12 November
2023
11 November
2023
Sunday’s activity on Saturday
11 November
2023
Old running buddies
Got together with Arup and Sanjib to celebrate Arup’s maiden marathon (New York Marathon, 2023). Incidentally, in our Bengali group, Sanjib is the one who completed a marathon at the youngest age (44 years) and Arup at the oldest age (52 years).
I still consider running a marathon as a victory of mind over body…
10 November
2023
From the bartender’s corner – The Irresistible
4 November
2023
Admittedly, I was dripping like I was causing my own monsoon season
This, after finishing my run in the rains. Two property buses stopped to enquire if I needed a lift. I declined, of course. Running in the rains in mid eighties temperature… very few feelings can beat that.
As I finally pulled up to the lobby area, everybody stepped aside lest I got them wet too.
At least, I lived up to my T-shirt. “Wine drinker with a running problem”
4 November
2023
To say I ran in torrential rains would be an understatement
The last time I ran in Cancun it was 95 degrees with the merciless sun beating upon me at noon. It was while resting under the shade of a tree that day that I ran into my friend from engineering dorm – Girish!!
This time, I went out for a run in mind blowing rains. Stopped under a tree a couple of times but did not see Girish anywhere…
29 October
2023
You do not need to know cricket to answer this quiz
Most of my friends in the USA may not be aware that World Cup Cricket is going on. There are 10 countries participating. (unlike our World Series Baseball where we just invite Canada in).
Each team will play the other 9 teams resulting in 45 games and then the top 4 go to semifinals and then of course, the final.
I was looking at where different countries stand today. This is how the chart looks. Country name, points and the result of the last five games, starting with the most recent.
Study that table carefully.
In any column, you would expect 5 wins and 5 losses, right? 10 teams playing each other – 5 winners, 5 losers. That is how you would expect every column to be. And that is how the third and fifth column indeed are. But the first, second and fourth column have 6 wins or losses and 4 wins or losses.
How is that possible?
28 October
2023
Like the miser in Aesop’s fables…
… who would count his gold coins and put them back, I did a similar thing today – but with fountain pens (decidedly of lesser valuable and certainly less sought after than gold coins). This month was special – I got fountain pens gifted to me by Karan Dhir at Mumbai airport, as well as DJ, PJ and the other Dhir here in Atlanta.
It meant I had to rearrange my inventory of fountain pens in the various storage cases.
Laid all of them out on the kitchen table this evening.
That would be
100 traditional fountain pens with ink barrels and cartridges
18 dip pens of the following style:
10 glass pens
5 bamboo pens
2 quill pens
1 feather pen
Somehow it tempts me to draw up a writing pad and start writing …
19 October
2023
Different kind of map puzzle
15 October
2023
