Location: Karnataka

Summer is here. It's been very, very hot outside. Usually, I like to walk to neighborhood shops, parks, etc. It's been almost impossible, except for some streets that are blessed with trees. 1

Weekly Notes 12/2024

It’s union election time in India. The results are going to be in June. Given we have a fascist right-wing party in power now, the next two and half months will be unbearable. Social media will be at its worst; WhatsApp has been and will be the source of all kinds of fake news....

Dasavala/Hibiscus in our balcony garden. 0

Weekly Notes 11/2024

The reason why I like blogging could be a strange thing. I am not a writer; I am not even good at expressing myself or my thoughts in words. But what I am is a compulsive and obsessive documenter. I like to document things, and I have done so since I was a...

Uma and iRobot 0

Weekly Notes 10/2024

It’s interesting to see how Uma interacts with the iRobot vacuum. During the day, when it’s charging, she wants to poke it to get a reaction. Sometimes it does; if the poke is strong, it comes alive with beeps and lights and rearranges itself on the charging port, and she seems to like...

Uma petting Echo 0

Weekly Notes 09/2024

We are in March/2024 already. I have not read a book this year, but I plan to. So I started reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Hope to continue. 

Play sessions of Toddlers 1

Weekly Notes 08/2024

Uma, Pathu, Anju, and I have started going on proper evening walks. We walk around 30 minutes in the neighborhood. Echo gets a special longer walk. For now, it’s difficult for Anju and I to take all three of them for a walk simultaneously, hence this arrangement. Also, Echo can stay alone at...

OSM Tubro Query for Pet friendly places in Bengaluru 1

Mapping Pet Friendly Places in Bengaluru on OpenStreetMap

I have started mapping pet-friendly places in and around Bengaluru. I am considering the newer areas like Devanahalli, Hosakote, Nelamangala, Anekal, etc. Hence, the area I am mapping is bigger than the city of Bengaluru.  For mapping pet-friendly places, there are two competing tags. pets and pets_allowed. Given that Pets is used a lot, I am...