Interim Solutions

Thanks a ton to Microsoft (finally !!) for doing something really worth while . No second thoughts or questions about the agenda this time - Project Tuva !! Damn good samaritan Mr. Gates has become. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/ Get silverlight installed and enjoy the precious moments with clarity at its best - Richard Feynman on physics , nature , knowledge and everything in between. Got me going on Feynman cherry picking across youtube, wiki etc and what struck me again (been a decade since I read 'Surely You're Joking Mr.Feynman") is the vitality and the original thinking of this genius. Look up what he has to say about knowledge - epitomizes the problem most 3rd world educational systems still face . Learning the sound/word for "duck" in 25 langauages and not "knowing" a bit on what in the blue world a duck really is !! All this cherry picking brings a tear drop nevertheless to the corner of the eye , that pang that one feels tha...

I have been reading the legendary (almost mythical himself) Kottarathil Sankunni's ഐതിഹ്യ മാല (attempted translation : Garland of Myths) - all of 600+ pages and 100+ stories comprising of myths , exaggerations and arabian nightish fantasies written in chaste malayalam. For the uninitiated the book was compiled over 100 years ago stringing in the beautiful pieces of folk lore and fantasy prevalent in the social fabric of the time. An excellent bed time read for children and adults alike the myths paint a clear and real picture of the early 1900s in Kerala with strong allegiance to the ruling and elite class of the times ( rebellious writing wasn't in vogue , obviously) . May be despised today by the proletariat for strong feudal over tones and the glorification of the elite , the book can make an excellent read if one sticks to one principle "Everything is a miracle or nothing is " (paraphrased from a quote by one Herr Einstein) . I have been picking and reading stor...

First came the apartment association (which the founders claim God/s created in his/their own image) ,soon followed by apartment association founders's (AAF) wives association (gossip being the most harmless of their objectives) and then the Senior Citizen's association (yes , AAF's parents !!) and smaller and less potent kid's associations. The left outs obviously wanted their cut of the pie (Oh Yeah , there is always a pie !!) to found their own and then the mushrooming of the regional associations started .. Bongs , Tamils , Mallus , Gults (they were the first to form an association in the literal sense to share Gult movie CD and spicy food but not the first to call it an "association") followed in quick succession ( in the same order as above). There is still scope for that apocalyptic monster - an association of the association office bearers so that all associations are co-ordinated by a general sense of purpose !! M P.S: How about a common fund coll...