tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64598479055197017752024-03-07T23:03:39.458-08:00ऋषि उवाच ...Thus spoke Hrishi...hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-51898717984262393372021-02-12T13:52:00.000-08:002021-02-12T13:52:24.129-08:00Cloth diapering Juhi and I became new parents (yay!) last November, and we have been cloth diapering Neel since he was one week old. Here's my recommendations, our current stash, and a short primer on cloth diapering for quick reference.There are many options with cloth diapering (CD'ing), and it takes some experimentation to figure out which works best for you. Hence, it is better to buy only a few/ hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-83808472077085711132020-04-19T23:45:00.000-07:002020-04-20T10:01:21.988-07:00Fast and loose watercolor sketching and painting
I have been asked several times recently how I go about with watercolors, so here’s a short writeup describing my workflow.
[note: I am just a hobbyist. Please consider taking virtual lessons from a professional artist. Why?
1. You will get much better guidance and instructions
2. Freelance artists are some of the worst hit professionals from COVID-19. If we care for art, it hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-36563033983369569962019-05-06T11:41:00.002-07:002019-05-14T15:27:31.934-07:00Rescue incident on Mt Whitney Trail
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The third and final UPDATE: A week after writing it, I can confirm that this writeup has dissuaded several novice hikers with no mountaineering experience in doing Whitney until the switchbacks open hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-70125480619525664422018-09-15T10:25:00.000-07:002018-09-15T10:26:11.837-07:00Winter hiking: Flotation on snow
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further, I would like to differentiate hiking or trekking from mountaineering
or snow climbing by a single criterion: slope angle. If slopes are gentler than
25-30 degrees, then its hiking and you can use your boots or microspikes with hiking
or skiing poles. For terrain slopes nearing 30 degrees or more (which is also the typical slope ofhrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-50439352667036925542017-09-23T20:46:00.001-07:002017-09-24T08:35:43.512-07:00Vectorized functions for Cross-Correlation, Covariance, and Regression for multi-dimensional data in Python
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Smartphone-based
navigation (introduced in the previous blog-post) is not very smart if its battery gets discharged, or it gets wet or falls off a cliff (more so, while still
being inside your pocket). Hence, carrying a printed topographic map is
a 'hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-73046790084289472812017-07-22T12:21:00.000-07:002017-07-25T17:27:16.264-07:00Navigation while hiking: 1. Smartphones
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Why navigate?
->For veteran
hikers/ backpackers, the answer is obvious. For novice/ casual hikers- even if
most trails you will venture on are marked and likely well used, you will
sooner or later find that you are lost. Snow, hiking early in the season, lack
of people, lack of light (dawn/dusk hours), too many markers ("the cairns
point hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-45314052520141510382017-03-17T10:13:00.000-07:002017-03-22T09:26:29.097-07:00ग्रेस उपग्रह : काय आहेत? काय पाहतात? कसे पाहतात?
(वाचकहो : माझे मागील मराठी लेखन हे ग्रेस इतकेच जुने आहे (इयत्ता १०वीचा पेपर). त्यामुळे चुका होणे साहजिक आहे. तरी त्या माझ्या निदर्शनात आणून द्याव्यात ही नम्र विनंती. आणि तसा आवघड समजला जाणारा हा विषय सोप्प्या भाषेत मांडण्याचा हा प्रयत्न आहे. तरी भाषा आणि विषय या दोन्ही संधर्बात आपल्या प्रतिक्रिया ह्या लेखाच्या अंती दिलेल्या 'कमेंट्स' क्षेत्रात जरूर द्याव्यात. तसेच अश्या विषयांवर तुम्हाला कुठल्याhrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-5507466987496068802017-01-15T18:35:00.000-08:002017-01-15T18:59:51.778-08:001st winter 14er experience: Quandary
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View of the summit (the seemingly lower ridge on the left) and the hikers from the treeline
Yesterday (14th Jan)
I attempted my first winter 14er - Quandary peak in Summit County, Colorado.
'Attempted' because I turned back about 235 ft from the summit. I was fatigued
and at my pace, it would have taken about 20-30 more minutes, and similar amount
of time to come back.hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-22079754214434931182015-12-13T20:14:00.000-08:002016-01-18T18:23:37.869-08:00Climate change themed 'Blowin' in the wind'
This has been the week of holiday parties, the next one is of AGU fall meeting. And our world leaders just reached a very important and promising agreement in Paris (COP21). All this reminded me of my department's holiday nerdy music party from a couple of years ago. Our band, which included my advisor (yes, I am fortunate to have an advisor who jams with me! :)), met only thrice to come up withhrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-49572155443480468762015-10-16T16:28:00.001-07:002016-11-07T11:52:23.591-08:00xray: A brilliant little tool for climate data analysis
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.se{color: #cc2222; hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-45124718176880284362015-08-13T21:34:00.003-07:002015-08-13T21:49:35.068-07:00Left-handers Day!
