{"id":809,"date":"2003-02-01T11:38:17","date_gmt":"2003-02-01T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=809"},"modified":"2009-07-09T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T18:24:27","slug":"meet-madhu-kurup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"meet Madhu Kurup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday I had dinner with Madhu Kurup<\/a> at Amarin, a Thai restaurant in Mountain View which neither of us had tried before; he didn’t comment on his, but my dish (spicy chicken with cashews) was quite satisfactory.<\/p>\n

If you read his flattery of me<\/a>, remember that it takes two to make lively conversation.<\/p>\n

I found his Livejournal (incidentally he looks nothing like the photograph) indirectly: my log shows hits from four ‘friends’ pages which carried his report. It’s a bit of a shock to dip into foreigners’ informal writings in English but peppered with strange words; it makes me worry that my own writing might be made unnecessarily obscure by local jargon. What is the right balance? Does anyone whose English is weak read my site?<\/p>\n

I took Madhu’s suggestion to try Google Sets<\/a> on my favorite music. I found that it helps to pre-filter my entries; if the initial set is too diverse, the narrow result is nothing and the broad result is effectively useless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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