Notices by kshah (kshah@mastodon.social)

why can you always win in a game of bridge against #KamalaHarris ?

you know beforehand that her bid is going to be one #notrump

from sheikh hasina to shaken hasina in the blink of an eye after the blood of a thousand innocents.

#bangladeshstudentprotests #bangladesh #bangladeshcoup

i've cobbled together a simulation for the #premierleague 2024-25 season stemming from bookies' odds used in conjunction with the Elo rating system.

as of now, the outcome of 121 simulations shows #MCI winning their fifth in a row with #NEW in second and #ARS in third. #CHE to take up the last #UCL spot.

i don't know how accurate this will be, but i put this together to help plan my own #fpl squads.

it was a fun project, though; learning about calculating Elo and all.

also, is there a global mastodon #fpl #minileague?

am looking to set up a #fpl h2h 20 player #minileague.

interested managers do let me know if you’d like to join! cheers!

i'm back after a hiatus. i'll no longer use this account for creative endeavours; those will be moved to my alternate mastodon account (https://mstdn.social/deck/@krs), instead.

this account will be for more personal pursuits and musings.

i would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting where they decided this was a good name for their product.

#funny #downrighthilarious #innuendo #india #MastIndia

autorickshaw drivers in #bengaluru have less chill.

#funny #tuktuk #india #MastIndia #NammaBengaluru #bangalore

the #worldindoorbowlschampionship seems to have really spiced up the field of play!

#wibc #wibc2024 #funnyyoutubethumbnail

i do wish manufacturers would just go back to making phones with a small footprint instead of giving us windshield-sized screens and an option to "enable one-handed mode".

that's just accepting that they know people like the smaller screen but they can't be arsed to work towards designing something like that.

really. i dont need 120fps or true colour or gamma ray tech. just give me a small screen, good battery, and a headphone jack.

#phonedesign #design #rant #samsung

clouds stealing over the hills, as seen through a hotel room window in Thimphu, #Bhutan

#fensterfreitag #windowfriday

the oft-forgotten interrobang (‽) is actually the perfect symbol to signify spotty wi-fi connections.

#uidesign #freetip

fun #newyear fact: anyone born in (or after) 1976 has now lived longer in the current century than they have in the last!

i love him to death but nketiah may as well have received a red card at 0’ for all his involvement today.

arteta needs some time to regroup the troops. at this rate even the top 6 may be beyond them.

#fulars #afc #arsenal

Goodbye 2023. My ode to a watershed of a year.

https://medium.com/@kshahwrites/goodbye-2023-a2ffd637bff2

Excerpt:
"At the brambled path’s mouth I now stand steady
With the wounds and scars and scrapes of years gone past.
But for the next length I now am ready
To live my life by my own compass, at last.

Goodbye, goodbye, 2023, farewell!
Onto me, you embossed yourself the deepest.
When the ball drops and when rings the new year’s bell,
I will forever and ever honour your bequest!"

#poem #writing

#happynewyear

I earned a badge on Garmin Connect. i’ve earned it for the second time and it’s apparently repeatable 250 times (!).

garmin seems awfully confident about my life expectancy.

#beatyesterday #garmin

just caught up with the #BIgFatQuizOfTheYear 2023. i would have scored a grand total of 2 points — one of which i guessed rather than knowing the answer (after all, how many british cuss words really rhyme with absurd?).

i’ve never been more pleased. it’s living proof that my detox from news, reddit, streaming services, and social media is working!

#wellness #mentalhealth

ಕಳ್ಳು ಕೊರಿ ("kallu kori", literally "stone quarry")

#bengaluru #bangalore #silentsunday #landscape #photography

@elysegrasso i listen to a(n excellent) podcast called "the way with words", where the hosts answer caller queries about the english language.

on an episode just last week they responded to a caller with this very point! something to the effect of, 'stuffing the fat feet of english into the small stockings of latin.'

but, yeah, i'll admit that it'll take me some time before i'm comfortable ending a sentence with a preposition!

@DeeMee if ARS had defeated WHU in the fourth round of the league cup, this upcoming encounter (which now is #livwhu) would have made it *four* matches between #arsenal and #liverpool between 19th dec and 3rd feb.