Life, The Universe, And Everything In Between

Porcupine Tree make excellent music (Muzak? \m/) Light treats living and non-living things impartially, in terms of creating shadows. I wish FMS wins not only the match, but the cup. J I will do everything I can to fulfill my wish. When I’m riding around on the Metro, I see so many heavily under-utilized buildings…AzSol will turn these decrepits into small, long-lasting, efficient, clean, self-sustained energy generation units. I agree with Robert Downey Jr’s character in Short Cuts – you gotta pick your moments. In today’s fast-paced easily customized life, I can endeavor to keep the probability of being in places I’m good at being at. Also, the broad shape of the future can be achieved through planned actions. It’s 8 a.m., and the down-draft in the Metro is stinkingly stifling… I have always been the source of profundity and truisms. A driver out for a joyride in his employer’s vehicle, for another short one. Do muslims wear rings?...

Why is Google unable to create a simple Gmail address: azventuresolar@gmail.com?

Man, is this Schopenhauer verbose! It is a trait shared by European philosophers, I think, except for the likes of Wittgenstein, of which there are few. How tedious all this must be in the original language, or is it that much better? How much longer (if at all), and more importantly why, should we "use" other philosophers' work? I, taking full advantage of the technological means at my disposal, hereby declare my philosophy a new breed. 6-hourism. :) Quote Schopenhauer, On Thinking For Yourself  10[ sic , I guess I meant the paragraph number - this was before I started dog-earing the poor book], as an example of his vanity, as well as being the reason to put the book down whenever I want, as my will. Prize essay on moral freedom in 1841? Was he really this vain? Anyway, who'm I to judge? Sch was before "This Is Not A Pipe" by Magritte and modern art - for On Aesthetics . Four paras into On Books And Writing  and already I'm in almost c...

These are from Essays and Aphorisms , Penguin Classics, 2004 edition. The translation from German was done by R J Hollingdale, referred to as "the definitive translation" on the back. I'll start each quote with the page number it is from, and discriminate my thoughts within [ ] : 42: Not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time , which never lets us so much as draw breath but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. it ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom. [So boredom is one of the things Sch despises. I did not read this collection from start to end; instead I read as I wished. I have read the entire book except the introductory text, as I feel it imposes a frame of reference, or a set of expectations, before even getting to the (original) author's views.] 43: Thus for a race such as this [us, human] no stage, no form of existence is suitable other than the one it already possesses. [I dis...

There's a predominantly Punjabi fest going on in KMC (methinks). There was a spate of Hindi 'Happy Birthday To You' songs, and it's evidently party music. Ironical, considering that what sound is spilling over into my ears is making me reconsider going to Jynxx (hope I've got that "write")...I wonder what goes on in people's lives when no one's looking. Reading "Connect The Dots" and "Stay Hungry Stay Foolish". Entrepreneurship is 50-50, at best. Or maybe 100-0 or 0-100. I don't know. I think it's more about trying to find things you don't know so that you can find them, or the answers to them.

Why is it that topics such as 'My Favorite Toy', 'My Summer Vacations' and 'The Cow' lose their importance as we progress from grade to grade? The cow is a four-legged mammal. It is herbivorous, has four stomachs, and chews cud (i.e. regurgitates its food and chews it again to aid digestion. Gross.) It has different places in human society according to geographies. For example, in the west, cows are livestock, while here in India, they are "live" stock - sometimes more a part of the family than family itself. Even in the business scenario, it is common practice for cattle to be given more importance than human resources. Another topic that may be used for encouraging thinking by young minds is 'Light'. Its still-debated characteristics may be found in the uncomplicated thoughts of a child. The simple occurrence that is reflection has been analyzed to within an inch of its brain (relativistically speaking). While Heisenberg had convinced hum...

...to begin with. I didn't know Alistair MacLean's novel The Way To Dusty Death had borrowed the title from Macbeth. Purposely haven't got a book today so as to give my eyes a rest from reading fine print... We're imbibing the worst parts - obesity, cable TV, et al - of "developed" society. Onerogwation. Huh? Anyway, modernization has come at the expense of evolution. We've become stagnant. All the more reason to challenge ourselves as a species and go beyond Earth for habitation. The event of not taking psychology - and, ultimately, anything - in Lower VI. Life is bound to have been, be, or be somewhere in the universe as we know it. Its characteristics are hard to imagine - it may even be characterless [or undefinable in our terms] - which is why Adams' babel fish is such an awesome concept. There is no point in comparing myself to others. Case in point - bali(?). As soon as humanity set time for itself, everything became inevitable....

