6 August
2018
5 August
2018
And you thought optometrists can’t be funny?
5 August
2018
Clematis from Sharmila’s garden…
5 August
2018
Back to back runs..
5 August
2018
Puzzle: The horse race problem
A friend of mine from Australia sent me this problem yesterday. It turns out to be a very interesting puzzle. See if you can get it. Feel free to send in your answers or attempts in the Comments section and I will try to respond.
In a horse race, 25 horses show up to win the gold, silver and bronze medals. Unfortunately for the organizers, there are only 5 tracks available – which means you can race only 5 horses at a time. The owners/jockeys agree that their horses will have to run multiple times to decide the first, second and third ranks. You can assume that a horse can run any number of times and always retains the same speed anytime it runs.
Here is the question: What is the minimum number of races you have to have to decide the gold, silver and bronze medalist?
4 August
2018
From the bartender’s corner – El Camino
3 August
2018
Friday evening decompression…
Ghulam Ali singing Nasir Kazmi’s compositions..
“Main to aaj bahut roya hu,
Tu bhi shayaad roya hoga.
Mere chumey huye haathon se,
Auro ko khat likhta hoga”
Roughly translated (improvements welcome)..
“I have cried a lot today
Perhaps, you too cried a bit.
Those hands that were kissed by me
Must be writing letters to somebody else”
3 August
2018
From the bartender’s corner – Mezcalita
3 August
2018
News digest from this morning…
2 August
2018
Okay, this is marketing pushing it…
If you ever drive on the Bay Bridge into the city of San Francisco, you are likely to see this big billboard. (I did not have enough time to take a picture but I was able to get the picture from the internet anyways).
I will keep the irony of Demi Lovato telling us what to drink aside for the time being.
My bigger question that I want to scream is…
“What do you mean, ph balanced water? Water is, by definition, pH balanced. It is the golden standard against which you decide if any liquid is of higher pH (alkaline) or lower pH (acidic).
Water does not need to be pH balanced. It IS already balanced.”
Has marketing risen – if risen is the word I am looking for – to a level that we will buy something as free and balanced as water at steep prices if we slap a high sounding phrase like pH balanced (never mind you do not have to do anything to water to make it pH balanced) and get Demi Lovato to hold a bottle of that water?
That reminds me… I saw a bottle of Vitamin Water this morning at the airport and I was like… “What do you mean….”
Naah.. forget it. I got my answer about marketing and also sense that we – allegedly the most intelligent animal on this planet – can surprisingly forget some of the basic sciences we learnt in middle school.
