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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.

The Cow, or, An Essay on the false notion of triviality of subjects as we grow "older"

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...

Surprisingly, NOT another cellphone dump...

...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....

Recurrence

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! :)

Vaio'd - Another cellphone dump

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...

Errata

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