Life, The Universe, And Everything In Between

1 Reddit for Avengers 4 has a link to TVTropes (Lotus Eater Machine). Spirals, I tell ya! J https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LotusEaterMachine Keikaku – and it’s futility :D 3 Wil Wheaton was in The Last Starfighter. 5 DhanYoutubus Football and sleight of hand Found the ‘inspiration’ for the intro of Rap God (6 minutes [X2], Slim Shady, you’re on) – Slick Rick & Doug E Fresh – The Show 6 Midori Ito lit the Olympic flame at Nagano 1998, where Shiva Keshavan first competed at the Olympic level. Never Give In, Sanawar ! 17 An ingenuous ingenious – drawing inspiration from Eminem’s trans-cend-a-lis-tic ten-den-cies [Rolling Stone; https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eminem-on-the-road-back-from-hell-249093/ ] Could be disingenuous if required for my rhyme scheme ;) 21 The Aldo Leopold Legacy Trail System has 42 state trails – Douglas Adams’ Universal Answer shows up yet again. 26 The Himalayas fi...

3 Tareme/tsurime in anime 4 Veni vidi vici is a tricolon. 5 TIL: Abstentious and cukoloris 6 Cliometrcis and terpsichorean 11 – Latin day, somehow from lexemes Sub verbo/voce – (dictionary) under the heading Sapienti sat – word to the wise is enough Sapere aude – dare to know Festina lente – make haste slowly Running across quite a few Virgil/Aeneid quotes; had naturally progressed to it after the Homeric epics (Iliad/Odyssey) Sum summarum – all in all Faustus: Que sera, sera Sic et non – yes and no Ad astra – another Virgil-ism, to the stars Sic vita est – such is life, c’est la vie in French//Pulp Fiction shout out Silentium est aureum - -silence is golden Sine – without; not the mathematical function though it fits for me Sine qua non – with condition, a necessary condition Sol lucet omnibus - -sun shines on all specialia generalibus derogant - special departs from general 12 sub Iove frigido - under cold Jupiter emotions are sub sile...

1 Anemic Cinema by Marcel Duchamp. Ray Bradbury and John Huston wrote the screenplay for Moby Dick (1956). 3 Eric Idle parodied Paul McCartney in The Rutles – fitting for a Monty Python. George Best was alluded to as El Beatle :D Mythopoeia by JRR Tolkien – meta 4 William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Adam West were in The Outer Limits (Cold Hands, Warm Heart, I, Robot and The Invisible Enemy, respectively) before becoming Cap Kirk, Spock and Batman. 7 TIL that Easter Island is antipodal to India – specifically, Desert National Park near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Giancarlo Esposito b-boyed in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing! 13 Embarking on Against The Day, today. Ennui has reared up again; irritated shrugs have become de-facto responses. 15 Myst the video game was influenced by Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island…I recall playing it very long ago, the surroundings do not spring clearly to mind. The infinitive has been split. 19 Lucid dreaming nights 25 I have finally encountered...

1 Moebius (an influential artist) named his daughter Nausicaa, influenced by the friendship of Hayao Miyazaki Stan Lee cameod in Big Hero 6! 3 High Hopes was featured in Beavis & Butt-Head (PTA). 4 Spike Milligan was India-born. Dani California (RHCP) was used in 2 live-action Death Note movies…I must’ve missed it when I saw them so many years ago. 7 Wiki-walking through TV Tropes; might as well collect targeted emails for the next act on the stage of life. letters@outlooktraveller.com ngsline@cutomersvc.com Don McGill’s postcards Hah (victorious)! I expected nothing less from Douglas Adams creations than to be Trope Namers. 13 Ennui overwhelms. Anyway, Zeerust, the South African town, is also a Trope Namer. Essentially, retro-futuristic. Gonna go to IRCTC tomorrow; let’s see what’s up at IRCTC! 20 One week later, as movies are wont to use as intertitles. :D David Lynch>Uher>Assmann Mondegreens are common – I remember having to pause-rewind-play Eminem to disce...

