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Metro time utilization dump

Walking is good, as has been observed before by numerous persons. Season. Cliche. Trope. Episode. These shall be the names of my - my - movies. In an attempt to live a simpler life, not constrained by Kramer-idonculous technology, I shall cognize the passage of time by remembering events. One coming up on 22 October. Mandarin, berry, lemon. Entre 101-1 - I can plan according to what I want to do more than what I have to do on someone else's bidding/profit. A shoutout to MITM's theme - life is  unfair.

FB de-addiction

Coming to office is an automatic Facebook de-addictor [I love making up words] for me. I shall continue to use it as the replacement it has become of conventional communication methods. Man...how vella  am I...I wish I was paid-up-to-date, would be loving life even more than I am now. It's cool that even this vella -ness has been enforced upon me; I was willing to make actual efforts! :D

Sit!

So this is all I have to do? Sit around? A-o-kay, but at least clear my dues...then I won't mind sitting around. Anyhow, on to Intenet-proferred avenues of tp... The 'Sit!' came from feeling like a mutt being ordered to do just that - sit. Ridiculous ways of functioning. And even today, till now, no appearance. WHAT IS THE PLAN, YO?

Cellphone dump

Random things do happen in 'real' life. Message memory full. 42! 6-hourism! Weather plays an important role in mood. I have happy memories of refereeing the final in my fourth year in college. Marge Simpson says, it takes a lot of courage to write something anon. Haha, says Nelson. I concur. :D हर दिन ६ घंटों के ४ भाग में विभाजित होता है . शुभचिंतकों को इस बात के अनुसार सोचना चाहिए. Har din 6 ghanton ke 4 bhaag me katta hai. shubhchintakon ko is baat ke anusaar sochnaa chahiye. Archer is brain-damn-awesome. [I could easily be a TV/media critic. :D] With regard to time, I am dealt the cards I am dealt. 6-hourism is my honed-experience response to this scenario. The ultimate aim - if I live long enough - is Hollywood. :D Said with a complete straight face. I don't want to sit in this ignominy. This is another reason for my superstardom ambitions. I love making up words. The subtitles for Yes Minister are also not verbatim. [Critique :D] There ...

APOAAAAYM

[Well, the HCL ME X1 that I'd been given by my company has been in a client's possession for quite a while now - I'm not going to check this draft's original edit date - plus, A Portrait... being the religion/no-religion tale it is, I can put off quoting/commenting on it indefinitely with no feeling of loss - except for the slight sense of injustice at not getting paid on time by the company. :D ]

Draft storage

[Not the wind-moving-phnomena draft; the ones that are my mind's whelps.] Lazily Crazy: the name of my art den. Eat, live. 2154 hours, 14th August 2012. Nothing else matters, with all due respect to Metallica. Demand and supply don't apply to human numbers. Plus, courtesy Pillz, life has become a commodity. [This was on 8th August, I believe - although it could  be 14th, too.] कल की किसने देखी है ...must acknowledge the creator(s) of this lyric, presuming that it has  been used in Hindi/Bollywood music one time or the other over all these years - 'history', as we know them. Given that the majority...bleh, I prefer silence.  Mental perceptions do not change physical reality. So the only thing to do is communicate. Hence, I should keep my phone. This present one. Perhaps, when some cash comes in, buy a similar one and leave this as backup. I wish my conscience would allow me to charge the other one to the company - but with calling rates being as cheap...

Audio is the new medi-o

Feel - no, felt - like recording some stuff about how I'm going to let my FMS and Azventure Solar folders remain in the Content Flow servers, but it seemed pretentious as well as futile, seeing as I'm going to copy them - or not! :D Goodbye to the past; hello to acting! Coming up next, a draft-dump.

Routine dump

[By 'routine' I mean whenever my Nokia 1208 runs out of draft space, and I have to start sending messages to 42 so that they get stored in the Sent Items folder] First draft - do I have a gravitational field better than most? Tulna tab tak sahi hai jab tak weh eershya me nahi badal jaati. [तुलना तब तक सही है जब तक वेह ईर्ष्या में नहीं बदल जाती] Check Somebody To Love on pod. Another conversation starter: So I guess we're lucky to have lived so far. Deal with solitude - or, for self-pitying fools who don't realize how essential and fortunate they are to have some solitude, loneliness - take a walk, buy good groceries, come back home, cook, read, eat, work out, sleep. Time is like intestinal gas - it must pass. Mr Malviya taught me - us - percussion. He was a good teacher, and a good human being. I have no doubts about my judgment on this - his - matter. I want a short fun life, and a quick death. Katoch Jr had said that cold water doesn...

My DCE Years, encapsulated

This one sentence from  http://www.knewton.com/adaptive-learning-white-paper/why-knewton  ; encapsulates my five years at Delhi College of Engineering (thankfully now non-existent, HAHA): " Nothing is more dissatisfying to students than feeling like the challenges they face are essentially arbitrary and culminate in nothing." This reminds me, my message memory is full. 42! 6-hourism!

