I see so many people barefoot, digging ditches and wells and shovelling guano

f a r r i s a t s i g n m a t h d o t b e r k e l e y d o t e d u.

My Office , 1085 Evans. (It actually now has three more SRK posters, plus a few Amitabhs and a Rajni.)

In June 2006 I was in India where Nick Proudfoot and I appeared on the soap opera Kasauti Zindagi Kay (final five minutes). I spent July and August 2006 in Shanghai as the math tutor for the Research Science Institute-Fudan, which frequently required me to dress formally . I spent Summer 2007 in Lucknow studying Urdu at AIIS. But I've so far been too lazy to upload any photos besides this photo of a truck not quite falling off the Ashok Marg bridge. I was again in India (mainly Lucknow and Mumbai) for the second half of 2008, and now (Spring 2009) I'm living in some superposition of Oakland/Berkeley and OC/LA.

What I've read and seen recently. The first half of 2008 The second half of 2008 Second half of 2007 . Spring 2007 . Late 2006 . Early 2006 What I read and saw in 2005.
What I saw and read 5-1-04 to 12-13-04 .
My .plan covering what I saw & read 8/25/03-4/30/04 .
My .plan covering what I saw & read 12/19/02-8/24/03 .
My .plan covering what I saw & read 6/02-12/18/02 .
My .plan covering what I saw & read 7/01-6/02 .
My .plan from the end of Spring 2001 .
What I saw and read in the summer of 2000.
A lot of what I read doesn't actually end up in the above lists since I'm disorganized, but the film lists are pretty complete.
A poorly formatted list of my favorite filmmakers.

I'm on the Sarong Theorem Archive (Now with a non-broken link!)

I go to Berkeley. I used to go to Harvard , which "has ruined more negroes than bad whiskey."

[ETA 4/11/09: I previously attributed this remark to Cornel West, who I heard say it on Tavis Smiley's show. But in googling it much later, I found it most frequently attributed to Adam Clayton Powell, as well as at least two other eminent personalities. I lack the interest at this juncture to investigate its provenance.]

While at Harvard, I served a term as mayor of Cambridge.

My qualifying exam syllabus. An account of my qual .

Ages ago I did an REU in complex dynamics under John Hubbard, and we produced this program to compute matings of pairs of complex polynomials. It makes nice pictures of the matings.

The title of this page comes from my main man, "Free Yard Tips".

PHOTOS

Me and Boyk and and Naiyer Masud.

Me and Dr. Demento.

Some conference group photos in which I appear:
November 2002 symplectic geometry seminar at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach .
November 2003 seminar "Floer Homology for Three-Manifolds Y" at Banff International Research Station . (The "Y" disappeared eventually, but it was part of the official title for several months.)
Week one of the Summer 2004 conference on Morse and Floer theory at Universit de Montreal . Week two.
John Morgan's birthday party

Travel photos

Photos of Hilbert and Poincare

Photos of myself and Ciprian Manolescu from the Dobsinska Ice Caves in Slovensky Raj, Slovakia (This broken link remains as a reminder to myself to recover these pictures from Somewhere.)

The greatest rap song ever. UPDATE: It seems Cornel West has shuttered his website. The world is poorer.

Not all courtroom scenes in South Asian movies suck: Naseeruddin Shah's speech from Khuda Kay Liye.

The lexicon page of Harvard College Bowl, which is not linked from the team's current (and useless) page. [update--this seems to be broken too. fuck.]

I apparently look(ed?) like "Retarded Hippie Louis XIV"

Old lecture notes of Givental , made available for Math 277, "Gromov-Witten Theory, On Her Knees?" Spring 2003.

Food wiki (currently broken) .

The remainder is random crap of little interest to anyone else.

Borrowed things

Chronicle film listings: By movie . By theater.

Urdu dictionaries: Platts . Shakespear .

printing from the command line to html

These disc quota commands show you the big files on a unix system, such as those on a certain Evans Hall-based network with a comically small quota.

easy bread recipe from nick

Indian film screenings, esp portland

sarai