I have been managing to beat the heat here by hiding, or ahem...working, inside NEC. The evenings are pretty cool, and with my newly discovered AC in my room, I guess I've my plan in place to only hear about the summer heat second hand.
I like it that there are a bunch of intern events at Intel where you can meet people and even hit on them assuming, w/o loss of generality, that all the beautiful girls must by definition be single. (You know how hard it is to approach the good ones and so on...). Here, I've to work up ruses to get the fun rolling, but now that we've dug out ping-pong and foosball tables, the scene's looking up. (Official disclaimer: My hit counter is, and will stay, at zero :-) )
I tried my hand at baseball at my company picnic the other day, and am convinced that it is exactly what it looks like. You take a gourmet's dream, cricket, with all its sophisticated artistry and subtleties of strategy and turn it into a ready-to-eat dish and you'd land up with baseball. I do not mean to be disrespectful, for you can set the simplest of tasks and before you blink it will have turned into a monster with thousands busting their balls to do it better than the rest. Think 'hit this this big ball into that net'. Or 'just throw it into that hoop'. Or just run past that line...and so on.
You still need the eye of a hawk and the coordination of a fill-in-a-well-coordinated-animal-here to make it good in baseball. And the pitcher does make the ball swing in the air and vary its pace. But for a batsman to not think about the movement off the pitch or the gaps in the fielders' positions or a spinner to not have the loop, turn and zip or the captain to not fret about rotating his bowlers and fielders every six pitches and discounting the team composition and such affairs as a problem for the flannelled fools that huff-n-puff for five days and then drink to the draw, I feel that there's a lot more depth to cricket. In a way, there are so many simultaneous battles going on that even a bowler marking his run up is imbued with more than a touch of drama.
Anyways, that was my two cents on the sports. I'll head to a Yankees game sometime soon and give you a heads up on how it looks like at the top level :-). For now though, it's back to inheriting losses...Hope you guys are having fun,
I tried my hand at baseball at my company picnic the other day, and am convinced that it is exactly what it looks like. You take a gourmet's dream, cricket, with all its sophisticated artistry and subtleties of strategy and turn it into a ready-to-eat dish and you'd land up with baseball. I do not mean to be disrespectful, for you can set the simplest of tasks and before you blink it will have turned into a monster with thousands busting their balls to do it better than the rest. Think 'hit this this big ball into that net'. Or 'just throw it into that hoop'. Or just run past that line...and so on.
You still need the eye of a hawk and the coordination of a fill-in-a-well-coordinated-animal-here to make it good in baseball. And the pitcher does make the ball swing in the air and vary its pace. But for a batsman to not think about the movement off the pitch or the gaps in the fielders' positions or a spinner to not have the loop, turn and zip or the captain to not fret about rotating his bowlers and fielders every six pitches and discounting the team composition and such affairs as a problem for the flannelled fools that huff-n-puff for five days and then drink to the draw, I feel that there's a lot more depth to cricket. In a way, there are so many simultaneous battles going on that even a bowler marking his run up is imbued with more than a touch of drama.
Anyways, that was my two cents on the sports. I'll head to a Yankees game sometime soon and give you a heads up on how it looks like at the top level :-). For now though, it's back to inheriting losses...Hope you guys are having fun,
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did you get to see the yankee's game?
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