NARROWLY broad minded

2007-05-09T05:21:00.000-07:00

Before I head back to my self imposed exile of exams... a couple of random thoughts have cropped up in my mind....

suppose.... you take two persons, who are of similar intelligence ( I say similar because recent research has shown that its difficult to measure and they r trying to rework the I.Q system I believe) they have the same background (aka same opportunities)..... essentially ceterius paribus..... often you ll still see that one person is very successful and the other one might be mediocre or even a failure.... what made the difference ?

one of the factors as people say could be "luck"(quite popular which I don't accept :P ) it probably comes to choices... this could be with small decisions or even larger view of how they view their decisions......

its back to the books... (finally this hangover is going away.... lol)

2007-04-10T14:11:00.000-07:00

A man sees young boy was standing all alone on the beach....picking up one star fish at a time from a big pile of them and throwing it back into the sea....... ( You all know this story I shall fast forward to the end... )

Boy: " It made a difference to that one"

Please go to google earth and click on sudan..... and pass it on to as many people as you can... maybe even do one of those things which I find absolutely revolting and a complete waste of time... whats it called...... aaaaa oh yes FORWARDS !

2007-04-09T05:55:00.000-07:00

As I was watching a re-run of one of my favourite show... I was wondering how it would feel to read one of my old creations... (my poems i mean :P ) anyway here's one of them.....

Wise and foolish

fools will cry
fools will die
the wise will lie
the wise man such a fool, my oh my !
the wise say as hard as you try
with you will success lie
foolish regret their mistakes with a sigh
the wise man such a fool, my oh my..............

2007-04-06T07:14:00.000-07:00

I did wonder as soon as I clicked "publish".... a morbid fear gripped me whether I had sufficiently substantiated my arguments... therefore before I begin my next post I will just finish off on why I thought a wiki takeover would be a good one.

Despite wikis fame it is not well known that it has acheived credibility (despite all profs tellin u that DO NOT refer wiki ) there are considerable wiki users who strive to make it accurate. It is estimated that any faulty detail is removed within half a minute. (and remember this is not some big brother controlling it... this is you or me saying this is wrong and it should be changed ) Its important to remember the dynamic advantages in this. It only allows and I must emphasize this ONLY allows the stuff you read to be either extremely accurate or to be a shared common perception by a large number of users ( that is worthy of a couple of posts on its own.. so we ll talk about it some other time)

Now that being said if we are able to get academics to contribute this as well as an offshoot from google scholar (which as I mentioned before are pure articles) it would even further enhance the validity of what you or I read on it.

As in the comment mentioned (which by now I have almost forgotten to thank for... and if that sounded like it.. its NOT... lol ) whether its a subset or superset (yes i coined my word BIG DEAL ). One of the interesting thing about the Internet is its ability to destroy hierarchy. Now how would you define a subset... by typing in a world in google it leading you to wiki does that make google the subset because its leading you to a bigger set? Its a interesting question. After some thought I thought a reasonable way of solving this would be a dynamic link between the two rather than one being the bigger of the other. (THE only reason why we have come to think of a google as a "superset" is only its better info processing and NOT because it STORES that info.. though its sheer effiency has made this point murky )

and damn my response has taken up AN ENTIRE POST !... k ppl till next time....

2007-03-28T08:05:00.000-07:00

hey everyone...

ok everytime I post a poem it means that I didnt have time to write my blog... lol (WAAAY too much being made of just a poem thats why ;) )

my last to last post I said I would talk a little about cricket ? but i realized that no matter what I say its not going to make much of a difference.... someone rightly said ..... cricket is played by 11 fools and watched by another million ! (besides basketball is my thing anyway... :D)

by the way todays rant will begin at marvelling the collection of blogs that have sprung up...... I just wanted to see which blog would be mine after mine i clicked on "next blog" ... AND i came across one on NAXALS, one in russian (despite my best efforts at trying to read the russian ad... COME ON -the only famous russian thing that I know is an AK-47 ! well that and the toy automatic car that my dad got me from moscow... which I might say even made archies jalopy look like a BENTLEY ! )

