Archive for July, 2008
Where people write
I am always fascinated by the way in which writers and creative people work. Do they simply have a computer perched on a table like I do? Do they have books all around them? Do they have efficient work spaces like the ones they whore like hell on Lifehacker? Does clutter work? Or do you [...]
Nope they still don’t get it
A somewhat bizarre article on cricket and baseball by Roger Bate in The American magazine. Why do I get the feeling that he hasn’t really read the Wikipedia entry on cricket, leave alone John Buchanan’s latest that’s being whored everywhere. Bate’s piece will amuse one way or the other.
The Diligent Malayali
People often make fun of malayalis especially by sending that ridiculous email forward about how we do no work because we spend all day tying and untying our lungis. In fact many of us upright, honourable sons of Kerala soil (Malayalam: sow-yell) intend to fight this stereotype by going on a nationwide hartal sometime soon [...]
