Winter Rant

"I’m utterly disgusted. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." – Miyazaki

  • 🦆 Effin’ Birds by Aaron Reynolds is perhaps the wittiest, no-holds-barred, internet comic that I have come across. It is a great play on “flipping the bird”. Certainly not for everyone (my wife does not find the humor in this 😁). But it carried me through some low points in 2025. I got the comic’s view post

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    📸 👾 Pixelating my kitchen. Continuing to play with the Pixel Art Cam app. Love that the chaos of my cooking is captured in specific ways, but hidden in other ways 😁 Taken with the Pixel Art Camera App. view post

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    📸 👾 Having way too much fun with the Pixel Art Camera App on the App Store. Simple iPhone app. 21mb in app size. No data tracking. Delivers on what it promises: pixelates photographs, both existing photos and live shots. Have been playing more with photos. Need to try video soon. But, here is a view post

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  • 🎭🗡️🕵️ Just watched Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man. It is an excellent movie. If you have a Netflix sub, it’s worth a watch. The movie adds to the existing slate of Knives Out movies. I am loving Craig as Benoit Blanc, as much as when he played James Bond – maybe more. view post

  • 🏏 Not a lot you can do when de Kock shows up to the game. 90 out of 46 is mind numbing. Wonderful hitting by South Africa over all! Imagine if this were the T20 World Cup Semi-finals. To India, I will simply repeat: you are only as strong or weak as your bowling is. view post

  • 🏏 Finally a string of resounding wins by Team India. Both wins had in one thing common: the bowlers took 10 wickets in a single innings. In both – the 3rd One Day International and the first T20 International – batters did not have to show heroics because the bowlers did their jobs. Going to view post

  • Well played South Africa! Chasing down any score over 300 in 50over cricket is commendable. No matter where you are playing and whom you are playing against. 300+ in 50 overs is a test of skill, focus and effort. Well done. And then we have India. Team India needs some soul searching. For starters ask view post

  • It is impressive how bad Indian bowlers are in 50-over cricket. If this team cannot defend 358 runs over the course of 50 overs, what can they defend? view post

  • The Panels app by MKBHD is shutting down. Interestingly, in their shutdown announcement/letter, they talk about open-sourcing the app’s source code: Once the app shutdown is complete and all user data has been securely deleted, we will open source the Panels app code under the Apache 2.0 license. This will allow anyone to build on view post

  • 🏏 😬 India won by the skin of their teeth. This is a team that cannot play cricket. And it is run by a cricketing administration that is hellbent on driving away its senior players (who are actually performing). smh. SA might have lost this one. But I expect them to come out strong in view post

  • 🏏 Far from resounding. Or a win. Where are the Indian bowlers with the wickets? Cannot believe that South Africa actually reached 300 runs in this chase. SA is going to win. view post

  • 🏏 Every Indian cricket lover has been pissed off for the last couple of weeks. Nothing short of a resounding win will help today. view post

  • 17?! Every time I think tech cannot/did not descend further into depravity, I stand corrected. And in that regard, Meta is a particular “gift” that keeps on giving. Simply odious. view post

  • 🏏 Watching the Indian National Cricket team play test cricket. it’s been a while since I have followed cricket matches live. Their current head coach Gautam Gambhir needs to be sacked by the end of this home-series vs. South Africa. Otherwise, it is hard to see how the BCCI is not corrupt. view post

  • Just re-watched Greyhound on Apple TV. Perhaps the most riveting movie I have ever seen. A real naval-warfare movie. Probably the best WW2 movie I have seen. Tom Hanks at his very best. view post

  • I don’t know who needs to hear this, but speed does not always amount to quality. Certainly not in tech. Moving fast, breaking things, and then iterating to fix them is a utopian idea that does not pan out in reality. view post

  • Ramping up my running 🏃 But it has left me sore in my shoulders, back, and legs. Everything hurts. There is a tonnage of work left. And I want to kill myself on behalf of my back and legs. view post

  • Sitting in the park with my kid. Watching trains come and go. 🚇🚃🚈 view post

  • Knowing that no one is reading your blog is relaxing. 😁 Takes the edge off of my social media experience. Also allows me to comfortably microblog once or twice a day, and do a long-form post once a week… without having this need to post every stray thought that comes to mind. Wonder how long view post

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    These wisps of clouds caught me off guard as I climbed a flight of stairs the other day. Almost had a stairway to heaven vibe to it. But maybe I am overselling it all. view post

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  • Thinking of starting an ASMR podcast of me typing on my keyboard. Noise isolation will be an interesting challenge to overcome. view post

  • Trying out a new post format that does not have titles. Trying to have a microblog within a regular blog. Be interesting to see how it works out. view post