"We vary our breakfast items daily" = we alternate between soft boiled eggs and hard boiled eggs everyday
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Sunday, September 11, 2016
why are honeycombs hexagonal?
bees are a good example of evolution.
am sure back in time, there were bees that made honeycombs in the shape of a square or an equilateral triangle or any other shape.
why arent honeycombs some other shape? say, circular?
Well lets say you had to fill up some empty area with a repeating pattern so that everything in your area had to be within the patterns, not in the gaps.
With circles, you end up with a lot of gaps, so that isnt very useful, am sure it was tried, before mother nature shot it down, or rather eliminated the bees that built this way.
the three simplest shapes that work are a square, an equilateral triangle and a hexagon.
agreed that the square and the equilateral triangle are more simple, so why hexagons?
keep in mind that bees have to build walls so it's best to build stuff that can give a large amount of volume per area of the wall that they need to build. now if you ignore the depth of a honeycomb, this is merely the ratio of the area to the perimeter. You want this ratio to be as high as possible to get the most storage space for the amount of effort and material you put into the walls.
A square, the area to perimeter ratio is a quarter of the main dimension, the side.
For an equilateral triangle its the square root of 3 multiplied by a quarter of the side. that makes it better than a square.
ok, what about a hexagon then? for a hexagon, the area covered is 6 times the area of an equilateral triangle with the same side length, but the perimeter is merely twice, so this gives a high Area to Perimeter ratio.
i hope you arent thinking that this makes bees smart, because it really doesnt. bees are as mindless as humans when thinkin about how they fit in the big picture.
we are smart to some extent because by making an attempt to understand why bees build honeycombs the way they do, we are a wee bit closer to acknowledging that there is a big picture.
i am not entertaining hopes of us being able to understand the big picture anytime soon, miracles just dont happen, am not even ready yet....
am sure back in time, there were bees that made honeycombs in the shape of a square or an equilateral triangle or any other shape.
why arent honeycombs some other shape? say, circular?
Well lets say you had to fill up some empty area with a repeating pattern so that everything in your area had to be within the patterns, not in the gaps.
With circles, you end up with a lot of gaps, so that isnt very useful, am sure it was tried, before mother nature shot it down, or rather eliminated the bees that built this way.
the three simplest shapes that work are a square, an equilateral triangle and a hexagon.
agreed that the square and the equilateral triangle are more simple, so why hexagons?
keep in mind that bees have to build walls so it's best to build stuff that can give a large amount of volume per area of the wall that they need to build. now if you ignore the depth of a honeycomb, this is merely the ratio of the area to the perimeter. You want this ratio to be as high as possible to get the most storage space for the amount of effort and material you put into the walls.
A square, the area to perimeter ratio is a quarter of the main dimension, the side.
For an equilateral triangle its the square root of 3 multiplied by a quarter of the side. that makes it better than a square.
ok, what about a hexagon then? for a hexagon, the area covered is 6 times the area of an equilateral triangle with the same side length, but the perimeter is merely twice, so this gives a high Area to Perimeter ratio.
i hope you arent thinking that this makes bees smart, because it really doesnt. bees are as mindless as humans when thinkin about how they fit in the big picture.
we are smart to some extent because by making an attempt to understand why bees build honeycombs the way they do, we are a wee bit closer to acknowledging that there is a big picture.
i am not entertaining hopes of us being able to understand the big picture anytime soon, miracles just dont happen, am not even ready yet....
Sunday, October 08, 2006
book review
my latest read, "the clans of the alphane moon" - a story of a family quarrel that ends up deciding the fate of a world.
the world isnt an ordinary populated one - its a hospital world thats been cutoff from the rest of civilization. erstwhile patients ailing from varying genres of mental illnesses are now running a world.
divided into 7 clans based on their genre(heebs for hebephrenics, skitzes for schizophrenics, pares for paranoids, manses for manics etc) they arent too different from what human civilization is.
thats just the background. this world is also the grand battleground for a domestic tiff. a quarrel that ed mcbain may have had his characters resolve in the kitchen or on the patio with a kitchen knife or a beer bottle.
i didnt like it as much as his other books but its a good read.