anyway before i get carried away... ok being a part academic ( part academic because in my opinion only PHDS and profs count as FULL academic ) I used the google scholar quite extensively.. its quite brilliant actually.... links to ACTUAL articles... but there are major copyright problems there, which I might talk about next time ( if its not in your destiny to suffer one of my poems :P )
BUT
what i wanted to talk about was whether google could take over wikipedia.. think about it for a second... what is google BEST at ? U say search... well thats a little superficial.. dig a little deeper... why did google start maps or why did it buy youtube (or on a rather sad note why has my homepage become google news :P )... its awesome at MANAGING information ! its an information world baby !

like youtube driven by user content.. wikipedia is massively driven by user adapted content ! the best part is it opens LIMITLESS opportunities (k now you will realize why I started with scholar). It would be brilliant if they were able to interface wiki with google scholar.. jesus I am getting even jittery at the thought !

anyways if u have any thoughts on this.. let me know.. cheers

( FINANICAL TIMES HEADLINE YR 2050 - GOOGLE MAPS NEARBY SOLAR SYSTEM FINDING LIFE ! )

2007-03-26T19:22:00.000-07:00

to the departed

For those who have gone
we may not remember you everyday for it would make us feel lone
yet you live on not through your children nor by just your memories
you live on through your deeds
Forever immortalized in our memories
To cherish the moments that we had
Only to find that as we grasp them tighter

Like sand through the hand do they fade away faster

2007-03-25T11:09:00.000-07:00

Part - ii

as we ventured into the mid of a forest following a path god knows leading us where... there was an odd sort of comfort. In my head I realized that I could never be as relaxed as then... in a way we didn't give a damn where we were going.. we were all so stressed out.. it was just a relief to hear the noise of a jungle... maybe tigers roaring were indeed FAR better than the cacophony generated by modern (s0me might say wonderful) man made machines.

As i realize i have digressed :P (btw before i continue one last digression for the APPALLING DELAY from my last post )
well we continued and it wouldd be stupid to think that we continued along t he same path and somehow made it without meeting some soul (perhaps casper the friendly ghost maybe :P ) We were pretty thirsty into something like i would say four hrs of biking.... we found an outpost and for a sec i tht at least (don't know about the other two) thought it might be haunted ;)... anyway we went in and we found a guy who was AMAZED that we had made it that far without a guide..

after a quick refill of water... we were on our way... (i think i have forgotten to mention i had the WORST hangover as i had finished off every ones drinks the previous day... yes i know was a drunkard but now i am far better.. HONESTLY... k maybe i am just getting there.. working progress u see ;) ) we reached the summit (we were going uphill) and had a cup of tea at a shack on the main road we had reached.... and then it was time to head home... if u can imagine something like 15 kms downhill ! it was brilliant.. though couldn't enjoy as i had terrible hangover which oddly enough seemed to kick in as the day was beginning to end and NOT the other way round...

anyways till next time.. cheers everyone (oops an abrupt ending... people who know me would say thats how i am anyway.. lol next time new story ! maybe a dip of match fixin and cricket craziness ! )

2006-09-07T08:03:00.000-07:00

PART - I

i was supposed to be jobless, then i started workin for my sis who i might mention is a workaholic herself ! so she made me work my ass.. and it took me a month to recover from that..

but u knw i might hav grumbled abt traffic for so long... but i never realizied how bad it was until i was workin for my sister and to get bac home from office i had to drive for two hrs....... DROVE ME INSANE.. after i got homei was practically a zombie in front of the tv and sadly it led to me becomin a couch potato ! ( k enuf of ramblin for one day ) comin to the point... we need to find a method where we can ensure transparency in governance in blore. to the problems that face us. i have somethin radical in mind.. the govt says we can have village panchayat... so y cant we have complete self government.. lets call it BANGALORE CITY PANCHAYAT and just for kicks lets give them all the power to take all the relevant desicions ! If Delhi can have it why cant we have it in blore ?????

