Friday, December 28, 2007

technike

We build up whole cultural
patterns based on past "facts"
which are extremely selective.
When a new fact comes in that
does not fit the pattern, we
don't throw out the pattern.
We throw out the fact.

Robert Pirsig

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,
instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle as Sherlock Holmes

Thursday, December 27, 2007

watching

Friday, December 14, 2007

end of days

texas a&m bonfire disaster
the benefits of tying up a cat during meditation

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Pax Mongolica

Wikipedia link here
Supposedly a period of peace after the initial Mongol empire building.

It was said that a virgin carrying a sack of gold could ride unharmed from one border of the Mongol empire to the other.

Gold is heavy, the Empire was huge

History does not record the fair maiden's name,
but one can guess why remained one

Friday, November 30, 2007

black

who gets where is pretty much the same as who gamed the system to get where.
destiny is for insects

Thursday, November 29, 2007

why fast

link to article here

in short, when you fast while drinking water, stored glycogen is used and the pancreas gets a rest from breaking down food into glycogen.

Monday, November 26, 2007

more odd ends

Friday, November 23, 2007

in pursuit of ... laziness ?

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

-- from "Leisure," by W.H. Davies

Interesting link from Giles Bowkett's site
Koyaanisqatsi ?

in other news, reddit.com is now officially a rag, I've gotta stop going there

The 35-hour week of the French is gone
I used to wonder about it when people would talk about the superior culture of the French. After I read the article at the link, I understood. Now I worry that it might come to not be, in this age of haste.

"They" are out to make ants out of us. "They" might very well be an "it" too.

Guilt be the reins of the Horse called Fear, and is a motivator. Beware.

Over the weekend, I saw 'The Shipping News', bits of 'The Shadow' and the new Steve Martin version of the 'Pink Panther'. Ecellent, interesting ,tasteless respectively.

Movies are moving to short and shorter sentences and simpler and simpler plots and 2d characters. It's a sign.

For ages people used to live off the land. Market forces are putting an end to this.
Under free markets, the most you can do in life is work for your living. Everything you like you must make,keep and maintain. So choose carefully. Idleness is not an option, unless there's a market for it

I'm going to go ahead and label the Advertising & Marketing Industry worldwide as the Industrial Lie Machines and Stealers of our Consciousness and Clouders of Thinking ... please find me some more apt adjectives, I seem to have run out ..

Thursday, November 08, 2007

soul re-alignment

On an optional festival holiday, the roads are as close to deserted .
The drive takes half an hour, riding almost throughout on the third gear or above.
Empty office bays and a semi-empty cafeteria does much to induce peace.
Neighbours on the phone have their impact amplified by the emptiness of the room, but music helps overcome that. Investing in headphones was a smart thing to do.
Starting with shakuhachi instrumentals we've moved on to Wagner. Youtube + HSInternet is a treasure, a gift.
Apparently, with meditation, one can experience pain, yet not suffer ?
The silence
It must be a truism, that greater suffering accompanies greater reward.
Days like these

The time of Schumacher's idea has come probably - E.F Schumacher - not the driver guy .. this is very interesting
check out our own champions from ARTI

talking of solar stills, am thinking an ideal place would be a desert with a seacoast - unlimited supply of salt water to use, dry sunny lands to place your stills. With global warming and increasing sea levels, what better than to bleed away the salt water in your solar stills !

