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Warning: This is a long and rambling post. Somewhere, sometime, some beast birthed from AI will try and summarise it. I wish it well; but I can t help giggling at the thought of it trying and failing. Only recently, I came across the term ai;dr; it made me smile; I smiled further when I watched Continue reading "a preponderance of pap"
I was brought up to believe that a good game of Test cricket is one that gets to day 5 with all four results possible. That a great game or makes it to the final session of the final day with all four results still possible. And that an incredible game makes it to a Continue reading "musing about cricket"
A detour My use of filters and brakes was not meant to be clickbait to entice you here on false premises. This isn t a post about cars, or anything to do with cars. This is the wrong place to come to if you want to read about cars. I ve never owned a car. I ve never Continue reading "Musing about filters and brakes: A long post"
Introduction You have been warned. This one s for hardcore cricket nuts. Red-ball nuts. Five-day nuts. The hardest of the hardcore. No coloured pajamas here. This post is to celebrate all-rounders. More particularly, men who have done the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in Test cricket. (At this stage, my analysis only covers the Continue reading "The Double Double Double"
Background When Google first arrived on the scene, I used to enjoy constructing unGoogleable questions and sharing them with others. My fascination with the number 229 in men s Test cricket used to be the basis of one such unGoogleable question. (Technically, my fascination began with 224, and then 228, and has stayed at 229 since Continue reading "The Double Dagger-Asterisk: For cricket anoraks…
Introduction: The Dirty Dozen U. Or A. When it came to film ratings, that s all there was, when I was growing up in Calcutta in the 1960s and 1970s. A film was rated either Universal or Adult. There was no 12 or 18 or R or X or anything else. Just U or A. It Continue reading "Thinking lazily about capacity and constraints"
Introduction This is a post about song songs. A term that probably doesn t mean much to you. Not surprising. I made the term up when I was maybe thirteen. Now remember this was over fifty years ago, not just before streaming, not just before MP3s, but a long time ago. Before CDs. Even before cassette Continue reading "Song songs"
You Ain t Goin Nowhere (Apologies to those who aren t Bob Dylan fans. Just to try something different, I ve used the titles of Dylan songs as section/topic headings in this post. If you are a Dylan fan, feel free to click on the headings and that will take you to the song; and if you re not Continue reading "A Hard Rain s A-Gonna Fall: continuing to think about digital engagement"
Etymology Engagement. An interesting word. A big word. Used in many contexts. So I thought I d check on the etymology. (Mostly taken, with some liberty in how I ve edited or presented it, from Oxford Languages, as provided online by Google). A gage. Noun. A valued object deposited as a guarantee of good faith. A pledge, Continue reading "More on engagement"
It s good to talk (Some of you might remember the old BT campaign from the 1990s. So here s the link, in case you re in need for a nostalgia fix). Introduction I had occasion to visit the local hospital this afternoon. So I checked myself in, made my way to the relevant waiting room, took out Continue reading "Musing about engagement"