging my green-card application, hoping that I could not switch jobs with an H1 visa. If they got me the green card, I would have been able to go work anywhere….
My WordPress.com renewal was coming up at the end of this month. I wanted my hosting closer to home (cough*Greenland*cough), so I jumped the gun and got hosting with a Danish company. The whole experience made me ponder this blog and what has changed in it. Buckle up for a meta-post.
I inherited some IKEA smart home devices when we bought this house. The reliance on button batteries in Tradfri controllers became a significant issue. So I sat down and made a mod for the unit. The result is a controller not significantly larger than the original while using two rechargeable AAA batteries. Lasting much longer than those button batteries, and allowing you to recharge.
I recently read an article written by a political science professor. Professor Liu Jianjun makes a compelling case for his disillusionment with his discipline. Being a former academic myself, I struggled with the same thing before I eventually dropped out. Reading his account, I related to it deeply. I meant to write about my disillusionment…
I worked out through my college, master’s, and PhD years. I started with weightlifting, gym-bro style, with a lot of bro-science thrown in about everything: breathing, pacing, loading/deloading. My life changed for the better when I discovered the Bodyweight Fitness (BWF) subreddit. I started following their recommended routine (RR) sometime during my PhD, and it…
I loved Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. It resonated with me strongly, being an immigrant, an exile, as someone uprooted from my tradition. I think the greatest takeaway from the book for me was: “How you act in victory reveals your character.” We see the characters in the book in various situations: where they struggle to survive, and also where they are victorious. The book’s often-repeated refrain, “What kind of idea are you?”, hounds its characters, bringing the reader to reflection on our course of action. Do we bend with the breeze, or do we stand straight at the risk of breaking? This is the question that hounds the characters through the story. The resolution in the book comes from a second question: “How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute, what then?” I think beyond the personal, these questions have something to say about how nations are built.
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