Flying in a blue dream...

Frisbee

Have discovered this new game called Ultimate Frisbee....and i am hooked!!

Current Music: Fear Factory - Cyberwaste

posted by Nitish @ 7:42 AM Comments: 0

Consideration

I really do not have too much knowledge about too many world cultures. I have spent a reasonable amount of time in only 2 countries viz. US and India. But there is one crystal clear conclusion that i have made about our nation or rather about Indians as a race. We are a bunch of incosiderate people. We do not care what the person to the left or right of us has to go through because of our actions, we just believe that we must do what is immediately of value to us and those who are near and dear to us. The person who might indirectly be affected by our actions be damned!
I mean just look at something as simple as the way we drive. Aren't the driving ethics of city/group of people/person/nation are a clear reflection of their thinking, the kind of people that they are? Driving is nothing more than following a simple set of rules! Yet how many of us can do it right? And more importantly how many of us CRIB about it and yet go out on the roads and drive like a bunch of shitheads. I have seen the most educated, the most "civilised" amongst us go out there and cut through lanes, drive on the opposite sides, take u turns on a chock-a-block full road so that the entire traffic is sent to the dogs, just because somebody wants to save on a few measly bucks of petrol and not drive up to the next roundabout. Hell, I have even seen people driving the swankiest, most expensive cars do this kinda shit, giving a damn to these beautiful pieces of machinery for which they must have paid bucketfuls of money. And again it all boils to consideration doesn't it? Granted that all of us want to get to wherever we want to go in the shortest possible time AND using the shortest possible route but do we ever consider whether we are causing trouble to those around us.
Same thing is sooo applicable to us even as listeners. I dont know whether its me but I have almost given up arguing with most people i am around with. I know since they will never try and listen to what i am trying to say and always try and prove that what they are saying is right, it makes no sense to argue with them. I do not believe in shouting matches and if you cant have an intelligent argument with me then screw u ! and dont bother wasting my time. I am not gonna listen to you even if you make statements that go radically against my thought. After all what do i have to gain by making you see the way i see things which *might* be right. After all, its your loss, not mine.

Current Music: SwitchFoot - Dare you to move

posted by Nitish @ 12:44 AM Comments: 0

Songs buzzing in my head at the moment

If I were to write a CD right now then it would contain:

1. Death - Zero Tolerance (Chuck Schuldiner is nothing but a GOD!!)
2. Radha Ramana - Tulku( feat. Jai Uttal) - heard Crispian Mills aka lead singer of Kula Shaker sing "Govinda Jaya Jaya, gopal jaya jaya..." in "Govinda". Well this is the original bhajan sung in that ISKCON kinda manner with some nice mellifluous mixes at the back. Perfect mood balancing song.
3. Akele Hum Nadiya Kinare - Shubha Mudgal - simplicity at its best. I wish i was a painter, cuz this song makes me wanna paint a picture, a picture of a sunset by a river, with somebody waiting by the shore for her beloved
4. SwitchFoot - Dare You to Move - its like creating an illusion out of sound. This atmosphere music..its almost as if it makes your world expand right before your eyes

Current Music: Solid Sessions - Janeiro

posted by Nitish @ 11:00 PM Comments: 0

Magneto

BTW, this is kinda what I work on :)

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160402215

posted by Nitish @ 1:22 AM Comments: 0

Codenames

This is one Microsoft fixation that has kept me constantly intrigued. I must say that it takes some amount of creativity to come up with the kind of uber cool codenames that guys at Microsoft come up with. Some of them have been in public memory for sometime, while some others are still catching up. Here's my list of super cool Microsoft Codenames:

1. The Pocket PC OS/Windows Mobile series - Rapier,Merlin, Stinger, Magneto,Photon. For those who haven't yet realised it as yet, these are some of the X Men ( duh!)

2. The Visual Studio Series - Rainier,Everett, Whidbey, Orcas - all towns in increasing order of distance from Redmond in the Northwest direction

3. Visual J++ - Jakarta. Insider joke. Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia, located on the island of java

4 . Exchange 2003-Titanium. While the name sounds very mundane, the funda behind it is quite cool. Titanium is twice as strong as steel while half its weight. So exchange was intended to be twice as secure as 2002 but half its size, etc

5. Windows CE .NET - Talisker - the only whisky distillery on the Island of Skye. ( The rest of them are for Skye Vodka)

6. The SQL CE series of codenames - Daytona,Laguna, Kahuna - beaches in the US

7. Layer for Unicode - Godot- perfectly apt name. From the play "Waiting for Godot". Godot is the central character of this play based on the endless wait for him. Get the drift .. :)

8. Obvisously nothing can beat Whistler, Longhorn and Blackcomb...


Current Music: Lillian Axe- Letters in the Rain

posted by Nitish @ 12:49 AM Comments: 0

Do you wanna know about David Lynch?

Had a mini David Lynch festival over the weekend. Saw "Mulholland Dr." and "Lost Highway". Man, what is that guy? Absolutely psychotic movies...there are actaully websites dedicated to explaining his movies. Seems like a dope trip of the weirdest degree.

www.davidlynch.com

More about the other movie I saw over the weekend. Just one word for it right now--"kickass"! :)

Current music: Nirvana- Smells like....

posted by Nitish @ 5:42 AM Comments: 0

I really think that the concept of having time to oneself is overrated. who really wants to know more about themselves. all of us have those skeletons waiting to tumble out of our closets given a chance. and they love to tumble out on us don't they. no more time for myself. I hate having time to myself . gives me too much time to think. I mean wouldn't it be better if we just acted in the spur of the moment instead of having to wait for the consequences, wait for coming up with those politically correct comments. I would rather wait for the dust to settle after I have acted. but alas, I know its only foolish bravado and nothing more.

current music: my ceiling fan's whirr

posted by Nitish @ 12:07 PM Comments: 0