Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Awake ... and this is October

»» Okay, this would be my first post on the new upgraded version of Blogger. This upgrade should have happened many years ago. While others like Wordpress and Tumblr reached the moon, Blogger was still building a boat to cross a river. At least, finally now it has managed to catch up with the others. Oh, and why did I persist with this dinosaur-like blogging platform for so long, you may ask. I can only attribute my dedication to Blogger to my laziness and the reluctance to change my blog URL. Anyhow, google has finally deigned that Blogger needs to be improved, and lo, behold, it has!

«« Why haven't I posted in September? Oh, in case you haven't noticed, over the past year, I have been striving to at least post once a month. And I have managed to maintain the trend. Until September of course. My excuse? I was to wake up when September ends :P. Okay okay, that is quite a cliche now :P. Truth be told, it didn't cross my mind until towards the end of September. And then, surprise of surprises, I was so caught up with work and other activities, that I barely had time to sit down and procrastinate. Of course, such rare busy'ness does bring out my inherently awesome writing abilities. But in this case, they were being put  to task for writing the research papers rather than inane blog posts (this shouldn't be construed as a claim that the research papers are extremely important :P ).  In the end, I decided to let September pass by without a blog-post rather than forcing out a pointless, mediocre post (clearly, the same reasoning doesn't seem to hold for October).

«« Working with the real world is way more painful than meddling around with things that only exist in simulations or in the abstract domain of mathematics. And this real world pain arises out of two things: hardware and humans (or replace 'humans' with 'unaware', to maintain consistency :P). Hardware works or doesn't work as per its fancy. When it works, you start frantically figuring out why it is finally working, and before you make any progress, it would stop working. Then you spend time figuring out why it worked initially. The cycle continues until you replace the hardware and begin a new cycle or, you replace the task and not need the hardware :P.  And as about humans, they are erratic, irrational and afraid of everything. They might exhibit these essential behaviours through an assortment of other annoying characteristics... 

Does the above sound like I might be a supporter of the creation of the Matrix?

5 comments:

Pranav said...

I dislike the condescending tone towards the humans!

obelix said...

i like the second paragraph the most.

i however do think that all pointless mediocre things should be posted. one man's pointless mediocre is another man's something else

since your post has three paragraphs i feel oddly compelled to write three paragraphs of comments. unfortunately, i have run out of things to say so i am actually just typing out whatever comes into my head over here which remarkably looks a lot like rambuctuous rambling to the untrained observer of weed-smoking hippopotamuses. a hippopotamuse is a hippopotamus that once served as a muse.

PS: what is the point of upgrading to the new blogger if the image that comes up for the captcha is not rendered on the browser.

SRILAXMI said...

Rama,

How do u manage to make a complete post out of nothing... n make it readable too... m not being sarcy here, its such an art...

nice post...

SRI

Kunal said...

How come even when you write gibberish, I enjoy reading it? :)

And Google must make a button to like a comment just for obelix's comment.

mythalez said...

@pranav, you love people too much :P

@obelix, i can only say, 'wah wah'

@sri,hehe .. thanks :D

@kunal, you will definitely enjoy my next post .. and that one isn't even gibberish :P