(re)discovers nature…
Its common among software engineers and I’ve been no major exception as well – to be perpetually pissed off for not having got a well-deserved hike or a promotion, esp as much as someone else got. Once in a way, we go beyond mere bickering and nagging to really trying to demand what we deserve.
[updated 9-Nov-2005] Some photos from the general class train on the way to Hyderabad…
Haven’t watched this movie, but it seems to be a nice one – atleast based on this dialogue I came across today – which by itself alone says a lot: John Hobbes: You take any cop on the force, cream or no, ninety-nine percent of the time they’re doing their job, aren’t they? Jonesy: Ninety-nine […]
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” 😉