www.xkcd.com ... Randall Munroe is sheer genius...Thursday, February 22, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Chaos isn't just a theory
One of my greatest loves is Science. The kind that makes you really wonder. Most of what i dont understand is what fascinates me. Like Chaos Theory for instance. Here is this wonderful world we think we understand and there actually is a theory that says all the approximating you've ever done will come back one day to smack you in the head... cuz thats the way the world is, its just chaotic. Sooner or later its all gonna fall to pieces and you're going to die a very confused death. Bet you dint need chaos theory to figure that one out.
even the innocent sounding Butterfly Effect states that something as small as a buttefly flapping its wings in tahiti can cause a tornado in Mexico. And no, all mexican's are not going to be exterminated by killer butterflies, its just the way the world is, Unpredictable.
To think you know you understand it would be graver mistake then admitting things are messed up whether you understand em or not. Thats a bit like life actually. And relationships. And C# programmers who work overtime. Cuz the universe conspires to kick you in the ass if you think you've got it all figured out. At least being lost means you know for sure where you are.
We're all neck deep in it. Chaos. Look around you... what if gravity suddenly stopped leaking in from that other dimension you're so used to. Maybe then you'd start believing in centrifugal force. When i read Jurassic Park i thought the book was so much cooler than the movie, not just cuz Chaos theorist Ian Malcom was a pessimist and told the old dude "Nature will find a way" (what he really meant was "Run NOW Before the mommy dinosaur changes sex to a daddy dinosaur and starts making copies of himself and uses your park as his playpen") But also because it was so much more about nature being unpredictable and the know-it-all being the one running away from the velociraptors. So whoever thought up chaos was just figuring a way to tell the nerds "the worlds gonna end and i've done the math to prove it". I like that. Someone who says we dont know enough about the system to calculate an end result, because the inital conditions we started off with were incomplete in the first place. Every tiny Change we make has Drastic consequences on the end result. The time you made your first bonfire as a kid. The first time you ever spoke to a girl. Everything you do early on, affects your life in major ways later. The little things early on are what really matter. By the time its later on in life, the big things are totally out of control. Similarly, every minor change in a mathematical calculation has the potential of giving you immensly different end reults. Never felt bad about rounding Pi off to two decimal places before this huh? Well, you shouldn't have, cuz now you're totally screwed.
There's only one hope for you, catch all of them damn butterflies before its too late!
even the innocent sounding Butterfly Effect states that something as small as a buttefly flapping its wings in tahiti can cause a tornado in Mexico. And no, all mexican's are not going to be exterminated by killer butterflies, its just the way the world is, Unpredictable.
To think you know you understand it would be graver mistake then admitting things are messed up whether you understand em or not. Thats a bit like life actually. And relationships. And C# programmers who work overtime. Cuz the universe conspires to kick you in the ass if you think you've got it all figured out. At least being lost means you know for sure where you are.
We're all neck deep in it. Chaos. Look around you... what if gravity suddenly stopped leaking in from that other dimension you're so used to. Maybe then you'd start believing in centrifugal force. When i read Jurassic Park i thought the book was so much cooler than the movie, not just cuz Chaos theorist Ian Malcom was a pessimist and told the old dude "Nature will find a way" (what he really meant was "Run NOW Before the mommy dinosaur changes sex to a daddy dinosaur and starts making copies of himself and uses your park as his playpen") But also because it was so much more about nature being unpredictable and the know-it-all being the one running away from the velociraptors. So whoever thought up chaos was just figuring a way to tell the nerds "the worlds gonna end and i've done the math to prove it". I like that. Someone who says we dont know enough about the system to calculate an end result, because the inital conditions we started off with were incomplete in the first place. Every tiny Change we make has Drastic consequences on the end result. The time you made your first bonfire as a kid. The first time you ever spoke to a girl. Everything you do early on, affects your life in major ways later. The little things early on are what really matter. By the time its later on in life, the big things are totally out of control. Similarly, every minor change in a mathematical calculation has the potential of giving you immensly different end reults. Never felt bad about rounding Pi off to two decimal places before this huh? Well, you shouldn't have, cuz now you're totally screwed.There's only one hope for you, catch all of them damn butterflies before its too late!
