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The Way I See Things

These are some of my favorite 'blog entries. Some experiences, some observations, and some thoughts.

2025 AD

Oct 13, 2025Happy 1st Birthday Hari!
Aug 25, 2025Idle Nest
Jul 07, 2025134 days!
Jun 27, 2025Next-gen Vibing
Apr 13, 2025Our little miracle - Hari Jeevan Mehta

2024 AD

Aug 12, 2024Midwest Dad Life
Jun 16, 2024Magnet fishing
Jan 29, 2024Early worm

2023 AD

Aug 26, 2023Unforced changes
Aug 10, 2023Good bye FS
Jul 15, 2023Grateful
Jun 28, 2023Sedges have edges, rushes are round
Jun 02, 2023Call Me Maybe
Mar 02, 2023I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe... in Love

2022 AD

Aug 08, 2022Pet story
Jul 27, 2022Fourteen years
Jun 12, 2022Making time

2021 AD

Dec 11, 2021Thank you Adele
Oct 10, 2021Big things
Apr 07, 2021Video Games
Feb 02, 2021Blink

2020 AD

Nov 29, 2020Tech Things I was wrong about
Nov 26, 2020Risk Tolerance
Nov 10, 2020Leela's First Birthday Party on Zoom
Sep 15, 2020Month after MS
Aug 19, 2020Days after MS
Aug 16, 2020MS
May 08, 2020Isolated but not isolonely
Mar 23, 2020Love in the Time of Corona

2019 AD

Dec 02, 2019Our daughter Leela
Oct 10, 2019Positive interactions
Oct 01, 2019Adventure awaits
Jun 21, 201915 years
Feb 07, 2019Days are long but the years are short
Jan 20, 2019The Internet and Us - Part 4: Defensive Consumption

2018 AD

Dec 18, 2018The Internet and Us - Part 3: A Joke Online
Nov 12, 2018The Internet and Us - Part 2: Unthink
Oct 30, 2018The Internet and Us - Part 1: Us
Sep 29, 2018Optimism
Aug 21, 2018Chaos List
Jun 02, 2018Pride
May 14, 2018True story
Apr 04, 2018Opting for a surgery
Feb 28, 2018Words
Feb 23, 2018Deriving wisdom

2017 AD

Nov 16, 2017Serenity
Oct 27, 2017Then I saw her face
Sep 12, 2017Safe, sound, and offline
Sep 09, 2017Safe but not sound
Sep 06, 2017Evacuating
Sep 04, 2017Irma
Jul 16, 2017Happy 60th Dad!
Jun 06, 2017Choosing to be me
May 01, 2017This too shall pass
Feb 27, 2017Today happened

2016 AD

Nov 09, 2016Mama!
Nov 01, 2016Motivation
Oct 04, 2016Discovery
Aug 22, 2016Beliefs
Jul 18, 2016Random news appearance
Jun 24, 2016Eye of the storm
Feb 02, 2016Happy Twosday
Jan 25, 2016Hurts every time

2015 AD

Dec 31, 2015Baby's Day Out
Dec 22, 2015Secret Weddings
Nov 02, 2015Health Insurance in the US
Mar 24, 2015Entire world
Feb 14, 2015Naveen's First Week
Feb 07, 2015Baby Naveen Mehta
Jan 19, 2015Baby Shower
Jan 02, 2015The year in which I try to make things not too serious

2014 AD

Sep 22, 2014How about Mowgli? No? Tarzan? Simba? George-of-the-jungle?
Aug 21, 2014Arriving February 2015!
Jul 27, 2014Six years!
Jul 14, 2014For posterity and beyond
Jun 23, 2014A sunny decade later
Jun 11, 2014You have no email. Enjoy your day!
May 24, 2014Just one ticket please
Apr 14, 2014The Goats have arrived: Marco & Polo
Apr 05, 2014Enchanted!
Apr 01, 2014Building an awesome home surveillance system
Mar 15, 2014Last minute heroics
Jan 14, 2014Enjoying the boring
Jan 09, 2014On my own schedule

2013 AD

Dec 23, 2013On the 10th day of Christmas
Dec 09, 2013US Citizenship
Nov 26, 2013Our duck & tortoise preserve
Oct 01, 2013Fast-food analogy for the US Government Shutdown
Sep 29, 2013Economic impact of Arbitrary National Holidays
Jul 23, 2013Five years!
Jul 07, 2013This week at the home zoo
Mar 03, 2013St. Louis, Missouri
Jan 31, 2013KType is now RocketKeys!
Jan 15, 2013Looking around
Jan 02, 2013This is what it's all about

