A brilliant flash which describes the scale of universe from the strings to universe level.
Credits : Anonymous
A brilliant flash which describes the scale of universe from the strings to universe level.
Credits : Anonymous
This post is inspired by the observations made during the numerous hours spent waiting for a bus.
India throws many surprises to its inhabitants yet certain things can be observed only through acute observation and patience. Bus stops are a routine place of visit for most of the working Indians. For few more, it is their office and sometimes their only home.
The amount of activity which is centered around a bus stop is mind boggling.
1. Any building beside a bus stop is an ideal location to establish a bakery or a hotel. As it sees hundreds of footfalls daily, the revenue earned and the investment put is highly substantial.
2. A lonely guy with a thatched roof sits with a bunch of needs and leathers. He is personified by this quote – A stitch in time saves our mine . He is none other than the person who repairs our shoes and chappals. He transacts enough daily to earn his leaving.
3. A person in khaki with a three wheeler stands next to a stop. He hopes to catch a customer who has just missed a bus or in a tearing hurry to reach a destination.
4. A personal with a four wheeled cart makes hot dosa and sells it with idli and vada.
5. If its a summer season, someone sits next to stop with truck load of watermelon.
6. As the sun sets and moon rises, the we can find an open kitchen where delicious Chinese noodles and manchoorian is dished out.
In a day, bus stop plays host to lots of financial transactions. Profits are made and losses are suffered. When one sees the picture at a macro scale, bus stops are a huge economic hotspots.
{This is the first blogpost from my android WordPress app}
A stunning time lapse video of earth taken from International Space Station (ISS) from August to October 2011. Aurora Borealis, lightning and light emission from big cities and around rivers are the ones to watchout for in the video.
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
A fickle mind is one which works overtime by multi tasking and thinking through different issues at the same time. This cross culture thinking attitude of it leads to many interesting analogies. And the title of this post is a product of the above scenario.
While attending a training session on Java and its properties of inheritance, the instructor explained the concept very well through a simple example. At that moment, my mind happened to be processing issue on spirituality and mix of thoughts turned out to be an interesting cocktail.
What hit my mind was how the concept of god, different gods and its related ideologies are directly related to the
concept of Inheritance in Java. As we know god in one but in many forms. Java language seems to have an explanation
to this variant in the following ways:
God -> Object Class
Variants -> Main class
Avatars -> Child Class with extra methods added or overridden
Humans and java programs share the same story. In java world everything seems to be entangled in JavaVirtualMachine(JVM). For humans its world/galaxy/time & space. We both dont have the option to leave outside them and are totally limited by their boundaries. A program can never run outside a JVM, the only option it has is to terminate. Not much difference with humans either.
Sometimes its really amazing to see the mind understand a concept and juxtapose it on another.
One day while walking down the street a highly successful Human Resources Manager was tragically hit by a bus and she died. Her soul arrived up in heaven where she was met at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter himself.
“Welcome to Heaven,” said St. Peter. “Before you get settled in though, it seems we have a problem. You see, strangely enough, we’ve never once had a Human Resources Manager make it this far and we’re not really sure what to do with you.”
“No problem, just let me in,” said the woman.
“Well, I’d like to, but I have higher orders. What we’re going to do is let you have a day in Hell and a day in Heaven and then you can choose whichever one you want to spend an eternity in.”
“Actually, I think I’ve made up my mind, I prefer to stay in Heaven”, said the woman
“Sorry, we have rules…”
And with that St. Peter put the executive in an elevator and it went down-down-down to hell.
The doors opened and she found herself stepping out onto the putting green of a beautiful golf course. In the distance was a country club and standing in front of her were all her friends – fellow executives that she had worked with and they were well dressed in evening gowns and cheering for her. They ran up and kissed her on both cheeks and they talked about old times. They played an excellent round of golf and at night went to the country club where she enjoyed an excellent steak and lobster dinner.
She met the Devil who was actually a really nice guy (kind of cute) and she had a great time telling jokes and dancing. She was having such a good time that before she knew it, it was time to leave. Everybody shook her hand and waved goodbye as she got on the elevator.
The elevator went up-up-up and opened back up at the Pearly Gates and found St. Peter waiting for her.
“Now it’s time to spend a day in heaven,” he said. So she spent the next 24 hours lounging around on clouds and playing the harp and singing. She had great time and before she knew it her 24 hours were up and St. Peter came and got her.
“So, you’ve spent a day in hell and you’ve spent a day in heaven. Now you must choose your eternity,”
The woman paused for a second and then replied, “Well, I never thought I’d say this, I mean, Heaven has been really great and all, but I think I had a better time in Hell.”
So St. Peter escorted her to the elevator and again she went down-down-down back to Hell.
When the doors of the elevator opened she found herself standing in a desolate wasteland covered in garbage and filth. She saw her friends were dressed in rags and were picking up the garbage and putting it in sacks.
The Devil came up to her and put his arm around her.
“I don’t understand,” stammered the woman, “yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and a country club and we ate lobster and we danced and had a great time. Now all there is a wasteland of garbage and all my friends look miserable.”
The Devil looked at her smiled and said … … … …. …. …. …. …. “Yesterday we were recruiting you, today you’re an Employee”
Move over bombs and missiles, its the beginning of an era of online attacks and hacks. This was highlighted suddenly by a mysterious virus which took control of the Iran’s nuclear sites. Eventhough its source has never been confirmed. world knows that very few countries has that kind of capability to produce one.
Below video gives a brilliant infographics of its history, path and future exploitation.
Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus from Patrick Clair
This was one of the email forwards i got and it looked interesting. It claims that the below picture of a laptop is the worlds first “Portable” model. Irrespective of the authenticity it is certainly something we do enjoy looking at !
Here are its specs > Model Name: Osborne 1, Year: 1981, Weight : 25pounds with 5 inch screen
Sharing Credits : N T Ashwatanarayana – nta53[at]rediffmail[dot]com
|
In this busy world, more often than not one tends to forget the very essence of ones existence or the motivation behind the things they do. Primitive things mask the primary objectives. Finally one frets about the inability to enjoy ones life and regressively continue that till end comes by.
Below video illustrates a very inspiring story which takes place between a teacher and his pupils.