Friday, November 02, 2007

of the day

we're all shallow, but I'm better than you because my shallows are at a deeper level than yours

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

ideas for a clean living system

Environment-friendly almost always means non-polluting & renewable. Here are some ideas.
1. solar still - I thought about this long , and then drew up a design, and _then_ looked at the net - it was there already - atleast, a working and different version of it.
still, here's a variation : solar stills work where there's water vapour in the air. how about a giant floating farm of stills, floating a few miles out from the coast - we can convert sea water to drinking water . or atleast irrigating water..
2. automobile mounted windmill - think of a computer fan mounted on the roof of your car/truck/van facing the wind - won't it generate some amount of electricity ?
3. heat harvesting - if we supply heat to a material in the latent heat area of the graph, can this energy be stored in that material ? harvested later ?
4. bio-city - already happening somewhere in China - a city where each house has it's own biogas plants, and bio-gas burning generators .. feeding surplus into the common grid. The spent biomass (a.k.a shit ) makes good organic fertillizer
5. the pee wee story : urine is an electrolite - theoretically - if you put an electrode into a beaker of urine, and an electrode into a beaker of pure water, a voltage difference should exist between these two electrodes. Urine makes good fertillizer too
6. giant solar farm - like in the movie Sahara. just too good.
7. we could do with a garbage super-sorter machine that will sort garbage into homogenous piles which can then be recycled accordingly ..

scenarios :

1. Cities in third world countries have huge populations with sub-standard sanitation facilities. A corporate could install and manage a giant loo-bank and attached biogas plant in a city to tap this huge potential.
2. industrial (non-trippy) hemp could be grown in all open ground spots in a city - hemp returns nutrients to the soil, and is a decent biofuel - another source of living added in the cities
3. don't get me started on a parking lot where the weight of cars pushes and winds a giant spring which will then power a rotating armature between ... you get the idea.
the idea is that you park on the top floor, and the car's on the ground floor when you come back. simple,eh

The trend in cities is towards super-structures - large malls - large working factories - offices that house a few thousand - this should tip the amount of daily bio-potential-mass generated into the viable/feasible/harvestible region ...

read this

Friday, October 26, 2007

argh

with bloggers, as with people, more so with bloggers b'cos there isn't the distracting physical world - I'm always confused as to where the lines are

Monday, October 15, 2007

another thread

Long long back I sat in front of the t.v watching spellbound. The movie playing was 'Vanishing Point'. It's about a car chase.Masterful, powerful, impressive, moving
I never met anyone on whom this movie left a lasting impression.
And one day, wham! there it is..
Audioslave's "Show me how to live" is loosely based on this movie.
Youtube video

Saturday, October 13, 2007

B hee

Coolie. Kaala Pathar. Kaaliya.

ab uska pet dard kar raha hai

Monday, October 08, 2007

something wrong ?

Friday, September 28, 2007

A dog with three legs must learn ...

R.E.M - The Great Beyond, Moby - Porcelain

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

randomly, it would seem

For us Java programmers, money is not an object. Yet.

a very xkcd like thing

on a (typically) unrelated note, an old saying
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things"

Put _that_ in your pipe and smoke it !!

interesting direction this - the cycling, I mean ... 'urban tribe' is a concept I like.

The critique of civillization faq guy talks about it too. The critique offers a very different and refreshing perspective and the links make interesting reading . And this guy keeps talking of the times when people spent days in leisure and talk and idleness. Something went very wrong with the world afterwards, I guess

One more reference to the leisurely (American)Indian way of life , and this time not from Uncle Ben. Uncle Ben was the one who said 'God helps those who help themselves' - been to many a buffet eh, we says.

Cross-reference with Jared Diamond's article , and a solution emerges...

A manual for the wannabees, then .
- how to disappear

of course, let's not leave Fight Club out of this ..
and neither what Chomsky says about Adam Smith, in the temptingly titled education is ignorance ...
and not Alvin Toffler's Third Wave, Sec II - Chapter 4 - Breaking the Code -
shall we forget

It would be amazing to live next to a gurgling river, Kennethe Grahame has around half a chapter on it, but I'd guess mosquitoes and evolution would probably give your grand-children skin the thickness of a rhino...

one with bad lighting - a scenario working out -cubicle revolution (nsfw)

quote : Henry Allen - It's better for a civillization to be going down the drain than coming up it



the manifesto sort of thing - from xkcd for the cube dwellers ..

Extreme concentrated focus brings about a feeling of well-being. And vice-versa.
Rearset mentions tunnel vision in a cerebral post. I'm thinking this is what makes me feel peaced out after a longish unbroken ride..