the transmigration of timothy archer is much more touching though.
its completely non sci-fi. its all about beliefs and faiths and the price or being an intellectual. if you want to call it a price - i'd call it a USP...
well whatever, i cant really expect every PKD work to be better than all the ones i've previously read. i'd still rank "do androids dream of electric sheep?" and "a scanner darkly" at the very top.
his short stories are very good too.
the world isnt an ordinary populated one - its a hospital world thats been cutoff from the rest of civilization. erstwhile patients ailing from varying genres of mental illnesses are now running a world.
divided into 7 clans based on their genre(heebs for hebephrenics, skitzes for schizophrenics, pares for paranoids, manses for manics etc) they arent too different from what human civilization is.
thats just the background. this world is also the grand battleground for a domestic tiff. a quarrel that ed mcbain may have had his characters resolve in the kitchen or on the patio with a kitchen knife or a beer bottle.
i didnt like it as much as his other books but its a good read.
the transmigration of timothy archer is much more touching though.
its completely non sci-fi. its all about beliefs and faiths and the price or being an intellectual. if you want to call it a price - i'd call it a USP...
well whatever, i cant really expect every PKD work to be better than all the ones i've previously read. i'd still rank "do androids dream of electric sheep?" and "a scanner darkly" at the very top.
his short stories are very good too.
Monday, September 25, 2006
people are so predictable
there arent any more surprises left in life, not when it comes to dealing with others at least, and it all seems so fake.
electrons are much better, they surprise you even when you think you've seen it all...
i'm completely convinced that psychohistory is doable. unfortunately we dont have a large enough perspective, and its going to be very error prone given the very small numbers we have.
the results am sure will provide no more information than a good guess would give regarding a situation - but it must be admired that asimov could use this to create an extremely famous series of novels...
electrons are much better, they surprise you even when you think you've seen it all...
i'm completely convinced that psychohistory is doable. unfortunately we dont have a large enough perspective, and its going to be very error prone given the very small numbers we have.
the results am sure will provide no more information than a good guess would give regarding a situation - but it must be admired that asimov could use this to create an extremely famous series of novels...
Longer days and slower planets
could i increase the length of a day?
its pretty easy to do. Stretch your arms wide and spin yourself in the opposite sense than in the direction in which the earth is rotating and suddenly jump and stop spinning. if you were spinning really fast, and you are really heavy the difference the length of day will increase by 10^-37th of a second.
if you take a disk 1 km in radius, and weighing a 1000 tons, and start spinning it at like 50 radians per second and then lift it off the face of the planet, you'll do a little better, you'll have increased the length of day by 10^-18th of a second.
of course the assumption is that there is no tiny meteorite, pebble rather, that is hitting the earth somewhere else in a way that it can cancel out your action....
i wonder how much force superman was applying on the earth by taking off at that tremendous velocity! if he's as heavy as the rest of us(bad assumption since he wouldnt be able to fly) but takes off, say, at half the speed of light, and then he's a little sluggish so takes a second to actually take off, then he's applying a force enough to speed up the earth by 10^-25th of a second if he's headed in the opposite direction. he'll slow it down by the same amount if he heads in the same direction the earth is headed...
if he has to take off 10^25 times and take off in the same direction everytime, and he lands very gently, the length of a day will change by a second.
guess he is isnt super after all...
its pretty easy to do. Stretch your arms wide and spin yourself in the opposite sense than in the direction in which the earth is rotating and suddenly jump and stop spinning. if you were spinning really fast, and you are really heavy the difference the length of day will increase by 10^-37th of a second.
if you take a disk 1 km in radius, and weighing a 1000 tons, and start spinning it at like 50 radians per second and then lift it off the face of the planet, you'll do a little better, you'll have increased the length of day by 10^-18th of a second.
of course the assumption is that there is no tiny meteorite, pebble rather, that is hitting the earth somewhere else in a way that it can cancel out your action....
i wonder how much force superman was applying on the earth by taking off at that tremendous velocity! if he's as heavy as the rest of us(bad assumption since he wouldnt be able to fly) but takes off, say, at half the speed of light, and then he's a little sluggish so takes a second to actually take off, then he's applying a force enough to speed up the earth by 10^-25th of a second if he's headed in the opposite direction. he'll slow it down by the same amount if he heads in the same direction the earth is headed...
if he has to take off 10^25 times and take off in the same direction everytime, and he lands very gently, the length of a day will change by a second.
guess he is isnt super after all...
