Thanks to Steven giving me back my Flip camera I could do another episode of Shubha Tapes the World!! Not the best but… The Minnesota state fair is the 2nd biggest state fair in the US. It felt a bit like the CNE, but without all the commercialism the CNE ended up becoming (the CNE [...]
All posts for the month August, 2010
More educated people are stupider.
http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/08/why_do_more_people_think_obama.html This guy tries to do a quick analysis of why more people think Obama is a Muslim, which is horribly flawed, but inadvertently he analyzes Pew data to come to a really remarkable finding. Amongst Republicans, the increase in thinking Obama is a Muslim has been HIGHER amongst people that have at least some [...]
Posted by Shubha on August 26, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/639
Practicing
I like the use of the term “practicing Buddhist.” I guess if you’re someone from a Buddhist family, who then doesn’t practice it (Tiger Woods…?) you get to just be a “Buddhist.” So most white-Americans, at least a generation ago, would never get to just be “Buddhists” they’re all “practicing Buddhist.” I think this is [...]
Posted by Shubha on August 26, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/636
Autistic blog
I was listening to an NPR story yesterday about autism and they interviewed a very articulate woman who’s 27 and autistic. They talked about her blog “Reports from a Resident Alien” where I thought she makes observations about the rest of the world through her autistic lens’. I looked at a couple of her most [...]
Posted by Shubha on August 25, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/633
On driving and sewing
Being a driving American (well person) is the one thing that’s been hard for me to settle into after moving here. And it’s not entirely that I’m an ethical, environmental person who feels bad about my driving (I did feel morally superior when I was NOT driving, but that hasn’t led to any feelings of [...]
Posted by Shubha on August 24, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/629
Incentive to start going to the gym again
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129359637&sc=fb&cc=fp “Muscles actually have a memory of their former strength — and that memory may last indefinitely”
Posted by Shubha on August 24, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/627
Census
The Republicans want the US Census (the longer form) to go the way of the Canadian one. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/us/politics/20census.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
Posted by Shubha on August 24, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/623
Mountain range
This was my most recent attempt at shibori dying. I like it. I was going for a mountain range with a sun…the sun is sort of half cutoff. The picture itself is blurry…or my computer is…or my eyes. Anyway I did it by sewing vertically but running across the lines I was trying to create. [...]
Posted by Shubha on August 22, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/619
Can you date that person..?
You really have to see this chart in it’s full size.
Posted by Shubha on August 20, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/615
African birth certificates
My friends Dan and Annie have an under 1 year old baby boy and the other day Annie pointed out that he can’t really touch the top of his head. I remember learning about head to body ratios of kids in elementary school (it was for the bar-graph unit), but actually having kids try to [...]
Posted by Shubha on August 18, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/612