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

more wisdom from the East

"Practise inaction, occupy yourself with doing nothing"

from Lao Tzu


ha ha he he ha ha

Okay !!

reddit

reddit is Identity. It is an addiction and the bane of the productive workers everywhere. It is also a startup that got bought by Wired magazine, AND one of the founders/lead programmers got fired when he went off on a trip to Europe(?) without deciding to tell anyone ( hurrah !! three cheers for that !!)
It is basically a huge time-sink, and a source of good ( just eye-catching these days, not good anymore ) links.

Monday, September 17, 2007

now, those are real babes

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

'orrible geek

very interesting read - Programming can ruin your life

haven't gotten anyone to read this and stand me against it and give me a comparison, but quite a bit of the article hits , and hits hard . And am still not comfortable using 'I' on my blog... waiting for a final, standardised version ...

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

off the top

a headline on reddit says "Never say 'N factorial', just scream N at
the top of your voice"

I'm laughing all alone

Friday, August 31, 2007

coming soon

the festember debacle and the fantastic tentacle

!!! daiiii yeranguuu da !!!


not really

Friday, August 10, 2007

xkcd

I <3 xkcd.com

here's a james bond one - link

Thursday, August 09, 2007

iLaunch

"Apple Unveils New Product-Unveiling Product"
- from the Onion

check it out.

this one too

The iProduct one's too cool.

to tell the other side of the story

here's what Apple has gone and done

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

we're moving again

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Monday, August 06, 2007

bad advice

Replace fear of reaction to underbidding with greed for higher return

open source religion

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

babble to be pensieve'd

The brain has a short-term buffer of 7+/- 2. For a rather competent
sort of chap to remember 10 random objects ( can't be done ) is to
attach _one_ of those ten to _some_ odd end already lodged in his
long-term, and remember the other nine by sheer brute force.
To have a day-to-day working buffer of better than 7+/- 2, one needs
an alliance of long-term and short-term components forming a combine .
The long-term component provides a) _persistence_ to the combine as well as b) providing slots for the short-term component to _attach_ its pieces.

An agent-and-tool alliance which enables the agent to better
circumstance and aids its survival, effectively transforms into a super-agent.
thus the tool stops being used, and the agent stops being the user,
utility gets replaced by symbiosis.

quote: with a firm grasp on the finite, reach for the infinite

if you make out what I'm blabbering about , drop me a line !

succintly

put,I must say

this also we likes

Sunday, July 29, 2007

from three men in a boat

you'll never get what you want
you'll never want what you get

Friday, July 27, 2007

three witches, one hunchback

Saw Omkara and Maqbool recently.

The two cops in Maqbool are a marvellous piece of work.
First, the adaptation is very well done - three witches to two cops .
Two, the actors ... what can I say about them that has not been said - Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah as Pandit and Purohit.
Third, pairing the two of them is like putting two cylinders on a bike (think RD350) - takes the whole thing right away into major league.
Fourth, the two of them are power players without seeming so, they are corrupt without appearing so. They hack of the system and keep it running smooth, and do a much-needed job, without appearing so.

The astrology bit replaces witchcraft and adds in the supernatural element, which appears to be an essential ingredient in every immortal work.

Friday, July 20, 2007

more quirk

zero to one is a quantum jump
infinite in nature
one to two to any other
is just more of the same
unlike zero to one
zero to one is a giant jump
and identity follows

Thursday, June 21, 2007

quick listing

- gun sighting : 2 gov. issue ak-47s, one heckler&koch, one uzi
- one hand-held gas machine come true
- one abortive gov. office visit
- restricted to abdomen/diaphragm breathing
- impressive meals-dinner and rava-idli breakfast
- one scorpio sighting

Saturday, June 16, 2007

four and one and one

four walls a roof and a floor
a picket fence and door
four pots where flowers go
a wall of creepers and a green green bow
a beating heart and an island in the mist
yellow screwdrivers with the lemon twist

Thursday, June 14, 2007

junk un rhyme

dragging his flip-flops
the man walks
digging a dee
at the new-bie-tree
the locked monitor
is a little casserole
for the revolution brewing
at the old watering hole

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

tough times...

tough times never last, but timesheets are forever

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

puppets, space monkeys, cubicle dwellers

You just do your little job.
Pull a lever.
Push a button.
You don't really understand any of it.
Then you die

The life of a Space Monkey. How different are we. really ?