Saturday, September 23, 2006
the dark side
fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering, suffering leads to the dark side...
by popular demand, i've had to change the background on this, because it was supposed to be too dark-side-y...
(Actually only one person opined)
by popular demand, i've had to change the background on this, because it was supposed to be too dark-side-y...
(Actually only one person opined)
Monday, September 18, 2006
friction and the nucleus
I cant think of any qualitative statements to make about the world.
what is the world? is there any meaning to life?
we work day and night.... for what? security i suppose. but is it really worth it?
i'm sick of the lack of purpose around you. do people consciously know what they are doing?
nature is beautiful. but we dont stop to think about it. there are sooo many mysteries!
there is nothing more pleasurable than uncovering the truth, and knowing you are right.
thats whats keeping me alive, i guess.
think about an atom, isnt it intriguing that almost the entire mass should be concentrated in such a tiny space. we are all made of mostly empty space then(in terms of volume). but then that's not entirely true is it?
the stuff that i called empty space isnt always empty, there's a always a probability that an electron occupies it.
but then i could argue that technically the electron could be absolutely anywhere in the universe. we limit our definition to be the sphere within which there is a 99% probability of locating its electrons...
if you want to chew this point, the entire universe is in every atom...
this picture, i personally believe, isnt painted in school because they wouldnt expect all teachers to know this.
which comes back to my point about too many people being around.
i know i didnt mention this explicitly but the world is a little too full of people right now. dont get me wrong, i only mean that whenever you discover something new, a million other people would have already.
the more the people, the more the competition, at the end of which, people do things just because others are (or arent) doing them.
look at me right now, am writing this blog, you are reading it. is there any purpose to this?
why did i write this blog, i wonder?
its like friction, it makes its presence felt in almost everything, and spoils the beauty of equations/laws. its mindless action, someone probably cooked it up in boredom.
at least my eyes are open, so am going to log off right now.
what is the world? is there any meaning to life?
we work day and night.... for what? security i suppose. but is it really worth it?
i'm sick of the lack of purpose around you. do people consciously know what they are doing?
nature is beautiful. but we dont stop to think about it. there are sooo many mysteries!
there is nothing more pleasurable than uncovering the truth, and knowing you are right.
thats whats keeping me alive, i guess.
think about an atom, isnt it intriguing that almost the entire mass should be concentrated in such a tiny space. we are all made of mostly empty space then(in terms of volume). but then that's not entirely true is it?
the stuff that i called empty space isnt always empty, there's a always a probability that an electron occupies it.
but then i could argue that technically the electron could be absolutely anywhere in the universe. we limit our definition to be the sphere within which there is a 99% probability of locating its electrons...
if you want to chew this point, the entire universe is in every atom...
this picture, i personally believe, isnt painted in school because they wouldnt expect all teachers to know this.
which comes back to my point about too many people being around.
i know i didnt mention this explicitly but the world is a little too full of people right now. dont get me wrong, i only mean that whenever you discover something new, a million other people would have already.
the more the people, the more the competition, at the end of which, people do things just because others are (or arent) doing them.
look at me right now, am writing this blog, you are reading it. is there any purpose to this?
why did i write this blog, i wonder?
its like friction, it makes its presence felt in almost everything, and spoils the beauty of equations/laws. its mindless action, someone probably cooked it up in boredom.
at least my eyes are open, so am going to log off right now.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Memo
I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's a sort of bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?
motion and matter
thats the latest astronomy course i've signed up for.
its at the AMNH every thursday, and the first three lecutres have been delightful.
am not talking in terms of learning new things about the universe, i'd like to think i'm well versed with that. but rather the way science is being taught.
in contrast to the education that i've undergone this is a vast improvement.
let me talk about my latest read: "confessions of a crap artist".
i've only halfway through it, but its a damn good read so far!
