Life, The Universe, And Everything In Between

I can die any time, any day.

[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...

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!

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...

[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. :)

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