The Slo-Man was recently struck by a comment. It jumped right off the screen and hit him smack between the eyes. He then went digging into some facts and embarked on a mini-voyage of self-discovery. How did this come about? The Slo-Man, who is still catching up with his reading,…Continue reading→
Jeepers! Peepers!
Introduction This is the story of a peeper, a peeping tom who chose us as a subject of study. Read on! A small ground floor flat (apartment, if American) is what we loved in and lived in. As a newly married couple in our mid-twenties, we both worked for “computer…Continue reading→
Prohibition and Aristocrat
Background Once upon a time, I worked. My boss decided to send me up to the North East state of Assam, famous for tea and rain. The tea is the best in the world. The rain is the most in the world. There is also the unexplained mystery of birds…Continue reading→
Spring in the air!
“Why should I?”, you ask. And you may have a point there. Spring is still not fully sprung; it is in fact still a bit of spring chicken. Living (or staying, if Indian) in the Golden Horseshoe, aka Costa Occidental del Lago Ontario, you would be hard pressed to find…Continue reading→
Saving the ODI
Continuing the earlier post about T20, inspired by this analytical article. In recent years the ODI has been threatened by T20. (if you don’t know what either of those two terms mean, you can stop reading now, for none of the following will make any more sense. However, you can…Continue reading→
Cricket and T20
I just read this very numbery article. If you’re not into statistics and numbers you’re going to be quite numb at the end of it. However, if you’re not into statistics can you truly call yourself a cricket aficionado? Hmm? Clearly Mr Date knows his data well and there are…Continue reading→
Tea and dBaseII
(This is the story behind the reference to tea in this earlier chapter of the memoirs.) The phone rang as I started shutting the front door behind me. In one of those momentous decisions that define history I overrode my initial inclination to continue on my way out and stepped back…Continue reading→
I am? I do?
I am? I do? A question put to me the other day left me scratching me head. Not because I have dandruff or other head afflictions, but figuratively speaking I was left wondering. What was the question, you ask? “What do you like?” asked the interrogator. They went on to…Continue reading→
Is that a sport?
Well, here we are again! Figure skating controversy at the Sochi Winter Olympics. Surprise! Shock! Horror! I must confess this post was started during the London Olympics and consisted of the following two paragraphs (to make it easier for the not-so-bright-at-understanding-long-sentences-in-English I’ve put them (the two paragraphs) in italics.) The…Continue reading→