I wonder why,
I wonder why I wonder,
I wonder why,
I wonder why,
I wonder why I wonder.
Richard Feynman,
the most useless physicist ever :)
Monday 12 November 2012
Wonder
I wonder why,
I wonder why,
I wonder why I wonder,
I wonder why,
I wonder why,
I wonder why I wonder.
I wonder why,
I wonder why I wonder,
I wonder why,
I wonder why,
I wonder why I wonder.
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Thursday 27 September 2012
Saturday 8 September 2012
Flat tire/tyre
Its Saturday, it means sleep till late, get up, have tea, go to the living room, sit on the couch, get up go to the bed room, free fall on the bed, get up in an hour, repeat the routine. By lunch time when you start feeling hungry take your car go to market buy chicken and chips, come back, watch BBC Sherlock and enjoy the lunch. This is not the Sheldonian calender. It is what most of me do. But as we all have known, this is not a perfect world and I got to face the reality the harder way.
I was coming back from the market after buying my ritualistic lunch when I felt strange vibrations. My eighth sense told me something is wrong but I thought I will look into it once I am home. Reached home and I saw the horror. One of my car's tire/tyre was flat. Damn it. My first flat.
Look up the internet how to change the flat tire. Its easy. Looking up the internet not changing the tire. Instructions for changing tire:
1) Put the jack a**
2) Remove the thing which used to look like the tire
3) Put the thing which still looks like tire
4) Remove the jack a**
Not too bad. Easy to follow. One question though. Where do I find the jack? Ohh its in the boot of the car. And see what else I found, its the new tire. Wait a min, it says temporary fix. Ok we will worry about it tomorrow.
Next problem, where do I put the jack. It took me almost 30 mins to find out the right spot. Lifted the car. Started unscrewing the tire. Damn it, I have to do it while the tire is on the ground. Lower the car, unscrew the tire (not fully though), lift the car, remove the flat tire, put the fresh tire (the temporary fix) and voila we are ready to rock.
Its already half past four in the evening. If I wait little longer I might straight go for dinner. All the glorious plans are ruined. No Sherlock, no coffee at the corner cafe, no searching for latest trailers on youtube. But I guess this is the lesson for the life. Never change your own flat tires.
Shabba Khair
Sandeep K Goyal
I was coming back from the market after buying my ritualistic lunch when I felt strange vibrations. My eighth sense told me something is wrong but I thought I will look into it once I am home. Reached home and I saw the horror. One of my car's tire/tyre was flat. Damn it. My first flat.
Look up the internet how to change the flat tire. Its easy. Looking up the internet not changing the tire. Instructions for changing tire:
1) Put the jack a**
2) Remove the thing which used to look like the tire
3) Put the thing which still looks like tire
4) Remove the jack a**
Not too bad. Easy to follow. One question though. Where do I find the jack? Ohh its in the boot of the car. And see what else I found, its the new tire. Wait a min, it says temporary fix. Ok we will worry about it tomorrow.
Next problem, where do I put the jack. It took me almost 30 mins to find out the right spot. Lifted the car. Started unscrewing the tire. Damn it, I have to do it while the tire is on the ground. Lower the car, unscrew the tire (not fully though), lift the car, remove the flat tire, put the fresh tire (the temporary fix) and voila we are ready to rock.
Its already half past four in the evening. If I wait little longer I might straight go for dinner. All the glorious plans are ruined. No Sherlock, no coffee at the corner cafe, no searching for latest trailers on youtube. But I guess this is the lesson for the life. Never change your own flat tires.
Shabba Khair
Sandeep K Goyal
Monday 27 August 2012
Comedy of Errors
Some of my close friends know me very well. They know that I cant spell any word longer than three letter, with hundred percent confidence. Thanks to the spell checks on almost all computer applications that I am able to write these blogs.