anyway i bid blore adeiu... and ultimately wat u do realize is that its the people that make a place.. be it a bar tender at a fav pub or yr best freinds goin on a drive to no where !

k i havent told many ppl abt this.. (maybe just abt everyone :P ) in my first yr hols i did the most craziest thing.. me and my pals.. ( names withheld NOT on request :P ) we just went to a bus operator. and took the first bus that was der and that was toooooo karwar... we went to this awesome resort in dandeli.. .we were either very brave or very stupid ! we went to a middle of a jungle without a guide !
anyways i am headin out now so part two will be after i get bac ! of how whether we made out of the jungle or not.. (anyone with half a brain wud be wonderin how i managed to get internet if we didnt :P )

2006-06-06T10:47:00.001-07:00

HALLA HALLA PPL
I am seriously jobless for the next three four months, so I guess this will be my SERIOUS work now ! Well for ppl who dont know me and think who is this wise crack who talks about castism and all. ( I hate to say told you so, but my post on castism was a long time before all this reservation thing started, a little bit more about that later.)
I am an almost engineer in middle of this concrete jungle called Bangalore - the IT city of india or maybe the world. We can only keep it there if we can let people get to office on time ! For people outside Bangalore - The roads are so bad, this is what Kiran Mazumdar Shaw does when she is headin towards office - she not only travels TWO HOURS EARLY and finishes all her morning phone calls for the day !
And you people in Bombay tht you had problem ! Believe me bombay is like a second home to me( u will notice that I call it bombay and not mumbai ! ) just love the energy of the place. The traffic is HORRIBLE, but alteast there is some sense to the madness, PEOPLE DONT TRY TO KILL YOU ! Ok I dont mean to say they do that in B'lore but its pretty close when autos who dont show signals and buses that suddenly stop FOR NO REASON ! (You can make out that I have had quite enough with bangalore traffic :P )

I shall talk more about reservation later, but I would like people to think about this, the Supreme Court says the matter is Sub judicie (For non legal people - case being tried ) and says not to protest any further. I am just curious when we were right on the verge of a national debate on reservation it says WE SHOULDNT discuss it anymore, is it just me or does this sound like a conspiracy to quell the protest !
anyways over and out for now

2006-04-20T06:32:00.002-07:00

ONLINE CASTISM !!!!

ok ppl... i am back after hiatus... damn THIS coll.... fine i ll stop ranting now...

k call me a little behind the times... started using orkut recently k... found all my coll pals and some of my old school pals...so that was cool... and then to my amazement found my school's community that was neat....

here comes the irritatin part... i found a community which was my so called subcaste of my so called caste k... i wont get into the details...but wat irritated me was instead of using technology to break barriers we r using it to make new ones... really plz tell me do we really need a community for this...its just plain stupid...

Very often i have had this argument to y we need this with the ppl of the prev gen and now to find that it might continue in ours as well is kinda depressing... i think wat tends to happen is we get trapped in the interia of traditions... i have always felt any practise has to evovle...but i never tht i would see castism ONLINE ! who the hell r we to think that we r beta than someone just becoz by the pedrgree of our birth.. somethin to think abt...

till next time... over and out

2006-04-09T09:03:00.000-07:00

Halo ppl...
Let me start off that i can vary from the incredibly insane to the boringly sane ! Anyway being by first post, let me explain the name of my blog

Have u ever noticed that within certain narrow parameters we r able to be very broad minded... Like for example i have personally nothing against the gay community. Its k if forgeiners r gay we can be completely tolerant..thats a part of their culture !(ya tell THAT to the catholic church ! ). But as russell peters's dad wud say "indians cannot be gay".

We show a glaring set of standards one for ourselves and one for others..... maybe we got to remember at some point of time that even they r human. Of course I have a lot of pals who r homophobic...may be its a part of every guys fear that one day he might get up u know "swinging the other way". But its a choice i feel if u dont understand atleast u should respect it...

I guess thats it for now.... till next time ROCK ON !

(p.s if any gay guys r reading this...sorry to disappoint u but i am not gay.... )