Top 10 Signs You're a Townie
I live in South Mumbai or town side as its more commonly known. People here are Different from the rest of Bombay. They're like a totally different species from the usual bunch you find in the other parts of the city. Live here for a while and you Become the city. A few signs to let you know you're turning into a Townie:
1) You actually think "Sophia" college is pronounced "So-fa-ya" and not "So-fee-ya"
2) You go to Cafe Royale and know every item on the menu with 6% alcohol or more
3) You Have a really nice car, but everyone's looking at the chick in the passenger seat with you
4) You have a really nice chick
5) You have an accent, even if you're 13 and have never been outside the country
6) You know all streets by their Anglicized names, and a Cabbie wouldn't know where to go if you used any other variant
7) as far as you're concerned, Mumbai City is what's south of VT station
8) Whenever you travel by a local train, you're in an empty compartment by the window seat, and people moving in the opposite direction are either squashed into a giant sardine can on wheels or are above the train dodging electrical cables
9) If you want to take a trip to the sea-side all you have to do is walk for a couple of minutes as opposed to planning an outing and driving there
10) You're biggest worry is which pub/disc/club to go to on a Saturday night
1) You actually think "Sophia" college is pronounced "So-fa-ya" and not "So-fee-ya"
2) You go to Cafe Royale and know every item on the menu with 6% alcohol or more
3) You Have a really nice car, but everyone's looking at the chick in the passenger seat with you
4) You have a really nice chick
5) You have an accent, even if you're 13 and have never been outside the country
6) You know all streets by their Anglicized names, and a Cabbie wouldn't know where to go if you used any other variant
7) as far as you're concerned, Mumbai City is what's south of VT station
8) Whenever you travel by a local train, you're in an empty compartment by the window seat, and people moving in the opposite direction are either squashed into a giant sardine can on wheels or are above the train dodging electrical cables
9) If you want to take a trip to the sea-side all you have to do is walk for a couple of minutes as opposed to planning an outing and driving there
10) You're biggest worry is which pub/disc/club to go to on a Saturday night
Life needs a rewind button
EDIT : George to Jerry Seinfeld in "Seinfeld" :
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What is that, a bonus? I think the cycle is all backwards. You should die first. Get it out of the way. Then live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young. You get a gold watch and you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs and alcohol. You party. You get ready for High School. You go to grade school and become a kid. You play. You have no responsibilities. You become a baby. You go into the womb. You spend your last nine months floating...you finish off as an orgasm.
Now THAT sounds like a way better way to life. get the ugly parts out first :)
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What is that, a bonus? I think the cycle is all backwards. You should die first. Get it out of the way. Then live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young. You get a gold watch and you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs and alcohol. You party. You get ready for High School. You go to grade school and become a kid. You play. You have no responsibilities. You become a baby. You go into the womb. You spend your last nine months floating...you finish off as an orgasm.
Now THAT sounds like a way better way to life. get the ugly parts out first :)
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Chasing Cars
"You're like a dog chasing a car. You'll never catch it and you wouldn't know what to do with it if you did."
thats what Gary Lightbody's (lead singer, Snow Patrol) father told him in reference to a girl Lightbody was infatuated with. Gary dint feel too bad about it... nope, he went on to make a really sucessful band and showed his dad who'd be chasing whom ;)
We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes
They're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things Will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
a tribute to a really amazing song, and an ironic source of inspiration :-)
Breaking Benjamin - The Diary of Jane
I love music. Rephrase. I love my music. Once in a while a song comes along that i really like. I love digging deep, finding the kinda music that really gets me.
i came across Breaking Benjamin a while back, mostly cuz i came across the songs "Follow Me" and "Blow me away" During my Counter-strike Crazy days, while i was into making videos and stuff. They're a really brilliant and virtually unknown band (at least amongst my peers) and i totally love their style. This one song in particular "The Diary Of Jane" is really a class apart cuz it tells the story that gets deeper every time i listen to it. Boy Loves Girl, Girl Dies, Boy Reads Girls Diary. Thats all clear from the video, the actual song is what really Hits me:
If I had to
I would put myself right beside you
So let me askWould you like that?
Would you like that?
And I don't mind
If you say this love is the last time
So now I'll ask
Do you like that?
Do you like that?
NO!!
Something's getting in the way
Something's just about to break
I will try to find my place
in the diary of Jane
So tell me how it should be
Try to find out
what makes you tick as I lie down
Sore and sick, do you like that?
Do you like that?
There's a fine line
between love and hate
And I don't mind
Just let me say that I like that
I like that
Something's getting in the way
Something's just about to break
I will try to find my place
in the diary of Jane
As I burn another page
As I look the other way
I still try to find my place
in the diary of Jane
So tell me
how it should be
Desperate, I will crawl
Waiting for so long
No love
there is no love
Die for anyone
What have I become?
Something's getting in the way
Something's just about to break
I will try to find my place
in the diary of Jane
As I burn another page
As I look the other way
I still try to find my place
its not everyday that you figure out that you've never been loved. Its nice to live in that illusion sometimes, that people really Do care.
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