Desiderata Errata

Someone on my social network recently shared the Zen Pencils' Desiderata strip and it seemed a little outdated and overtly optimistic. I took a stab at getting the updated and corrected version.

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
or risk sweat patches and body odour.
Remember what peace there may be in silence,
and the data charges you would save on,
if you stopped streaming music to your phone all the time.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with the members of the local law enforcement.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
avoid being witty;
people get offended easily nowadays;
hence which you will be destroyed on Twitter.
Listen to others,
especially the dull and the ignorant;
their feedback is most likely going to be the market response.

Frankfurt, Germany

I had an evening to myself in Frankfurt, Germany.
This was the best flag I could find.

Copenhagen, Denmark

On my way from Iceland, I stopped in Copenhagen for a couple of days too.

Start Me Up

The world has more articles about start-ups than it needs. The main news in any article is usually the recently secured funding and the rest of the article comprises of -

• the name of the start-up, which must have an ‘x’ instead of an ‘ex’, a ‘z’ instead of an ‘s'. A ‘kart’ or a ‘cloud’ thrown in there makes you fit better with the rest of the crowd,
• a picture of the young 20-something founders, usually all men, which might be causation and not just correlation,
• the eminent colleges they graduated from, usually engineering colleges, which might be a deeper level of causation to the previous proposed causation,
• the lucrative job offers some of them turned down or left

Willfully ignoring the insipidness of the start-up’s idea, and ignoring the inner voice, which is hopefully still there, that keeps telling them to write about something more interesting or relevant, the journalists often opt to add some human interest to this story and squeeze in a few quotes from the founders. When that age group is given a platform to sell something unambitious, it makes for very Brendan-Rogers-press conference-after-every-defeat sort of talk.

Iceland

May your flag forever fly high.
Hopefully you also get breaks in between,
it might to strenuous otherwise.

I was in Iceland in late February. It is an island located in the area that belongs to either the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic. I can't say for sure and Google maps doesn't help much.

Nainital, India

Good evening, namaste, aadab, hello, and welcome to The Come On Man

When Babies Fly

Yawn... Hmph... Huh…? Wha…? Are we in the airport? Oh no, we’re catching a flight again. Is that an A380? No, probably not. You guys would never buy a ticket on an airline that could afford to buy that aircraft. I’m looking at you, lady. Yes you, who insists I play with toys and wear stuff that belonged to Sheila before she grew out of them. She isn’t even the same gender.

Zagreb, Croatia

I had a quick stopover in Croatia.
Don't expect names or trivia in this post.

Athens, Greece

Disclaimer: My knowledge of Greek mythology is not perfect. I relied on what I heard and read there and didn't do much research apart from checking some of the spellings. Feel free to post corrections.

The Acropolis

Over the hills but not so far away as the crow
flies, yet quite far away as the man walks.

Fantasy Football - 7: How Much Does the Opposition Matter?

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Lab Record Type Section

Introduction

This post is part 7 of a series of number crunching posts I intend on doing on some EPL Fantasy Football data I have. I focus on the importance of the opposition in this one.

Part 1 has the main introduction and some other relevant details and assumptions and things like that. It also has the Dream Team of the Year and Weekly Dream Teams which I shall be referring to frequently.