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Swim meet weekend at University of Maryland College Park. This is the location I absolutely hate coming to because of insane traffic on capital beltway. This year though because the kid is older, we are now in the morning session, which means the swim meet starts at 8, warmups at 6.30, so that meant leaving home at 5.30am, and which meant we were all up by 4.30am this morning. We get here and the parking lot is already full! Did the fucking Americans camp out here all night or something? Unfuckingbelievable. Anyway 2 days of this and I will be ready for some nice naps!

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Wait Amit Agarwal, yes that tech blogger who made google scripts earns 13 million a year?!! wtf. Totally chose the wrong profession 😂

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If FIFA signs up with Ticketmaster for World Cup ticketing then there is no question in my mind it will be an epic disaster. If Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is any indication, then it means 90% of all tickets are going to be bought by scalpers and bots who in turn will put them on reselling platforms like Stubhub/TickPick for thousands and thousands more. People will complain and still end up buying them anyway, and Ticketmaster won’t care because they own half of the resell platforms also anyway so they make more money. I really hope they take the Olympics route that Paris did and lock down the resales to their own platform, and prohibit price gouging by resellers. In fact at Olympics if you resold a ticket, you actually ended up losing money because you spent 10% in reseller fees and you couldn’t sell it for more than the actual ticket price – that was a splendid model, and I hope FIFA does the same!

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Not only was Blockbuster one of my favorite tracks of the year but it’s [single shot video](https://youtu.be/-urTPhh7gNk?si=2x7RV0-SX_ZFe3xH) was also my favorite music video this year. There is so much going on in the video and they pull it off perfectly in a single shot!

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Thanks to our kid, our household listened to a Taylor Swift 10x more than any other artists. In fact we listed to Taylor Swift more than the next 10 artists listening time combined! I blame the kid squarely 😆

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Season 15 of Coke Studio Pakistan was so good that half of my top 15 tracks this year were all from one season this year! And a A R Rahman song makes an appearance!

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There is no question Maghron La and Blockbuster were two of my favorite tracks this year. The kid obviously skews some of this stats.

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My kid is doing combined Civics-English research project and topic she chose _**income inequality and access to education**_ as her topic. She gave me initial thoughts and I am really looking forward to her paper when she finishes it!