To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
I love the outdoor festival feeling.
I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.
Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.
At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.
Conducting is a strange thing to teach.
I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.
Believing that your parents are always right.
We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.
So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you. And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.