Saturday, January 14, 2006

ORIGIN OF SCIENCE—A MYSTERY .. by Sriram Nathan

Days are not far away, when no one will feel lonely. Robots are a mile away to be a part of your day-to-day life activity. Technologies are burgeoning exponentially. One can travel from Chicago to Mumbai in an hour, like going in a metro (house in mumbai and work in Chicago). All these are possible in a few decades. A look back at where did science begin, does not give a solid answer.

Assumptions are a part of scientific findings Science and Math are interrelated. Scientists have assumed for convenience and have given solutions. Laws and Axioms are findings, which restrict the freedom of more findings with limitations. Aryabatta (great mathematician) assumed that, a stone as 1 and two stones as 2 and so on. How has this mathematical simplicity led to a ramification of scientific innovations. Everything in this world is going under assumption. New year eve, Languages we speak, currency we use, and so on. No one has found an answer why we exist, why are you doing a thing at some particular time, why am I typing this at this moment and so on.

Man’s destiny is unknown, so is the origin. Even though there has been failures in findings, how has man’s inventions derived a conclusion. Does this prove the existence of God. Is he helping us to derive a solution. All religions say “ Service to mankind” is the meaning for the existence of mankind. Science is doing it. So, does it suggest that Science’s destiny would be God? Whatever is the origin of science, let destiny bring more answers, of course with more assumptions. We will not fail.

Friday, January 13, 2006

NFL.. Playoffs

Yo.. smell it.. come on i can smell it?.. Its playoffs.. the wild-card weekend is done and now comes the most exciting 4 weeks in the Football Calendar.

The 4th of course is the superbowl, for which America pauses and rejoices.

I love NFL, nothing like it, many people get turned off by the smash mouth hits and the never-ending stoppages, not me.. for 4 quarters i see chess minds at work, i see powerful men showing their ability, i see wily coaches foxing out victories and i see incapable refrees blow calls like they are blowing into a balloon.

I love the Indianapolis Colts.. Peyton Manning, their steward and captain and symbol of class will lead ths team to victory come Febuary, i am salivating for the moment when all commentators start throwing deserved praises against the greates athelete in this game right now.

Go Peyton.. Go Colts.. Go Indy.. Its our Time and its NOW!!

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Price of $$ Dollar Menu

Yo.. " Paba pappap pan.. am luvin it.. " the most famous hum in television networks these days.

"Its a Dollar people.. and you get your stomach full".. true to word McDonald's offers some tempting stuffs, no wonder they have lasted this long.

Even though many McDonald apers have come and gone, some still stay. The single most laziness inducing industry is the Fastfood industry.

Am not blaming all hotels and restaurants, they make stuffs that are good and also difficult ot make at home, they are here to stay with reason.

But all this Fast-food mania, that sweeps the nation, drive thoughs and what-nots, with Burgers and Whoppers and Quarter-pound meals and what-nots for 99cents. They stuff you up right.. but the problem is just that, the dont use ingredients of highest-quality.

Trans-fat and what not has made the Americans baloon and their girths are bigger. Obesity and over-weight kids are there to be seen everywhere, its the habit of eating-out.. that people mistake to be cool and people mistake to be as healthy as home-cooked food thats fueling this growth of girth.

No rocket science.. but as people stuff themselves with low-quality, high-cholestrol, high-calorie, high-fat.. with trans-fat food, they inject more harmful material to their body than any other source.

Eating out is a slow poison, doing it everyday is a fad for some, most dont care to exercise it off, all the unhealthy byproducts get accumulated all over the body and people become unfit, unfit people become lazy, lay people eat more, eating more without physical work makes them fat, as they get fatter, they tend to not move, as they are non-movable, they become couch-potatoes, as they sit on the couch watching NFL, they binge n hog..

this cycle is never-ending, until it ends all. No surprises when reports show child-obesity and heart-diseases increasing. All those 99cent meals make our body unhealthy and over course of time, people have to check themselves into hospitals and weight programs. How costly is that?

When a good exercise routine would prevent all these, do we want to hurt our body and wallet?

Its our duty to take care of ourselves, taking care of one's body is not a hobby or extra activity, it should be as involuntary as breathing itself.

Lets get out exercise, reduce that belly, reduce blood sugar, reduce high blood pressure and keep off those pounds of fat.

Lets take care of ourselves, frankly.. not doing so is a sin and a crime.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Coffee -- my changing taste

Wow.. here i am standing in a line.. for my morning coffee at a pretty decent coffeshop. As the line was unusually big today (hush.. generally it means i woke up late and the cascading effect is standing in such a big line)..

anyways.. this gave me the chance to mentally chose the type of coffee i wanted to have.. let me go with half & half and 1 sugar i thought.. nah... milk and 1 sugar.. ok decided..

the line was darn long.. gave me the excuse to think about the days .. when i was home with my parents and my mom made her signature coffee..

our style of coffee is very removed from the American coffee.. back home.. we had coffee with lots of milk and 2 or 3 sugars.. the best part of our home-made coffee is.. the strength of the coffee.. for a few ml of it we get such a great aroma and such darkness that its imperative we add a good amount of milk.

