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i like that name mmx. sounds scandalous. the MMX scandal.
moving on...
so this year started out awesome. i made resolutions, decisions, plans, plans of actions, all of that. and almost came close to acting on those, but one of the things i resolved, was that i would write each week. so i wrote the first week, and now the last day. this is a recap.
this year in retrospect.
1. witnessed more weddings this year than all years put together.
2. know more new parents now.
3. travelled much less than what i would normally do. or like to.
4. ipad release (didn't get one, but just being there the time that it happened)
5. replaced a good macbook with a better macbook pro. (fried logic board can do that to you)
6. lost a phone.
7. started a company
8. stuck to it for longer than 8 months and counting. (making it my second largest employment ever)
9. attempted to separate my personal performance review of a job from its actuals. still not there but close.
10. got introduced to the musical genius of amit trivedi
11. was around when tron made a come back.
12. made a resolution to write each week, did only for about 10 weeks or so. but
surprised at my own conviction.
13. attended 3 indian ocean concerts. downloaded the free album.
14. saw james camaroon make avatar.
15. saw knight shyamalan make avatar.
16. saw right ya wrong.
17. witnessed an erosion of movie taste being replaced by an unhealthy addiction.
18. did things i swore i never ever ever would.
19. missed the german winters. but not enough.
20. saw what 6.5 degrees feels like without heating.
21. made unlikely friends, made unwilling enemies.
22. lost friends to monogamy, work and distance.
23. started working on a script/magazine/business idea. stopped working on a script/magazine/business idea.
24. found out how those i thought uncool were cool in waiting.
25. worked. not as much as i should have, but as much as i could.
26. started doing things the way i hoped i would someday
27. still trying to cling on to a shred of my suicidal tendencies that fuel my work ethics.
28. learnt of the harms of coffee allergies.
29. saw jitesh bafna reel in horror each time i mentioned the word wife. (evil laughter follows)
30. saw hrishikesh kalkote get to where he wanted to go finally. :)
(i like 30. its a nice number. i will stop here now. )
there is a bigger list, but i would have to kill you, or hit you with the forget me bat after you have been told.
i cant help it but share this with you all.
UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT,
IN AFFILIATION WITH WORLD BANK
From: Special Envoy to
Secretary-General BAN KI-MOON
Telephone Number:
SIR/MADAM,
This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in
Central Bank to pay 50 victims from your country who has being Victims of
Internet scam, The United Nations has decided to pay you $500,000 USD (five
Hundred Thousand Dollars) each.. You are listed and approved for this payment
as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount,get back to this office as
soon as possible for the immediate payment of your $500,000 USD compensation
funds.
My dear friend I will like you to contact UPS Courier Company regarding delivery
of your ATM CARD, You are advised to forward this information to the above
office for release of your ATM CARD compensation.
This card centre will send you an atm card which you will use to withdraw your
money in any atm machine in any part of the world,but the maximum is ten
thousand,five hundred United States dollars per day. So if you like to receive
your funds in this way please let us know by contacting the UPS Courier Company
and also send the following information as listed below.
1. Full name
2. Full address
3. phone
4. Your age
5. Gender
6. Occupation
7. Country
However, We have Concluded an arrangement with the UPS Courier Company for them
to deliver your Atm Card to you,and to let you know that you have to Contact the
Dhl Courier Company with your information Via email so that they can send down
your Atm Card to your postal address and to also let you know that the amount
which you are to send to them for the delivery of you Atm Card to be deliver to
your postal address is US$200 Equ 9000/inr being the UPS Courier Company
Delivery Charges so far.Note That's the only fee you will pay to enable UPS
deliver your ATM to you.
*****************************************
Mr.Barry Slim.
UPS Courier Company Dispatch Officer
E-MAIL : upsfast@post.com
Telephone:00447010036124
*****************************************
The atm card payment centre has been mandated to issue out $500,000 USD part
payment for this fiscal of year 2010. Also your information,you have to stop any
further communication with any other person(s) or office(s)to avoid any hitch in
reciving your payment. Note that because of impostors, we hereby issue you our
code of conduct, which is (ATM-199/2010) so you have to indicate this code when
contacting the card centre by using it as your subject.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Sarah Thomas
Secretary United Nations
General Ban Ki-Moon.
( Financial officer )United Nations...
http://www.unorg/sg...
(this is what constitutes of most of my internet doings these days)
UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT,
IN AFFILIATION WITH WORLD BANK
From: Special Envoy to
Secretary-General BAN KI-MOON
Telephone Number:
SIR/MADAM,
This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in
Central Bank to pay 50 victims from your country who has being Victims of
Internet scam, The United Nations has decided to pay you $500,000 USD (five
Hundred Thousand Dollars) each.. You are listed and approved for this payment
as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount,get back to this office as
soon as possible for the immediate payment of your $500,000 USD compensation
funds.
My dear friend I will like you to contact UPS Courier Company regarding delivery
of your ATM CARD, You are advised to forward this information to the above
office for release of your ATM CARD compensation.
