Quitting in the age of vaping
If vaping was a thing back in the early ’90’s, I seriously doubt I’d have quit smoking when I did. Not that it was easy. It took a year of umpteen failed attempts with quit streak…...
5 Years Ago
Unlocking a superpower
Decades ago, I went to bed with a raging headache. For the next 10 minutes, I performed a sequence somewhat like this – took my attention away from my forehead, imagined myself floating in th…...
5 Years Ago
Mind is deeply blowing
[Title is a hat tip to the recent Bollywood masala flick where the character Simbba turns a perfectly legit American phrase into the endearingly Hinglish “mind is blowing”.] There’…...
5 Years Ago
The crowdsourced traffic light
I’ve been wanting to write this post since 2009. Really. Have a look at Year in Bangalore – the Unwritten Posts. When we moved to Bangalore 10 years ago, good reason prevailed to not ge…...
5 Years Ago
Eating pork chops while petting your Golden Retriever
Fifteen years ago, as we sat in a Singapore tour bus, we heard the story of how the Singapore zoo came to be. An entire generation of kids had grown up knowing chicken only as a packet of shrink-wr…...
6 Years Ago
Adventures in buffet optimization
Mathematically speaking, a buffet function could be expressed thus: Buffet f(x) = sigma (dish1(a1 ->n1)) sigma(dish2(a2->n2) … sigma(dish N(aN->nN) (Turns out there is a WordPre…...
6 Years Ago
