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4 Comments »Inception – the movie which changed the way many people look at things. At least that was what I heard when the movie came out. Everyone was talking about it. The graphics, the soundtrack, the acting… the story. It is a good movie, one of the better movies of late and I respect Nolan for that.
Many people have raised questions about the movie. The initial concept, lack of information about the device that lets you tap into someone else’s mind, the dreams within the dreams… People say he has not explained things clearly and that there are a lot of lose ends to be tied up. One of the questions everyone asks is – what exactly is the device? How can you go into someone else’s dreams? I don’t want to get into that argument in this post. There are a lot of movies which do not answer a lot of questions.
Then I stumbled upon an episode of SouthPark. Insheeption. It’s a parody of Inception and I like it more than the movie in a way 
(I know I am comparing Linux with BSD here). The way they have done things is unique. The dialogs like taco inside a taco inside a Taco Bell inside a McDonalds inside a mall…. you get the point. It’s a very funny, well written and properly executed script. A must watch for all Inception fans and haters alike. [Read more →]
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1 Comment »It’s been more than 5 months since coming to LA. I’ve been a lousy writer for the past few months. Come to think of it – I have been a lousy writer forever. Except, of course, when I write technical stuff. I planned to write something a lot of times. I couldn’t. There was nothing to write about. Nothing that fit. I recently came across a post by one of my friends, Aniket Awati. He’s a lousy writer as well. More or less as infrequent as I am. But he came out of the shell before I did.
He wrote about dreams. What they are, what they mean. How people try to find some meaning where in reality – there exists none. There’s a similar concept explored in one of the books I read. Fooled by Randomness. It’s about people. People who try to find patterns. People who try to find patterns where none exist.
Human brains are hardwired to think in a particular way. People who do not suffer low latent inhibition. People like you. Humans are weak. They are aware of everything that happens around them but they don’t like to admit it. The need to explain everything. The need to find the reason. The weakness.
There is no higher cause or greater good. It’s all random. It’s all white. It has no definite aim or purpose; not sent or guided in a particular direction; made, done, occurring, without method or conscious choice; haphazard.
People think of things. They think more about the causes of the events. They don’t like to think about the events themselves. Nothing fits a model. Nothing…. [Read more →]