i can kind of identify myself with the lead character. he's in a completely different world, invulnerable to anything that goes on here...
its also a little depressing in pieces, but thats part of what makes it such a good read - typical PKD!
classic gold is playing "jealous guy" - great song, i'd like to try it on the keyboards sometime.
and, by the way, i saw "mamma mia". it was more than worth it.
am not embarassed at all when i say that when the girl playing the lead started "i have a dream" it brought tears to my eyes. great performance! her mom was belting out song after song, requiring huge variations in pitch, and simultaenously acting!
this is a million times better than anything hollywood has to offer. Its kind of marvelous how no one makes a mistake. here there's 2.5 hours of performance, so scope for editing or rollback...
hats off to all of the cast!
i cant wait for phantom of the opera!
its at the AMNH every thursday, and the first three lecutres have been delightful.
am not talking in terms of learning new things about the universe, i'd like to think i'm well versed with that. but rather the way science is being taught.
in contrast to the education that i've undergone this is a vast improvement.
let me talk about my latest read: "confessions of a crap artist".
i've only halfway through it, but its a damn good read so far!
i can kind of identify myself with the lead character. he's in a completely different world, invulnerable to anything that goes on here...
its also a little depressing in pieces, but thats part of what makes it such a good read - typical PKD!
classic gold is playing "jealous guy" - great song, i'd like to try it on the keyboards sometime.
and, by the way, i saw "mamma mia". it was more than worth it.
am not embarassed at all when i say that when the girl playing the lead started "i have a dream" it brought tears to my eyes. great performance! her mom was belting out song after song, requiring huge variations in pitch, and simultaenously acting!
this is a million times better than anything hollywood has to offer. Its kind of marvelous how no one makes a mistake. here there's 2.5 hours of performance, so scope for editing or rollback...
hats off to all of the cast!
i cant wait for phantom of the opera!
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Saturday, August 26, 2006
travel plaza
if you ever plan to go to baltimore by greyhound, my advise is: dont.
i've had a bad experience today which substantially cut down on the time i could spend in the city(i spent it instead in the "travel plaza" waiting for buses), and i ended up spending quite a bit more.
next time i'm just taking the train...
i suppose i could go on for hours and hours about this, but it doesnt make sense to, because i did end up having a really good time with a very old friend....
besides you'd then know that it was my own stupid mistake that landed me in travel plaza in the first place!
i've had a bad experience today which substantially cut down on the time i could spend in the city(i spent it instead in the "travel plaza" waiting for buses), and i ended up spending quite a bit more.
next time i'm just taking the train...
i suppose i could go on for hours and hours about this, but it doesnt make sense to, because i did end up having a really good time with a very old friend....
besides you'd then know that it was my own stupid mistake that landed me in travel plaza in the first place!
Sunday, August 20, 2006
cathedral
there's a pretty scary looking cathedral on 110th and amsterdam.
morningside drive goes around it. i wonder why morninside is on the western part of manhattan?
maybe since its on a hillock, so as far as new jersey is concerned, the sun rises behind morningside, or maybe it wasnt earlier on the east side, and for some reason, manhattan rolled over a bit, in which case it could happen again, i hope when it does, amsterdam avenue and the upper west side doesnt go underwater. there's the planetarium, the museum and too many good restaurants anti-respectively.
if it were to go underwater would we have to wear diving equipment, everytime we had to see a show in the planetarium.
would they have to rename all the avenues from 1 to 11 again?
i wonder if the maps/guidebooks mention any of this. probably not, its a deep conspiracy, but i'll abandon this topic, since i am sure that there must be some organization or club thats trying to bring to everyone's attention just such a conspiracy, along with the WTC conspiracy, the Hurricane Katrina Conspiracy(how it was engineered by the terrorists), the Iraqi prisoner abuse conspiracy(what! you actually thought these guys would voluntarily do such a thing??).
its really good when you know you dont have to worry about something anymore, except when it comes to work, it may sound superstitious but as soon as you decide not to worry about something, it triggers off a concatenation of events that culminates in that something coming back and biting you...
