Pool & Pi

Going to the "Pool room" is a fun, specially in the mid-day repast, away from office. My history of pool is shorter than that of dinosaurs and a bit more recent than latest spring. But I guess picked it up well ;).

Pool is a game of balls, which are speherical for historical (probably date backs to the origin of time, time itself being spherical) reasons. And anyone can tell you, a sphere is a thing of fun and wonders. Things happen with them and by them, that nothing else can match quite the same. So much for their shape. Lets talk some real pool. Or should I? I think, the charm of our pool probably resides somehwere outside the pool table. The way we think are very similar, so this table gives us nothing other than one more ground to mix and melt those on a newer canvas. So after some rounds, questions started to pop out. If the projectile of a ball ( lets take the que ball for simplicity ) is not a perfect loop, will it necessarily have to fall in one of the pockets given infinte time? Intuition is misleading as always. Least we forget to get back to work ( which gives us money to play pool, which we can't play enough because we have to work to do that...dizzy? ok), we both seemed to concentrate on winning the table.

But as expected, this was perfect candidate for the afternoon brain-raining ( not quite storming you know). We realized after some initial restlessness, that we were dealing with some deep water fish here. There exist questions like "what is the maximum length of a acyclic string constructed from finite number of symbols"? And for practical example of it, we didn't have to think that far really, our good old (ms.) Pi knocked in. (For some reason, I find the sex of pi as female, let me know if you feel otherwise ;) ). To answer our previous question would be in the same complexity class where the question "is pi represenstation a recurring sequence?". I am still to google it out, but definitely the proof would be much harder than the answer.

Recurring

That moment of clarity has crossed my conscience once again about same time of the day. This time I was touched a by a different angel of realization. I was filled with surprise and wondered how I could be so distracted to miss that, the very life that I am having hard time to accept is something, I had in mind once, after all. Things could change so dramatically....so dramatically..that there exist no point of rerefence at all, between now and the past.

I dreamed of a life, free of any kinds of external attraction and connections, didn't I?

Hahahhahhaha

Gosh! this is funny...hahahahahaha

Hey There Khalilah :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMqTKA8BxvE

In case you don't have the background:

Hey There Delilah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbJtYqBYCV8

hahahahahahhahahahhaa....

Quotable Quotes

The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed. - Ellen DeGeneres

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman

When a lizard can, why can't we?

"This is a true story that happened in Japan. In order to renovate the house, someone in Japan breaks open the wall. Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls. When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck there because a nail from outside hammered into one of its feet. He sees this, and feels pity, and at the same time curious, as when he checked the nail and it was nailed 10 years ago when the house was first built.

What happened? The lizard has survived in such position for 10 years! In a dark wall partition for 10 years without moving, it is impossible and mind-boggling. Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 10 years! Without moving a single step--since its foot was nailed! So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it has been doing, and what and how it has been eating. Later, not knowing from where it came appears another lizard, with food in its mouth. Ah! He was stunned and touched deeply. For the lizard that was stuck by nail, another lizard has been feeding it for the past 10 years...

Imagine? It has been doing that untiringly for 10 long years, without giving up hope on its partner Think, will u do that for your partner? Or at least you're Mom & Dad, Who went through struggle & hardship to raise and educate you & invested the best years of their lives raising you?

Imagine what a small creature can do, and a creature blessed with a brilliant mind can't. "

Economics

TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS

You have two cows.You sell one and buy a bull.Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.You retire on the income.

INDIAN ECONOMICS

You have two cows.You worship them.

AMERICAN ECONOMICS

You have two cows.You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.You profess surprise when the cow drops dead.You put the blame on some nation with cows and naturally that nationwill be a danger to mankind.You wage a war to save the world and grab the cows.

FRENCH ECONOMICS

You have two cowsYou go on strike because you want three cows.

GERMAN ECONOMICS

You have two cows.You reengineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a monthand milk themselves.

BRITISH ECONOMICS

You have two cows.They are both mad cows.

JAPANESE ECONOMICS

You have two cows.You redesign them so that they are one-tenth the size of an ordinarycow, and produce twenty times the milk.You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowkimon! And market themworldwide.

CHINESE ECONOMICS

You have two cows.You have 300 people milking them.You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyonereporting the actual numbers.

PAKISTAN ECONOMICS

You don't have any cows.You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid, British fortechnology, French for submarines, Switzerland for loans, Russia fordrugs and Japan for equipment.You buy the cows with all this and claim exploitation by the world.

