Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Frustration

Just read the short story - not even that, it is just a small conversation - by Asimov. A nice little piece of dialogue. Computers really don't have a sense of self-righteousness. :)

On placements

I did not mind college placements; we all pretty much knew our relative positions in the batch, and so there were few surprises and fewer chances of pushing or opulling people here and there. The maximum that I heard was that placement "co-ordinators" were attempting some things...it was all pretty irrelevant and in the end, everyone was happy and stuff. In the course of typing this, I deduce that the reason for everlasting bonhomie was that we handled our own placements, our seniors their own, and our juniors their own. A major difference.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Getting old!

My first (probably) white hair. :D

As an afterthought, will start on the "getting rid of my tag" action plan right away. :D, again!

:)

Home Ramble

My Mom's a...I'm sorry to say this, but then again, I've been bad enough to say it to her, so why not - a bitch. Isn't it me who says, be honest, and practice what you preach? I echo myself from the Machiavelli post a few entries earlier. Ifelt like using a more intricate structure, but why bother? If I feel I'm getting my point across, why shouldn't I stick with simple sentences? Why complicate things unnecessarily, whether in literature or in real life? That's what I want Dear Mum to understand...which is where the not-getting-what-you-want clause of life comes into force. I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Cellphone Dump

Oho...so this is what 'a knot in my stomach' is...

I should learn to be a little more inconsiderate. What I wrote in the protected document today was not entirely true. Have no idea which "protected doc I'm talking about, must find out

I'm way too decent for my own good.

See? I'm over with more than one thought processes already and this guy has just crossed Stephens'. :p

For the ex-in business - bathrooms should have elbow handles, especially for homes with kids and toddlers.

Did you ever feel that the world around you is holding you back? Something like, "can't these people move/think/reason/decide any faster?" ?

I'm going to get rid of my self-imposed under-achiever, capable-but-not-applying-himself tag right away. I have Saquib to thank.

A picure says a thousand words - Obama on that pic.

An example of bad parenting - my Mom tells my Sis that she (Giggles) has 'no right' to fight with her. I think she should be explaining why fighting is bad, with anyone, without reason. I may be wrong, but she certainly isn't right in making fighting a right or priviledge. We'll take care, My Only.

Simple and effective. Simple yet effective. Everything is possible with the right guide.

Feel the burn to stay fit. Somu would be a good fit in Perfetti's marketing department, creative side. Or in the agency handling Perfetti. Which is...O&M (figures). Okay, what else was there earlier...hmm... I'm surprised the earth holds up all this construction, and even more flabbergasted when I see these buildings in my neighbourhood, here, get built. Seriously. Later.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Freakonomics

- Incentives (trade off; balance between extremes)
- Information
- Inherently non-evil people: 87% (Feldman's bagels)
- Discrimination: (i) taste-based - you choose not to interact with people
(ii)info-based - other people have poor skills
- Pragmatism
- Socrates + Plato (Republic)
- Adam Smith
- Taxonomy
- 4 Factors determining wage: (i) number of people able to do the job
(ii)specialized skills required
(iii)unpleasantness of job
(iv)demand for the services the job fulfills
- Johnny Appleseed
- Ceasescu
- Lexis Nexis database
- Prophylactic
- Formation of conventional wisdom (J. K. Galbraith): (i) ease of understanding
(ii)effect on well-being
- Panhandle
- Causality & Correlation
- Risk = Hazard + Outrage (Hazard is constant, Outrage is to be controlled): Peter Sandman
- Ted Kaczynski
- Richard Taylor
- Tipping point, according to Gladwell

Thursday, December 3, 2009

How Not To Change The World

By letting it be.

:p

This is just to cash in on the hits the phrase without the "Not" generates. Read along, though, some of my posts are good too.

:D

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Despondency

It creeps in, sometimes, and sometimes it is with reason at others without. In my case it is not so much dejection and hopelessness it is anger at self for procrastination and for finding excuses to blanket over my shortcomings and bad decisions. Hindsight is terrible unless it is consciously made to work in one's favor by extracting only the learnings and not letting the bitter tastes into one's brain, leave alone the stage where one has to "spit it out". It takes some doing. It's got to.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Monday, November 23, 2009

The Prince, according to Machiavelli

Reading the first political science book ever. A little narrow in scope. Preachy to a degree. Very in-conformation with my views about military tactics and stuff, echoes many of the things in Art of War, things which are obvious to anyone who gives sufficient thought to the problems and situations. Nag says there's a small book called Machiavelli for Managers. I can see the reason; this book is itself filled with double negatives, iterations and such literary devices, or perhaps that is the characteristic of the translator, the fact remains, however, that the book's content is enough to build a lot many treatises and the like out of. Lots (and lots) of adjectives. He says a prince shouldn't try and undercut others in money; I agree. If you got none of your own, spend wisely, if you're getting money from others (especially through not very legal or moral means), keep none of it. Makes sense. Next: Chapter Seventeen onwards. Got a class to go to.

The Game

I feel I can beat myself at chess.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Chrome

Hats off! Just learnt how updates happen for Google Chrome.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

A Cascade of Conversations.

It is a convenience to not have to type a datestamp, so I waste a line on it.

