42 Quirks

Why do all good ideas come to you the moment your head hits the pillow?

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“Psychics can make vague predictions and later claim credit for anything that was near the mark. The media tells the story of the fascinating successes and ignores the failures as being not newsworthy. The public gets the impression that psychics can locate dead bodies with regularity. In fact, such cases have been rare and probably a result of geniuslevel pattern recognition, or luck, or simple exaggeration.”

- God’s Debris by Scott Adams [PDF] pp. 81

This is how most conversations on the Internet (especially in the comments page of a most popular blogs/sites) eventually turn out:
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At least 80 percent of chats in the world would end flawlessly, if we all chose to accept a “:-)” as the counterpart of “Hello?!”

So, who’s with me?

is tripping on “Duur Kinaara”, Swarathma’s musical collaboration with Shubha Mudgal heard on The Dewarists and contemplating buying an 8.1 surround sound system to listen to the song in all its glory. Sigh.

…and so does everyone else, I’m sure. I just happen to think we don’t appreciate it enough – just like we don’t appreciate our loved ones enough in real life.

Take yesterday for instance. A dear friend called me from the US to tell me about his road trip for an overnight astronomy session. He wasn’t near a computer and I happened to be sitting in front of a PC. In a few moments, thanks to the awesomeness if the internet, I was able to tell him about the rest stops along his way, the weather at his destination and the forecast for the next for days and nights!

A few years ago, I wouldn’t have imagined it possible and yet, here I am, doing it like a boss, as if I’ve done it all my life!

Take another example. Eighteen months ago, when my brother left for the US, he wasn’t as unprepared as one would expect the case might be. No sir! Thanks to the power of online maps and Google’s Street-view offerings, he knew *exactly* where he was headed. Heck, he knew the roads around his University and the hangout places nearby even before he set foot on foreign soil!

How awesome is that?

These are but a few examples – I’m sure every one of us has a similar story to share. I just couldn’t help raise my voice a little louder…

PS: This post was drafted, proof-read and posted entirely from my smartphone!

I <3 TECHNOLOGY!

#NaNoWriMo #Day24

Whoosh. Fourteen days disappeared just like that.

Something came up and I was forced to abandon NaNoWriMo for a couple of weeks but I am BACK! For the next six days, I am aiming to write about 5000 words per day (and night, if needed) and I am gonna FINISH this novel.

Mark my words, I’m IN it to WIN it. I will WIN NaNoWriMo this year, whatever it takes. >_<