oh yeah

we need more of these

black magic that science is making possible

how to hack your brain

and more sf goodness

the books(and movie adaptations) were right, the singularity might happen

daily midwifery

What is every day but an excercise in imposing one's own reality upon the world, and trying not to have other realities imposed upon us by the world.
We are but midwifes who daily seek to bring to life the baby that is one's own vision of the world and its people, and where one's position is decided by oneself and none other ....
Whose reality are you in now ?

fantastic game : globetrotter

here. the music's cool too

these stories feel like a smoker's first cigarette after an 8 hour flight.

they resonates with something within

back to novels

I'm back to the place where I find novels interesting again.
Picked up a John Grisham today. Felt like I've come back to a town I'd left behind
two-three decades ago..

self-referential causes of existence

You must have come across such twists in life. Here's an example :


The Terminator goes back into the past to kill Sarah Connor. All of him gets destroyed except one arm. Cyberdyne reverse engineers the chip(s) in that arm and builds something that eventually becomes Skynet. In the age of Skynet, the Terminator himself is born.

Hence, if the Terminator hadn't existed, he couldn't have existed. Tough one, but there it is.

Ever seen a signboard which says "Beware:This Board Has Sharp Edges"?
What, exactly, is the reason for its existence ? We don't _need_ a board like that , but should one turn up, its presence would, itself, give rise to various possibilities arranged around it - people might stick posters on it and hundreds could show up at a play or a music concert,someone could stick political bills on it and probably swing a local election ,or which might help the local lose a hundred pounds and whatnot.Just saying. There are possibilities. Someone might even, sadly, cut themselves on the sharp edges in spite of the sign's best efforts. ( Apparently such people are crucial ingredient of the universe as we know it )

Not really a non-entity, is that board now ? Should we be even think of it as a non-entity ?
Looks like putting function before form is folly. Foo foo foo. Ignoring reality always is.

I guess such attractors come and go, which give rise to these no-reason-to-exist things, but the question remains whether selves exist which do not share this looped reason for existence ?

Do we in our eagerness to look down smugly upon these seemingly destiny-less creatures ignore our own loopiness ? Are we here because,basically, we're here ? and isn't destiny over-rated anyway ?

If one is the master of one's own destiny, doesn't it mean one has no destiny ?

What if humans were conceived,designed and shot out from the brow of the Creator for the sole purpose of moving cars from place to place ?

how do you handle something precious ?

when you wake up one day and realize that your life is better and that it seems like you're in a dream, what do you do ?
do you rationalize ? do you devalue the good things in your life by being cynical about them ? by telling yourself that it's fate and some get and some don't..
that if you didn't have X , you wouldn't know the difference ?
do you overeat and be mean to people to add some bad karma to even out things ?
can you take joy in what comes your way ?

an un-jaded mind

An un-jaded mind is not to be looked down on

If you remember this, there is still hope

With each passing day there is more to unlearn

And a million joys be lost forever

In every passing moment something else happens

So tell me this ,my friend

When do the good things happen ?

about room s

a room , to be useful, must have atleast one of the two - comfort and/or harmony.
Better rooms have both.

mistaking

cynicism for wisdom....

Lazarus Long (Heinlein) mentioned that it's incredible how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being incredibly tired.

mambo chicken

our superpowers : cracked.com

super powers we are going to get from science :cracked.com

read about the Singularity too, adn the Transhuman condition..

do not confuse the tao with a football

otum

avoiding 'wish' overload

on any festival day, one is programmed to say "Thank you ! Same to you " but secretly each "Same to you" translates to "Dang I was too slow to wish first" and counts as a loss.
This season I'm wishing people .... ONE DAY AHEAD !!!!
MWUhahahahahahaha