It took me 2 hrs to prepare a to-do list of everything I need to get done.
And looks like the list is reproducing with itself and the content just keeps growing. On and on. Next few weeks are going to be busy. I hope I can find some time to breathe in the meanwhile.
Priorities, options, decisions seem to hang around me these days, like double edge swords. Gotta risk a few things though every once in a while. No excitement in life otherwise.
Yeah, it’s meant to be a random post.
Some interesting trends. Orkut for the first time released a Zeitgeist for Orkut India property.
http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/press/pressrel/20090825_orkut.html
Quotes:
Quick half hr read. Then I read it again to appreciate the artwork, and I have to admit, I love the style.
I’d recommend, to go to a book store, sit and read it off 
If you like it, buy it.
Oh, in case you haven’t read Issac Asimov’s short story The Last Question, you’re missing something. Go read it now !
Talking about people, Neal Cassady says (from the book, On The Road by Jack Kerouac) :
But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won’t be at peace until they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flits by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.
by Jack Kerouac.
The book, has no paragraphs. It was originally written on a scroll of paper, instead of the regular sheets of paper, and has no paragraphs. It’s like one long memory typed in one long paragraph.
Wikipedia entry:
On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences. While many of the names and details of Kerouac’s experiences are changed for the novel, hundreds of references in On the Road have real-world counterparts.
It’s turning out to be really interesting, especially the way he potrays the characters. Next on the list is ‘ A million little pieces’.
I was on the Google Internet Bus (a unique project in India), taking Internet to small towns in a customized Bus.
From Anantapur to Kurnool and back to Hyderabad. The GBus was in the Google Hyderabad office for a couple of days, before it took off for Karimnagar. You can see the schedule for the bus at the link provided at the end of this post.
Some photos.
The magnificient GBus, with a satellite receiver for Internet
Schoolkids who visited the bus
College students queue up to board the bus (each session lasts about 5 mins)
That’s me on the Google Internet Bus, wearing my AdSpam team Tshirt
I had a gala time clicking away photos, and being the unofficial photographer for the trip.
You can find more info on the GBus, and track it here:
http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/landing/internetbus/
(if you want photos in high resolution for print/publishing, email me @ [sasidhar@sasidhar.org])
I am angry right now.
But I know why I’m angry.
It’s these situations that get me angry,
situations with people I care.
Places that I’m put myself into,
And my fear that gets me angry.
But I know why I’m angry.
Drink, smoke, and dance,
I can see how it plays out.
Success, values, and lifestyle.
Acheivements. Choices one makes.
I know why I’m angry.
My outlet is unrealted situations,
I guess it’s true for most people.
A lifetime full of living with others,
And hardly any time to find yourself.
I know why I’m angry.
Little by little you drift,
Before you know, you have no idea where you are.
Every decision counts, and the ones that stand by you,
Gotta make something of myself.
I know why I’m angry.
Twitter should make mobile based links identifiable (while surfing twitter on the phone). The current experience involves clicking on links, which eventually need to be seen on a big screen. There isn’t a good way to save these links for further viewing either.
It should look something like this.
See the little [M] next to the link? Something like that, some sort of identifier should help.
The other thing I’d like to see, is a way to save links for later viewing. Some sort of a tab from the homepage, where links would get saved (maybe with a checkbox near individual tweet). And while we’re at it, it’ll be nice to have a mouseover on tinyurls to show up the actual link behind. I’m guessing an small ajax request should work.
btw, did I say Twitter is awesome?
Random thoughts, written long back. If they aren’t comprehensible, I blame lack of sleep.
I just had a weird thought. What if really we all are just carriers, our whole purpose in this life is to try and evolve. Just find the best use of all the resources around us and try to progress. And while we individually try and do that at our level, the gene inside of us is constantly upgrading itself to newer evolved characters, better lifestyle and a whole lot more of aquired power.
The whole theory of evolution suddenly makes sense. The catch was that evolution isn’t for humans to propogate, we all die anyway. It’s for the gene inside us to accomplish so much more than what it could individually have, without our support or help. And we end up doing it for almost no benefit to us.
And now, imagine this gene is an alien creature fighting some war in a far off galaxy, which has come here to improve itself, and the best way to do it is to use humans as carriers. And maybe for it, a few million years is not a big deal.
I’ve been told to read: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins for ideas related to the thought above.
