Thank You Megan
She had just finished dealing with a bunch of drunk guys who swung by to pick up more beer. She had been standing her post for over nine hours and her eyes conveyed her exhaustion. I could tell she was counting the minutes to the end of her shift, ready to head home and delve […]
Revisiting the labyrinth
Fairy tales are required to have happy endings. It is an unwritten but universal rule. But for the protagonist of the tale, there is always a price to pay, a battle to be won, a villain to be conquered, or even just a phobia to overcome before that happy ending is in sight. What if […]
I miss you
There used to be days when I used to wake up and see your beautiful face and consider myself the most fortunate man alive. Your smile was so bright and plentiful that it could even make the birds chirp and flowers bloom. In an instant, you would fill my darkness with your light. Your warm […]
Why is the news more polarized than ever?
Over the last three years, both the mainstream and online news media have become increasingly biased, siding more strongly than ever on specific issues and marching to the drumbeat of their respective parties. These differences have grown so deep and caustic that the news from each network almost sounds like its from a different planet. […]
Chasing the perfect User Interface
Hence, I am taking a break from my random stray thoughts for a change and writing this memo/mini-manifesto to myself to remind myself of things I (and my team) need to keep in mind while doing what we do. We spend countless hours designing application logic, we spend months debugging rules and flows, we put […]
Center-Left or Center-Right
There are two political parties in the United States – ok, there are two political parties that matter in the United States, but in reality, much like dialects within a language, there are numerous divisions within two main parties. Terms like social liberals, progressives, neoconservatives, etc are usually thrown around by the media as if […]
Creative answers on exams
Found these while trolling the web today; had to save them – good for a laugh some other day