Sunday, September 9, 2012

An Idea Can Change Your Life


00:22
10*09*2012

The Earth still holding on. No signs of destruction reported yet .
Australia slipped to a lowly Xth position in T20 rankings - one below the 9th placed Ireland. George Bailey the Aussie skipper says that it is not amusing but he is so wrong...ask me and my fellow countrymen- it is so bloody amusing! And soothing!


After watching much movies i have commenced reading stuff regarding survival in wilderness....stuff like this: http://www.wildwoodsurvival.com/index.html
What are we supposed to do when we end up on an island like Tom Hanks in Cast Away... especially me- how am i supposed to keep me and the flow of ideas alive? With applications of limits and continuity? Or perhaps doing an analysis of the surface topology? It is good to be prepared beforehand. It is a good site- it shows how to set traps and snares, create fire , where to get water and important things like that. Not that it is going to do much good to you because you won't be knowing how to do it practically but nevertheless in any case it will more useful to you than Group theory and Linear algebra.

I watched Kick Ass recently. Disappointing. The rare interesting moments were the times when a strong black man seized a bazooka from somewhere,kept it for reserve and later decided to use it on a nine year girl who had got on his nerves. Now who uses a bazooka on a small girl....in fact who keeps a bazooka as a sidearm ! Also i watched Never Let Me GoAvengers and  Man on Fire. Man on Fire is quite watchable. Sadly I don't have much idea what happened in Never Let Me Go. 

I liked Avengers especially because they showed India (Calcutta to be precise) and people talked in Hindi for a moment. The Hollywood people are so self centered that they never give a thought about India while aliens attack US, Europe , Japan, etc. I admit we do have calendars with Mighty Muscular Hanuman and other Lords everywhere but still there might be some unintelligent aliens who are not scared of the Lords- they can invade us!! The most beautiful scene from Avengers was when Loki was frustrated by Hulk and in the midst of the fight stands with celestial pride and says "Enough- i am a God you ugly green creature! And I will not be bullied by...! " ....and before he could finish his 'authoritative' statement,  Hulk lifts him like a Barbie doll and starts furiously whipping the earth with his bpdy!!. A Must Watch! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZrmxMqupVg
It reminds you of Shoaib Akhtar proclaiming that he is a fierce, lethal bowler and blah..blah...blah and the next day Tendulkar comes and ruins his life !

Sites offering home delivery service of books and electronics are getting inefficient. Buy2read.com (now Blacklisted)delivered my text book on Continuum Mechanics after 23 days. Who delivers a book from New Delhi to Kanpur in 23 days!! In 23 days one can go to a printing press and get a book printed personally (at least i believe so)! If only the people would understand the value of time! 

I read this beautiful piece of text which said that : If only Indian politicians understood time well (and by time i don't mean time as a dimension space type of thing) and did not came an hour late before an audience of say 5000 we won't be having 5000 national hours wasted. In 5000 hours so much work could be done!! But obviously i can't present the idea on a national level because of two main reasons: First and the more important reason: No one would give a fuck about about it. Secondly every time you start a game of counter-strike or DAY DREAMING someone would come breathing down your neck saying "Hmmm...you were lecturing something about time saving and national importance.....?? " The idea would completely disrupt the life of the country!

Day dreaming is nice. It is a conduit for ideas to flow in you. Earlier i thought a lot about dinosaurs but since dinosaurs have been ridiculed too much through animated movies I have given up on day dreaming and gone to watching Doctor WHO. It is so wildly imaginative and idea'tic' that it is not much different from day dreaming, only the thing is you are watching someone else's dreams and ideas. Once I had this idea of going to a place Jaduguda in Jharkhand and bring a bag of uranium ore with me. I could sell it and get rich but Physics ruined everything. Some place i read about the need of enriching Uranium and also that a typical uranium ore contains 670 pirocurie per gram of uranium. I have absolutely no idea how much a pirocurie is but it does not sound like it is going to be a quantity big enough to make me rich .Its good to have some backup ideas too . 






Friday, September 7, 2012

I Have A Dream


01:35  
08*09*2012

Finally CCD has opened up in my campus and it is offering lucrative discounts (perhaps around 40%). I am planning to make such a good deal of use of it that I wont be wanting to go other non IIT CCDs with no 40% discounts after i leave college (except on treats of course!)
Trivia: The 1st CCD was opened in Bangalore in July,1996. 

India won the Nehru Cup beating Cameroon in the finals. I learnt the name of some Indian footballers apart from Sunil Chetri- Robin Singh, Denzil Franco, etc. Definite signs of progress in Indian Football.

If you want to play poker you can come to my wing. If only Tennyson would have been lived in my wing he would definitely have said "Men may come and men may go but poker stays forever" !! I don't mind poker as long as it does not involve actual money for buy in and also it is not strip poker

I once read a short story by Jefferey Archer involving Strip Chess. The author was a chess player at a club and he invited this pretty girl to his apartment for playing chess. The author figured out that the girl was not much of a chess player so he offered bits of money each time the girl won and the girl was suppose to take off a piece of clothing when the author won. The author was making easy progress. In order to keep the girl from leaving the game he made a final offer of grand amount of money against the last piece of clothing. The plot reveals a twist- she was actually a hell of a player and was keeping the author in deception till then and beat him in a few moves in the last game leaving him stunnedObviously the story teaches us not to select a girl for Strip chess without proper scrutiny! Anyways i don't play chess let alone strip chess!

I have bought The Lord Of The Rings book recently. These few lines by Sunday Times were enough for convincing me-- "The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings and those who are going to read them". I was really surprised to know that Frodo was more than 40 years old in age! He looked not more than 15 in the movies!

The companies have started coming for interns and placements. There is this Deutsche Bank who offer lots of money but make a lot of fuss before hiring people. Don't complain if you have never seen their ATMs ever. A friend of mine from Bokaro -Shantanu got selected for the intern and was so pleased that he did something i am not supposed to write about it in public. But i will give a hint - He gave us a tr*at ! Anyone with non negative IQ should be able to figure it out!

If you want to read difficult words to improve your vocabulary as well as know the plot and review of Ek Tha Tiger or Cocktail you can refer to this section by Priyam Nayak who also owns a dog:
http://priyamnayak.wordpress.com/
I don't like dogs very much. I don't know if i am scared of them or not but i do wish for a law of keeping all the dogs chained with short chains!

I made a pretty awesome joke....at least i think it is awesome:
What would have Martin Luther King said if he was studying at IIT Kanpur ?
I have a Quiz (instead of dream)!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream

I am watching Dr Who TV series these days. It might not be the best of TV series at convincing you and in embedding realism but what does appeal to my mind is the wild imagination. It involves greater imagination than even Calvin and Hobbes! Besides the Doctor is lively, fun, cheerful and meets Shakespeare, robot guys with lasers and appealing accents, walking trees, Queen of England, men with rhino heads, etc. Also he has this TARDIS-Time and Relative Dimension in Space -his spaceship in the looks of a police box on outside. The TARDIS is bigger on the inside than it looks from outside similar to harry Potter stuff! The characters and story play with human curiosity and this sustains the interest in the plots.