This card centre will send you an atm card which you will use to withdraw your
money in any atm machine in any part of the world,but the maximum is ten
thousand,five hundred United States dollars per day. So if you like to receive
your funds in this way please let us know by contacting the UPS Courier Company
and also send the following information as listed below.
1. Full name
2. Full address
3. phone
4. Your age
5. Gender
6. Occupation
7. Country
However, We have Concluded an arrangement with the UPS Courier Company for them
to deliver your Atm Card to you,and to let you know that you have to Contact the
Dhl Courier Company with your information Via email so that they can send down
your Atm Card to your postal address and to also let you know that the amount
which you are to send to them for the delivery of you Atm Card to be deliver to
your postal address is US$200 Equ 9000/inr being the UPS Courier Company
Delivery Charges so far.Note That's the only fee you will pay to enable UPS
deliver your ATM to you.
*****************************************
Mr.Barry Slim.
UPS Courier Company Dispatch Officer
E-MAIL : upsfast@post.com
Telephone:00447010036124
*****************************************
The atm card payment centre has been mandated to issue out $500,000 USD part
payment for this fiscal of year 2010. Also your information,you have to stop any
further communication with any other person(s) or office(s)to avoid any hitch in
reciving your payment. Note that because of impostors, we hereby issue you our
code of conduct, which is (ATM-199/2010) so you have to indicate this code when
contacting the card centre by using it as your subject.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Sarah Thomas
Secretary United Nations
General Ban Ki-Moon.
( Financial officer )United Nations...
http://www.unorg/sg...
(this is what constitutes of most of my internet doings these days)
a few weeks ago ironman II released. this post is from that experience.
1.you wake up wishing you had tickets to the 9am show so that you can tweet about it before anyone else does.
2. you wear your faded marvel comics tshirt all day.
3. you brush up on your prequel skills so that you dont miss out references from the movie.
4. you google the plot, character, actors, director, references etc...
5. you see it twice in the same day.
6. you brag about it.
7. you facebook about how the plot was inaccurate and/or how you loved it anyways.
8. you want the director made president of a rich and powerful country so that he can do what ever the hell he wants.
9. you search the internet hi and lo for the perfect fanboy tshirt, in hope of finding something you can buy. only to be disappointed they dont have what you want.
10. you write this. blog it. buzz it. tweet it. and then post it to your facebook wall. and wish you had more places to show it off.
{i wrote this post the same night. i just got around to putting it up. but by then prince of persia was out, so still relevant i guess. if not. my blog, my rules. i rule relevant.}
1.you wake up wishing you had tickets to the 9am show so that you can tweet about it before anyone else does.
2. you wear your faded marvel comics tshirt all day.
3. you brush up on your prequel skills so that you dont miss out references from the movie.
4. you google the plot, character, actors, director, references etc...
5. you see it twice in the same day.
6. you brag about it.
7. you facebook about how the plot was inaccurate and/or how you loved it anyways.
8. you want the director made president of a rich and powerful country so that he can do what ever the hell he wants.
9. you search the internet hi and lo for the perfect fanboy tshirt, in hope of finding something you can buy. only to be disappointed they dont have what you want.
10. you write this. blog it. buzz it. tweet it. and then post it to your facebook wall. and wish you had more places to show it off.
{i wrote this post the same night. i just got around to putting it up. but by then prince of persia was out, so still relevant i guess. if not. my blog, my rules. i rule relevant.}
http://www.openmoko.com/freerunner.html
i saw this link today, it got me most excited.
phones like the neo runner, why do we not have commercial versions of them? the hardware seems perfectly friendly for a non developer to use it. why not sell it to the masses and make more profitable for developers to make apps, and hacks to it. sort of fill the gap between say the smartphones (blackberry), and the iphone.
with the amount of emphasis on portable devices now, wouldnt it make sense to have a model on the market where its easier, customize it to our needs, in the true sense of the word, but on a larger level. something like a closed chat group. more secure phones, that can handle more data flow. applications that connect various daily activities. phones that can be used as tourist maps. things like that.
i am no developer, so i dont really understand the limits of something like this. but potentially, the free runner with the right kind of push, could beat the iphone out of use.
but this is what makes the iphone successful.
1. blig value. the big shots have it. the shows we see, have the cool ones on the iphone. people show it off as if its a needed device and an object of desire at the same time. becomes easy to justify to your conscience.
2. the appstore. nothing seels like the free stuff. once you get your world hooked to the free, slipping them to the paid ones is just a little leap away. like they said, free is the new currency. the app store has millions of free things, app versions of big applications.
3. ease of use. even the non techies flock to it. the oomph is just too much to ignore.
4. the gamers and the users. everyones device.
5. the os. oh god dont get me started on that. the first os that is made for us fat fingered slobs. touch screen devices can bow become touch screen devices. with an os so simple that designers from yesteryears should kill themselves for not having thought of it earlier, and sticking us with things like mouse, pointers and other things that dont do touch screen things.
i am an apple fan, so most of this must sound like fanboy stuff.
so what i was coming to was that its no longer necessary for devices to be just good technologically, but also need the added free stuff.
which the freerunner already has by the ton load. so why does no one else pick it up! WHY?!!!
