What a first day in India! As it’s 12:17 as I put fingers onto tablet keyboard, it is now almost exactly 24 hours since I arrived into the country and it’s been pretty wild. The morning started off slow, quite literally, as the omelette breakfast that was advertised on the menu as taking 15 minutes […]

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I’ve thankfully arrived fully intact at my hotel (hostel?) the Anjali Inn, and will be going down in a few minutes to attempt to order breakfast off of a card menu they handed me last night. My two flights, first from Chicago to London, then from London here to Mumbai were of course uneventful, but […]

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I’ll only be taking the Android tablet with me this time (this is why I bought one with a keyboard; the Asus Transformer Infinity); it will be my first time traveling with a non-Windows powered computer. The last time I tried this Android app was back when I was still using an iPod touch, I […]

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I just returned from a great weekend of biking and camping, and I didn’t need to leave the state this time to do it! My friend and colleague Caitlin recently purchased a new bicycle, a cyclecross type, and she was eager to put some more long haul miles on it. She and her boyfriend Branden […]

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Yesterday, my academic association hosted the UW-Madison’s chief of police at the end-of-the-year luncheon, and she gave an excellent speech on the current state of gun control bills/laws and her feelings on it. Riseling has been on the force here at the UW for 23 years, so I would definitely say she’s more qualified to […]

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2018 Note: These instructions are from 2013 – so unless you find a 2013 era Kindle Fire that has not had its software updated, the below instructions might not do you much good. I don’t know, as I don’t own a Kindle Fire personally. I recently came across a Kindle Fire nearby where I work […]

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