Friday, August 22, 2008

Mada Mada Dane

To those of you who don't know what this means - boo. Well no, it means "You've still got a long way to go", like a taunt of sorts in japanese. The mada mada part is what makes it that - one mada is good, two mada's is bad ahh well what can you expect from a language with over 12 degrees of politeness (not to diss the language at all), atleast that's what harsha says.

A lot of the guys have left, in fact most have. I am surprised at how some feel they haven't coped too well and are lonely while others seem to be having a blast. Don't know. This post has been some time in coming, so I think I'll split it accross several closely spaced posts. For those that don't know - my lappy stopped working quite recently so I'm still kind of upset, send money and chocolates (and new laptops) to get me in a better mood. Ok, so now updates of a less morbid variety for those who want music I'd suggest muse if you haven't already tried it "Apocolypse please", "Stockholme syndrome" and "Assassin" being favorites untill my lappy breathed it's dying gasps. The Angra cover for Led Zep's Kashmir is of course also very very awesome. Kittie is good - but not all just some, especially those with the overlaid melodic with guttarals. Coheed and Cambria for those getting started is also pretty nice, but you need to stick with them a little, start with "Welcome Home", which is awesome.

While on the way from Home to work, which in case you didn't know of, I had gone home for about a month or so - mid June to mid July, I met this interesting auto guy. Now this is what he tells me and I repeat it as best I remember it. The secret to good health is to get up at 5 in the morning, drink water from a silver (or was it copper I forget, take silver - scientifically proven) thi s water should have been used for the germination of 'desi chana', not any other kind. Then excercise till about 6 or so, then work drink ganna juice around 12:00 or so. Have a light lunch drink not more than two cups of tea a day, do not induldge in anything excessively - don't do too much muscle building otherwise you'll regret it. Yes, and sleep at 1 or so that means about 4 hours of sleep a day not more, no chance. These tidbits of wisdom cost me about 30 Rs. extra - but then who am I to complain if the elixir to eternal life costs that much, it could easily be a lot more. Then is the people who I live around, that's for the next post though, their sense of morality is rather entertaining. Till then read the webcomic abstruse goose, XKCD-ish with more science and less tech.

I also realised a lot of people seem to get this page when they search for sinc waves and sine waves. People sin(pi*x)/(pi*x) can be called a sinc(x) wave, and from what I remember it is the result of a fourrier transform on a square wave. wider the square wave the sharper the sinc, the thinner the square the wider the sinc - remember always - time frequency duality.

Now that the lesson for the day is over we move onto the much awaited lyrics section.

Muse - Assassin

War is overdue
The time has come for you
To shoot your leaders down
Join forces underground

Lose control
With increasing pace
Warped and bewitched
Intend to erase
Whatever they say
These people out torn
A wild and bereft
Assassin is born (yeah)

Aim, shoot, kill your leaders,
Aim, shoot, kill...

Oppose and disagree
Destroy Demonocracy

Lose control
With increasing pace
Warped and bewitched
Intend to erase
Whatever they say
These people out torn
A wild and bereft
Assassin is born (yeah)
[Aim, Shoot, Kill...]