I hadn't read the Fight Club book until now.
I started reading it a couple of days ago. I haven't finished it yet.
I am clamped between surprise, awe and a healthy skepticism. Overlap
and interlock used to be the side-effects of my rambling stream of
consciousness.
Now they are all too real.
I wonder if the book echoes me, or whether I am now a programmed clone
repeating Tyler's words.

The book's got it all. The human condition. Dominion & the slavery
that follows. Mind-control .Social tools, civillization-hacking &
hijacking. Control culture.
King-making. Empire building. Home chemistry . Smart interesting
facts. Slivers of Buddhist references for the exotic touch. Arson,
violence, crime to keep you interested. Boring-as-death bosses and
eminently hate-able work to resonate with your reality.
Playing Ceasar and Age of Empires and reading Machiavelli is a waste
of time. Or maybe you should read the book first.When the pupil is
ready, the master will appear.

The movie complements the book, but is not enough to stand alone.
Subversively, the movie makes the viewer feel good like any decent
cult does, and hides the larger picture of the ubiquitous puppet
strings that tie us all to ourselves, as we know it. The movie cuts
the book out and puts the pieces in order, makes it simpler for the
simple mind.

Tyler replaces existing puppet strings with his own.

If a system were to invent a completely valid reason to be happy
within its own system of logic but this reason were invalid outside
the system, would the adherents of this system be rational or
irrational ? would the system be a cult ?

"You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we
are all part of the same compost pit"

When you get down to it, the Buddha didn't say anything pleasant or
exotic. What he said amounts to "Everything decays and dies", but the
mind can't handle this.
A human being is supposed to identify his/her abilities and weaknesses
and live accordingly. A space monkey will be programmed to do so
otherwise.
"Your suffering is our programming job. Thank you for your time and
have a nice day !!"

Is true love and affection reserved for babies only ?

"I am Ozymandias, king of kings" is a line from the book .

Friday, June 01, 2007

death by distraction

"The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the
window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These
focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't
watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat.
Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.
He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're
fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's
as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always
filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the
world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your
mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a
threat to the world."
- Chuck Palahniuk, _Lullaby_

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

is taluki a name ?

N is A'd ?

Friday, May 25, 2007

the schopenhauer echo

the walls are sliding in. together they spell 'quiet desperation'

notes from the ant-farm

this comes to mind ...
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

lao tzu quote

"I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love,
The second is frugality,
And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.
Because of deep love, one is courageous.
Because of frugality, one is generous.
Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader
of the world."
- Lao-tzu

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

nudge. economics of

link. Economics of nudging. Interesting

Monday, May 07, 2007

the Pranayama club

Welcome to the Pranayama club. Please roll out your mats on the grass. yes, like that, thank you. I will begin my lecture now. Please all be seated.
 
Breathing is an essential requirement of life. If you stop breathing, you die. If you die, you stop breathing. While this sounds the same, it is not. This is one of the profound truths of the Universe. While we continue to maintain that reality is an illusion, a simulation that has been perpetrated upon us , please do not forget to pay the club fees before the 25th of each month. Whatever you do, do not try to hold your breath for longer than necessary, remember what I said about breathing ?
Other than this, we aren't too interested in what you do. Do feel free to hang around. Tea is at five.
 
Peace !!
 
Two raised to the power of sixty-four is a 20 digit number. I read it in a yellow-jacketed maths (max?) book brought out by Mir Publishers. Borrowed from the neighbours. Nerdy days.

