This is to inform my patrons (if any? :P) that thinkingtubelite has woken up from a year long blog slumber during the solar year- 2008, and is back to posting random sprouts or thoughts on her area of the blogosphere, around the date crossover time, on a random day in January 2009 :)
I was trying to rationalize with myself as to why I didn't post on this space for a long while, and what I figured was: In order to produce a 'random sprout' (or blog), I need to have a bunch of focused random thoughts in my brain which would amount to at least a partially coherent post :) I know focused randomness might sound paradoxical ideally, but in the real world we do find patterns in randomness, coincidence being a special case. However, 2008 happened to be such a turbulent whirlpool, that the random-blog-thought seeds in my brain were unfocused and scattered, and always resulted in an entangled forest instead of nice sprout :(
I know a lot of my friends (you know who you are!) are going to consider this as a justification to the virtue of procrastination :P ... thinkingtubelite chooses not to argue with you this time :D
On a signing off note, thinkingtubelite hereby asks her patrons (if any?) to watch this space, and wishes everyone a very eventful, happening, and procrastination filled new year :)
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Sunday, 25 November 2007
Calvin and Hobbes :-)
A snippet I really liked from Calvin & Hobbes :)
Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius.
Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you?
Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
--- After thought,
Calvin (added by thinkingtubelite): They are probably missing the point. It's the world's loss to miss out on knowing the existence of a species with astronomical acumen... :D
Does all humankind secretly have the same train of thought? Ignorance is Bliss... :-) I'd rather believe I am the sole, unknown, yet to be discovered genius after fictitious Calvin ;) All knowledge is present in raw form of a random string of 0s and 1s up in my digital brain ... yet to be decoded... or probably never :D
Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius.
Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you?
Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
--- After thought,
Calvin (added by thinkingtubelite): They are probably missing the point. It's the world's loss to miss out on knowing the existence of a species with astronomical acumen... :D
Does all humankind secretly have the same train of thought? Ignorance is Bliss... :-) I'd rather believe I am the sole, unknown, yet to be discovered genius after fictitious Calvin ;) All knowledge is present in raw form of a random string of 0s and 1s up in my digital brain ... yet to be decoded... or probably never :D
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Wisdom?
Sometimes when I look back in retrospection, I realize that if I had the wisdom I have today, I would have tuned my life in a different way starting 6 years back, and taken different decisions, so that I could have a better present. But unfortunately, it is supposedly not possible to go back in time. It is this wisdom which all of us call "the lessons of experience".
What actually irks me is not that I did not do the most optimal things in the past, but the fact that I have no idea as to whether the doings of my present are the most optimal for the future... Another truth is, no two individuals tread upon the same path in life, so nobody can give you the exact lessons which you would need. We basically need to use our past knowledge (wisdom) to take the right decision in the present and to estimate the future... but sadly, this Bayesian principle does not work in real life owing to the infinite order non linearities in modeling real life... that's when we start believing in destiny... :)
Why is it that when you truly learn something, it can never be used anymore or it's just too late? If only the movie "The Butterfly Effect" was doable...! If only someone went against the Theory of Relativity and traveled along the negative time axis! As somebody quoted once "Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced."
I sometimes wonder if Wisdom or Intelligence is more important.
What actually irks me is not that I did not do the most optimal things in the past, but the fact that I have no idea as to whether the doings of my present are the most optimal for the future... Another truth is, no two individuals tread upon the same path in life, so nobody can give you the exact lessons which you would need. We basically need to use our past knowledge (wisdom) to take the right decision in the present and to estimate the future... but sadly, this Bayesian principle does not work in real life owing to the infinite order non linearities in modeling real life... that's when we start believing in destiny... :)
Why is it that when you truly learn something, it can never be used anymore or it's just too late? If only the movie "The Butterfly Effect" was doable...! If only someone went against the Theory of Relativity and traveled along the negative time axis! As somebody quoted once "Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced."
I sometimes wonder if Wisdom or Intelligence is more important.
Friday, 12 October 2007
Resumed सुदर्षण कृया
Hey !
I have taken a holiday from the world of blogdom for a while... partly because of the lack of correlations in my random thoughts, and secondly, due to laziness. This week, after eons, I finally decided to resume my Sudarshan Kriya once a week, since I coincidentally found as a result of random googling that there were Art of Living follow ups Downtown, that too in a radius vicinity of my lab home.
