Coffeeholics AnonymousVishy KurugantiJune 26, 20212 mins“After 2 years of a nocturnal heavy Masters program, I found it hard to stay awake beyond 10am at my new job so I turned to black coffee. Before I knew it, I was up to 5 a day and hooked.” “I can’t…
Coffee StrugglesVishy KurugantiFebruary 21, 20214 minsFor a coffee addict (he does not like to be called an addict, the word has a disparaging sense, he feels that we might as well call each other milk addicts or food addicts or air addicts), the most…
A slice of uLaaRVishy KurugantiSeptember 24, 20204 minsThe blog turned 12 in Feb this year. Originally setup as ulaar.wordpress.com, I migrated to Wordpress-powered self-hosting on Dreamhost in 2010. A few premium Wordpress theme changes kept things…
Eschewing meat- a few short storiesVishy KurugantiAugust 02, 20202 minsUntil the start of the new millennium, my classification of people into “meat eating” vs “non-meat eating” was pretty static. If you were born vegetarian, you remained vegetarian (and vice versa…
MOMO Gormandizers AnonymousVishy KurugantiAugust 02, 20202 mins*Momo: a type of steamed dumpling with some form of filling. Original traditional delicacy from Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Ladakh, Darjeeling, and Northeast – now mainstream Indian fare* I’ve heard some of…
Activating your inner AWACSVishy KurugantiJanuary 16, 20201 minsAt some point one starts acting one’s age. I suppose. In the past year, I can’t recall how many times I’ve come close to yelling “For @#$%$#% sake, increase your goddamn immunity! And, for crying out…
The imperfect veganVishy KurugantiDecember 20, 20192 minsWhen I turned vegan ~6 years ago, my conformance was slightly less than 100% initially. This was largely to keep domestic peace without compromising the core principle. For example, Palak paneer, a…
The coffee abstinence experimentVishy KurugantiDecember 01, 20193 minsRegular readers of this blog might know that I run multiple experiments at any time. Experiments of the life hacking kind. Start doing this. Stop doing that. Well.. maybe more of the stopping kind…
Eating pork chops while petting your Golden RetrieverVishy KurugantiOctober 20, 20185 minsFifteen years ago, as we sat in a Singapore tour bus, we heard the story of how the Singapore zoo came to be. An entire generation of kids had grown up knowing chicken only as a packet of shrink…
Adventures in buffet optimizationVishy KurugantiJune 10, 20187 minsMathematically speaking, a buffet function could be expressed thus: Buffet f(x) = sigma (dish1(a1 ->n1)) + sigma(dish2(a2->n2) +… + sigma(dish N(aN->nN) (Turns out there is a WordPress LaTeX plugin…