2 Clouds have rolled in over the past few days. Great time to enjoy now-rare solitude at home. Encountered G Arcimboldo’s art, completely by chance. 3 Annie Besant connection in Gravity’s Rainbow – and a mention of Krishna! Reading about Patton pommelling Rommel and listening to Us & Them with its “…forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died…” A good sign (or bad? I prefer good) that I thought for a moment that it was the 4 th  of July. Facepalm levels of inadequacy in communication, but I rise above it and give them more words. I got a multitude of words in my head. Carpal tunnel is acting up, though. And this mouse has gathered quite a thick underbelly of grime.  Tomorrow  morning, Mission Wipeout. 4 Just a glance at Dream Theater’s Falling Into Infinity cover, and I knew there was something that rang a bell: Google affirmed that it is Storm Thorgerson’s work – hence its Pink Floyd-ness. New keyboard, btw. Took the Mission Wipeout quite seriously,...

Quotes and remarks while reading from the translation by James Wood (Penguin) [Intro] "...religion is all hypocrisy and nonsense." Grand Inquisitor section of The Brothers Karamazov "Camus cannot know that God does not exist;...Camus proposes awareness itself." "...oppose the world's meaninglessness with our revolt, our freedom, and our passion." One of the most poignant observations by Mr Wood: "Aware that life is futile, Camus feels himself a stranger to it." A certain callback to The Stranger , methinks. He reproduces the part about the banality of routine (pg. 19), and notes that both Henri Bergson and Camus jeered modern industrial society. He ends the para with "...life is a comic dumb-show." The titular myth is of course the drudgery of futile labor that Sisyphus is cursed with, rolling a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down, for eternity. Eternity, of course is the life span of humans - there is n...

1 Australia has a rich history, and indigenous Australians fascinate me no end. Time immemorial: example of postpositive adjective. Liturgical litanies of the laity. Addendum to previous OZ has got monotremes. 2 Biding My Time – Pink Floyd: “…When we was workin' from nine to five…” I mostly use diegesis while writing. Obiter dicta, By The Way – RHCP. I didn’t eat Tim Tams at Sanawar, but we did call biscuits ‘bikkies’. To Surveil With Love is the only episode of the Simpsons, where the title "The Simpsons" is not shown [wiki]. 4 Bovril ties together (pun intended) Douglas Adams and Frasier (specifically Daphne & Niles). Jeremy Irons is from the Isle of Wight, which I reached from Antarctic exploration < Rock of Gibraltar < Pillars of Hercules < Atlantis < Bill & Peter’s Bogus Journey [Family Guy]. Aside: BEAR GRYLLS ON HAUNTED ISLAND  :D And I’ve reached the Cheese Shop sketch of Monty Python from Antarctic exploration. Excellante! Dr. Go...

Today being the last day of a gloriously fought group stage, I found myself thinking about the Round of 16. 2 spots still remain undecided, which proves how down to the wire the group stage has gone. The biggest ouster is Germany, of course, with the winner's curse dogging them in the form of a steadfast Korean team. The takeaway of the group stage is the defensive improvements and VAR-induced level playing field. I am all for VAR, as it negates the luck factor to a certain degree. More severe punishments for intentional aggression is good for the game, especially in these divisive, turbulent times. France - Argentina Albiceleste, for Messi, despite strong leanings towards Les Blues for the Pog Uruguay - Portugal Portugal for Ronaldo Spain - Russia Unfortunate end for the host nation at the hands of a laboring but still brilliant in flashes La Roja Croatia - Denmark The Danes, perhaps in a slight upset Brazil - Mexico Neymar and Coutinho are clicking, so Chicarito ...

22 Get a volcano bowl at a tiki bar Curtain rods that wait for weight TIL: the Matheran line is also in line for UNESCO World Heritage status (while writing/typing for IRCTC) 23 Case study for Google? Maybe I’ll get some author credit for this, if not for the Maharajas’ Express travel blogs and such. My words are mine anyway, what’s a byline gonna do, especially for the nonchalant tech ones I’ve spewed out loquaciously (in a manner of ‘speaking’, of course, considering I’ve often just said things to myself about the droll topic at hand and typed them out along with the responses of my sleep-addled brain). 24 Opened the inbox to be told that it’s an only-IRCTC project day today. Time will tell. Finished the Frasier scripts. Touching and opportune end to the storylines of the alienist analyst and his family. Now on to Seinfeld, and other shows which preferably have references like Frasier did. Murdoch Mysteries involves a lot of historical figures… It’s Towel day tomorrow! I shall...