1st December, 2006
I waltz into office at 9:16 am. This event merits mention because in my 1 year and 10 months in this company I've not seen office before 10 am. Such are the inexorable pleasures of flexible timing.
What actually made me do this ?
Insomnia, commonly understood as chronic inability to sleep. In my case, insomnia is more like fear of sleep.
Welcome to the real world.
THE END
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Questions & Answers
Idleness + Tuesday afternoon = Yahoo messenger
Obviously, that was not the first time I had used yahoo messenger but it certainly was the first time that using messenger had induced a post.
Following are two excerpts from my conversation with two of my friends, they are close enough - don't remember the whole thing word for word.
Start
Friend1: "Change that picture of ur's. Cant stand it anymore"
Me: "u can always hide the pic"
Fin
Start
Me: "i realised that people have developed a penchant for calling me crazy"
Friend2: "that's because you are crazy"
Me: "Nothing like a dose of truth to really wake me up :)"
Friend2: "what did u expect"
Fin
Hey, i was in office. It's my god given right to have more than one chat window open. Back off.
Conclusions:
1. Relatively complex questions tend to have relatively simple answers and vice versa.
2. I have the capacity to come up with completely rhetorical questions and smart ass answers.
3. My rhetorical questions somehow always seem to be answered.
All of a sudden this quote comes to mind:
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt" - Mark Twain, if i remember correctly.
Obviously, that was not the first time I had used yahoo messenger but it certainly was the first time that using messenger had induced a post.
Following are two excerpts from my conversation with two of my friends, they are close enough - don't remember the whole thing word for word.
Start
Friend1: "Change that picture of ur's. Cant stand it anymore"
Me: "u can always hide the pic"
Fin
Start
Me: "i realised that people have developed a penchant for calling me crazy"
Friend2: "that's because you are crazy"
Me: "Nothing like a dose of truth to really wake me up :)"
Friend2: "what did u expect"
Fin
Hey, i was in office. It's my god given right to have more than one chat window open. Back off.
Conclusions:
1. Relatively complex questions tend to have relatively simple answers and vice versa.
2. I have the capacity to come up with completely rhetorical questions and smart ass answers.
3. My rhetorical questions somehow always seem to be answered.
All of a sudden this quote comes to mind:
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt" - Mark Twain, if i remember correctly.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
IQ - my contribution to social sciences
Dear Reader,
How many times have you wondered what this world is coming to ? The almost total lack of rationality is mind boggling. There are people who can, will and do perceive this irrationality as a refreshing change when thrust on the otherwise mundane activities of life. People like me. The kind you'll find when you're not really looking to find one.
You know what we need, a mechanism to determine how irrational a person really is. Why not ? There are metrics in place to measure an individuals intelligence and emotional ability. Why not another metric to measure how irrational an individual is capable of acting ?
Yeah, I call it Irrationality Quotient. I intend this variable to have only two possible outputs - Boring and Funky, in common parlance - Rational and Irrational. It is my opinion that irrational does not mean crazy or nuts. Irrational means being rational in its own right.
Most rational people tend to be consistent in their needs, opinions and what not. Like Oscar Wilde says, "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative". You choose. Yeah, I know, either choice is equally awkward. Don't even dream of calling yourself consistently imaginative. That'll make you irrational, in my book. Contrary to the common saying, there is no lesser of two evils.
Considering that a lot of time and effort has been devoted to developing a mechanism to arrive at Intelligence and Emotional quotient, I've decided to leverage the work already done to develop my test for Irrationality quotient.
For the more academically inclined, it'll suffice to say I intend to use Statistical sampling and very basic hypothesis testing combined with probability theory to determine the value of Irrationality quotient. Anything more is just too damn boring to type.
So people, if you consider your Irrationality Quotient to be Funky, keep reading. As Humphrey Bogart says in, the all time classic, Casablanca, "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship". [Fade out]
THE END
How many times have you wondered what this world is coming to ? The almost total lack of rationality is mind boggling. There are people who can, will and do perceive this irrationality as a refreshing change when thrust on the otherwise mundane activities of life. People like me. The kind you'll find when you're not really looking to find one.
You know what we need, a mechanism to determine how irrational a person really is. Why not ? There are metrics in place to measure an individuals intelligence and emotional ability. Why not another metric to measure how irrational an individual is capable of acting ?
Yeah, I call it Irrationality Quotient. I intend this variable to have only two possible outputs - Boring and Funky, in common parlance - Rational and Irrational. It is my opinion that irrational does not mean crazy or nuts. Irrational means being rational in its own right.
Most rational people tend to be consistent in their needs, opinions and what not. Like Oscar Wilde says, "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative". You choose. Yeah, I know, either choice is equally awkward. Don't even dream of calling yourself consistently imaginative. That'll make you irrational, in my book. Contrary to the common saying, there is no lesser of two evils.
Considering that a lot of time and effort has been devoted to developing a mechanism to arrive at Intelligence and Emotional quotient, I've decided to leverage the work already done to develop my test for Irrationality quotient.
For the more academically inclined, it'll suffice to say I intend to use Statistical sampling and very basic hypothesis testing combined with probability theory to determine the value of Irrationality quotient. Anything more is just too damn boring to type.
So people, if you consider your Irrationality Quotient to be Funky, keep reading. As Humphrey Bogart says in, the all time classic, Casablanca, "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship". [Fade out]
THE END
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