The Imagined Universe

Bollywood scripts have nothing on this.� An eight year old boy “married” his “special friend”� the day before he died of leukemia. The wedding came complete with rings, vicar and certificate.
I feel very sad at the passing of the eight year old boy.� He definitely did not deserve to die at such a young age.
But [...]

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Two surgeons were talking in a London hospital over a cafetaria lunch.
Dr. Rob was staring intently at his soup bowl as if he hoped to find Nessie in it. “I hate this new performance based bonus system” he said.
“You mean NHS’s idea of giving us a bonus for every patient who doesn’t die on the [...]

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… involves more appliances than you’d think.� Here is how it goes:
- Pack clothes: Realize that 4 pairs of shorts, 1 pair of capris and 3 pairs of jeans have spots of mulch, grass and mud on them. You can see we spent last weekend gardening and changing attires more frequently than Bollywood actors.
Wash jeans [...]

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A darkened synagogue in Midwestern America.� Two Americans are praying - one, a neurosurgeon who super-specializes in complex brain surgery involving repairing the brain’s thinnest blood vessels and dissecting tumors.� The other, a social worker who lives and works in Ethiopia.� What are the chances these two strangers would meet?
But they do meet, and find [...]

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Do people spend more on movies when there is a recession?� If they do, why is it so?
The New York Times had this interesting observation about the box office collections last week:

Overall the Top 10 films took in $134.4 million, according to Screenline. That is about 10 percent higher than the $122 million in ticket [...]

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I have been meaning to try writing Haiku verse for some time. In a tentative, will-it-bite way, I love Haiku, though I am not sure I can do any good with it. I am too verbose for Haiku, I can never use five syllables if five hundred would do the job instead.
But [...]

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