Saturday, May 05, 2007

milestones

No one listens to me
I won't tell anyone anything anymore.
I'll ask them all to go away
then there'll be no one to listen to me
anymore

Thursday, May 03, 2007

why did the tortoise ...

Q : Why did the Tortoise cross the road ?
A : 'coz Achilles was already on the other side

Thursday, April 26, 2007

ye ole ball-and-chain

soul stirred, shaken, lost
psycopathic logo face
rush hour cherry

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Kurt Vonnegut dies

known by the media as author of 'Slaughterhouse 5' , was a soldier in WWii who saw Dresden burn, who chain-smokes Pall Mall filter-less cigarettes in the hope that they kill him.

And that's what the media wants us to know about him

What I think I know of him is that he tried to pass on the message - the one about being kind to others - and probably lost faith in the festering swarm of humanity that we are.

His address at Agnes Scott College incites people to think. And be kind. And talks about the strength of extended families. Very sound advice, wethinks.

Come, shed a tear, for you've lost a bit of yourself, and a tear won't lessen you.
Or atleast, read Vonnegut's Blues for America

Sales of 'Slaughterhouse 5' should increase over the coming month , I guess.

Reddit has more stuff on him

On a different page,

Long dead Leslie McFarlane is Franklin W Dixon . Atleast, the frst one we knew.
Frankin W. Dixon is a stock name, the publishing house can have any number of authors write under this pseudonym.
A blue eyed Irishman named Leslie McFarlane was the first.

He hated the Hardy Boys books. Referred to them as 'the juveniles'. He wrote them for money.
The publishing company made him write them in a style much inferior to what he wanted to and was capable of.

We loved the Hardy Boys. There was adventure. All sorts of it. Jungles, mountains, rivers, seas.
Paradiving, flying planes, skiing ... page-turning suspense. chilling suspense. never a dull moment. And all of it outdoors. What more could a kid ask for.

'The Ghost of the Hardy Boys' is supposed to written in the author's preferred, skilled style. Read it as a tribute to the man, you need to see what you missed.

Again,
Reddit .

Without Reddit, we'd be lost, Toto !!

Friday, March 30, 2007

try it

the coffee. Decoction-brown.Strong. and somehow all-natural
the Kali Mark Bovonto. Rich .Fruity ( contains no fruit juice ). old new
the terrace . Quiet.Cool . empty in all directions
the temple. Large.Powerful.old
the stories. many. engrossing. boring. routine
the many ties of family

stains

when you cry, I want the tear-stains
be on my shirt-front
I'll hold your hand while
I ponder on where I'll get strength from

Thursday, March 29, 2007

interesting passage

from www.ranprieur.com
and interesting passage
tell me if you agree.or not. or why .or why not.or if you want chocky.

We are headed in many directions on many levels. On one level, we are headed in a direction they call "progress," which is mostly about shifting more and more places and creatures from self-regulating complex systems to centrally controlled systems, or if that fails, killing them. In practice it looks like changing a forest to either a suburb or a desert, and changing your experience of skillfully navigating a dangerous chaotic world to the experience of sitting safe among rectangular white surfaces and surveillance cameras.

ape planet update

if women are from venus, why is the chocolate named mars ?

Friday, March 23, 2007

ogres

are like onions.
both have layers
obscure brown
on the outside
peel past
and there's
flesh inside
and a heart
the heart
of an onion
I wonder ...

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

an old favorite !!

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

blue tee

with it's umpteen roads
the world is infinite
but there's nowhere to go
for the ones who
know not their own mind

Friday, March 02, 2007

color power

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Thursday, March 01, 2007

birdman

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Friday, February 16, 2007

echoed

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

- W.B Yeats, The Second Coming

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

goblins in my bookshelf

Blossom is an awesome bookstore. They have three floors just _packed_ with stuff. Reams of it.
I bought one called ' The Wizards of Odd' - promises to be a good read. It's a collection of humorous fantasy short stories.
Still, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. We'll see.
Short story collections are good for checking out authors too. So now, I will find out what Terry Pratchet writes like . I'd been putting off Terry Pratchet just to annoy a friend and a cousin who've both been bugging/begging me to pick up a book and get with it.

The first Dirk Gently is next on the cards - saw it today but picked the Wizards up instead. Douglas Adams hit it when he put a hard-boiled detective and the gods and Valhalla and the I Ching in one grab bag of weirdness that's Dirk Gently.

Detectives we little boys like. Ditto for guns,ships,planes, any and all complicated machines for that matter, long overcoats ... and also magic & magicians, super-powers, swords , spears,adventure, knights and horses. Not to keen on ponies though.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is then the coolest movie ever made. It's got all the ingredients of play.

Blossom and Premier are such wonderful bookstores compared to the commercial ones. In these, the people working there typically know what book is where, unlike the larger commercial stores where clerks fiddle with computer consoles doing searches which usually turn up negative for slightly older books, or books my not-too-famous authors, or books not on the top-100-lists.

Stories and books were my friends way before kids. Before the usual Tinkle/Phantom/Bahadur/Disney comics, I can remember my dad telling me the William Tell story while feeding me warm-salted-curd-rice.
Story-telling's not easy, children are horrible taskmasters - stories narrated in one particular style have to be narrated the same way till the end of time. Change one line and you're labelled as someone who "doesn't know the story". And of course, the big-person-little-person thing.... for example, in the actual Pancha-Tantra, it was not the monkey's tail that gets caught between the split ends of the log when it sits on the it and pulls out the wedge.....

Good books come unannounced and cheap, change your life quietly and leave.
I pounced on 'The Money Culture' at the local scrap-dealer's coz the orange Penguin spine leapt into my vision as I was passing. Turned out to be a good buy. A great buy, in fact. Liar's Poker, bought at cost later, did it's bit to bring me out to where I am right now. Cryptonomicon turned up next at the same scap-dealer.
The effect of both these books can be described as nothing short of 'breathing life' into me at an excruciatingly draining (and boring) time . I got both the books for ten rupees each - a miracle that has never happened afterwards.
The Wizard of Earthsea wandered into my room when in undergrad hostel. While it almost definitely put me to sleep every time I curled up with it, I still remain an ardent lover of the ways of the mages and wizards, the archipelagoes and the simple fishing villages, dragons, gold and all. Lord of the Rings similiarly crept into my arms via a tattered red-cloth bound book of textbook size in the college library. Who'd have thought ....

After a long stint of buying books I _should_ read , like Penrose and Paul Ekman, and the mind-numbing that follows, I've turned to buying books I _will_ read. Sweetness will follow.

I'll go dig into the wizards now. You go and play for a while.
Or watch the 30-second-Bunnies version of popular films here

Monday, February 12, 2007

happy happy !!

dog hugs baby adorable photo sequence

original link on http://reddit.com

the profound blob said

the moment it is, it isn't any more

Sunday, February 11, 2007

it just dawned

on me - without the yahoo emoticons, I'm conversationally crippled. Challenged, even
:-L