My yoga instructor once told me that "1 sudarshan kriya is equivalent to 4 hours of sleeping, and 10 surya-namaskarams is equivalent to 45 minutes of jogging"
It's awesome how 1 hour 10 minutes of rhythmic breathing could cure me of a stomach ache, drowsiness ... and induce sufficient fuel for ample productivity for the couple of days... It's truly breathengineering... ! It's one of the most useful things I've learned since 2002... :D
I have taken a holiday from the world of blogdom for a while... partly because of the lack of correlations in my random thoughts, and secondly, due to laziness. This week, after eons, I finally decided to resume my Sudarshan Kriya once a week, since I coincidentally found as a result of random googling that there were Art of Living follow ups Downtown, that too in a radius vicinity of my lab home.
My yoga instructor once told me that "1 sudarshan kriya is equivalent to 4 hours of sleeping, and 10 surya-namaskarams is equivalent to 45 minutes of jogging"
It's awesome how 1 hour 10 minutes of rhythmic breathing could cure me of a stomach ache, drowsiness ... and induce sufficient fuel for ample productivity for the couple of days... It's truly breathengineering... ! It's one of the most useful things I've learned since 2002... :D
Monday, 17 September 2007
Tuesday, 4 September 2007
रात्री ... Nocturnal Mysticisms
Different times of the day make us behave and experience a different feel to life. This struck me when I was having a casual conversation with a friend at the date crossover time, aka midnight. I have noticed that as the night progresses, our usual pragmatic and surface talks turn into philosophical discussions.
I have always had a strange fascination for the night, and the wee hours of the morning. It's at this time I usually identify with myself more and see the finer points to my purpose of existence. I think that these are the best times for two people to gel. Even traditionally, sunset and moonlight are supposed to be cliches for romanticisms, bolstering this hypothesis.I have made some of the best connections in my life owing to nocturnal interactions.
As the sun dispels the 'darkness' of the night, we become more practical and worry about the problems of a real life, like daily survival, food, transport, and the like. I am awed at the mysticisms of the night which makes a person suddenly change from the non-dreamer, over practical person to the philosophical, utopia thirsty, thoughtful person...
Also, most of my the 1000+ MATLAB files I might have written towards my Ratatouille happen to be around or closely at the date crossover period ! Incidentally this is blogged at 00:10 too !!
I have always had a strange fascination for the night, and the wee hours of the morning. It's at this time I usually identify with myself more and see the finer points to my purpose of existence. I think that these are the best times for two people to gel. Even traditionally, sunset and moonlight are supposed to be cliches for romanticisms, bolstering this hypothesis.I have made some of the best connections in my life owing to nocturnal interactions.
As the sun dispels the 'darkness' of the night, we become more practical and worry about the problems of a real life, like daily survival, food, transport, and the like. I am awed at the mysticisms of the night which makes a person suddenly change from the non-dreamer, over practical person to the philosophical, utopia thirsty, thoughtful person...
Also, most of my the 1000+ MATLAB files I might have written towards my Ratatouille happen to be around or closely at the date crossover period ! Incidentally this is blogged at 00:10 too !!
Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Total Inertia...
" A moving object continues to move uninterrupted unless stopped by an external force, and a stationary object continues to remain stationary forever unless pushed by an external force"
When we're on the top of things ... we are always in control and have grip... and when we're not, we are never and can never be in control...
Also, once we lose control of situations, it takes a long while to get back grip of situations and life...
Once we gain sufficient grip, we are always in track and control of situations, even if we leave the grip / driving force or become lax a while...
The transition time and effort to convert from one ground state to another is high, and cost paid for losing the favorable ground state of having grip over situations in life is hefty...
Seems like the Newton's law of inertia well applies to my real life. Can I switch states in the near future? Do I have sufficient capacity (external force) in me to gear conditions to my favor? I still haven't identified my fuel yet...
When we're on the top of things ... we are always in control and have grip... and when we're not, we are never and can never be in control...
Also, once we lose control of situations, it takes a long while to get back grip of situations and life...
Once we gain sufficient grip, we are always in track and control of situations, even if we leave the grip / driving force or become lax a while...
The transition time and effort to convert from one ground state to another is high, and cost paid for losing the favorable ground state of having grip over situations in life is hefty...
Seems like the Newton's law of inertia well applies to my real life. Can I switch states in the near future? Do I have sufficient capacity (external force) in me to gear conditions to my favor? I still haven't identified my fuel yet...
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