I hate how people are trying to apply statistics to basketball, like it’s some voodoo that could potentially unlock all sorts of answers and reduce the sport to a science. It’s a ridiculous, depressing and self-defeating (for sports fans, anyway) thing to do. The pompous proponents of this mentality are correct in arguing that there [...]
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Statistics and basketball
28Mar09Growing Up
10Jun08Confirmation that maturity is a journey, not a destination. Or something. AE: Dude, big changes. Me: ? AE: You remember I said I have this paralysing fear of whether I was good enough? Like fretting at work about people thinking I’m no good, etc.? Me: Yes, distinctly :) AE: Well, it’s gone. Me: Wow. That’s huge, man…you should be proud of [...]
I don’t like sports writers. I don’t like the contrived soundbites they convey, the cliched storylines they create, the false drama they so carefully cultivate. I don’t like the fact that most of them have no real qualifications, but a few years on the circuit gives them the title of ‘expert’ and, for example, allows [...]
so rich
10Jun07BBC’s article “Is Prince Philip an island god”? is the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. And that includes Onion. For centuries, perhaps millennia, villagers had believed in an ancient story about the son of a mountain spirit venturing across the seas to look for a powerful woman to marry. They believed that unlike them, [...]
Democracy and the US
24May07I was reading this article about Kazakhstan’s abolition of term limits on the president just now and noticed this gem: The “it” is, of course, democracy, the imposition of which has proven difficult for the United States in recent years. I didn’t have my glasses on, so on first sight I thought the author had written “the [...]
The Onion does video!
27Apr07Great, another way to waste time. See here. In The Know: The U.S. Moat
Conversation at The Dorchester
28Mar07Situation: I’m on a chair, sitting across a table from my friend. His sofa is arranged back-to-back with another sofa occupied by a party of extremely high-pitched people. Him: …and then after the revolution, obviously they addressed those issues… Me: Dude, no, after the revolution there was a political void, and that meant more bloodshed. Him: …and that’s [...]
Natalie Portman’s craaaazy
26Mar07Hilaaaaaaarious. I’m guessing Andy Samberg, the dude who created “The ‘Bu” and the hilarious ‘Chronicles of Narnia’, is behind this (he’s certainly in the video). Dailymotion blogged videoA Day In The Life Of Natalie Portman On a different note, I’ve now posted to the blog on 5 consecutive days, a Kobe-esque streak. Let’s see if I can [...]
Advice to young men…
15Mar07…from an old man. The best of Craigslist is pretty good. And that advice is good stuff, and at times quite profound. For chuckles, read this. I haven’t been able to successfully explain why it’s so funny to LS, but it’s hilarious. There’s a lot of other funny stuff on there…but most of it is NSFW.
Another entrant into the pantheon of incredibly stupid sports articles: Mukul Kesavan’s Subedar Major Haq and a Company of Sepoys, printed today on Cricinfo. The run up to the World Cup is obviously a quiet period for writers, which is why we get subjected to tripe like this, which tells us: In this the150th anniversary year [...]
The Search for Self
01Mar07The Onion continues to amuse (and amaze). Except this story actually comes disturbingly close to hitting a nerve. I always thought that if I kept searching and exploring, I’d discover who I truly was,” said Speth from his Wrigleyville efficiency. “Well, I looked deep into the innermost recesses of my soul, I plumbed the depths of [...]
Probably very funny
10Feb07This is hilarious. (Explanation: with a fair dice, each face is equally likely to come up. Hence, the expected value is (1+2+3+4+5+6)/6 = 3.5, rounded up to the next integer, 4.) This one’s pretty funny too. I can’t tell what the last one is though…the Laplace transform of love? As people say here, quali’y.
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