ITS MY WISH!!!!
Abraham Lincoln, Bhagat Singh, Charles Dickens, BeeGees, Chrles Babbage, Sean Connery, Nana Patekar and ME Do you need any more reasons?
Try to search the Wiki for "beard" and you get a page-ful of information that shows why you may or may not have a beard. Give me one valid reason, keeping in mind the fact that I neither am in nor intend to join any of the armed forces. But if you have gone through Wiki then you will see even in the armed forces its a matter of survival rather than anything else.
Now think of it, long hair is acceptable, then why not a beard? If hair on your head adds to your beauty then so does it on your face (I know what you are thinking - go on I wont state it here in public).
Another reason is the large number of ways in which you can cut it or shape it. But if you are clean shaven then can you "shape" your "beard"?
Also, its a sign of wisdom in many cases, just like the uncombed hair of Einstein, an unshaven chin is a sign of genius, unless you fail to recognize it. Yes it might be a case of neglect, caused due to some of the "so-called" unavoidable issues of the heart with the opposite sex (read women, rather girls, as this is only for guys) as rightly pointed out by some of you and excellently portrayed by the great(?) ANR in his movie "Devadas". But guys, grow your beards (read think wisely) do you think I would be one?
Now coming to the so-called wrong impression it might create, let me tell you that its not so. I have faced two interviews and four presentations and all my engineering lab exams (some of the toughest, they are said to be) with a fully unkempt beard. And I am yet to fail. The problem of "first impression being best impression" is a great fallacy - you would only be foolish to believe it. Believe me, the first impression I create is very unimpressive (I have been told so) but yet that has not been the final impression in many cases.
All said and done it helps with the most basic of the temptations of humans - laziness.
So grow beards - stay lazy
Friday, September 28, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Search for the Elusive Sleep
There are things in life and then there are "nothings" in Life. Don't ask me what that means. Not every sentence has to have a meaning - and by every I mean any sentence that follows the rules of grammar as finely as your shadow follows you while you are traveling east in the morning at any place near the equator.Not convinced? Well "Water is triangular" What does that mean? In fact you could use any liquid (scientifically any fluid) for water and any shape (not just a 2d but an n-dimensional or infinite-d shape, if you conjure it up and imagine it) for triangular.
Well well Leave it We are flying off tangents So as I had to say, the other day the latter filled my day (i.e, nothing filled my Day) So I thought why not tidy up my room - but being the procrastinator that I was and am (though hopefully will not be) I did what I was and am best at - left it for the next day and decided to search. Now here is where I should have begun but well procrastination makes you do a lot many things.
So having decided that I was going to search I had to decide what to search for, it would help to remember that I was in no mood of using Google (though I doubt if it would have helped me find something in my room). That was when strange thoughts took hold of my thoughts. And so I decided that I would search for nothing - not in general and not in particular. I just began searching for nothing - and lo and Behold!! so many things lost their lives in the "Universe of Lost Things" and came back to this world ( I hope they dont have a reincarnation there).
The first of such was a Pen - one that i thought would never again see except when i myself would get lost and take birth in the Universe of Lost things. Then there was an old notebook - one in which I had written quite a few bits (or bytes) of Java.The others are not noteworthy to be mentioned alongside the above two - so suffice it to say that all in all I was the "Yam Raaj" to around a 15-20 articles (U must hv guessed why else go back and read again).
Well its a famous law that the chance of finding something is inversely proportional to its immediate requirement - the most notorious of these things being public telephones, public transport to a certain place and almost anything that you had either long ago or even not-so-long-ago leased a place to in the infinite capacity of your memory.So, the net result is success rate in searching for things is practically the number that our (Indians') forefathers had invented (it isn't surprising that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle applies here too - You can only know the use of a thing (you are searching for) and not its location with any certainty cos you wont search for a thing whose location you know (absolute certainty in space), but then at that instant it has no use to you ,ie, utility of zero).
Well where does all this lead to? This
1. dont search for anything which you immediately require, rest assured you will not find it.
