A Solid Tune

Memories.....

Something that needs reiterating

I have said this before, and I say it again

Vir Sanghvi is a twat.... 'horrible ctc tea' indeed, he wouldn't know good tea if it bit him in the ass.

Anyway, enough of twats, here’s a nice track.

Some odd rants

Sometimes I think Jawed Naqvi is such an idiot. He writes for The Dawn, a newspaper from Pakistan. He is a perceptive person. He even writes well, for a sub-continental journalist [I think most of the Indian journos are functionally illiterate].

Recently, he wrote about Pervez Musharraf attending the India Today Conclave and the indulging audience. Indulging as in not how you would a child, but a defanged cobra. You know, once upon a time, he had bite; now it’s just the eviscerated risk that tingles the spine. I wouldn’t even say useless or purposeless, there is value in throwing words around, eliciting responses, if only the interaction serves the purpose that we know each other better; not even liking, just knowing.

For some, I think it’s just the maturity of the audience that comprehends this and takes delight in a vitriolic engagement with him. But, of course, Mr. Naqvi misses the point of all this. He builds it up, and in the end all that he manages to say is that there are Indians and Pakistanis with different viewpoints.

What a let down!

What is he trying to do? Establish a baseline from which we start our narrative journey together?

Or merely being lazy. I am very lazy myself and I recognise the symptoms. This is not a laziness of the body, this is a laziness of the mind. Unfortunately, this is a growing tendency.

With all this cornucopia of information and ease of access, in the modern age, to both disseminate and to seek out, and believe in things that one thinks are right; we still have not inculcated the the ability to break things down. To ask ourselves how things are and why things are?

I still find it ridiculous how people still don’t believe in evolution. Anybody who has looked at fossils and looks at the associated timeline, the truth of evolution just stares in the face. David Attenborough puts it so well in the video below.

And just to reiterate, yes, Theory is not a word used loosely by scientists. Theory has a very specific meaning and connotation. That we have evolved is doubtless, the theory explains the hows and whys of it.

Just because there is a Theory of Gravity, doesn’t mean gravity doesn’t exist. The theory seeks to explain its origin, occurrence and behaviour. Just by saying no geewhiz, that ain’t what my granma told me, you can’t step off a 6 story building and not expect to break your bones.

And coming back to Mr. Naqvi, what does your article mean?  Does it make any point at all beyond the obvious? Something that….. that I could not gather by not being there? Does it?

Great ingredients for the article, but what a wasted recipe.

I am being very harsh on Mr. Naqvi, but it is only because I enjoy his writing. Its just the sum of his parts don’t lead to a greater whole.  In contrasts, most Indian jounos, print and especially TV, just make me want to hurl. Whether it is reporting on a mermaid find, what Bush wrote to Obama and other khufiya khabre. You know who you are.The Real Fucking Idiots.

Canvas for OneNote

Loving it so far. Mind you it’s in kinda beta (An Office Labs Project) so there are some kinks, especially the ease of picking boxes and moving them around when they are quite mashed in, and some general behaviour issues aren’t yet fully polished.

Presently, Canvas allows you to review your Notes much more efficiently. The previous tab type navigation got a little confusing if you had too many tabs open. Sure you could always reorganise it to make it easier to get around. But take a look below. This is what it looks like fullscreen. Now these containers make it much easier, not only to move notes around, but also to make sure you’re not missing out on anything. You can visually cover more notes in one go.

One things I was curious about was this,

The headings seem to be in vector graphics. You can keep on zooming in, and it will still render beautifully. But the main body of the note doesn’t hold up so well when zooming. Definitely not a must have, but would look much nicer.

Laughing my ass off

The Oldest Tree in the World

Methuselah, a bristlecone pine, the oldest tree in the world. 4,768 years old. Secret location in California, at the height of 3,050 metres.

Time for a classic

Test

Great this sucks

Dilemma

I have high BMI and I need to lose weight. So I started exercising. But because of my weight my knees have got inflamed and got something called IBFS.

So:

> I need to lose weight

> For which I need to exercise

> But exercising shot my knee

> And before I can start exercising again I need to lose weight

> Wtf is the point?

Well there are ways, but I was hoping this wouldn’t get complicated. The universe definitely doesn’t love me.