Medley Musings

Balance Technology

2015-02-19T00:51:00.001+01:00

Technology must help us find balance in our lives. They should help us, assist us, without getting in the way, without immersing ourselves into it and without addicting us to them.

In terms of Avatar World, it must help us find balance between the spirit world and the physical world, in our case, the physical world and the technological world.

Software Design

2014-09-29T20:37:00.000+02:00

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare

2014-06-01T23:06:00.000+02:00

"For humans, honesty is a matter of degree. Engineers are always honest in matters of technology and human relationships. That's why it's a good idea to keep engineers away from customers, romantic interests, and other people who can't handle the truth."

The Dilbert Principle

2014-02-09T16:43:00.000+01:00

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. -- Robert A. Heinlein

Max Muller on Vedanta's Boldness

2014-01-16T08:45:00.000+01:00

"It is surely astounding that such a system as the Vedanta should have been slowly elaborated by the indefatigable and intrepid thinkers of India thousands of years ago, a system that even now makes us feel giddy, as in mounting the last steps of the swaying spire of an ancient Gothic cathedral. None of our philosophers, not excepting Heraclitus, Plato, Kant, or Hegel, has ventured to erect such a spire, never frightened by storms or lightening. Stone follows on stone in regular succession after once the first step has been made, after once it has been clearly seen that in the beginning there can have been but One, as there will be but One in the end, whether we call it Atman or Brahman." ---- Max Muller (Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, p.182)

The Importance of Play-Time

2014-01-01T09:35:00.000+01:00

The lack of free-play time in children's lives is negatively affecting their holistic growth and in-turn also is being detrimental for our society as a whole. This implication might not been visibly outright and its quite probable that someone might say that they don't see the effect of the 'play deficit'. Moreover, it is not uncommon to find lobbyists supporting the growing play deficit. I would suggest everyone to please have a look at this interesting article, 'The Play Deficit' (courtesy: http://aeon.co)

Its so true, especially in India since the last decade. The importance of unsupervised play for children are being ignored and children are undemocratically and continuosuly involved in adult-directed activities.

Yes, it is also because of the rat race we have put ourselves in. And the unfortunate fact is that, it is very confounding to realise the true state of this affair, since we ourselves are part of this race, the elusive carrot dangling infront of us all through our life and we have seldom (if not never) exercised 'independent thinking' without any apriori bias (which is a result of most modern educational paradigms).

2013-12-28T15:43:00.002+01:00

“People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.”
― Seth Godin

Linux World Map

2013-12-20T16:53:00.004+01:00

(courtesy: http://www.dedoimedo.com)

2013-12-16T15:49:00.001+01:00

Someone told me that Unix is configurable to the point of collapse. (source: http://goo.gl/KoRpJg)

2013-12-16T12:41:00.002+01:00

“The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” -- Isaac Asimov

Global Gender Gap Index 2013

2013-10-25T18:59:00.002+02:00

http://widgets.weforum.org/gender-gap-heat-map/

courtesy: world economic forum

2013-10-20T10:44:00.001+02:00

"Most [people] have the ridiculous notion that anything they do which produces an income is work — and that anything they do outside ‘working’ hours is play. There is no logic to that."
-- Lewis Hyde (Author, Poet and Scholar)

2013-10-14T17:22:00.004+02:00

"The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything."
-- Ray Bradbury

2013-10-07T19:34:00.004+02:00

"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination."
---- Vin Scully

2013-10-02T08:26:00.003+02:00

If one must know only about one contemporary Indian,
one must know about 'M.K. Gandhi' a.k.a. Mahatma Gandhi ('Mahatma' meaning 'Great Souled').

"Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth."
--Albert Einstein, published in Out of My Later Years (1950).

2013-09-30T18:00:00.004+02:00

“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
-- Emerson Pugh, 1938, in an assessment of brain research.

Infinite space, Infinite meaning, Infinite dimension

2013-09-28T16:22:00.002+02:00

" Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living." -- Anais Nin (1903-1977), Writer

2013-09-26T10:10:00.003+02:00

“But in a purely data-driven approach, I can’t explain my decisions. People are so enamored with the data-driven approach that they believe correlation is sufficient.”
--- Dr. David Ferrucci, I.B.M. researcher who led the development of Watson, an artificial intelligence engine.

2013-08-10T21:47:00.000+02:00

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

2013-08-08T12:15:00.002+02:00

Apache by Fatboy Slim on Grooveshark

2013-08-03T21:25:00.001+02:00

Mind: There is so much to do. Don't know where to start from?
Gut: Start from the starting.

Linux distro with 53 windows managers

2013-07-22T22:15:00.001+02:00

I have always been playing with window-managers. Curently i use i3 and i love it. I came across this distro which is live iso with 53 different wm rolled inside it. And they named it Gangbang... ha ha...it contains even the sawfish wm. :)

Gangbang from Linux BBQ

xkcd

2013-07-20T15:03:00.005+02:00

courtesy:http://xkcd.com/1239/

2013-06-10T19:34:00.000+02:00

“Life on Bitcoin”: These newlyweds plan to live for 90 days entirely on bitcoin, and film the whole thing (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On June 10, 2013Bitcoin has received heaps of attention recently from tech early adopters and the mainstream media alike. It’s been a wild last six months which has seen the value of the virtual currency grow more than tenfold and then fall half as much, as well as the government…

2013-05-30T16:52:00.002+02:00

Maximum Overdrive .