It was on this day two years back that I wrote that seminal blog post on Rental/Petromax. Of course the concept itself is much older, and dates back to at least 1990, when that brilliant Anant Nag starrer Golmal Radhakrishna got released. I thought it being two years down the line, it’s a good opportunity [...]
At six am on wednesday, I received an SMS from harithekid “Cheap guy. Canceled middle seat. Some chick between us now. Hehehehe… ” The middle seat in question had been canceled since sw_aadisht had to back out at the last moment. And his seat had now been taken by Haritha, F 25. We were on [...]
A while back, I was talking to bjbalaji ?about the merits and demerits of drinking in a pub, as against drinking at home. While I was firmly of the opinion that drinking at home is superior, he seemed to be extremely biased towards pubs. His main argument was that the ambience is simply not there [...]
is that it’s too intrusive. It’s ok if you suddenly lose enthu for something as long as it doesn’t affet everything else t oo much. For example, if you suddenly lose enthu to do wokr, and you have other things to do, it’s still ok, as you spent the time on doing something else that [...]
Of late, I’ve been trying to understand baseball. Understand how it’s played. The rules. And so forth. The more i think about it, the more similar I find it to our good old gully cricket. Here are a few: Throw – you throw the ball, don’t bowl it No stumps. How often have you played [...]
A Physics professor, a Chemistry professor and a Math professor were staying in the same hotel. One night t he building catches fire. So what do our mahaanubhaavas do? The Physics prof uses his knowledge of projectiles, air resistance, angular momentum and the like to turn his bedsheet into a parachute and safely bails out [...]
My recent post on studs and fighters was generally well-received. However, there were a few issues that people raised regarding the framework. Some of them were Stud and fighter are not mutually exclusive – some people are both You can’t categorize those that are not stud or fighter as losers All studs are not similar, [...]
NED is getting beyond control. And is about to consume me. Sometimes I wonder why I invented this concept at all. At other times, I feel not having invented the concept wouldn’t have changed me much – i’d’ve just called it by a different name. Anyways, don’t be surprised if I disappear suddenly. You can [...]
The Bank of Sweden Prize for economics has gone to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin, and Roger Myerson for their work on mechanism design. Now, do you recall the problem we faced when we wanted to buy a gift for Bunty? //
235 to win from 46 overs and 8 wickets in hand as I write this. Roughly translates to around 320 in an ODI I guess, considering that two wickets are down and relaxed restriction on wides, fielding and bowling quotas. Younis Khan batting on a well made 106, along with Yousuf Youhana. Test cricket at [...]
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