Some newspapers have dropped “women’s” from the team’s name while reporting news about them. The Morning Standard does that persistently. It has become very difficult to tell whether the team that’s being talked about–is it men’s or women’s. That, I think, is a good thing. It’s the real victory of journalism. We have finally accepted […]
Gadget Alert: Kindle Scribe
Posted on under Life & Thoughts — Leave a commentAnother obligatory gadget post, but this one’s quite late. I ordered it online at Amazon Spain in early November of 2023 in the pre-Black Friday sale and got it in my hands from my sister in late November. It’s been a couple of months of reading books on a large screen and scribbling away my […]
Is there such a thing as European Americans?
Posted on under Life & Thoughts — Leave a commentSure, there’s a Wikipedia page about it. And if you do a quick Google search, you’ll find more references to the term, mostly in academic context. But if it’s a well-known term, how come we don’t hear it often in social and popular media? Instead what we hear are terms like African Americans, Black Americans, […]
Gadget Alert: Steam Deck 256GB
Posted on under Life & Thoughts — Leave a commentSo, I finally got it. Only because of my company’s generous travel program that earns you money when you travel for work (see Rocketrip). It’s not easy to get a Steam Deck in India: it’s officially not available yet. The ones available on Amazon are pretty expensive. After some research, I found a reasonably-priced Deck […]
Joys of jogging
Posted on under Life & Thoughts — Leave a commentThe lure of high-intensity workouts is such that we often ignore how doing something less intense but more consistently is likely better for our health. And how the media and other people extoll the virtues of HIIT and running doesn’t help either. My running regime lasted more than a couple of years. During that time, […]