(re)discovers nature…
Scott Adams comes down pretty hard on blogging in his latest DNRC newsletter… but then goes on to start a blog of his own 😉 (If you’ve been a Dilbert fan for years like me, you might consider subscribing to the newletter)
A philosopher knows exactly what to do in any situation, until it happens to him. I guess this rather stunning quote conveys more or less the same point as this story from the Mahabharata 🙂
When someone is reading a book, I’ve this habit of borrowing for a second and flipping through it and returning it. In one such instance a few years ago, I’d come across a “serene prayer” of three lines. I was so impressed that I later on googled for the exact words and put them down […]
There are a lot of nice things out here on this site which I get regularly from their mailing list. But this particular one on creativity really got to me. (It includes music as well).
Need some odd jobs done at home? Simple, just go to some rural area. There are plenty of kids out there, pick one of them.
This is something some people seem to be prone to saying a lot of the time. When somebody’s enthusiastic about something, they may comment smugly along the lines of “you’re seeing these things only now, I’ve done all that years ago…” or “I know everything that’s to be known about it” or “ok good you […]
When Descartes said “I think, therefore I am”, I wonder if he could extend it to AI saying “it thinks, therefore it is” 😉
updated 26 Sep, 05 Though I’d read the Mahabharata in my childhood days – all abridged versions, though from multiple sources , I heard a story today in a seminar in IISc that I had never heard before… (What’s in italics here is merely a verbatim repetition to the best of my memory…)
Its a fairly well known idea nowadays that time is becoming increasingly more valuable than money, and what we really need is more time for ourselves.
Came across various versions of the same story. As I couldn’t find a succinct version, I consolidated yet another one myself from different sources on the web to match the one I’d heard originally long ago (can’t remember where).