On the Shatabdi Express en route from Delhi to Dehra Dun. This was shot by Brendan – you wouldn’t catch me hanging out of a train this way!
Jackson Square, Testing YouTube’s Video Stabilization
This video is interesting for a technical reason: I tried YouTube’s image stabilization feature. It works well, with a few weird artifacts; you can see from what happens to the title now how jittery the original was.
Ah, YouTube saved the original as well, so you can see for yourself:
The Road from Oakville
In a Himalayan hill station, just getting up the driveway can be an adventure…
Map of Landour, Mussoorie, India
This is a scan of a paper map I have in storage somewhere (I hope – I need to do a better scan if I can find it again), showing part of Landour and Mussoorie, where Woodstock School is located. Click to enlarge the picture, and you’ll see that many of the homes have names, dating back to the British founders of the town who built them, usually as holiday getaways from the heat of the Indian plains. Walter Scott was popular in those days, so names were often taken from his books (which seems odd in modern India, but lends an air of quaint antiquity).
New Orleans Street Performers
Didn’t get the band’s name, not even entirely sure what language she’s singing in. Damn. They were good.