The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

16 Categorizing always produces reduction in true complexity. 27 ...a profession that is "scalable", that is, one in which you are not paid by the hour... 28 A scalable profession is good only if you are successful; they are more competitive, produce monstrous inequalities, and are far more random... 30 ...-death is often a good career move for an author. 46 ...Pyrrhonian skeptics... 58 ...Popper...uncertainty is our discipline, and that understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human pursuit. 64 Talk is cheap, a problem with advice-giving philosophy we will see... 67 Our minds are like inmates, captive to our biology, unless we manage a cunning escape. 68 ...perception of causation has a biological foundation. 69 We, members of the human variety of primates, have a hunger for rules because we need to reduce the dimension of matters so they can get into our heads. 87 If you run a...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay

[from the Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds ] "How flattering to the pride of man to think that the stars on their courses watch over him, and typify, by their movements and aspects, the joys or the sorrows that await him! He, in less proportion to the universe than the all-but invisible insects that feed in myriads on a summer's leaf are to this great globe itself, fondly imagines that eternal worlds were chiefly created to prognosticate his fate." "We go out of our course to make ourselves uncomfortable; the cup of life is not bitter enough to our palate, and we distill superfluous poison to put into it, or conjure up hideous things to frighten ourselves at, which would never exist if we did not make them." Just 2 quotes, and this book is on my reading list already - best of all, it is public domain. :)

From The Oatmeal

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A probable re-post of the "First clearance to laptop"; 14th September 2009.

Del. At this instant of time, “One Love” by the boy band sounds good. :p An example of an egoistic song – Kryptonite. The first crash of many to come… My thinking has changed. While deciding which T shirt to wear tomorrow, 30 th June, I realized I now believe that making a quiet statement is the appropriate thing to do, as opposed to bold. It’s good to have an outside perspective, and The Only’s is the best. I think optimism means seeing that the grass is greener on the other side. Won’t mind being head of CRAP. I conclude that ‘7849’ is just the play on t9 combinations. If (a lot of things), I could write the best novel ever, and repeat my feat, over and over. It’s like college again…i t sucks. I know lots of you feel this way, but I reiterate – I want to do so many things… notice I did not capitalize or italicize anything. That is to not stress any particular word, and leave the interpretation up to you.  Although, when I thought of...

Another long-time [month-long] cellphone dump

[In reverse chronology] How does the Higgs particle "alter" the LSD experience? :D  42! 6-hourism! I wish I was a TiVo. 42! 6-hourism! Being in tune with yourself is extremely, almost utmostly, important. 42! 6-hourism! For I Am The [Artball c. 3rd July] - worthy of a The Office episode or subplot. Message memory full. Creativity has reached its limits. The power goes, only to come back on again - cue Piggy Chops in Nokia Lumia 800 advertisement  ; "What did you think" - 42! 6-hourism! I must train my t9 to recognize "6-hourism". 23:23, 3rd July '12. I'd be very satisfied, indeed, if I were written about on Cracked.com . The urban desert that is Gurgaon, for the most part, that is. Heriville/The Gaon is an oasis. Public, short trips ke liye tour bus ho to aisi - Urvashi And what clothes shouldn't be like? Mo' money mo' problems - Notorious B.I.G. It's a length of time during which one sees their lives, eval...

M M F again - obviously, inevitably

Don't die hard, die high. Bruce Willis hit by a car. Close up of eyes, scene: Terminator Salvation - after magnet mine blast. Pablo Neruda - elemental odes. I'm pretty sure when I acknowledge old age in myself, I'll start preparing to off myself. Or, turn into a Nash sort of humorist. What if, a non-committal, shrug-accompanied what if, our entire universe is a pimple on a dimple Of an ant's right cheek? I feel like taking this desk, but I desist. There's too much flotsam and jetsam hanging around me anyway, even as I try becoming a lesser star. Death is the black hole. Nothing escapes from it. For this Breguet ad, shouldn't they photograph the photographer clicking the picture, with a Breguet on his wrist? For the hardiness part of the watch. Glamour may be added by keeping the yacht in view as well, like in the ad on the back of this issue of Time. Lotus Flower, Radiohead, is reminiscent of Losing My Religion, R.E.M., at a much, much more...

Another long-time offload

To get over some complications of ours, I say, I'll agree with you whenever you say, per se. Eyepet is by London Studio...coincidences, remembrances and coincidental remembrances have the potential to drive one nuts... India is one of the few places where it (solar power/solar energy/sunlight) has fallen everywhere at full speed. Courtesy: Quaddro A black-and-white profile pic in the pose of Rodin's The Thinker. Inspired by O Nash: Outside is good, inside'er is be'er. A suggestion for an Idea Cellular ad: tagline - "Log cheap hain, aur Idea cheap hai", delivered as testimonials by American/Caucasian people on a visit to India. I won't mind playing a police officer. Despite all this concrete jungle we've built up, there's still hope in this youngster studying on the bus. Way to go, boy. Another reason not to have kids - their bladders. The Ku-ku-ki-choo of I Am The Walrus is in Mrs Robinson as well. I donate my spectac...

Beyond Good And Evil, F W Nietzsche [Project Gutenberg e-text]

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Beyond Good and Evil Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Translator: Helen Zimmern Release Date: August, 2003  [Etext #4363] Posting Date: December 7, 2009 Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL *** Produced by John Mamoun, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL By Friedrich Nietzsche Translated by Helen Zimmern TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE ABOUT THIS E-TEXT EDITION: The following is a reprint of the Helen Zimmern translation from German into English of "Beyond Good and Evil," as published in The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (...