street corner hood

alan watts and others

Alan Watts on stuff http://www.uncarved.org/OOO/watts.html

My life won't fit in the boxes I put it in... all round process improvement called for.

Also, Timothy Leary & Robert Anton Wilson's 8 Circuits of Consciousness sounds interesting.
I have a video bookmarked on youtube.com, to be viewed later....

Listening to audiobooks/lectures is a great idea greatly facilitated by the mp3 player my mum gave me
There are wind in the willows, wind in the willows(BBC),three men in a boat, hhgttg & asimov-foundation all waiting to be consumed.
Currently Alan Watts lectures are nighttime listening - ease me into sleep superbly..

Downloaded Transcendence(game).is 16 mb.

pan galactic gargle blaster

'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' game here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_andrew.shtml

find of the day

http://www.emusic.com/artist/Natural-Sounds-MP3-Download/11570976.html

nanobots against cancer

you guys must've seen this already..

http://gizmodo.com/5501103/this-is-the-future-of-the-fight-against-cancer

does this mean the Grey Goo problem is a real threat now ?

I think the future's going to be Skynet vs Grey Goo ...

links of the day - two on brain sci, one on soc sci

http://danielmiessler.com/blog/modern-science-on-self-control-and-4-things-you-can-do-immediately-to-improve-it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJSXfXep4M
http://www.viceland.com/int/v12n1/htdocs/poster.php

like a supernova

reading material

just read this. gripping reading. and reminded me of the temporary camp set up for extracting the scientist Mitchell in Count Zero

the magician is getting ready

Douglas Adams videos

In this one he talks about

- Bali rice farming according to the temple calendar
- Feng Shui and dragons

basically, organic creatures blackbox the complexity of nature , and make good tools for abstracting the universe

roger ebert was right

Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes is good fun . EXCEPT for the fact that Holmes is eccentric bordering on bumbling, and Watson isn't stout.
Still, good watching. Jeremy Brett twisted the image of Holmes in one way. Robert Downey Jr gives it a whack in the opposite direction.
London with its shipyards is superb.

this is what i meant

http://fileit.in/p/31

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January 2010 I resigned from my well-paying job. I wanted to pursue my dreams, and did not want my career to be a hurdle.

Since then, I have been working as a consultant for a small startup firm Peepal Software, located in Bangalore. I work for them from my home located in Chennai.

I have collected pointers from this experience of mine:

The Joy of Working From Home

• I don't commute anywhere during peak hours. My carbon footprint is considerably reduced.
• I go for long evening walks. I know my neighborhood better. I am healthier.
• I spend enough time with my family.
• I eat less junk food. I cook. I eat freshly made food.
• I contribute all reusable code as OpenSource to WizTools.org. Only specific client code goes to the client source repository.
• I sometime take power-afternoon-nap.
• I work when I am most productive. For example, I have done similar things few times: awoke from sleep in the mid-of-night, for an idea struck at that time. I am able to implement that idea at that time itself.
• I don't need to attend mindless meetings. I don't need to attend useless management programs.
• I get more time to work on my pet-projects (FileIt.in is one of my pet-projects).
• I have more time to pursue my other hobbies like photography.
• I get more time to learn technologies I want to learn.

What I miss working from home?

• Lonely at times. No one around to show off your new shoes, bags and gadgets ;-)

Conclusion

Of course, the benefits overwhelmingly beat the limitations!

(some) human beings can detect cellphone radiation

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/disconnected

we'll evolve to be able to PROCESS the stuff...