Leslie David Baker, from The Office (US), is in Malcolm in the Middle, Season 2, episode 2, playing the cop who writes up Hal (Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad). Unrelated coincidence - triple nelson of posts! :)

Bashmit will replace, aw, shit. I must become more social. Think cautiously and plan accordingly. The one good thing about India is, I think, right now, that disguises have to be pretty damn good to have any conceivable chance of working. Makes it tough for foreign spies and internal terrorists alike. To elaborate further on this metro ride to Pulbangash, the sheer number of people around you at most times is enough to make a Big Brother scheme superfluous. Kapish? I should submit my works serially. Perhaps start with SMBD. In my opinion, Soframycin is an excellent medicine. I understand, that is to say in this context that I empathize, and so I shut my eyes and don't pass judgment. Assuming concentrating on your cellphone is equivalent to shutting your eyes. Having corporate worker logos on their clothes gives some people a sense of security. The surest indication that my economic stature has become larger is that I get anxious when the balance on my metro card ap...

Thanks to watching Two and a Half Men (hats off to Chuck Lorre's vanity cards) with embedded Spanish sbtitles, I now know that Tio is Spanish for Uncle. So, the character Tio appears in Quantum Leap, etc. etc. It's time to do the thing today, today's CN thing to do, So you go do that thing we say, 'cause once you've done that li'l thing it's the CN thing you did, Today's CN thing you did. Turn your friend inside out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT-D3MOqhqQ

The Uncle Tio character in Breaking Bad is also in Quantum Leap, Season 1, episode 6 - Double Identity

Forewarned is forearmed, and so I stay prepared for everything by expecting nothing – in a term longer than the next 6 hours. It’s tough for me to be a radical at this point. 1834 hours, 20 august 2011. “But how can one be warm alone?” – Joseph Heller We just developed these concepts because we ‘evolved’ into ‘societies’, or, self-supporting groups. [Yet all over the world, knowledge transfer takes place from older to younger…] One day isn’t enough. Make it everyday. Being contemporary humans, we are constrained to live our cosmically short lives out on earth. Damn! The upside-down smack-in tattoo flowers in Sanawar. I’d like to be burned off after all eligible organs have been utilized at the crematorium near SmartCube. SMBD: Explain the dart. It’s important for me to come to terms with myself if time has to pass. What shouldn’t be done is…unclear. I say rat-races should not be entered into. I must always uphold the ‘each to his own’ proverb. :P It is the notion of pa...

It's my budday, it's (was) my budday...exhilarating to spend it with family. :)

Glad to be online again, especially since so much of an MBA is online...

Writing, being cheesy, is never easy. What I mean is, here everyone else is, minding their own business, and there you come over the horizon, waving a sheaf of papers and insisting that everyone read your crap, and give you their opinion. Well, what do you think? I prefer to save my shave for Sunday evenings. Exchange of info at Yamuna Bank station. Continue, please, with whatever you were doing before I was dead. Change your plans if they involved me, obviously, but please DO keep them in the same vein. I think about Life, The Universe And Everything In Between, by me, and I Think About You, by Guns n Roses. I actually put my hands up – ‘haath khade kar diye’ – for an answer to the question, where does all matter come from? Even energy has – had – to come from somewhere. I like it that I don’t fit the bill for being sales-pitched by these guys and girls employed at these retail stores. I like not having to turn them down. I like knowing exactly – almost – what I want. I woke up in the...

Was watching Mad Men S 2 e 03 (The Benefactor); words are so misleading, and yet, leading.

The written wotk cannot adequately portray the visual, and vice versa. I concede that existence, or life, is difficult to understand. Nevertheless, matter HAD to come from SOMEWHERE, and it IS getting somewhere, and we as a species are in it. That doesn't tell me much... Sound, of course, is another perfect example of life utilizing particles to further its own cause. To word my sugggestion to humanity - speaking as an outsider, not like Camus' but like an actual extra-terrestrial - differently, i think we should make IMMEDIATE use of practical technology that helps us spread to the Moon and onwards. There is AMPLE time left for going deeper than electron level - that being my personal limit of the 'practicality' of science. One of the reasomns for civilization is so we can be GIVEN food by our guardians, instead of having to kill/reap to find sustenance. Eyes open, always. To further my last insight, sound is inferior to how we manipulate light, since vision is the con...

Curves - reefer(going for denote, just need a D to come up; making it will give me another life to add to the 14 I already have - I haven't used a single one :) ) - qi - xi - zoa - cat(I have let go so many words - for instance, just now I could've made CATTY, but that would mean no denote. When does the pursuit of happyness (pardon me, I flagrantly plagiarise, no offense) end?) - rut(stuck in one right now) - qi - jay - and D it is! Later.

