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There’s something I find truly fascinating about the way we converse. At home, when I was growing up, the house was always full of people, of different ages, speaking different languages (primarily English, Tamil and Bengali), waltzing between bilateral and multilateral conversations. At school, it was more of the same, except the ages were less … Continue reading “Musing about Capillary Conversations”
No, I haven’t forgotten how to spell. This is not a post about cigarettes or even about archery. Or any of those butts. It’s about Scrabble, the game invented by Alf Butts around 70 years ago. The game at the heart of the dispute between Hasbro, Mattel (or more correctly, its subsidiary JW Spear) and … Continue reading “Butt me no Butts: A sideways look at the Because Effect”
I’ve been blogging for a while now, and I’ve been delighted with the response. I average around a thousand RSS reader-based subscribers (according to Feedburner), tend to have around 300 unique IP addresses visit me daily (according to ClustrMaps) and get around 7 comments a post. [The IP addresses sometimes understate what is happening, given … Continue reading “Does the blogosphere have a January Effect? And a welcome to new readers”
While returning from New York yesterday, I read David Rakoff’s Don’t Get Too Comfortable on the plane. Viciously funny. But that’s not the point of this post. In a chapter entitled What Is The Sound of One Hand Shopping, Rakoff quotes the inimitable Lenny Bruce, saying: Lenny Bruce described flamenco as being an art form … Continue reading “Applauding our own behinds”
When I first heard about Twitter, and during my “observe and learn” time, I worked on the (mistaken) premise that people would answer the Defining Question. “What are you doing?” And because of that mistaken premise, I was expecting to see things happen that I haven’t really experienced so far. So what was I expecting? … Continue reading “Things I expected to see in Twitter (but haven’t as yet)”