i'm going to watch "mamma mia" this friday, and then i'm going to baltimore on saturday or sunday(preferably saturday)
morningside drive goes around it. i wonder why morninside is on the western part of manhattan?
maybe since its on a hillock, so as far as new jersey is concerned, the sun rises behind morningside, or maybe it wasnt earlier on the east side, and for some reason, manhattan rolled over a bit, in which case it could happen again, i hope when it does, amsterdam avenue and the upper west side doesnt go underwater. there's the planetarium, the museum and too many good restaurants anti-respectively.
if it were to go underwater would we have to wear diving equipment, everytime we had to see a show in the planetarium.
would they have to rename all the avenues from 1 to 11 again?
i wonder if the maps/guidebooks mention any of this. probably not, its a deep conspiracy, but i'll abandon this topic, since i am sure that there must be some organization or club thats trying to bring to everyone's attention just such a conspiracy, along with the WTC conspiracy, the Hurricane Katrina Conspiracy(how it was engineered by the terrorists), the Iraqi prisoner abuse conspiracy(what! you actually thought these guys would voluntarily do such a thing??).
its really good when you know you dont have to worry about something anymore, except when it comes to work, it may sound superstitious but as soon as you decide not to worry about something, it triggers off a concatenation of events that culminates in that something coming back and biting you...
i'm going to watch "mamma mia" this friday, and then i'm going to baltimore on saturday or sunday(preferably saturday)
Friday, August 18, 2006
Thursday, August 17, 2006
its only 2:30 at night
i have had a bad day. i didnt have a breakfast or a lunch, so i had more than a fair share of my regular dinner, which is going to make me fat.
bob arctor would have no trouble dealing with this, he was too doped out to realise what was going on, which is how i felt i would have been.
its a shame that though i'm very helpful to people, they arent helpful back.
its bad grammar/bad english, but then english itself is so "hacky" a language, that this cant really be considered wrong.
maybe i shouldnt be so helpful to begin with. if its someone else's problem, its someone else's problem.
i dont understand haiku at all, and i dont think its meant to be understood by anyone.
"When speech and silence are both inadmissible, how can one pass without error?"
"I always rememeber kiangsu in March -
the cry of the partridge,
the mass of the fragrant flowers"
i mean, what is this??
my blogs are definitely much more understandable to an external observer.
bob arctor would have no trouble dealing with this, he was too doped out to realise what was going on, which is how i felt i would have been.
its a shame that though i'm very helpful to people, they arent helpful back.
its bad grammar/bad english, but then english itself is so "hacky" a language, that this cant really be considered wrong.
maybe i shouldnt be so helpful to begin with. if its someone else's problem, its someone else's problem.
i dont understand haiku at all, and i dont think its meant to be understood by anyone.
"When speech and silence are both inadmissible, how can one pass without error?"
"I always rememeber kiangsu in March -
the cry of the partridge,
the mass of the fragrant flowers"
i mean, what is this??
my blogs are definitely much more understandable to an external observer.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
sunday evening
the worst time of the week, when you know you have 5 days of misery to contend with.
whats more there's quite a bit of rework i need to do because i've been put in a pretty bad spot because people dont consult with me before making changes, and that gives me very little time to make a lot of changes.
People expect me to do a lot of stuff for them. why is the assumption being made that i'm not busy on my own? of course i'm very busy! i dont like doing work to make up for others' mistakes when i dont even get recognized for it. i should just take a week off and then everyone will know!
but i've said that a million times before, i should just vacation some day(can vacation be used as a verb? i dont know, but it sounds likely).
my parents and sister and brother in law are enjoying a long weekend in nagarhole, and i'm stuck here in a different kind of a sanctuary. hardly a sanctuary! its supposed to offer me - and other giant mutant rats like me - protection from hunting and abuse...
its a zoo! people look through the bars and say "here, here, you stinkin' mutant centaur" and then they throw sticks, pebbles, paper, plastic at the centaur.
i dont know if i'm in an any better position than the centaur. is it better to be discriminated against or to be thrown stuff at?