I am rarely into 'Days' but today is special, and I just found out about it. One thing that totally surprised me after coming to the US was the overwhelming number of left-handers! Growing up trying to write righty was a painful experience. In second grade, after a parent-teacher meeting about my poor handwriting, mom almost decided me to remove me from English medium school because I couldn't hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-39367337641683055812015-05-07T20:37:00.001-07:002016-01-18T18:22:12.108-08:00Recording a simple walk: Polar Flow Vs Garmin Connect Vs Runkeeper Vs Strava Vs Training Peaks Vs Map My Fitness
I have been using Runkeeper to record my hikes, runs, walks and bike rides for last 2-3 years. So far I've been quite happy with it. But recently I bought Mio Link, a wrist-worn heart rate monitor to pair along with my phone to get HR information during these activities. So I thought it was time to compare all the widely used fitness apps to see what kind of analysis they perform. This is a veryhrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-86028798867629812652015-03-06T02:36:00.001-08:002018-01-22T12:06:46.868-08:00India's daughters and the rape culture
Every single Indian citizen should watch India's Daughter. National embarrassment is not the documentary, but banning it. It's an extremely well made film. It enlightened me on so many new things. For instance- what a pleasant surprise to see Jyoti's uneducated parents selling their ancestral property to educate her to become a doctor! And to allow her to work part-time to pay for her hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-48765562460723009612014-06-18T23:11:00.001-07:002016-01-18T18:21:19.663-08:00Tumbling down the rabbit hole: How I came to know, like, love, and got obsessed with 'Chuck': II
The first half of this post can be found here.
Spoiler alert: A couple of scenes in S1. They don't affect the ‘spy action' storyline, but provide insight on the characters.
I enjoyed watching the pilot, but didn’t think much of it. It was a really witty and funny episode, but that was it. I didn't find anything special about it. I recommended it to my hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-32004421542377859772014-06-18T23:11:00.000-07:002016-01-18T18:21:29.524-08:00Tumbling down the rabbit hole: How I came to know, like, love, and got obsessed with 'Chuck': I
Spoiler alert: I’ve tried to keep spoilers to
minimum, but this post has spoilers on the pilot episode.
Chuck!
This
one word pretty much summarizes everything I have been doing after work hours
for last 2 months. I've now watched the entire show, twice (2 x 91 episodes). Yes, in two months! All my other hobbies have come to a complete stop. Daily things like hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-71253048755331026042014-02-08T19:52:00.002-08:002014-06-23T19:23:37.912-07:00Getting into art journaling
When Sachin Tendulkar announced that he will be retiring from cricket, it was hard to come to terms with the fact that I, India, and the cricketing world won't be seeing one of the finest batsmen of all time play anymore. A person who was the only constant in the ever-changing faces in the last quarter century of international cricket. In a country like India, where hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-28531166483141316182013-08-18T13:52:00.000-07:002015-06-07T10:44:19.549-07:00Avocado Chaat
For someone who could make nothing apart from Chai and Maggi until a couple of years ago, it will be too presumptuous to write about a recipe. But this particular recipe is an exception- because it is my very own, original recipe! Yah!
Panu-puri and ragdapuri (as called in Marathi, or gol gappe and chaat, as they are called in Hindi) are amongst my favorite dishes. You get them as road sidehrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-51839238059252469742013-05-12T13:46:00.000-07:002014-11-07T13:05:49.942-08:00Naruto
I never liked anime. I didn't know what manga meant. Growing up, I was so used to watching traditional, western cartoons that when I first saw anime, the characters looked ugly! Almost two years back, a friend recommended me to watch an anime series called Naruto. I told him I hate anime. He asked me which ones I had seen (and hated), I said none. Well, both of us being PhD students, there is hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-2841685308651591582012-10-10T23:42:00.001-07:002014-03-16T10:04:30.999-07:00Sheet music for Hindi songs: 1. 'Aye Meri Zohra Jabeen' from Waqt (1965)
I have always been fascinated by old Hindi film music. Growing up, there was hardly any other music I listened to. Later, I got introduced to, and liked several other genres, but my love for the old Hindi film songs never ceased. Over the years, I have learnt to play a few songs on Mandolin. Many of these songs were taught to me by Chandrakant Ronghe, an excellent mandolinist in Pune, who hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-89483185120906640962012-09-03T01:23:00.000-07:002012-10-08T20:43:49.714-07:00Leaving home
I am finally overcoming the procrastination to update this blog. My last entry was, embarrassingly, more than a year ago. Still, I find some solace in stating that this was the most eventful year of my life. For, I left home. Not my just my locality Kothrud, or my city Pune, or even my State Maharashtra, but India!
In December 2009, I was quite happy doing my job as an Environmental hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com0Irvine, CA, USA33.6839473 -117.794694233.578246299999996 -117.95262269999999 33.7896483 -117.6367657tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-7188820590389444452011-06-13T07:16:00.006-07:002016-10-14T08:50:19.174-07:00hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-55111810857792754622011-06-13T07:16:00.005-07:002016-10-14T08:50:16.399-07:00Surpassing the Sar Pass
Note: This writeup is intended mainly for those who are actually interested in going for this trek in the future. Hence, you'll find a lot of mindless details in here. Regarding photographs, all of them are of around 1200px wide, so click on the individual images for larger viewing. Feel free to download them. I encourage you to use them for educational purpose (if any), but as withhrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com26Kasol, Himachal Pradesh, India32.0098169 77.31449359999999231.482153399999998 76.8915201 32.5374804 77.737467099999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-79440747339324654902011-03-12T20:39:00.000-08:002014-03-16T10:05:31.406-07:00The Hunger Games trilogy
Note: Spoilers ahead! Please do not read this unless you have read all three novels in The Hunger Games trilogy. It won’t make much sense otherwise (assuming that whatever I write makes some sense at all!)
I recently read The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. These are science fiction books concerning Panem, a country which stands on what was once North America. Panem has a Capitol hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459847905519701775.post-63134640752146421752010-06-06T05:34:00.144-07:002014-03-16T10:05:53.581-07:00TATR Experience
Note: I must mention here that I retain the copyright of all the images posted here. I am usually quite lenient with other's use of my images. This time, however, owing to bitter experiences of many a wildlife photographers, esp. in context to tiger images, I prohibit posting of these images on any other site on the internet, whether for commercial, promotional or hrishihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673586565404022929noreply@blogger.com20