2012 AD

Dec 30, 2012A good year for learning
Dec 08, 2012Bank Error in Your Favor
Nov 27, 2012Introducing the Glorious Game of Scrabble-Ping-Pong
Nov 06, 2012Voting with sugar
Oct 12, 2012KType progress report
Sep 28, 2012Getting nostalgic
Sep 14, 2012Surgery and Programming
Sep 03, 2012Labor Day vacation
Aug 23, 2012Theoretical Math! What is it good for? Absolutely everything!
Aug 12, 2012KType Free
Jul 10, 2012An essay about my wife written using simple words and short sentences
Jun 12, 2012Dietary advice
May 29, 2012Forget about it...
May 16, 2012Jungle Book Home
Mar 29, 2012New mission in life
Mar 16, 2012Amazon.com - A Programmer's Rant
Feb 12, 2012KType - First Use
Jan 28, 2012Trivial Jibber-jabber
Jan 16, 2012Email is homework
Jan 04, 2012I'm an osmotic learner

2011 AD

Dec 19, 2011KType v1.0 released!
Dec 05, 2011Hammer vs. Screwdriver
Nov 30, 2011My kid will go to Starfleet Academy
Nov 19, 2011KType for iPad
Nov 03, 2011You are welcome, World.
Sep 06, 2011Weekend in the Garden of Good and Evil
Aug 20, 2011High-frequency Hijinks
Jul 27, 20113rd Anniversary
Jul 22, 2011More science, not less
Jul 21, 2011Introducing Plus Minus
Jul 14, 2011Life plans
Jun 09, 2011Figure out how to be happy
Jun 02, 2011Nice things
May 17, 2011Kayaking on a Tuesday morning
Apr 20, 2011Of dreams and nightmares
Mar 17, 2011Officially releasing ZetaBee.com
Feb 23, 2011Bit of encouragement
Jan 19, 2011What next?
Jan 03, 2011I love TV Shows

2010 AD

Dec 13, 2010Juliet graduates at the top of her class (Valedictorian with 4.0 GPA)
Dec 07, 2010Motivating myself
Nov 05, 2010Signs They Just Want Your Money
Oct 03, 2010Presenting Cakesy.com
Sep 29, 2010Success Matrix
Sep 17, 2010Starting KType
Sep 03, 2010The walk of my life
Jul 27, 2010Our 2nd wedding anniversary
Jul 14, 2010Goodbye dear grandpa
Jun 26, 2010One of my favorite comedians - George Carlin
Jun 17, 2010Sinister Me
May 05, 2010Types of Money
Mar 29, 2010Religious tolerance in India
Mar 12, 2010Trypophobia sucks
Feb 10, 2010Violated by Chat Roulette

2009 AD

Nov 15, 2009Don't blackmail yourself
Oct 31, 2009Waiting to change my life around
Oct 11, 2009Two-spaces at the end of sentences
Sep 07, 2009Running 50 Miles in the Ultramarathon
Aug 23, 2009World's not getting worse
Jul 27, 2009Our first wedding anniversary
Jul 24, 2009Feeling like a kid
Jul 18, 2009Running alongside the Flip-Flop Man
Jul 13, 2009Permanent Residence a.k.a. Green Card
Jun 21, 2009Why I want to run a HUNDRED MILES
Apr 30, 2009I want to run a hundred miles
Apr 11, 2009Google Narratives Series - Interview
Mar 13, 2009Forget about it
Feb 23, 2009The American Dream and me
Feb 14, 2009Earliest historical event

2008 AD

Nov 23, 2008Phases and Quirks
Nov 07, 2008What we really do
Oct 16, 2008Don't do much
Oct 03, 2008About that financial crisis
Sep 20, 2008My kind of problem
Sep 03, 2008I'm not famous
Jul 23, 2008Single no more (officially)
Jul 11, 2008No drama, no cry
Jun 21, 2008How I fell in love
Jun 18, 2008Don't give it your best shot
May 09, 2008Do you deserve anything?
Apr 24, 2008Quit it already
Apr 21, 2008Maturity is for kids
Mar 29, 2008Stop trying to save the Earth
Mar 23, 2008Interesting people
Mar 13, 2008Say what you want, do what you should
Mar 10, 2008Sched.org on front-page of Wired
Mar 02, 2008Living as if tomorrow is your last day?
Feb 29, 2008Working as a team
Feb 09, 2008Anti-Green Bandwagon
Feb 08, 2008Advertising Annoyances

2007 AD

Nov 28, 2007Voices in my head
Nov 04, 2007Random notes from my school report cards
Oct 27, 2007I don't want to believe
Oct 22, 2007Little stories we tell
Oct 04, 2007Top Ten Kickass Things about Growing Older
Sep 08, 2007Kayaking a Marathon
Aug 19, 2007On building leak-proof systems
Aug 05, 2007Chase your own dreams
Jul 25, 2007Buy less stuff
Jun 23, 2007Nostalgia is overrated
Jun 13, 2007Chime.TV is born
Jun 07, 2007You complete me
Jun 04, 2007Things are changing, I can feel it
Jun 03, 2007Things are gonna change, I can feel it
Apr 25, 2007Lament not, fellow Indian
Mar 08, 2007I win, so I am better than you
Feb 17, 2007Who in the where said what now?
Feb 04, 2007Bring back Vaudeville
Jan 28, 2007Wait for it
Jan 23, 2007Wall Street Journal article on my Tag Cloud