{the first part is the letter i wrote to someone. the second part i left out. for reasons of decency}
i saw this link today, it got me most excited.
phones like the neo runner, why do we not have commercial versions of them? the hardware seems perfectly friendly for a non developer to use it. why not sell it to the masses and make more profitable for developers to make apps, and hacks to it. sort of fill the gap between say the smartphones (blackberry), and the iphone.
with the amount of emphasis on portable devices now, wouldnt it make sense to have a model on the market where its easier, customize it to our needs, in the true sense of the word, but on a larger level. something like a closed chat group. more secure phones, that can handle more data flow. applications that connect various daily activities. phones that can be used as tourist maps. things like that.
i am no developer, so i dont really understand the limits of something like this. but potentially, the free runner with the right kind of push, could beat the iphone out of use.
but this is what makes the iphone successful.
1. blig value. the big shots have it. the shows we see, have the cool ones on the iphone. people show it off as if its a needed device and an object of desire at the same time. becomes easy to justify to your conscience.
2. the appstore. nothing seels like the free stuff. once you get your world hooked to the free, slipping them to the paid ones is just a little leap away. like they said, free is the new currency. the app store has millions of free things, app versions of big applications.
3. ease of use. even the non techies flock to it. the oomph is just too much to ignore.
4. the gamers and the users. everyones device.
5. the os. oh god dont get me started on that. the first os that is made for us fat fingered slobs. touch screen devices can bow become touch screen devices. with an os so simple that designers from yesteryears should kill themselves for not having thought of it earlier, and sticking us with things like mouse, pointers and other things that dont do touch screen things.
i am an apple fan, so most of this must sound like fanboy stuff.
so what i was coming to was that its no longer necessary for devices to be just good technologically, but also need the added free stuff.
which the freerunner already has by the ton load. so why does no one else pick it up! WHY?!!!
{the first part is the letter i wrote to someone. the second part i left out. for reasons of decency}
i keep thinking of time travel.
i think it would be awesome when we can finally travel in time. then we would start living life in 3D. instead of the uni-directional time travel we now engage in. past and future would become relative concepts. todays future can be yesterday just because i went back in time and did something there. or tomorrow comes before today, because i went ahead yesterday and changed something there. our watches would have to become multi channel, with specific timelines for specific tasks, and all time shall be referred to as 0+2 or 0-24 hrs, time shall now need to be referred to in coordinates, x and y or x,y and z. none of the o'clock concepts shall exists. (i already had this concept of time becoming relative dialogue with kshitij while touring the greenwich median. it was a stimulating conversation, that kshitij and i had, which involved scaring tourists away, and stern looks from the museum guards. good times!) yeah, so in my wandering over 3dimensional time travel, i just realized something... its all crap. i cant go to the future, it hasnt happened yet. a series once described time as a book, just because you are on chapter two, chapter 3 and 4 dont not exist. but i think time is more like a work in progress, each day, space gets written. you can only travel in time to points in space, hence since the future has not been written yet, hence you cant be in space that doesn't exist.
unless, you believe that god/nature/universe has a purpose for you. in which case, the space in the future, or the events within those space, has already been provided for, thus making future travel possible. it also makes future travel futile, becase the same force that put the future there, would try to ensure that it stays unchanged and since those forces that put them there, are powerful enough to put them there, and hence will also be strong enough and determined enough to keep it that way.
thats all i got on time. besides wasting it. profusely.
[so that is post one of the week. two to follow soon. real soon]
i think it would be awesome when we can finally travel in time. then we would start living life in 3D. instead of the uni-directional time travel we now engage in. past and future would become relative concepts. todays future can be yesterday just because i went back in time and did something there. or tomorrow comes before today, because i went ahead yesterday and changed something there. our watches would have to become multi channel, with specific timelines for specific tasks, and all time shall be referred to as 0+2 or 0-24 hrs, time shall now need to be referred to in coordinates, x and y or x,y and z. none of the o'clock concepts shall exists. (i already had this concept of time becoming relative dialogue with kshitij while touring the greenwich median. it was a stimulating conversation, that kshitij and i had, which involved scaring tourists away, and stern looks from the museum guards. good times!) yeah, so in my wandering over 3dimensional time travel, i just realized something... its all crap. i cant go to the future, it hasnt happened yet. a series once described time as a book, just because you are on chapter two, chapter 3 and 4 dont not exist. but i think time is more like a work in progress, each day, space gets written. you can only travel in time to points in space, hence since the future has not been written yet, hence you cant be in space that doesn't exist.
unless, you believe that god/nature/universe has a purpose for you. in which case, the space in the future, or the events within those space, has already been provided for, thus making future travel possible. it also makes future travel futile, becase the same force that put the future there, would try to ensure that it stays unchanged and since those forces that put them there, are powerful enough to put them there, and hence will also be strong enough and determined enough to keep it that way.
thats all i got on time. besides wasting it. profusely.
[so that is post one of the week. two to follow soon. real soon]
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