Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae

At The End of Questions?

2008-05-30T18:47:00.004-04:00

It has been a truly awesome run on this here blog. But the time has come to call it quits - well, to make official a really long vacation anyway - one that began some time ago I think. Why? Maybe...

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Nostalgia

2008-04-07T05:59:00.002-04:00

Insomnia and Nostalgia are best buds. Together they also make for quite an overwhelming guilt trip. Guilt part one is immediate, for the day that looms. The realization that I may be screwing up the...

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Incomprehension

2008-03-21T18:07:00.003-04:00

I've really been ignoring QQP for these past weeks... Started updating Diwan-E-Flix with some regularity - but that's died down some too. I have at least four movies I want to write about, Definitely...

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Announcement: Diwan-E-Flix

2008-01-19T14:35:00.000-05:00

I finally got around to doing what I've been planning to do for quite some time now: I started a dedicated blog for my movie reviews. It is called Diwan-E-Flix (clicky!) and will from here on be the...

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The Lens of Self

2008-01-01T10:26:00.000-05:00

I often circle around an obvious thought or idea warily, like a puppy sizing up a grasshopper. I approach it from many angles, name it haltingly, and yet in too many words that make up extremely long...

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2007 Is Done

2007-12-29T10:46:00.000-05:00

It's a wrap - again! Another year in the can (well, almost); a more eventful year than the last. It was an inflexion year with major decisions and changes, enriching experiences, and a bit of...

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My Year In Movies - 2007

2007-12-25T08:26:00.000-05:00

This is a followup to a similar post just about a year ago, also called My Year In Movies. 2007 was almost entirely a year in movies for me. I've seen at least 39 movies in the theatre this year,...

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Four Reviews and Oscar Guesses

2007-12-22T12:17:00.000-05:00

I'd been meaning to post a review of "American Gangster" for some time now as it is one of the best I've seen in 2007. I never got around to it. Last week, I decided I'd do a two-fer and post a...

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Mighty Heartless Compass

2007-12-11T18:08:00.000-05:00

The movie-watching continues for us, and this week (amongst others) we saw two movies as different apples and oranges. The first was "A Mighty Heart" starring Angelina Jolie, based on events...

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A Revolution, Reloaded

2007-12-05T18:11:00.000-05:00

We finished watching (in my case, for at least the sixth time) the Matrix trilogy from the Wachowski Brothers this weekend. What follows is a rumination to add on top of several knee-jerk reactions/...

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Back? To the Future?

2007-11-23T18:37:00.000-05:00

A dimly remembered childhood memory: My cousin Raju dada, a guy I idolized for being older, wiser, and an electronics wizard to boot, sits me down and spins me a yarn. He tells the story of a man who...

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Science as Magic

2007-11-21T06:34:00.000-05:00

This post is perhaps kin to Truth, Bliss, and an Epicure which I wrote a long time ago. It started as a message board post on one of the internet forums I hang out on. Thought it was good enough and...

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Google Disaster Recovery

2007-11-15T17:32:00.000-05:00

I went in to work this morning and habitually logged on to Google Reader to catch up on all the different websites I like to get updates from (my shared feed on the right hand side of this blog will...

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Adding Value, Selling Smart

2007-11-10T12:55:00.000-05:00

This topic and this post is going to seem a little out of the blue. :) This is a ad-lib response to a post my friend Uday made on his blog (http://learningsalesman.blogspot.com/), in turn replying...

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Pax Americana: Omens for the 21st Century

2007-11-07T09:36:00.000-05:00

Nothing new here I s'pose, just a rant on international relations, US power, and the 21st century. This is like a 'macropolitical' sequel to Pax Americana. Pax Americana: Omens for the 21st...

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My Big Movie Database

2007-10-26T04:34:00.000-04:00

About four years ago or so (in my pre-blog days) I made a list of movies. It was one of my many 'idle-time' projects, and I was being the obsessive compulsive data analyst that I can often be. I made...

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Flux Indica

2007-10-16T16:00:00.000-04:00

This post I fancy as a follow up piece to Pax Americana and it stems from my experience of working out of India (Hyderabad) this past July/ August after nearly two and a half years in the US... Flux...

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Expanding Horizons

2007-10-14T08:18:00.000-04:00

What’s a few missing months between friends, eh? I mean sure... some stuff happened and I didn't write about it... I got married in an extended dose of pure Kafka (wont blog about it or my family...

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The Skittish God

2007-06-29T09:58:00.000-04:00

Have been tossing this poem around for some time now, but never got around to polishing it up. Anyway... thought I'd put it out there just to clear up my quota of drafts before I leave for...

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A Climax of Ages - (Conclusion)

2007-06-19T11:31:00.000-04:00

Here we are, back after a long, long time. Ha! Thought I wouldn't come back to this series, hadn't you? Well, it has been over a year since my last post in it, but I am both less deterred by lack of...

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Without Beginning Or End

2007-06-13T10:51:00.000-04:00

It has been some time since I wrote a standalone work of fiction. What follows is not necessarily standalone - it is in fact a deviant part of the larger universe I've been charting out/ planning to...

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Pax Americana

2007-06-07T09:48:00.000-04:00

Advance warning - This promises to be a ramble, because it is an attempt to consolidate and streamline a lot of thoughts and threads of thoughts in my head into some kind of sense. I've been thinking...

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The Hyperwill Zone

2007-06-05T09:43:00.000-04:00

Last night I made a trip to the Zone. The Zone is a wonderful place. I don't enter it nearly often enough, but when I do it is a terribly satisfying experience. It is (funnily enough) never...

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Life Stories

2007-06-01T14:08:00.001-04:00

So here we are again! Another Friday, 2 PM, and once more my work ethic has on an early sabbath. Once more, my mind is tingling with a zillion thoughts, but today I shall write about only one. Read...

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Seven Posts

2007-05-25T10:36:00.000-04:00

Seven threads of thought running in your mind simultaneously can be pretty overwhelming. The gods of the mind demand catharsis. My penseive beckons, and aye, blogging is the only propitiation those...

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