Cool morning run
Funny!
From the bartender’s corner – Purple Rain
Here is a suitable drink for a rainy and wet day – Purple Rain.
Gin, cranberry juice, sweet and sour, sparkling water and blue curaçao.
I understand this can be served in a martini glass or a highball glass. Was not in a mood to waste too much drink (alone at home today), so made it in a martini glass…
Run in rain
Two surviving members of the Chalupa clan today. Trail run in rain and cold. The near desolate trail was incredibly beautiful in the rain. The overnight rain had the creeks gushing with water. The big trees were dripping constantly.
As we finished up our run, a lady who was just starting her run, summed it up best as we passed each other – “What a beautiful morning”!
Amen!!!
Going to be an interesting run
From the bartender’s corner – Strawberry Jive
Today’s puzzle
Two students of maths are playing the following game – each takes turn to pick a number from the following set {-4, -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3, +4}. Once a number is picked, it is not replaced. And they keep playing till they run out of numbers. And they start all over again.
Whoever can come up with three numbers that add up to 0 first wins the game. It does not have to be the only three numbers she has. For example, she might have picked -3 and then in next chance picked +2. Hoping to pick +1 next. But other player seeing that, would  have taken away the +1 in the next move. So let’s say the original person next picked 4. And then if she got a chance to pick -1 in the next move, she would have -3, +2, +4 and -1. Note that -3, +4 and -1 adds to 0. So she wins.
Now, here is the question: If you are the first player, is there a strategy for you to win? If you are the second player, is there a strategy for you to win?
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From the bartender’s corner…
Few interesting facts about DST – but don’t tell my mom!!
- DST is less than 100 years old. (98 in Central Europe and 96 in US)
- DST was first proposed by a guy in New Zealand who wanted more daylight to follow his profession – studying insects!!
- DST was subsequently proposed by another guy in UK who was frustrated with his back nine game in golf with less sunlight.
- Most of the countries scrapped DST after first world war (except a couple in Europe and Canada)
- Many adopted them back during second world war and the oil crisis of 70s. US standardized on it only in 1966.
- Many have scrapped it ever since!
- More inhabited land is covered in this world by countries who have scrapped DST than by those who currently observe it or those who never observed it.
- And this is going to completely flummox my mom – in spite of all her confusion, the fact is when she was born, India had Daylight savings. (during second world war when India was under the British). Subsequently it was scrapped. I bet this is a surprise for most of Indian friends too!