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.

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.

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

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

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.