BANGLADESH ECONOMICS

You have two cows.You don't know economy.You choose one of them as the Prime Minister of the country and theother the Leader of the Opposition.

I am in!

Signed up for the 'club'. Initial 'cost' was about '$100', but I am sure more is coming. Once I thought it would take me a long time to decide whether I would enter or not. But for now, it seems the correct thing to do. Knowing I have nothing to achieve "in particular" is probably a safer bet than not knowing it. So I made this decision. Life is not any easier than before, but it's just less painful, I guess.

Flu

Everybody is having a touch of the flue. Where is my share of it?

Interesting Day

I bought my first car exactly 1 year from this day. It was a different kind of feeling, a feeling of freedom and excitement. Interesting enough is, my journey for a different (but of the same degree) kind of freedom starts this very day, as well.

Good old Bad days

How about I stop being 'good'? You know what I mean? I mean all these things we do and do not do, for the sole purpose of upholding our damn moral, could itself be the root of all evil. How about I cut that crap loose?

I don't have to be necessarily honest with anything.
I don't have to be kind.
I don't have to be responsible.
I don't have to be polite.
I don't have to be understanding.
I don't have to be truthful all the time.
I can lie as I wish.
I can think anything, say anything, do anything, to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
I don't have to believe in an eternal justice
I don't have to feel bad for doing anything.
I don't have to be afraid of anything.
I don't have to care anything.
I don't have to have guilty feelings for anything, nothing is guilt.
I don't have to sacrifice for anyone, anything.

I free myself, from the slavery by my own conceptions, most of which must have been horribly wrong, for they lead me to nowhere but a place filled with shame, suffering and meaninglessness.

Outer the limits

Crying isn't helping any more. Talking, reading or just getting busy with life, none of these are effective either. I simply don't know what else to try. I don't see any opening at the end of this road, it's all too dark. How could I ever get out of this? Have I done something irreversible?

So is this it? Perhaps, my fate has already been written, and trying would be pointless, except to the effect of making conditions more miserable.

But I read somewhere, if I honestly try you are supposed to show me the light, is that a delusion too? Well, I can't get any more honest than this, so if you still do not want to show up, I guess this is it. I am at the dead end here. Anything after this point is not within my rational limits, so I can't take responsibility of this, I can't.

Quotable Quotes

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. - George Orwell

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony

Possible and the 'Impossibles'

Reality is the resultant wave of all the individual possibility wave functions. Impossible things are impossible, or they don't happen because, their wave functions are nullified. In some sense, they also do 'exist' - or lets put it this way, they exist in a place before the 'existence' of reality is defined; i.e, they sort of 'pre-exist' everything.

The answer to the general problem of explaining a particular choice is thus the rejection of the completeness of the question. No choice is 'preferred' over other, as all choices are made, there is no selection. We can see particular choices being taking place not because they are the only ones that are made, but because they are 'also' made, which happens to be in our world.

Cycles

The only reason I've ever found, to hope nature's actions as fair, is her cyclicity.

The justification of our death is nothing but our birth, the justification of end being the beginning. Everything has a balance, it's only a matter of time when it will finish one full cycle.

Back to the 'dots'

Nature tremendously lacks in points of references or specialties of things. Hence much of our advancement in science can be characterized as the removal of 'extra' properties attributed to the concerned concepts. In other words, more than (i mean quantitively) connecting the dots, we are (and probably righteously) severing the unnecssary and wrongful connections made between them. Following this 'heuristic', I wonder, what kind of future is math going to unveil for us? Will it be a total lack of reference and specialties, something like a true randomness where everything is just a choice to be made? Who knows!

Sublime Majesty

The beauty of the mathematics is a never ending fountain. It's probably the sexiest thing out there, the source of all the magnificence and purity in nature.

A positivist's hope

I will indeed be deeply offended, if human quest for the theory of everything, will have to fail because of a sheer amount of the complexity, rather than the nature of it.

The God Delusion

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4321574955310561251&q=god+delusion&total=881&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

I thought, the essence of this was to be more open to the reality, not believing or rejecting things unncessarily. To believe there is no God, is to me, equally meaningless as believing there is one.

We are just too far away in the pursuit of reasoning to either prove or rule out nethin in issues like the origin of everything, including reason itself. To date, we have merely learned to climb up the ladders of reasons. It's too challenging at this moment to find whre that ladder itself coms into existence.

The Hope

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Jimi hindrix

The 'Truth' about Truth

To know the truth is forbidden.