The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north, its passes alone reaching an altitude of nearly 18,000 feet; while to the south, across a gravelly descent and the Indus Valley, rise great red ranges dominated by snow-peaks exceeding 21,000 feet in altitude.
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BRAD BIRD I don't think I'll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those [first two] re... ANDREW BIRD You're trying to get the lyrics and melody to coexist. And sometimes you're trying to fit a square p... ANDREW BIRD My shows are planned and scripted only so far as it allows me to lose the sense of where I am and ge... ANDREW BIRD [Correlation across replicated environments] adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environ... ANDREW BIRD It only takes a little change to make a SAN not work. The problems aren't noticed until the next fai... ANDREW BIRD You can't keep putting bodies against it. It's becoming too quick and complex. You have to automate ... ANDREW BIRD I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. BRAD BIRD If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people a... BRAD BIRD There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand ... ANDREW BIRD That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm inter... BRAD BIRD