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A drawing of me by my buddy Mark Vollenweider of Iowa City

Hello!

I’m Nikhil Anand. I help design and develop software and systems, and live with my wife and our diva husky in lovely Des Moines, Iowa

Here’s a little more about me . I hope you have a most splendid day 🖖🏽


Log

  • Musician Doubles BPM up to a Trillion I was struck by how it’s essentially a continuous tone after about 2,000 BPM. Makes one wonder if anything in the Universe is really continuous or if all of it is fundamentally discrete. Also makes you wonder how animals like bees perceive the world.…
  • A $300, Fully-Functional Microscope Design by IBM Super-cool. I look forward to bookmarking this, telling myself that I’ll finally put Pi Zero to good use, and never doing this 🤘…
  • Note 0002 Perhaps not as incredibly astounding as this overlay of Spectre1 on the opening credits of the movie but this one of How to Disappear Completely over a few scenes from Lost in Translation just fits somehow. From the comments: “It was a wise decision…
  • A 1st Century Villa in Positano When I was about 13 or so, I was blown away when I learned that ancient Greek and Roman statues used to be painted and were not commissioned to be ghostly-white. An all-time favorite is this Greek sculpture of a Persian archer. Source: “We know Gr…
  • A Fremen Mama Well not really. I was immediately reminded of (a) where I grew up and (b) Dune when I saw this photo of a Bedouin mother and her child. “Bedouin Mother”, Ilo Battigelli, 1948 (Source Unknown) Intense and so beautiful. It was composed by this ch…
  • Letting the Cat Out of the Bag From the United Automobile Worker magazine, 1937: “What did you tell that man just now?” “I told him to hurry.” “What right do you have to tell him to hurry?” “I pay him to hurry.” “How much do you pay him?” “Four dollars a day.” “Where do you get t…


Reading


Watching

  • The Mechanic
    Rating: A+
  • La Jeteé
    Rating: B+
  • Alien: Romulus
    Rating: A
  • Etude in Black
    Rating: B+
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    Rating: A
  • Asteroid City
    Rating: C-
  • Solace
    Rating: C-
  • Poker Face
    Rating: B-
  • Gargi
    Rating: A-
  • Under the Banner of Heaven
    Rating: B+
  • Enola Holmes
    Rating: D
  • The Northman
    Rating: B+

Listening


      Playing

      • Sky Force: Reloaded
        Rating: A
      • Kids
        Rating: B
      • Art Plunge
        Rating: B
      • Frost
        Rating: B
      • Florence
        Rating: B+
      • Starman
        Rating: A
      • Prune
        Rating: A