Match that, Baseball

For anyone brought up on a staple diet of cricket, taking to baseball isn't that hard. It is reasonably faster than cricket, and once you get a hang of the rules, it isn't difficult to follow.

As luck would have it, I ended up spending the better part of a year near Boston. Anybody who has been anywhere close to Boston in the summer would vouch that its difficult to ignore baseball. So, there I was, just after the Red Sox had won their first World Series in 86 years and, I was hooked.

Cricket however is making a big comeback... I hate the comparison but as someone out there put it, if one-day cricket is like a pair of long trousers, baseball is knee length shorts. Now, you have the T20, which'd be... err.... a mini-skirt? (!)

If the T20 were introduced in the US (which isn't that far away, if this is to be believed), I have no doubts that it'll be a runaway success.

And, I wouldn't mind if the USA won the next edition of the T20 World Cup.... India still will be the first ever T20 Champions ;-)

Specs and Speculations

Sometimes, its good to sit back and wonder at all the absurd conceptions you've had over time. When young, I always had this feeling that it is dangerous to allow people who wear spectacles for vision correction, to drive. My reasoning at the time was, "What is the guarantee that the specs makes the person see as well as we do".

After class 12, I found out that I had trouble reading boards, etc., from a distance. Further checks confirmed that I was not just myopic, but had myopic astigmatism. What it means is that a cylindrical lens is needed in addition to the (default) spherical lens, with their axes aligned at a particular angle (may be different for each eye), for me to see 20/20 (or 6/6 as they measure in India). Thankfully, regular usage of prescription glasses has ensured that my "power" in each eye, has increased all of -0.5, in over a decade.

My current workday involves about 33kms of driving. And, I no longer have a grouse on drivers with eye glasses.