Random ramblings

As I sit down to write this piece, I realize with some embarrassment that, I have spent a disconcertingly large amount of time thinking about this question. But then again, I reassure myself that my preoccupation with inconsequential thoughts is shared by many famous people. Off the top of my head, Calvin and his “..command of thoroughly useless information” comes to mind. ( https://twitter.com/calvinn_hobbes/status/520702981776621569 ) I am even more encouraged to find that bathroom singing has its own Wikipedia page. And people (at least makers of bathroom products) consider it sufficiently important to ask about it in their surveys. It appears that 20% of people indulge in the pastime. ( http://www.map-testing.com/assets/files/Am%20Std%20Bathroom%20Survey%20detailed%20findings.pdf ) I would have thought that the figure would be higher, but in any case, convinced of the nontrivial nature of my pursuit, I am emboldened to present my secretly nurtured hypotheses here. Most ...

Having toyed with the idea of starting a blog for a few years now, I can only think that the fortuitous alignment of chance, idleness, and innumerable other factors, have lead me to take the plunge today. Even as I was mechanically setting up my account, the big question at the back of my mind was, why I was even doing this? Now, I am a firm believer that self-interest, and some form of self-gratification are the drivers of all (okay, at least 99.9999%) human actions. So what am I expecting out of this? Perhaps, I have a subliminal desire that this blog will become the next freakonomics.com or fivethirtyeight.com. But I am grounded enough to realize that I am no purveyor of unique insight into the workings of “Life, the universe and everything” more than the average person. So this blog is certainly not going to set the internet on fire. I do not intend this to be a personal memoir, and I am sure that it will not be about my family or my relationships. I can write about health and ...