Posted in quote for the week, tagged life, ideology, quote, belief, fitzgerald, mind, convictions, youth, age, thoughts on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
“At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
–F. Scott Fitzgerald
Posted in uncategorized musings, tagged personal, life, sadness, time, boredom, unhappiness, mind on July 1, 2008 | Comments Off
You know you are not happy when you wish you could make time go faster.
Posted in quote for the week, tagged life, memory, past, quote, romantic, sentimental, time on June 30, 2008 | No Comments »
“A sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, tagged story, life, writing, people, human, fiction, jhumpa lahiri, short story, relationship, tension, literature, insight on June 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s a certain quality about Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories. For want of a better word, I’ll call it tension.
It is not the fear-laced tension of a well-told ghost story or the sexual tension of a romantic novella. Nor is it the tension that comes from reading a truly great novel of ideas, the kind that [...]
Posted in libertarianism, personal, tagged dementia, family, freedom, life, old age, privacy, private, sex on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
She was 82. He was 95. They had dementia. They fell in love. And then they started having sex.
What happened next? Read this to find out.
Speaking strictly for myself, I will do everything — and I really mean everything — in my power to ensure that my freedom can never be curtailed by a loved one or [...]
Posted in miscellaneous, people, travel and getaways, tagged adventure, adventurer, alone, documentary, island, life, primitive, secluded, xavier rosset on May 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Yep, its for real!
French explorer and adventurer Xavier Rosset is about to embark on a 300 day trip to live alone on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific. His adventures will be filmed and used for a 52 minute documentary.
Xavier’s only luggage will be a Swiss army knife, machete, video camera, and a [...]
Posted in miscellaneous, personal, tagged blog, blogging, coffee, life, new york, notice on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I am in New York City for the week for a math conference. Blogging will be light. Coffee intake on the other hand, is likely to be heavy.
Posted in personal, travel and getaways, uncategorized musings, tagged music, life, coffee-shop, food, new york, coffee shops, latte, greenwich village, manhattan, ambience, hang out on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
What is it about coffee shops that make them so awesome?
Anyway, what I want to say is, if you ever happen to visit Greenwich village in southern Manhattan and feel like going to a coffee shop, try out Think Coffee. And I am not saying that because I am anti-Starbucks or anti-corporation — I am not — or in [...]
Posted in personal, uncategorized musings, tagged associations, change, email, friends, friendship, happiness, life, love, lovers, memory, past, people, relationships, sadness, sentimental, sentiments, time on May 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Rummaging through my old emails, I found this passage, from an email I wrote to someone three years and six months ago.
There are so many things that are close to you at some point of time. People who were important in your life or just friends ; and then there are surroundings and places. They become part [...]
Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, tagged humor, life, stuff white people like, writing, satire, funy, scarves, dating, clothing, attire on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Stuff White People Like is hilarious.
“I like the guy in the white American Apparel shirt with the glasses.”
“Which one? there are eight.”
“The guy with the keffiyeh.”
“Oh yeah, you’re right. He does look smarter and more political than the other guys. He’s clearly more sensitive to wind, so he’s probably more sensitive in general. You should [...]
Posted in libertarianism, personal, uncategorized musings, tagged religion, growing up, freedom of speech, personal, liberty, science, life, ideology, government, change, reason, faith, coming of age, beliefs, coercion, scientific spirit, rationality, force, maturity on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Apropos of nothing…I remembered myself from ten years back.
When I hated all mongerers of superstition; when I simply could not fathom why the government did not declare the practice of astrology, quackery, faith-healing and all related unscientific mumbo-jumbo illegal; when I would have liked all religious extremists and preachers of hate put behind bars; when the ultimate [...]
Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, tagged love, music, movie, life, gays, race, people, video, difference, couples, sharing, lesbians, orientation, couple, babies, couch, couches, homosexuality on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Watch twenty couples on twenty couches in a video response to the question “What’s the difference”?
I think the idea was great and the execution was beautiful. My major peeve: too many laptops.
(Link via Instapundit)
Update: The music in the video is growing on me. I wish there was a ringtone version of it.
Posted in miscellaneous, tagged death, final exit, freedom, internet, life, right to die, self deliverance, suicide, suicide method, suicide website on April 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Some doctors did a study of the type of websites that come up when one enters suicide related queries in online search engines. The results were interesting - most of the sites are pro-suicide and many of them offer detailed prescriptions on how to commit the act.
While I strongly believe in an unalienable right to commit suicide, I am not pro-suicide [...]
Posted in personal, travel and getaways, tagged Mozart, math, life, camping, hiking, hike, san gabriels, angeles national forest, mountain, nature, scenery, seclusion, solitude, weekend, hoegees, chantry flats, bear, tent, camp, forest, wilderness, travel, campground on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The reason there were no posts over the weekend is that I went solo-camping in the San Gabriel mountains just north of Pasadena.
The idea of spending a weekend alone in the wilderness first occurred to me during a hike I did in the San Gabriels with a couple of friends last summer. I was awestruck by the utter [...]
Posted in math, on certain arts, writings and performances, personal, tagged blog, blogging, grad student, graduate student, life, math, Mozart, music, personal, phd, research, student, student life on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t had much time to blog this weekend. Ideas for posts came and went. News broke, and got stale. I gave them all a haughty ignore and, with single minded devotion, concentrated on my L-functions.
One of the drawbacks of being a fourth year grad student is that you need to do a lot of research quickly enough [...]
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