No Apple computers for me
I had been a apple computer user for the past 5 years and immensely enjoyed the hardware and the software. But, all good things come at a price. Apple’s price for a polished user experience has lately...
View ArticleAll the world will become a game and nothing can stop it
A fascinating presentation. The logical conclusion of a world singing to the tune of commerce. Life as a game. A gloriusly simplified abstraction over the complexities of real life. What’s gonna stop...
View ArticlePoems by E. E Cummings
Self portrait The american poet E. E. Cummings’ poems usually have mashed-up capitalization, punctuation and are constructed on the page with words as visual art. Consider the below poems where he...
View ArticleHeartbeats
Crab Nebula Caesium-133 atom has 551,557,906,200 heartbeats per minute Humans have 70 heartbeats per minute Sun has 1 heartbeat every 11 years Crab Nebula pulsar has 1812 heartbeats per minute...
View ArticleScience and Literature
Trying to place science and literature in their proper places in my head. The story so far… If Science is an undertaking to find Absolute Truths, then what is Literature with a dominant scientific...
View ArticleI am out of Facebook
The name Facebook comes from college yearbooks where photos of classmates are stuck and things are scribbled on. The scribblings are some(many?)times deeply regretted later in life. As most of you who...
View ArticleSmall Finger of a Lady Singer
A little poem I wrote for the little ones (5 year old niece Nethra and 2 1/2 year old daughter Nidhi). Small Finger of a Lady Singer I am the small finger Of a lovely lady singer. When her voice goes...
View ArticleFeeling grumpy ‘is good for you’?
A report on BBC on a psychology study done in Australia. The University of New South Wales researcher says a grumpy person can cope with more demanding situations than a happy one because of the way...
View ArticleThe world beneath our feet
Over the weekend dug and tilled a patch of land in the garden to plant some herbs. It took an hour and the effort was rewarded with a rich harvest of pebbles, worms and roots of various sizes that ran...
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