every single day i pray for a global disaster, something that will make us all reset our priorities. i dont know, maybe a huge asteroid smashing into the face of the earth? an earthquake that splits up a continent? a nuclear war? a continent sinking? the earth's poles shifting by about 10 degrees? a huge asteroid impact on mars, sending phobos or deimos hurtling towards the earth?
betelguise going supernova?
i know we arent doing too well right now, and a realisation of that alone isnt enough to prevent certain disaster. what we need is a global warning, that puts everyone on high alert and makes us all forget all of our silly bickering.
and when that happens i want to be a witness to the human effort to cope with it.
maybe thats the reason i keep thinking i'm not where i'm supposed to be
whats more there's quite a bit of rework i need to do because i've been put in a pretty bad spot because people dont consult with me before making changes, and that gives me very little time to make a lot of changes.
People expect me to do a lot of stuff for them. why is the assumption being made that i'm not busy on my own? of course i'm very busy! i dont like doing work to make up for others' mistakes when i dont even get recognized for it. i should just take a week off and then everyone will know!
but i've said that a million times before, i should just vacation some day(can vacation be used as a verb? i dont know, but it sounds likely).
my parents and sister and brother in law are enjoying a long weekend in nagarhole, and i'm stuck here in a different kind of a sanctuary. hardly a sanctuary! its supposed to offer me - and other giant mutant rats like me - protection from hunting and abuse...
its a zoo! people look through the bars and say "here, here, you stinkin' mutant centaur" and then they throw sticks, pebbles, paper, plastic at the centaur.
i dont know if i'm in an any better position than the centaur. is it better to be discriminated against or to be thrown stuff at?
every single day i pray for a global disaster, something that will make us all reset our priorities. i dont know, maybe a huge asteroid smashing into the face of the earth? an earthquake that splits up a continent? a nuclear war? a continent sinking? the earth's poles shifting by about 10 degrees? a huge asteroid impact on mars, sending phobos or deimos hurtling towards the earth?
betelguise going supernova?
i know we arent doing too well right now, and a realisation of that alone isnt enough to prevent certain disaster. what we need is a global warning, that puts everyone on high alert and makes us all forget all of our silly bickering.
and when that happens i want to be a witness to the human effort to cope with it.
maybe thats the reason i keep thinking i'm not where i'm supposed to be
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
It’s my house.
Nobody can drive me out.
For whatever reasons they would or do want to.
Assuming there’s a “they” at all.
Which may just be my imagination, the “they” watching me. Paranoia. Or rather the “it.” The depersonalized it.
Whatever it is that’s watching, it is not a human.
Not by my standards, anyhow. Not what I’d recognize.
As silly as this is, he thought, it’s frightening. Something is being done to me and by a mere thing, here in my own house. Before my very eyes.Within something’s very eyes; within the sight of some thing . Which, unlike little dark‑eyed Donna, does not ever blink. What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube‑type holo‑scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me–into us–clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can’t any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone’s sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we’ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.
For whatever reasons they would or do want to.
Assuming there’s a “they” at all.
Which may just be my imagination, the “they” watching me. Paranoia. Or rather the “it.” The depersonalized it.
Whatever it is that’s watching, it is not a human.
Not by my standards, anyhow. Not what I’d recognize.
As silly as this is, he thought, it’s frightening. Something is being done to me and by a mere thing, here in my own house. Before my very eyes.Within something’s very eyes; within the sight of some thing . Which, unlike little dark‑eyed Donna, does not ever blink. What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube‑type holo‑scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me–into us–clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can’t any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone’s sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we’ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.
Monday, August 07, 2006
Giant Mutant Rat blog
my life seems pointless. i've run out of orange juice, ideas, thoughts, fears, disgusts, peace, love, recollections, memories, desires, dislikes, energy.
i'm even too tired to do anything anymore.
i just feel like i want to sink into a void and never rise again.
i also want to visit the cerro paranal observatory before i do.
i know what a giant mutant rat or cat or dog in a pessimistic sci-fi story must feel like, a mindless pointless existence. wanting to attack and prey and live through the day, no end in sight, the only focus is on the next few mins, let alone an hour.
that kind of appeals to me in so weird a way, that i changed the title of this posting right now!
i am going to crawl back to my sewer now...
i'm even too tired to do anything anymore.
i just feel like i want to sink into a void and never rise again.
i also want to visit the cerro paranal observatory before i do.
i know what a giant mutant rat or cat or dog in a pessimistic sci-fi story must feel like, a mindless pointless existence. wanting to attack and prey and live through the day, no end in sight, the only focus is on the next few mins, let alone an hour.
that kind of appeals to me in so weird a way, that i changed the title of this posting right now!
i am going to crawl back to my sewer now...