:D The second time I've felt the earth move beneath me, and this one was just as gentle as the last time, about 10 years ago. At first I atrributed it to faulty chair stability, but that's what other people are there for - confirming your experiences. Also, a century of posts! Yay! Reminds one of Sachin...the Master Blaster.

:) I thought it was going to be over in the previous over... On an unrelated note, while the video uploads: Breaking Bad is awesome! I Alt-Right through the longer conversations, and see through some of Aaron Paul's melodrama, but hey, it's good entertainment. Can't wait for Season Four.

“If wishes were fishes we’d all cast nets” - Dune , by Frank Herbert. The next one tomorrow, from office.

“If wishes were fishes we’d all cast nets” - Dune , by Frank Herbert. The next one tomorrow, from office.

http://www.chucklorre.com/index-dg.php?p=39 Excellent timepass reading.

Someone Else's Dream along with Tangled Tree of Decisions would explain coincidences,and adaptation/evolution to some extent...but matter? Where does all this come from? My - Azventure Solar's - CSR initiative will be Restore Earth:. If there is a god, answer me this question - What is at the centre? Again by company cab, and sucky again. That's what reminded me that I'm in a cab, again. Sopcast, tvants [from Nalin] This sector 37 crossing demonstrates that we, humans, are also in many ways like ants. [ref. video of Do The Evolution , by Pearl Jam] Easy come, easy go. Always believe in this. [Kinda like in a note-to-self sort of way] There must be a wealth of human experience - and reflections on it - in the tirades of these auto-drivers as well; doesn't matter whether intoxicated or not. Looki volcket luistl melag vol Long time since I typed. Travelling gear should be brightly colored - unless you want to go incognito. I want fame and fortune - it's the wait ...

I find it very hard to believe that some totally "successful" people in recorded history were totally oblivious to the "bigger" questions of life (that I'm kinda dealing with (or trying to) at this point in time)...anyway, kudos to those that were .

The animated parts in Howl (2010) are competently done. I would've written about it in IMDb, but their '10 lines, no less' policy puts me off...

If learning comes from experience, and memories form the background of experience, then I must include only good experiences in my memories. This was much more lucid when it occurred to me. Something to do with HIWTBINW. Another lost memory, I guess.

Seems a good name.

The answer being that we have almost stopped evolving. There's something going on in our brains, and we exist. To what purpose, I can't say. Nevertheless, we should try and - fancy word for make real - the "sci-fi" visions of colonizing without commercializing other heavenly bodies. Meditation is a good way of staying fit. I agree completely with Darwin; survival of the fittest makes sense to me. Unfortunately, being "civilized" has taken its toll on us as a species. To counter the degradation the body as a biological being receives, I try and focus whatever "much deep and profound brain things inside my head" on the tasks I want the body to take care of - a nagging headache, for example. PS: Also, I squeeze every nutrient out of every thing I ingest. :D

http://www.imageworks.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_affairs_(philosophy) for SMBD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raufoss_Mk_211 SMBD: “SLAP them.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saboted_light_armor_penetrator The Twilight of the Idols: Nietzsche http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/GotDamer.html www.idkul.com , www.vimeo.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaufmann_(philosopher) for AzSol [pronounce quickly with stress on 2nd syllable, for a swear word :D]: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/28/trash-today-electricity-tomorrow/?test=faces http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/unirac-can-solar-30mw-deal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+Reader http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity How do we know that we aren’t “inventing” light as we assert “looking” further into deep space? Science does postulate that we are receiving images as the light from those points reac...

If god doesn’t exist, then luck, chance, and other indeterminate things also don’t, unless you argue using Heisenberg’s. Even then, since I don’t know the details of many things, I can’t accept that praying for good luck or for resolution of individual dilemmas can alter events. Sorry, Dear Mum, but that’s just me. Neighbours form opinions of you from their interpretations of their observations of your actions. It works on the whole, too, of course, but with neighbours it’s more provable. And...umm...join the threads backwards, or trying to...yeah, so even the slightest mismatch between timings of actions and their being observed, including the time in which the activity is being carried out and/or concluded, which may be complete tasks in themselves, can prove/seem miraculous and/or disastrous. The ink (if I can call it that) on my ticket stub from Wave Cinemas, Raja Garden from I don’t know when, thanks to their low quality standards, has vanished. I don’t need it, but what about cor...