Saturday, February 10, 2007

taken

all the good ones be

Monday, February 05, 2007

heart of a city


A busy week. People people and more people. Sacred ties, divine feasts, discovery of the horse-faced one, a fight between time and camera batteries. Farewells, politics, groaners and the plain kooky days. Enough of them already. Hearing my own tongue spoken fails to soothe any more.
Everybody's busy and I'm like a stone in the middle of a rushing stream. I wander through empty halls and trespass on living spaces. Sleep, coffee, errands , shuffling between houses and the eternal laundry questions, and before you know it, it's the end of the show. Now,where DID my week go !!!!
A drive, dinner, a walk .The vegetable & fruit mart, the corner shop, and there!! near the grocery store - a familiar silhouette !! But it's not you.
If you were here, I'd wait for you to get off work, we'd indulge you with a milk shake , or me with a coffee, walk though semi-lit streets with their half-hearted traffic, remark on this and that, your words would be cherished, but mine would be filed away for later reference ( I know your ways ), I'd
sometimes hold your hand , we'd talk worries through,I'd be teased, blackmailed... we would drop you off at your place and I'd amble down to mine
and it would seem that the silver caresses of the full moon and the fragrance of the honeysuckle heavy in the air have replaced the intruding lights and smoke of the city's swarming traffic, and I'd float with eyes closed in a happy daze that would end when you get off work the next day. The roads and time would be ours.
They say a city doesn't claim you for its own until you claim one of its
I'm free to roam

wandering upon dusty abandoned bookshelves, I chanced on a page from the past -
Enid Blyton's "Tales of Adventure" - a book from then when there was no confusion, book heroes were personal friends, and books needed illustrations like fish need water. As we grow up, the color vanishes from the books, from lives, gets replaced by a dull grey that we've grown to abhor yet tolerate. Not inevitably. I'm going to 'borrow' this book . Let's splash some of that paint again

some researched stuff on Camelot here

" Here lies Arthur, Once King and King to be "


Sunday, February 04, 2007

first things first

not world peace. When I take over the world, the man who had the brilliant idea of putting peanuts in candy bars will be shot. And the lifeguard at the gene pool will be replaced.

Saturday, February 03, 2007

in case I forget

Su-saaaannah!!
you're breaking my heart
you're shaking my confidence
Baybeeeeee !!!!

Friday, February 02, 2007

still

you took the rain with you
and a part of me
but I still can't make myself
say "adieu!!"

Thursday, February 01, 2007

transit

home is a good transit point. the tribe's another. nothing comes close to going back to where you left off your life - start again with your uncle's Beatles tapes ... play with a toy bow and arrow ....

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

he's back

karamchand is back. we likes

Monday, January 22, 2007

it's all been

said and done before, and the populace is bored to death with the ageless and timeless packaged and re-packaged in the latest colors and passed on again and again and again. Yet each new horde of newbies with eyes bright keep doing it again and again with hopes anew.
So, as the wheel turns, it's my turn now, don't go away

Thursday, January 04, 2007

today's special

Fight Club rules
  1. You don't talk about fight club.
  2. You do not talk about fight club.
  3. If someone says stop, goes limp, even if he's just faking it, the fight is over
  4. Only two guys to a fight; only one fight at a time
  5. They fight without shirts or shoes.
  6. The fights go on as long as they have to.
  7. If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
I used to get these printed often off the office laser printer. Times New Roman font. Sometimes quotes from American Beauty. Put together, these would take me to a cold dark place which was, oddly, soothing during a long slide which was taking too long to end. Is taking too long to end as the walls keep closing in.

William Gibson's stories resonate comfortingly with the sterile office interiors of grey and blue color and emotion. An invitation to lose yourself in the ton of circuitry and the near-infinte stretches of fiber optic that make up his world. To become a sentient being manifest in silicon rather than carbon. Electrons instead of blood.
Like Agent Smith in the matrix. Why is the Smith way of being so tempting, why does it's gaze pull me in so easily ?

The Space Monkeys wear only black, and have shaved heads. I am short-cropped and have been wearing black for the last few days. Doesn't make me one though. The programming being done in the movie was to the tune of that we're all decaying organic matter and not unique snowflakes.
"You're not the all singing all dancing crap of the world." You will not single-handedly take the world to salvation. Nicely takes the edge of any sunny instances you've come to rely on .

For some reason, I'm picking fights with everyone the last coupla days ..... the dominant emotions are black and grey and green with splashes of red - there is no one to talk to - everyone's too busy or talking already - it's almost a full circle since that time long ago - only this time seems more permanent- this must be the final descent - I'm going over to the dark side

or maybe not

Reality has to be husbanded. But beauty ?

corners

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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

dawn over a tarred horizon