I don't know why it happens but I often spell 'with' with 'withe'. I have wasted a lot of time on the word 'waste'. I sometime spell it 'vaste' some other times 'wast'. Receiving the wisdom from Somdeb made me realize that I am almost always wrong in spelling 'receive'. Its almost always 'recieve'.
It was tough to spell 'though' though I could spell 'tough' very well. May be that was the problem, I used to interchange them absent mindedly.
The problem is/was not just with spelling words. I often interchange the words in well known phrases. For example, 'tongue of slip', 'thought of trains'. Fortunately, the problem never came to the point that I misspelled single letter words. Though when I first came to Matscience, Chennai, one of the prof asked me to write 'm' on the board and I asked him "can you please spell it for me?". (In my defence, the south Indian pronunciation for 'm' is 'yamm'. So I was confused why is he asking me to write some meaningless word on the wall.)
Anyway, the point of this post is to advertise an interesting website I stumbled upon today. Its called 'Common error in English usage'. I hope some of you (whoever is jobless) find some use of it.
Live long and prosper!!!
I don't know why it happens but I often spell 'with' with 'withe'. I have wasted a lot of time on the word 'waste'. I sometime spell it 'vaste' some other times 'wast'. Receiving the wisdom from Somdeb made me realize that I am almost always wrong in spelling 'receive'. Its almost always 'recieve'.
It was tough to spell 'though' though I could spell 'tough' very well. May be that was the problem, I used to interchange them absent mindedly.
The problem is/was not just with spelling words. I often interchange the words in well known phrases. For example, 'tongue of slip', 'thought of trains'. Fortunately, the problem never came to the point that I misspelled single letter words. Though when I first came to Matscience, Chennai, one of the prof asked me to write 'm' on the board and I asked him "can you please spell it for me?". (In my defence, the south Indian pronunciation for 'm' is 'yamm'. So I was confused why is he asking me to write some meaningless word on the wall.)
Anyway, the point of this post is to advertise an interesting website I stumbled upon today. Its called 'Common error in English usage'. I hope some of you (whoever is jobless) find some use of it.
Live long and prosper!!!
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Life
Door sahil aa raha tha nazar,
bas pal bhar ki doori thi,
hum use dekh paa rahe the,
woh raat bahut andheri thi,
apne saath chor gaye,
kashti meri doob gayi,
woh raat bahut andheri thi,
woh raat bahut andheri thi,
apne yaad aane lage,
hum bhi muskurane lage,
muskurana sikha humne,
gam bhulana sikha humne,
hum phir chal pade raste par,
manjil nazar aane lagi,
apno so milne ki,
chahat rang laane lagi,
yaad woh karwan aaya,
kuch khusiyan kuch gam bhi laya,
woh saare gam woh saari yaadein aankhon ki chilman par bas chap jaane lagi,
woh mera antim din tha,
aakhir sahil paa liya humne,
saare arman poore huye,
bas aankhein mund jaane lagi,
bas aankhein mund jaane lagi.
bas pal bhar ki doori thi,
hum use dekh paa rahe the,
woh raat bahut andheri thi,
apne saath chor gaye,
kashti meri doob gayi,
woh raat bahut andheri thi,
woh raat bahut andheri thi,
apne yaad aane lage,
hum bhi muskurane lage,
muskurana sikha humne,
gam bhulana sikha humne,
hum phir chal pade raste par,
manjil nazar aane lagi,
apno so milne ki,
chahat rang laane lagi,
yaad woh karwan aaya,
kuch khusiyan kuch gam bhi laya,
woh saare gam woh saari yaadein aankhon ki chilman par bas chap jaane lagi,
woh mera antim din tha,
aakhir sahil paa liya humne,
saare arman poore huye,
bas aankhein mund jaane lagi,
bas aankhein mund jaane lagi.
Sunday 29 April 2012
The coffee machine
I got up with a great irritation as my mobile cum alarm clock starting going mad at 6 in the morning. After couple of snoozes I got up, took shower and was ready to leave the apartment by 7:15. I reached my office by 8:30 and the first thing I need is coffee. Damn it the coffee machine is not working. It is working and not working at the same time. Its hardly a surprise as the name of the coffee bar itself is hbar, not a classic bar. So these kind of things are bound to happen as the place is bound to haunted by the dead and alive Schrodinger's cat.
