life

Came across a gem in first few pages of Vishy Anand’s Mindmaster, which resonated strongly with me.

As they say - dont idolize your heroes. Its always disappointing when you see them up close. Such is the case with doyens of technology.

As seasons change and years pass, this old brain needs to learn new tricks to satiate it’s unending craving for solving ambiguous and hard problems.

Read an article on Haaretz last year. Sadly can’t find the link online anymore. Thankfully, I had the gist copied elsewhere.

Strawberries and Cream.

Oh yeah, that was what I felt like having today; that very english summer delicacy. But alas, neither do we have strawberries lying around nor cream. Driven by my desire to sample this delectable delicacy (and not finding it close at hand), I ended up searching (yes, yes – google search – the bane of this generation and others to come) for it; and voila, stumbled upon some prose – the kind of which we don’t come across anymore.

In Thud, the dwarf Bashfullsson says “I need no axe to be a dwarf, Nor do I need to hate trolls. What kind of creature defines itself by hatred?”.