Near the Pantheon in Rome, among all the Mediterranean fruits being sold on the streets was this vendor selling stripped coconuts. Which I thought was distinctly tropical. In any case, I cannot think of any other country than India, where the white of the coconut was being sold on the streets like this.
By the way, Anastassia, should I get you some? 🙂
After the run, I went out for a walk with Sunil, both of us duly accompanied with our respective glasses of wine. We were busy discussing the intricacies of the “bin-packing” algorithm when we got caught by some quick, sharp showers. Not having too many options, we just shoehorned ourselves into the narrow window openings of a building and continued with our wine and discussions! I don’t think the algorithm got any better 🙂
… but running into old friends continues! Just ran into another colleague from the yesteryears in this far corner of Italy! Josh reminded me that the last time he saw me was in a meeting room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I am really liking this whole phenomena of Intersection Points and my sheer luck in running into them…
Once in my kindergarten class, we were asked to draw houses. At a very early age, I had shown unambiguous signs of utter lack of artistic talents. That particular day, I drew ten boxes (purportedly houses 🙂 ) and colored them each with different colors. I was certainly constrained by the fact that I had only ten crayons with me 🙂 My teacher, thoroughly unimpressed with my sense of conformity, gave me some gentle reminders that I should not feel compelled to use up all my colors 🙂
Next time I see her, I will ask her to visit an island called Burano off Venice 🙂