The conversation I had with Mr. Malik was hurried; if its depth were to be mapped by sonar, it would be very irregular. The air time was pretty evenly divided, I think, although I know my egotistical thought process gives me way more credit than I'm due for. Still, no, wait, not still, I also committed a grave error of leaving out a person from my life history, despite saying in the same conversation, at a different point of time, words to the effect that a nurtured grievance tends to intensify negatively over time. I hope I have not slipped up too badly. Mahak pressed the red button when I called right now.

With Mum, I knew in my heart she knew I was going to be serious about Mahak. Hence, at an opportunistic moment was exploited to full advantage, meaning no negativity whatsoever, and Mum accepted the news with good humor; I think her apprehensions are going to wait till December.

Now, I have two things to do, and I'm uncomfortable doing both: call Mahak's Dad and apologize and take another appointment, or explain over the phone if he prefers it, though I'll hope for a face-to-face meeting, for improving my track record. Second, call Mum and remind/ask her to send over my horoscope and stuff. I'm not too worried about our horoscopes and all, I'm sure our parents will come up with the necessary rituals to overcome heavenly obstacles; it's the mortals that have me "shaking in my boots". The Only knows what I mean.

I mean well. (See? Again, I need to project myself as the most well-meaning human of all time. AND I feel compelled to write THIS down as well, to show off how "open" and "honest" I am! Aaaarrgh!)

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Obsession!

There's nothing to do on the Internet, and yet I have a browser open. Along with 7 other things running in the taskbar. Fuck this shit!

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Waking Life

Good movie. I agree with it, or it agrees with me. Either way, I like watching it.

Friday, November 6, 2009

First exam over.

The day was Tendulkar's, the match the Aussies'.
Tomorrow - Managerial Economics.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Becoming Grazy

Just a thought, about how obsessed I've become with getting a virtual identity.

Anyway. Phone message memory is full, so offloading here, for lack of a more convenient method - on paper, with a good pen...



Let's make the individual effort, for our selfish reasons, and see how that affects the common, prevalent state of affairs.Old children play advanced versions of their favorite games from when they were kids.

1355 hours, 04 October 2009. The weather is pleasant. The summers' placement process is on the brink of starting - to fall. The time given was 1330 hours. No indication of professionalism. Anyway. After 5 days, not my problem anymore. I have bigger fish to fry.

I admire my people skills. :p

Mediocrity manifests itself throughout society.

Coke 160565725

Dreams-are-the-real-world theory support - things are as good as can be, we're dealing with our real difficulties in our asleep state, hence everyone has a different thing going in the real world, because we all sleep at different times and for different durations. one of the infinite goals I set for myself. Pathetic.>

Popularizing a a small idea in a small group is tough due to individuality differences. One must look for support of the collective few among the teeming masses.

The Sims' idea of life, in continuation with one of the previous messages.

Alternate reinsertions into the present after killing crucial people in the past, or whoever. 2. Induction week gave me good feedback.

Thief by night, grocer by day, chances upon something that...something significant. Could be sci-fi, psycho, anything.

For Microsoft - tie up with the government! Hang a logo banner in small students' lives, they'll be prospective Windows Live members.

'The Human Experience', by me. Another load to add to the already-staggering pile. :D






That's it. 0433 hours, Thursday, October the 29th, 2009, by my trustworthy watch. Thank you, for many good times (pun intended). I die an almost- happy man.

Monday, October 26, 2009

21

Blackjack!

Why now, of all times?

Arrrgh!

Sunday, October 25, 2009

A South American song's translation

"Sadness has no end. Happiness does."

F5

That's right, the Refresh button. Chrome and Google are way better than anything Microsoft has.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

TV

Some time later, the so-called news channels prevalent in middle-class India will become full-time time-pass channels, while the good news channels will become like CNN, BBC etc., either by being taken over or by improving themselves. I wonder how I can land an interesting job in Reuters.

:D

Let me get completely legitimately into FMS first.

Red Day, on Diwali!

Man Utd, then Barrichello (for his relation to Ferrari, and RCB in ICL. Somehow I'd known it since the evening. :D
Psychic?
To quote Cartman, "zinzinzinzinzinnnn!!!nananananananannnaaannaaaannnn!!"

:D
There you go, Mr. MacFarlane.

Monday, September 28, 2009

the NN blog idea

Not followed through, even though one of us said, "Never let a good idea go to waste."

What a pity.

So.

1.

Monday, September 21, 2009

hasta la victoria, siempre!

Sunday, August 23, 2009

TypePad

It's an oft-repeated thing: one wants to do in a new way what one has already had the opportunity of doing, if only to give oneself that same delusion that this attempt will turn out better because the site is better, the software more advanced, the sun shinier, the pit deeper. There is no damn greener grass, it is a state of mind I turn to to excuse my failure at being a more achieving individual; the grass seems greener because that's all I do : see. Never work. It is so simple and obvious : without effort, there is no grass, let alone grass on the other side. When will I learn?

And now, onto designing another blog page that will go nowhere. Tell you what. I'm not going to do it. What would be the point of typing out all this anguish if I have to fall prey to my vanity once again?

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Saving grace

Atleast there's one dude who's definitely going to be below me in academic rankings here...

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Vaio1

First try with Word 07

Thursday, January 1, 2009

and yet another

almost one month later, another attempt at blogging.

or is it?