The problem with the coffee machine is that it always shows the message 'please fill the water tank' even when the water tank is overflowing. People have tried a number of solutions. One cult following Prof X, the founder of that cult, believed that if you tap the message screen, the machine will work. It did indeed, occasionally, with a success probability of half. Another group of people believe that Dr S is a holy spirit and the machine responds to his touch. There are people who do the daily ritual of taking out the water tank and cleaning the contact area of the machine and the water tank in the hope that the machine will work.
Equally interesting is a group of people who don't believe in such superstitions or they don't want to believe in such things openly. Though one can often find them using the concoction of different methods which, if you ask them publicly, are superstitions.
I went there, took out the water tank from the coffee machine, shook it a bit till a small plastic cube inside a tube in the water tank lifted up. I replaced the water tank back and the machine allowed me to prepare my coffee. I think the machine like to be tickled or it knows who are sincere to it. And I think that the machine thinks ( if it can) that I am sincere to it because, thanks to my friend Dr A who told me this trick (or the logic behind the water tank mystery), it always allows me to get my coffee.
Dr A told me this logic a while age and since then I tried to spread the words as much as I could. But then the other methods also are working is not it. If sometime they do not work, probably the reason is that they did not do it right. Their methods are as sound as my, just that their methods are more delicate and require high precision. Like you need to tap the screen at exactly the right spot. The spot can change on daily basis. So you need to tap at several places to locate the right position of the spot. The position of the spot can change even on tapping. So there is no guaranty that the position of the spot you have just found is the same after you have tapped it. If the stars are not at the right position then the holyness of the holy spirit can also change and one may not get the coffee.
Therefore, saying that my methods are more robust is just an opinion. In fact all the facts are just opinions. And a person in the right state of mind does not have opinions. I don't want to impose my opinions on anyone now and sip my coffee in peace while others are still trying to find the right spot.
The problem with the coffee machine is that it always shows the message 'please fill the water tank' even when the water tank is overflowing. People have tried a number of solutions. One cult following Prof X, the founder of that cult, believed that if you tap the message screen, the machine will work. It did indeed, occasionally, with a success probability of half. Another group of people believe that Dr S is a holy spirit and the machine responds to his touch. There are people who do the daily ritual of taking out the water tank and cleaning the contact area of the machine and the water tank in the hope that the machine will work.
Equally interesting is a group of people who don't believe in such superstitions or they don't want to believe in such things openly. Though one can often find them using the concoction of different methods which, if you ask them publicly, are superstitions.
I went there, took out the water tank from the coffee machine, shook it a bit till a small plastic cube inside a tube in the water tank lifted up. I replaced the water tank back and the machine allowed me to prepare my coffee. I think the machine like to be tickled or it knows who are sincere to it. And I think that the machine thinks ( if it can) that I am sincere to it because, thanks to my friend Dr A who told me this trick (or the logic behind the water tank mystery), it always allows me to get my coffee.
Dr A told me this logic a while age and since then I tried to spread the words as much as I could. But then the other methods also are working is not it. If sometime they do not work, probably the reason is that they did not do it right. Their methods are as sound as my, just that their methods are more delicate and require high precision. Like you need to tap the screen at exactly the right spot. The spot can change on daily basis. So you need to tap at several places to locate the right position of the spot. The position of the spot can change even on tapping. So there is no guaranty that the position of the spot you have just found is the same after you have tapped it. If the stars are not at the right position then the holyness of the holy spirit can also change and one may not get the coffee.
Therefore, saying that my methods are more robust is just an opinion. In fact all the facts are just opinions. And a person in the right state of mind does not have opinions. I don't want to impose my opinions on anyone now and sip my coffee in peace while others are still trying to find the right spot.
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