Monday, July 12, 2010

The Wall Project

It takes 10 hours for one man to build a wall.

How many hours will it take for two people?

two very objective men would take < 5 hours (mathematical answer)

why did the wall need to be built?

let's have a mtg and draw up a project plan

let's talk about the wall and what benefits it brings

let's outsource the wall project

let us show a picture of the wall and pocket the budget

close your eyes and feel the wall

Friday, May 14, 2010

Communication

Me: Hey dude, movie x is playing at theatre y at 7, u up for it?

Dude: yes

Me: see ya at 7

hang up

wifey: hey did you know there is this movie
Dudette: yeah the heroine was wearing this shadey lipstick in that other movie

wifey: yeah she has no dress sense, matches purple with mango

D: did you see the other day....
.....
... two hours later Dude and I got out of the movie, and wifey was still on the phone completey mindless of the fact that the origin of the call was for the movie

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Of money and life

Is it ironic that one fights hard to earn a living but is worth more dead than alive.

God and logic

I am not a religious person i.e. go to hanuman temple on tuesday kind (dunno if that is the right day).

But the thought that making an offering to the lord to appease him be it the orientation of stars or some other plausible reason..... it seems outrageous.

God is all knowing entity. If we try to appease him he knows it. How do you please someone who is all knowing, he is aware (God could be female but that is another discussion) of everything.

Here's my prayer:
It is not a coincidence or randomness that I was born , that I was born to certain parents. It was a privilege and has given me a head start. Oh lord give me the strength to achieve all that I can, help my fellow beings to achieve their potential. I am motivated help me be motivating.

Your truly.
You know who it is.

I am grateful for who I am and consider it blasphemy not to reach the true potential of my god given abilities. There seems to be a conflict of objectivity and a supreme being. If I set my ego aside I know I could have been somebody else but I also think (faith ) that it is not a chance/randomness of who I am.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Perspectives/interpretation

So three couples (X Y Z for convenience and mathematical habit)meet over for dinner on a saturday. Their age is past the phase where pubs don't hold any cool factor and drinking is limited due to doctors orders.

X asks Y - what was your most memorable moment when you were dating?

There was a significant pause, where Z was thinking - Man that took a while, that is sad if one does not have any incident on the tip of their tongue.

X smiled and said - Darn it Y pick one if you have so many to choose from.



Tuesday, February 3, 2009

mathematical relationships

A rel B
B rel C
then A rel C

rel could be equality or greater than or less than
The first two sentences are true then the third is true

However if rel = like or get along then third sentence is not true e.g.

A get along with B (great friends)
B gets along with C (BFF)

This does not mean A and C will be friends or will get along well.

So much for relational mechanics

Monday, October 27, 2008

I am going to library

My friend declared.

Now this was a little off, because for all the time he claimed to have spent in the library his grades did not somehow reflect it.

This was in my undergrad, the secret was out when we accedentally walked past the swimming pool when the library bound friend was walking in arms with a carbon based female life form. His sheepish grin and our dropped jaws and the shocking expression on the lady's face remained imprinted in my memory for a few turns of the calendar till now.

Fast forward half a decade or more during my masters, my neighbour claimed he was going to the library. Not paying much attention I just nodded and asked him if he could return a few books. His eyes grew about 200% which again went unnoticed because I was preoccupied with saving a trip and avoiding late fees.

A few days later I recieve an email asking me to return the books which should have raised a ochre flag, assuming the incompetence of the spectacled book wormy librarian I let it slide.

When my neighbour claimed to visit the abode of books I merely mentioned I was headed there as well adn he immediately changed his mind to catch a later bus. Hmmm went a light bulb in my head which was extinguished right away with some random thought of curry.

Later he was found in the arms of a giggly senior in the back of the international society of some sort. The same story repeated during my visit to a friend in Portland Oregon where my room mates friend was going to the library. The fact that he was dressed well with perfume and had no books or even a hint of a pencil went over our dim witted heads.

On our way to get some refreshments we met him on the sidewalk hand in hand with an asian woman in tow. Our eyes popped out like Jim carey in the mask specially when a usually dabur oiled hair now sports a slick gelled spikes.

There are quite a few other verifiable incidents along with the above which lead me to giving a curled eye look to any one claiming to go to the library.