here sometimes when standing in Starbucks and ordering the supposedly Dark Espresso.. you can find many immigrants .. smiling wryly.. with a "what?.. dark ?.. this..? huh.. ok!!" look..

infact when i got my first American Coffee, i sweared to God.. i wil never insult my taste bud and consume another coffee like this.. no matter the cost.. no matter the effort.. i will drink the normal coffee..

but.. aah.. that feels so long back.. coz.. i love the American coffee.. believe it or not.. i sometimes have it without milk.. that was unimaginable not long back..

but truth be told.. its not a total surprise i like the American coffee now.. because i am more used to it.. more used to its texture, flavor and the tinge it leaves on the tongue.. i like that.

infact.. funny but true.. last weekend i made my original normal coffee.. to reminisce the old times i guess.. and i swear i made a good one.. but somehow my tongue disagreed..

where is the tinge .. where is the subtle darkness in the coffee.. why is it milky.. my taste-buds killed me with these questions..

i think i was amused to say the least.. my taste has gotten programmed to the American Coffee..

contrary to what people say its not aping Americans.. its merely following and appreciating what feels good..

with time and the mentality to appreciate other tastes i slowly appreciate the beauty of the other coffee.. which is my normal coffee now..


there is a lesson in this.. when you goto a new place.. never ever curse how that place or culture looks abnormal because you dont follow it.. be with an open mind and before long.. you will realise and appreciate the novelty of the other world..

aah.. time to order my coffee.. dark with half & half and 1 sugar please!!

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Cell Phones.. Blah Blah Blah

Yo.. was heading home.. thoughts running/planning for what was left of the day.. hmm "gonna have fun, have a light dinner .. watch some comedy... not on FOX ofcourse.. listen to some light music and for total fun listen to Michael Kay blabber some junk on talk radio. listen to some light music and hit the sack"

great everything planned.. so here goes the implementation.. leave office, catch the subway, i like the subway.. no Not because Mayor Bloomberg goes through the same contaminated and smelly cars.. but because nobody's cell phones work on them!!

what a relief to be on a subway, i mean why cant people talk softly over the phone. Like i wanted to hear whether her dog had pooed in her neighbour's lawn and how they didnt pick it up. and that was fun as hell !!

subway is a blissful curse, u sit through shit but you dont hear no nonsense!!

aah.. but you can only be so lucky, for i am not yet so rich to stay in the Urban city, so i hop out of the smelly subway car to a higher-priced (no other option) train that takes me to my home. This train is thankfully well maintained but alas.. the cell phones work.

i mean which is the worser curse, the subway smell or the working cell phone ..

no brainer.. the working cell phone.. when people chit-chat and blabber stuffs that they wont normally talk if it werent for the free mobile-to-mobile minutes, you know how technology is misused.

For its my understanding cell phone is a tool used when necessary and its needed to be. You dont have to discuss how your neighbour's daughter is a lesbian or how your husband can motor on in such an old-age in the... public, yet not, comforts of a train.

The damn you. i dont give a rat about what you think of what i talk is apalling. cell phones are the single most abused device, i would prefer a measure on not using cell phones on public vehicle using a jammer. Unless ofcourse if its 911. All others can wait to get down from the car.. Leave others alone..

As such i have so much crammed in my brain, the last information i want to learn is about your diet schedule or how you love your girlfriend!!

Smell of New Year

Aah New Year.. dont we love it.. i mean L-O-V-E it. There is something alluring every year, when the calendar flips over. Hope and Excitement, though we have been through this cycle before, every new year brings something new and positive (we hope).

We want to believe that we will wash away our debts in Lottery and we will hit the Sports Clubs to run-off the winter belly. We believe that abstaining from having donuts for a week will reduce our blood sugar and being nice to our neigbour on new year day will wash away the curse we exchanged during our kids soccer practice.

Its the belief that wanes every late fall and ironically gathers steam in the peak of winter during the first day of a brand new year. I have grown to like this flipping every year, i mean what an excuse to forget some of our less inspiring habits.

We can always say, hey come on " i was like that last year.. not anymore".. forgetting barely 15 minutes had elapsed from the old year.

Its an excuse to come clean for few people, its an excuse to reform and an excuse to forget the sufferings. Its an opportunity to look at the future, to build on our dreams to chase and achieve.

The hope that mushrooms from the calendar flip is one of the amazing man-made creations.

I mean, we should all be happy and thank the guy who found about the earth's rotation and implemented it into our life with a calendar flip.

Consider how boring it will be, if today was Day #1002345 with no site of a brand new Day #1, consider how we cant say " honey, i promise i change this habit next year... sweetheart.. i will quit smoking next year"... instead we have to say "honey, i will get you the ring on Day #1230456".. how boring only geeks and Mathematicians would love that world.

I love it, the hope that springs eternal with every flip is a chance to tell ourselves, that we can do better in the new year.

Can you smell success? can you feel the warmth and hope? wel come '06 we have been waiting for you for sometime now..

Happy New Year!!