sleep quality :thunkbabble

I feel that sleep quality is linked to the feeling of accomplishment coming from the day's activities .
If you've worked on ten things, you'll feel less accomplishment points than if you've worked on three.
but, if you've worked HARD on ten things ,one at a time, then you'll get better sleep than if you've worked on three things by doing half an hour each and then switching.

update

i set mid-day alarms. so i must be an old man.

towards sustainable living

solvatten is a wonderful step. We seem to be moving in a direction whose end goal seems to be to live off the Earth & your own technical devices. We likes.

this one connects tao and flow

http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Taoist

incoming management

walk-turn

a quick walk down memory lane, one wrong turn and you're back in your classroom of long ago. empty desks look at you as though it were only yesterday. it's hard to imagine yourself as a kid, but when you do, the memories so wipe out everything in your conscious and redraw the images. you now become a thin kid .it's easy to laugh, run and jump. your fat blob ass weighs you down and highlights this contrast.

what can you say for the giants of wisdom,skill and caring who have touched your life in beautiful ways , except be humble and extremely grateful for the good fortune when you think of the others who didn't get it.
I read 'The pilot for special missions' as a kid. It was book one in a two part book. the second was the flying carpet. Oh vetrogorsk, how can one fall in love with a city, but I did.lighthouses and the ship museum and all.
then comes adventures of captain's island. I still have the sketches i made of clippers but the books have been lost. hence I must resort to the net to find versions of them. btw, captain's island was by sofia profokieva.

Thank you , kind pirate, or should I say, resurrecter of the lost valuable ..

the pilot for special missions

edit: it's sofia prokofieva and not sofia profokieva

and they both said ...

what I wish people would get...

"The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it" - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

... meaning, when I say I've got a new hat, I do NOT want to hear about YOUR hat.

and for the pair of the day -
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Only those who have worn the crown of suffering can look upon that
wondrous light; and they, when they return, may not speak of it, or tell
the mystery they know.
- Jerome K Jerome, Three men in a boat

blurring the line between scifi anime and life

bruce lee lighting matches with nunchuks

movie-revolver

was watching Guy Ritchie's 'Revolver'.Have to say I liked it. Apparently this movie didn't do well on screens. Apart from the fact that people who liked his previous two would 'spiritual liberation' gagging, there's one more reason - Heck, if a Guy Ritchie movie came to a theatre near me, I'd give it a miss and go straight to Dvd coz I need them subtitles you see. And the you can't rewind-fast-forward on a movie-screen...
but but but, this one's straight english accents that you can understand ,though throughout the movie they keep gibbering on about 'the enemy' like they were in world war two .
This movie peters out after the halfway point and starts going sideways trying to drive in some profound idea .Later on we find this is the ego that is the 'enemy'
Then you realize that lines in the movie that you thought were about something in the movie, weren't. Then , you see that this weakens the plot. Then you realize that the whole movie is just an overlay and a distraction to the 'liberation' funda.

What was awesome about the movie
0. black and white quotes
1. chinatown gangs - every time I see a hong-kong-ese gang speaking cantonese, I start jumping round the place and go eat chinese food at Wang's Dynasty the next day.
2. small animation sequence like in kill bill -
3. luxury sedans.
4. Sorter. This is one amazing character. Thin tall oldish bald man in glasses who can only be described as the guy who 'precision shoots the sh!# out of people' .
5. 'Avi' reminds me of Thelonious Monk
6. chess settings are sure cool ( incidentally there's a blues album called 'chess masters' ? )
7. the Zach is a fat italian in the grey-and-white track-suit looking exactly like what a t.v costume designer would imagine 'fat tony' would look like.
8. voice over narration

this movie has an 'shoot the alter ego with an imagined gun to kill it' piece like in the fight club movie.
Apparently, the funda is kabbala. But zen sounds very similiar too.

books I think ought to be great

but which haven't gotten round to reading yet, and am pretty sure I wouldn't be able to get past page one

1. Godel,Escher,Bach, an eternal golden braid ( punctuation may vaey ), by douglas hofstadter
2. a pattern language, by christopher alexander
3. a thousand years of non-linear history , by manuel delanda
this can add the following to the list :
3.1 war in the age of intelligent machines
3.2 a thousand plateaus - guattari & deleuze
> no more : 4. the emperor's new mind, by roger penrose
5. laws of form
6. SICP,PCL, Anatomy of Lisp, etc etc,
7. Flow

to begin with some of these books already languish in my cupboard unattended. there are also books on graphology, astrology, how to read faces...

new additions : the Programmer's Stone course's reading list

this includes feynman lectures on computation (!!!)
and more

nude wedding !!

The youtube video of how the two met is like something out of a bollywoood movie...
every bollywood movie rather , except for the reduced costume expense.
video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtmdGMPgU7I

cool tech

The handheld wind powered charger -
http://www.hymini.com/html/HYmini.html
I'm guessing this would start an industry to engineer brackets to mount your hymini outside your car while you drive

india wins first individual olympic gold

they played our national anthem after presenting medals

*sniff sniff .....

interesting : alternative to bio fuel

http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/algae-based-biofuels-in-plain--003362.php

movie comparison

Indiana Jones 4 tries very hard to put together the best of old Indy and almost succeeds, except that it fails the plausibility test.

In National Treasure 2 , our man cage kidnaps the president and breaks into Buckingham palace and all, but it is quite believable

cool stuff

Self parking car using Lego Mindstorms

good play.

we wants !! treadmill-workstation

read all about it here
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hMmh9BUYN1qLc8AZDtjlu-hst5XA

finery for the discerning

most amazing mario tough level

pirouttes

truth in comedy & comics, not so funny

I mentioned in an earlier post how the comic strip Doonesbury is a good source for news. Next, this youtube video of George Carlin's classified as comedy.