I am a sucker for New Year's. I love the idea of renewal that comes with the holiday. It offers an opportunity to reflect on the past year and to set some goals for the upcoming year. In Pasadena, New Year's is a big holiday with the annual Rose Parade followed by the big Rose Bowl game. My mom and I make it annual tradition to watch t...

Going to experiment with posting interesting stats/charts I find here. This just made me really sad Source: Reddit

Last night, I got really excited about the possibilities of Streamlit and put together a small Streamlit application to show F1 season progression. I noticed that it was difficult to track the progress of a season. Unlike the NBA for example, F1 doesn't have a playoff format so the progress of the season from race to race is how the st...

A few months ago a friend of mine told me about this tool called Streamlit and at the time I didn't really grasp what he was saying about it nor did I give the tool much attention. A few months later we are figuring out a new BI tool at work, and I have been having some questions about how we are doing it so kicked the tires on this to...

A day after the Lakers decided to trade for Russell Westbrook the world has reactedmostlynegatively. With most of the "smart" basketball universe criticizing this move for a variety of reasons mostly centered around Westbrook's clunky fit on the team. In my previous Lakers post, I mentioned the Lakers really needed to add some 3 point ...

This year I decided I wanted to plant a vegetable garden for the first time. For those who know me, this would probably have come as a shock to them, but I figured it was a good way to expand my horizons to something new/different. I don't really have a lot to say on the process beyond that it was really fulfilling to see the vegetable...

For the past year, I have increasingly been fascinated/troubled with the issue of loneliness and broad social cohesion. Being lonely for a long time has been viewed (including by myself) as a personal problem, but the truth is that increasingly we live in a lonely country and that has a lot of implications on our society. The UK has id...

The NBA season is over and now we enter the offseason, and just wanted to write down some thoughts I have about my Lakers as we prepare for the upcoming season. #1: Please get us some more shooting Anyone who has been a fan of the Lakers over the past couple of seasons has lamented the lack of shooting on the roster. Watching your team...

An idea I have long had is that we should move to a 4 day work week. I onetime even asked the CEO of my previous company whether he would be open to experimenting with the idea. So this week, I was heartened to see press about Iceland's results when moving to a 4 day work week and that Iceland is looking to increase adoption. My ration...

About 2 years ago, a good friend of mine recommended this show on Netflix called "Drive to Survive" about F1 racing. At the time, I met the recommendation with a lot of skepticism and was like "F1, why would you watch that? Racing sucks!!!" Last year during the endless slog of pandemic life, I decided to give the show a try as I was sc...

I started a new job a couple of months ago and was introduced to this open source project DBT with it. I've been working in the data field for a few years now and had heard about it from afar but hadn't any real experience working with it. I thought I'd share my initial thoughts having worked with it for about a month now. For the unfa...

One of the things I wanted to do this year was to write more. I felt like I had all these dispersed thoughts that just go away and wanted to substantiate them more by writing them down. I created a website but found writing posts and having to check-in code every time I wanted to write to be a bit cumbersome. So I thought I'd give this...