Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. Aargh.
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Wrote it, lost it
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Blackmailing Doordarshan
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
From the Rajya Sabha debate archives:
SHRI DINESH TRIVEDI: I support this Bill. I was always opposed to politicians being in sports unless they themselves are sports people. But I have to change my views by seeing the contribution of so many people here. I think, only the people’s representatives will take care and support whatever [...]
Postmortem
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Later today I’ll put up a few thoughts on the ICL. How it could work, and why it could still fail.
Well, this feels uncomfortably familiar
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, magic, norrell, strange on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
…Mrs Redmond remarked to her husband, “Mr Strange is going to be a magician, my love.” She spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world, because to her it was.
“A magician?” said Henry, quite astonished. “Why should you want to do that?”
Strange paused. He did not wish to tell his real [...]
Welcome to Hotel Ruby Tuesday
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Where you can fill a feedback form once, but can never leave.
Last night was one for the ages. After a very good salad at Ruby Tuesday, a waiter asked me to fill a feedback form. Nearly everything was ‘good’, a few things were ‘awesome’, two were ‘average’, and two ‘needed improvement’. This waiter takes the [...]
Loyalty to good design
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The rockets just lost a wicket and a section of the crowd went up. This section of the crowd goes up for anything, really, or anyone. This can’t be good for the guys looking for loyalty. How to build city loyalties, how to make them loyal to your team, etc. I don’t know if I’d [...]
I’ll bet hockey’s really jealous
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Rajiv Shukla: “Now-a-days, Shah Rukh is eating cricket, drinking cricket and sleeping with cricket.”
Guilt
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been somewhat irregular here lately not because of the usual reason - I don’t have anything sensible or nonsensical to say - but because there’s really no decent internet connection except at the ground. I suppose one could blog from here, but it’s very hard to not feel guilty when you’re blogging from the [...]
Business plans
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
“The expenses involved are huge and I am not doing the figures. I will see what it is like at the end of the year and then, depending on the balance sheet, I will have to dance at a few more marriages.” - Shahrukh Khan.
Atmosphere
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Players in orange wearing out practice pitches, the wicketkeeper wearing a baseball mitt, television producers on their walkie-talkies, helpers fixing the outfield. The DJ is a genius. He’s blasting blues music to an empty stadium. This is a morning to beat.
