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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 →]
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7 Comments »Let me be clear right away – this is not a review of that classic movie starring Al Pacino. I will write that one soon, this – this is different. This post is about the dangerous roads of Sangli city (more of a village with loads of malls and zero industries – my hometown). Going by Pune standards, where the municipal corporation is supposedly organizing motocross for inhabitants – the roads of Sangli are much safer in a constructional manner. Problem, as the title suggests, is dogs.
With that crazy old stupid lady Maneka Gandhi fighting, god knows why, for animals instead of putting that crooked mind of hers to some better use, the streets of Sangli are populated by dogs. In fact, during nights, after 2300 hours, more dogs can be found on roads than human beings.
So, as it turns out, dogs scare the shit out of me. I run away faster than a race horse if I see dogs approaching me from any angle (pun intended). One night, I was coming home from a long study session at my college’s study room. It was almost 0230 hours and I had almost reached my home – almost and suddenly, a pack of stray dogs started chasing me on my bike. Thankfully, with my elite driving skills, I was able to avoid any accident and could get rid of the ‘tail’ (again, pun intended – ever since I saw Sheldon and the sarcasm sign, I have been giving these comments out for people with nonexistent knowledge about these things). [Read more →]
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1 Comment »Australianism: Single-minded determination to win – to win within the laws but, if necessary, to the last limit within them. It means where the ‘impossible‘ is within the realm of what the human body can do, there are Australians who believe that they can do it – and who have succeeded often enough to make us wonder if anything is impossible to them. It means they have never lost a match – particularly a Test match – until the last run is scored or their last wicket down.
Take a bow Michael Hussey and Cameron White. Australians prevail again in an outstanding match – one of the best matches I have seen in this format of the game. Plus it included a win for my all time favorite team and a loss for Pakistan. I am head over heels today. 
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