2. if you have to search then start searching for nothing and then you'll have a better chance of success, after al if you find nothing then too you are successful.
OR
3. If you have to search, then be as unclear as possibly can be about the thing - the best being that you dont know what you are searching for. Even then your chances are very high cos whatever you find - your search is a success
But let me warn you that its easier not to search than to use the methods listed here - it takes a lot of practice to attain any degree of proficiency in them. All the Best.
You see I was searching for sleep, and I started searching for it using my methods, and now the above philosophy has helped me find it (I was applying it while I was writing (or typing?))
Well well Leave it We are flying off tangents So as I had to say, the other day the latter filled my day (i.e, nothing filled my Day) So I thought why not tidy up my room - but being the procrastinator that I was and am (though hopefully will not be) I did what I was and am best at - left it for the next day and decided to search. Now here is where I should have begun but well procrastination makes you do a lot many things.
So having decided that I was going to search I had to decide what to search for, it would help to remember that I was in no mood of using Google (though I doubt if it would have helped me find something in my room). That was when strange thoughts took hold of my thoughts. And so I decided that I would search for nothing - not in general and not in particular. I just began searching for nothing - and lo and Behold!! so many things lost their lives in the "Universe of Lost Things" and came back to this world ( I hope they dont have a reincarnation there).
The first of such was a Pen - one that i thought would never again see except when i myself would get lost and take birth in the Universe of Lost things. Then there was an old notebook - one in which I had written quite a few bits (or bytes) of Java.The others are not noteworthy to be mentioned alongside the above two - so suffice it to say that all in all I was the "Yam Raaj" to around a 15-20 articles (U must hv guessed why else go back and read again).
Well its a famous law that the chance of finding something is inversely proportional to its immediate requirement - the most notorious of these things being public telephones, public transport to a certain place and almost anything that you had either long ago or even not-so-long-ago leased a place to in the infinite capacity of your memory.So, the net result is success rate in searching for things is practically the number that our (Indians') forefathers had invented (it isn't surprising that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle applies here too - You can only know the use of a thing (you are searching for) and not its location with any certainty cos you wont search for a thing whose location you know (absolute certainty in space), but then at that instant it has no use to you ,ie, utility of zero).
Well where does all this lead to? This
1. dont search for anything which you immediately require, rest assured you will not find it.
2. if you have to search then start searching for nothing and then you'll have a better chance of success, after al if you find nothing then too you are successful.
OR
3. If you have to search, then be as unclear as possibly can be about the thing - the best being that you dont know what you are searching for. Even then your chances are very high cos whatever you find - your search is a success
But let me warn you that its easier not to search than to use the methods listed here - it takes a lot of practice to attain any degree of proficiency in them. All the Best.
You see I was searching for sleep, and I started searching for it using my methods, and now the above philosophy has helped me find it (I was applying it while I was writing (or typing?))
Saturday, September 22, 2007
An addition and some info
Nothing much here, but probably the most important piece on the previous page.
Links to other blogs and brief of them is what is supposed to go in here. But there are always exceptions to rules. So some of them wont have an entry here, while some pieces may come in though they are not available anywhere except on probably this page (if @ all).
God and Me: My thoughts on philosophy, God, (A)theism, and science
God and electrons: How the two theories are connected (even if nonsensically) n y agnosticism is better (Link: http://ahambrahmasmi-ibrahma.blogspot.com/2007/09/god-and-electrons.html)
Keep watching this space for more :)
Links to other blogs and brief of them is what is supposed to go in here. But there are always exceptions to rules. So some of them wont have an entry here, while some pieces may come in though they are not available anywhere except on probably this page (if @ all).
God and Me: My thoughts on philosophy, God, (A)theism, and science
God and electrons: How the two theories are connected (even if nonsensically) n y agnosticism is better (Link: http://ahambrahmasmi-ibrahma.blogspot.com/2007/09/god-and-electrons.html)
Keep watching this space for more :)
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