2006 AD

Dec 24, 2006Indian Splendor
Dec 15, 2006Baby, don't hurt me
Dec 08, 2006Cats out of the cradle
Dec 02, 20061) Chant 2) Repeat
Nov 21, 2006Leave me alone
Nov 20, 2006So let go
Nov 17, 2006Girls don't have cooties
Nov 11, 2006Say something new
Oct 24, 2006Calm Down!
Oct 15, 2006Imagination Schmagination
Oct 12, 2006My worst enemy
Oct 09, 2006Unusual favorite things
Oct 01, 2006On writing formal letters
Sep 17, 2006My IQ is -i^infinity
Sep 15, 2006What's a living room
Aug 26, 2006Lucky daddy for sure
Aug 18, 2006Different parameters of relationships
Jul 30, 2006I don't want to be rich
Jul 09, 2006This 'blog entry SUCKS
Jun 28, 2006The Top 5 Myths about the Life of Chir.ag
May 31, 2006New - Music & People
May 24, 2006Mama Cass makes an appearance
May 22, 2006Megan's Wedding in Philly
May 04, 2006Ten things every person should be ABLE to do
Apr 23, 2006Nature and me
Apr 12, 2006Inspiration Schmispiration
Apr 10, 2006On maintaining 'blogs
Mar 16, 2006Paddle like your kayak's on fire
Feb 28, 2006Movie Marathons
Feb 27, 2006Daisy
Feb 21, 2006How to torture a cat
Feb 11, 2006On balancing work & play
Jan 08, 2006How to Dress Appropriately by a Straight Guy
Jan 07, 2006Screw Chopsticks

2005 AD

Dec 30, 2005Sand grains keep falling on my server
Dec 24, 2005Red Sleigh Down
Dec 17, 2005Futurama: See you on some other 'blog
Dec 07, 2005Big Heart
Nov 27, 2005A Tribute to my Kandivali Dada
Nov 16, 2005Big Picture vs. Small Picture
Oct 30, 2005Housing-bubble and real-estate
Sep 30, 2005Can't blame Daddy
Sep 01, 2005The disaster that was Katrina
Aug 28, 2005Life's like an analog clock
Aug 19, 2005The Joys of Living Alone
Jul 09, 2005Jetskiin' in a hurricane
Jun 22, 2005I'm become a homeowner & house-poor
Jun 16, 2005Feels like
May 25, 2005Story of my work life
May 22, 2005A little bit of fire
May 14, 2005Yet another golden chance
Feb 13, 2005Fingerprint Matching 101
Feb 06, 2005Solving World's Greatest Mathematical Problems
Feb 02, 2005Walt Disney Travel Company Sucks Monkey Ass
Jan 21, 2005Work and Life

2004 AD

Nov 13, 2004On Becoming a Parent
Oct 31, 2004Running a Marathon
Aug 17, 2004When Dates Attack
May 28, 2004In Memory Of The Bunker
Apr 13, 2004Job, Career, New life
Mar 09, 2004Greatness, Honesty, and Strangers
Feb 21, 2004Relationship Breakers
Feb 15, 2004Mega-Super-Giga Weddings
Jan 17, 2004The only Keval
Jan 13, 2004At what cost

2003 AD

Dec 28, 2003Figure out stuff
Nov 21, 2003Computer Science, Philosophy, & Quantum physics
Nov 14, 2003Policing Humor
Oct 17, 2003Context-switch Conversations
Oct 07, 2003Minimalistic Programming
Aug 30, 2003Save on books
Jun 29, 2003On dreams and nightmares
Apr 14, 2003The Awakening
Apr 07, 2003Why 'Blog
Mar 20, 2003War in Iraq
Feb 05, 2003Grief & Fark

2002 AD

Dec 26, 2002Moving Out
Dec 08, 2002Nothing to say
Nov 03, 2002Happy B'Day 'Blog
Oct 25, 2002Crossroads where every driver stops
Oct 24, 2002Getting used to stuff
Oct 20, 2002I'm a shameless momma's boy
Sep 12, 2002Going crazy go nuts
Sep 06, 2002A Golden Chance
Aug 22, 2002I miss
May 01, 2002Finding Zombo.com
Apr 28, 2002YACP (Yet Another College Party)
Apr 21, 2002Hangin' out with The Khans
Mar 07, 2002The Typical Best Day of my Life
Jan 31, 2002Signing over my soul to Big Banks

2001 AD

Dec 21, 2001My first college party
Dec 12, 2001My first job
Dec 02, 2001My first accident
Nov 26, 2001Slashdotted
Nov 03, 2001Presenting: The Chime 'Blog