After seeing this fascinating YouTube video about the shoemaker in Agra, BLKBRD, I decided to check out their website. It is clear they have invested great effort and resources to set up their site, on par with any global brand in overall quality. After navigating through their vast collection of handmade shoes, I purchased a…

For a long time, I have been wondering why podcasters keep their large, sophisticated microphones in their face. As well as their guest’s. It’s like you are talking to an appendage. Is it to keep their voices “present in the room”? That may be so. A hangover from the studio setup for talk radio may…

Taking comfort in this. Apparently, consuming social media has the same effect on AI chatbots as human beings: brain rot. In a paper in Nature, researchers at UT Austin put a group of AI chatbots on a high social media diet for an extended period of time. The bots—powered by multiple LLMs, including Llama3, Qwen,…

Rant. Dumb phones are making a comeback, I read. They even have a word for the trend: Digital Minimalism. But pulling back from digital is not so minimal on your pocket. The feature phones you really want are “designer” and expensive. What’s with product designers and innovators, making everyday simple utility gadgets into objects of…

Not sure how we got to this topic of Alligators vs Crocodiles. It started with how MAGA and MAHA can be chanted together, both alluding to greatness. Ah yes! One of us used the term, Political Alliteration to highlight the synchronicity of MAGA and MAHA. But then one wondered if political honchos in the US…

Welcome to Perineum. Obnoxious, to those who have navigated to this part of the world. To the physiologically oriented, it’s what separates the pricks from the assholes. To the philosophers, it’s a big issue about a small tissue, just like what the hymen represented for the women’s lib of the 70s. To us? Well, we…