Anthony Dhanendran
@dhanendran
I’m a product manager and sometime coach Product and software development, music, cricket, London - was @phowax on Twitter Involved with @hopeful.technology
No, wait: I deal in absolutes, no second chances, and in the Holy Grail of poison stanzas, do I have to end it all like Billy Mackenzie to get out of the contract?
This is not entertainment: don't expect me to entertain you, any more than you can entertain me
Local ice cream legends @kingstonianicecream still up to scratch (chocolate sorbet, mint, whisky cream and cookies, plus a cherry Greek yoghurt ice to go)
"In the 51st minute, no goals. In the 52nd minute, no goals. In the 53rd minute, no goals. In the 54th minute, no goals. In the 55th minute, no goals. In the 56th minute, no goals. In the 57th minute, no goals. In the 58th minute, no goals. In the 59th minute, no goals..."
“We’ve gone on holiday by mistake” (today’s game is: are you in town for the Beta Band or are you just a local hipster?)
Today's evening schedule for BBC One is a masterpiece of flexibility that makes it all look obvious in retrospect. I always enjoyed talking to the schedulers when I worked at the BBC: it takes craft to make the whole thing work, especially on a day with even more moving parts than usual.
Useful reminder that I haven't blocked this imbecile, one of the most irritating people on 2017-era Twitter www.cjr.org/special_repo...
“You may not like it but this is what peak viewing performance looks like”
Excellent Reddit trolling (the joke is intentional, yes): "With Morocco gone, England is the only Muslim country remaining in the World Cup" 👏🏾
Instagram only passes the first post through to Bluesky so here are the others
I have been persuaded to come out to Westbourne Park for France-Morocco and, well, I’m glad I did.
There’s only one thing you can rely on in life, and that’s that in any one of a dozen Reddit threads about the Goodyear blimp flying over London, at least one person will have commented: “and the lights read: ‘Ice Cube’s a pimp’” 🎶🙏🏾 (link in alt)
Can't see the Norway team sheet without thinking of Groundhog Day
If you haven’t watched a World Cup match on a phone while Alex James plays Britpop records and a big screen behind him advertises Britain’s largest purveyor of shonky hangover food, have you really lived?
This video appeared in the footballcliches subreddit with the heading: “this is the worst thing ever to have happened to New York” and I’m not sure I disagree:
"Charismatic Stokes" ought to have been one of the names on The Mayflower in 1620.
Listening to the cricket score on the 10pm news on Radio 4’s Long Wave service before it is switched off in a little less than three hours: at 1am London time the transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will go fully offline for the first time since 1934, never to return.
Played my first cricket match in seven years, on the hottest day of the year so far, and it actually turned out to be a good decision 🏏