Contains spoilers!
its 1:19 am. my head isnt aching, i am in no pain, am on the way to achieving nirvana.
another weekend passed by, no useful throughput, rather most of what i did was a cover up for earlier slip-ups(not mine).
i saw the descent on friday. i liked the movie, despite the fact that i had to see it from the third row. i would have been ok with catching glimpses of the action off limited portions off the screen, but the guys sitting next to me had loud comments to make about every single thing in the movie. my only consolation is that they were loud enough so that i wasnt the only one to be treated to a running review of the movie.
the movie itself i liked, i thought it was scary even before the monsters came out. especially the part where sarah is stuck in the narrow passage, and she starts to panic. this is just before the rockslide.
well am waiting for more gore. it manifests in the form of saw 3 on Oct 27.
good night now
another weekend passed by, no useful throughput, rather most of what i did was a cover up for earlier slip-ups(not mine).
i saw the descent on friday. i liked the movie, despite the fact that i had to see it from the third row. i would have been ok with catching glimpses of the action off limited portions off the screen, but the guys sitting next to me had loud comments to make about every single thing in the movie. my only consolation is that they were loud enough so that i wasnt the only one to be treated to a running review of the movie.
the movie itself i liked, i thought it was scary even before the monsters came out. especially the part where sarah is stuck in the narrow passage, and she starts to panic. this is just before the rockslide.
well am waiting for more gore. it manifests in the form of saw 3 on Oct 27.
good night now
Sunday, August 06, 2006
sunday morning
its 12:32 here, and i should be fast asleep. thats something you've heard before.
now why did i choose to title this scanner darkly? why am i parallely watching the revenge of the sith for the umpteenth time?
why is viceroy gunray so dumb that when palpatine says "when my new apprentice darth vader gets there, he will take care of you" that doesnt seem to spark off any pessimistic line of thinking?
speaking of pessimism, i have come to the conclusion that PKD is god!
that may be part of the reason i named this a scanner darkly.
I want to see through me, clearly or darkly i do not know.
just noticed one more thing - viceroy gunray says "why are you doing this? the war is over, lord sidius promised us peace", just before being struck down by darth vader's light saber.
Ya right, you'll need to come up with a very complicated situation to explain to me that the trade federation started the war in a serene, tranquil and peaceful galaxy, just for peace!
there's an example of triphrasism - using three words to describe the same thing in the same sentence.
why does Yoda have to fall a hundred feet? Obi wan, and indeed several other jedi have on more than one occasion(understatement) shown proclivities towards turning down free-fall. pun intended.
i'm pretty bored now, and am going to log off, i've switched to pulp fiction
now why did i choose to title this scanner darkly? why am i parallely watching the revenge of the sith for the umpteenth time?
why is viceroy gunray so dumb that when palpatine says "when my new apprentice darth vader gets there, he will take care of you" that doesnt seem to spark off any pessimistic line of thinking?
speaking of pessimism, i have come to the conclusion that PKD is god!
that may be part of the reason i named this a scanner darkly.
I want to see through me, clearly or darkly i do not know.
just noticed one more thing - viceroy gunray says "why are you doing this? the war is over, lord sidius promised us peace", just before being struck down by darth vader's light saber.
Ya right, you'll need to come up with a very complicated situation to explain to me that the trade federation started the war in a serene, tranquil and peaceful galaxy, just for peace!
there's an example of triphrasism - using three words to describe the same thing in the same sentence.
why does Yoda have to fall a hundred feet? Obi wan, and indeed several other jedi have on more than one occasion(understatement) shown proclivities towards turning down free-fall. pun intended.
i'm pretty bored now, and am going to log off, i've switched to pulp fiction
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