Nobody is dispensable.

My ex-team-lead kept saying this. After about 1 yr working under him; one fine morning, I heard the news that he hung himself in his house. What a pity? A few weeks passed & we didn’t miss him much at work. All the responsibilities he had, were transferred to some other person. The project went on. I think his family would hav moved-on as well.

Each one of us living in this world is very much dispensable. We are utterly trivial comparing the massiveness of this earth & the space around. Every person’s life is to be overwritten by people who follow. The loss of a child or a member of your family or the love of life are all just temporary feelings of sorrow & dejection. Things would eventually come & fill those doleful crevices.

Very recently, I re-learnt the meaning of the feelings: remembering someone & missing someone. The intensity of pain is greater in missing someone than you remember someone. I think remembrance tends more towards happiness. Also, you can’t miss someone all the time. It is so painful & you unconsciously restore to remembering them. Making them dispensable.

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Love is like a food-poison. It becomes a part of your daily intake & gets in your blood stream. You keep thinking that food is good, being totally unaware of its ingredients. You’ll not realize that you are sick until you puke one day. It makes you weak & miserable. All your screws would be loosed & would let things go.

You’ll also enjoy some comfort in going thro’ that suffering. It is like that feeling of liberation when you confess something. Although many would disagree, I think this is the case.

Love sucks until the last drop of your bodily fluid ceases to exist. Period.

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I came across this post at LifeBeyondCode. To quote:

A path where the journey is better than the destination!

Think that journey is very much better only when the final destination is gonna cause some discomfort. Slam those brakes & bring your wagon to a screeching halt when you foresee things to go crazy weird. Although it is hard for your ears & confronts your balance, you get time to re-plan. Assert your desired destination, pull-up your direction maps & re-check your routes. You can go nowhere after you hav reached the original destination. So know where your brakes are.

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Let me reinstate: I’m OK!

Vinod - Straight lines & sharp corners:

Vinod - Smooth & free flow:

Inkscape sources are here.

Which one is likeable?

This is what I call a fictional conspiracy becoming coincidentally predictive!

Change is the one, that is always constant.

The speed of light which you might think to be an universal constant, actually refers to something that is changing. It denotes the rate of change of the position of a photon.

How about the radius of earth? Is it constant? It denotes radius of something that is in self-rotation as well as on the move around the sun. What if the earth stops all its movements? Will its radius be the same? Will it still be spherical (~)?

Did I hear about the mass? Well! Take the mass of anything. What makes a mass? Its protons, neutrons & electrons. All are under constant move.

Leave living-things, even non-living things change. Every mountain grows. Sea levels change. Clouds float to places. Stones roll in diff shapes, the environment around carves it. Tables crack with age. Chairs bend. Oxygen eats metals. Dead bodies disintegrate.

Earth’s gravity, number of chromosomes in humans, your parents (think abt it), your interests - all denote change or will subject to change.

Change is everywhere. Everything surrounding you changes. Embrace change.

(ps: Even the spelling of “Change” can change, you may never be sure of!)

Ambigrams offer interesting ways to write a word. I had quite a good time, creating the ones here. To kill boredom & to spark some fun, here I offer to create 8* ambigrams for the words you want.

Hold on, here are the rules:

• Only bloggers can request an ambigram. This privilege isn’t applicable to Adiya, Aparna & Latha (identification mark: B’s teeth).
• Lets limit to 1 request/blogger. Let it be a fair play.
• If you agree that, “I love you” is a sentence. Sentences can’t be ambigramed (atleast, I donno). Even if it is written as, “ILoveYou”. So no ambigram that you may request shall exceed 2 words.
• All requests are to be via comments of this post only. No direct/personal emails shall be entertained.
• Your request would be accepted, after you answer a question, I may pose, via email.
• This offer closes after 8 requests or on 12th Oct. Whichever comes first.
• All ambigrams will be released in Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.
• Although, I’m committed in completing the requests; there is no deadline. :) I wish you know this.

*My fav number.

Stumbled across, My Sassy Girl yesterday & it was totally entertaining. Guess what? Elisha Cuthbert, is the lead actress. She appears as Jordan R+o+a+r+k; an unpredictive, seemingly arrogant, always drunk, bossy, delusional, yet hawt still beautiful girl. Charlie (Jesse Bradford) the character getting along with Jordan, introduces her like this:

Once in your life, if you are very lucky; you’ll meet the person who divides it; into the time before you met her & the time after.

Thats how the course of events take a ruthless, un-imaginable yet interesting turns, after bumping upon her.

While watching the movie, felt the character of Jordan to be something new for Hollywood (ofcourse, telling this with my limited knowledge). Later learnt it to be a remake of a Korean film.

Elisha’s role is very-much likeable. The background score is pleasant & devoid of any modern sounds. It is disheartening to hear that this movie didn’t make it to the theatres. It is DVD only.

Get your eyes on it & leave your comments.

ps: Wikipedia entry of Elisha says that she was the contender for MJ’s role in SpiderMan. Would hav been awesome, had she gotten the slot.

(if you are a craftsman, skip this portion.)

• Take any porcelain cup & break apart the handle. Or if you are gifted with a maid, who manages to break the handles of the cups you use; you are lucky.
• Measure its circumference C & height H. Divide them with a whole number W, so that the resultants are whole numbers, WC & WH, with a minuscule remainder. ie WC ~= C / W & WH ~= H / W.
• Cut long strips of paper from magazines (no newspapers, specially not TOI) of lengths > C & widths ~ 3W . Fold both the edges inwards along the breath, so that the resulting width is W. Prepare WC + WH many such strips.
• Take your hankie & place within 15 cms from the eye. Watch closely the thread patterns & imagine how it could hav been put together. Your observation & imagination should last atleast for a minute.
• Now take the paper strips, you hav folded & knit them like the threads weaved in your imagination. (You can use the above pic for reference, though.) Use glue to secure the strips in place. Run the strips between, above once & below the other time. Do this keeping the pattern of the cloth, you hav seen in your mind. Pull in the strips closer, to avoid any gaps that may form. Glue all the sides, once the paper-fabric in the making measures  C in length &  H in width.
• Now, time to dress-up. Wrap the whole paper-fabric around the Cup. Secure the sides & the joint with a duct tape.

(If you hav skipped the above text, I guess just by looking at the pic, you would hav gotten a fair idea on how to do one.)

• Prepare for a photo shoot, post it online & leave a link. :)

He1 scratches his head, to find what -1 can be. The number of times that anything is done, can’t be any negative. Can it mean the number of times, a certain thing is un-done? What can be un-done in such a scenario? He1 could not comprehend.

Simply ignoring the sign, would make it 1. He2 could hav said it to be just once. Ho! come on, it can’t be just once. He1 knows the intimacy between He2 & his GF.

What could be minus one? He1 goes back to his PC & writes a program having the following line:

printf(”Minus one means: %u”, -1);

The terminal blurts:

Minus one means: 4294967295

Shocked to see such a big number. He1 decides to spoil the rest of his day.

Minus One actually means Countless in English.