Thoughtons Projected

Saw Kowsi's post on IHM losing her daughter to dengue. A few minutes after reading the post, I suddenly felt how is it that we feel so dearly for the loss and especially a parent. Interestingly, whoever dies has a parent who is grieving over the dead. More interestingly, even if the whole world wants someone to die (say Hitler), he/she has a parent (not necessarily a biological parent) who is concerned about his/her life. Humans can die.. Humanity may not..

If you are searching for the most courageous parents who got convinced in my responsibility so much to agree to their daughter becoming a part and eventually defining my life, you should be present at "Bapalal Bhavan, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai" on 21st Jan 2010.

This is how you reach this place.

http://www.ted.com/talks/sunitha_krishnan_tedindia.html

Where is the line that separates salt from the sea?
What is the line that separates you and me?

Where is the line that separates air from breath?
What is the line that separates life and death?


Remarkable is the ability of the human mind; to create a boundary where there is none. Remarkable is my being; to respect the traitor of the mind.

State of Play - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473705/ - watchable once. A few unexpected twists. but for that nothing impressive about this.
Rear Window - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/ - Old movie, possibly a trend-setter at that time - wasn't that impressive. Very less surprises. Maybe a good movie for people who are learning editing, direction and camera. Nothing for the common-man. Definitely not top 16 movie as told by imdb.
Quick Gun Murugan - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176911/ - one movie which is not worth rating at all. A movie that I couldn't watch even for one scene. The jarring BGM, poor dialogues, ridiculous picturization were all rubbish. If it were a dish, I would have vomitted by the smell of it. Enough said.

Kanthaswamy - (What????? It is not listed in imdb!) - anyways. After so many bad reviews from my friends and after 1 hr 45 minutes of garbage from QGM, we sat with a mindset in which we would have appreciated any movie leave alone Kanthaswamy.
This is how I summarized the experience to my friends:

"I don't know what film you all watched.. The version that I watched today was not this detestable. In fact, I liked the racy screenplay and dialogues.
Story - cliche
Preaching - unfortunate
Dialogues - punch
Music - Some songs were unwanted - but the last song was a welcome break for me to go to the rest room
BGM - the sad and soulful version seemed to be lifted from the BGM of Autograph. It has been haunting for me since Autograph days and at one point in time (when I had forgotten about Autograph), I thought I myself had created that tune! Seems to have inspired DSP (Devi Sri Prasad) too."

Not really a must-watch (for reasons, you may have to wait for another blog entry). But if you happen to watch it, you may not switch to something else, that easily.

Exactly 9 years ago, we started our first year first sem in College.. Suddenly I don't seem to remember anything about the college right now. I am sure I never thought how I would think about it 10 years from then. I always had problems with time. Even now, I would not be able to remember the series of events that happened unless they form a list of thoughts logically linked with one another.

Mind seems totally confused with different thoughts that am not able to correlate any of them. Let me stop right here.

Sometimes, reality slaps you on your face, you naturally look up with gratitude and immediately look down as the heaviness of the water in your eyes drag your head down, slowly as you close the eye doors, the droplets escape through the doors and fall off the cheeks, making the heart wet at the end.
And then one opens her eyes as if woken up for a sev-2* at 2 AM in the midnight only to realize humans and their behaviors are not to be understood, ever.. They are just that way, whichever way that is.
But for me, all of these happened without the slap from reality.. (probably am special ;-) ).. This gift for my engagement by Mr. H's mom made that happen for me.


*sev-2 - Indication of an event which breaks the business promise of the service at least for a while.

I happened to go again to this holy place of western ghats, and this time with a lot of young and energetic juniors and some other seniors (all of them Amazon colleagues).
A wonderful sharing is available here.

It is probably a crush.. but the sweetness of the half-eaten apple is just too good. The very keyboard that I type now is cool..
Moving from windows to Mac, was for the major part, seamless.. as a lot of applications that I interact with are web apps and yes.. firefox is there for mac.
How did I copy the passwords from the firefox in windows?  - Password Exporter addon did that trick..

How did I get all my browsing history to the mac? - little bit of googling and some commonsense.. Google said that I can get it from history.dat in my profiles directory.. Such a file was not there in my Windows box.. It was there in my Linux though (which was 2.x). Here is where commonsense got the better of me.. I sorted the files and folders in that profiles directory in reverse chronological order (recently modified being on top) and then visited a new site in my firefox.. boom, places.sqlite came on the top :-).. I copied that (after shutting down firefox) and pasted it in profiles folder of mac, and boom... got all my browsing history here..

Things I love about my Mac

• Its mouse.. it has both horizontal and vertical scroll in a small mouse ball (not a wheel). So? So.. while watching a movie, if I scroll up or down, it changes the volume and.. if I scroll left or right, it fast forwards or rewinds the movie :-)
• The Keyboard - I didn't notice the change until I started typing my usual keyboard after a long time typing in my Mac..
• Rendering - For some reason, I feel all the pages shown more pleasantly in a Mac than on any other computer.. my Linux desktops' rendering sucks.. Windows is good.. Mac is just cool..
• No reboot - nothing to restart when a new software is installed.. Cool like *nix.
• No insomania - If I ask it to sleep, it just does it in a fraction of a second. If I ask it to wake up.. I am surprised each time it wakes up that quickly..
• Got my admin account .. will soon try iLife

Things I miss in my Mac

• No pageup or down keys :-( neither home or end keys.. although command arrows are there.. but still..

Update:

• Found that fn up and down arrows are page up and page down.
• The main thing that I miss now is the lack of right click

With Mac on my lap top... signing off..