Long story short. Today I was having some trouble with one of my email addresses. I raised a support request with the hosting provider. Within a few minutes, their technical support person replied back telling me that nothing is wrong at their end. And then, soon after, the problem was…
Past research has suggested that certain activities like gardening, cooking, philanthropy, yoga etc. are almost therapeutic in effect. These activities are said to “heal our soul.” For some people, its even judged rejuvenating. But, what about meditation? I’ve always been curious to know, how does praying, a spiritual meditation…
The other day I wrote down this Haiku [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku] out of disappointment: > With a necktie in January: Erratic spacing at the end of lines Heedless programmer continues to code Disappointment that came from recently inspecting gallons of ruthlessly written source code. The business logic,…
A day after my birthday last week, I came across an article, ironically, titled ‘Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older? [http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i39_yaffe.html]‘ by Philip Yaffe, in which the author contemplates: > It seems as if there is never enough…
Earlier this year I worked on an experimental sci-fi short film, “Memoirs of a Spore [http://www.vimeo.com/5445784]” (Chapter I, The Rains). Plot Summary: Once in a long past future, a cyborg ponders their rehabilitation in a metabolic society ravaged by the war, continuous rains, and other artifacts.…
Thanks to the thousand odd people for subscribing the blog feed [https://www.nilkanth.com/feed/] and following me on Twitter [http://twitter.com/voidmonk]! I’ll try to keep up the occasional rants. Recently, a friend was exhibiting his paintings for the first-time. At the small gallery, he was…
For decades, intelligence has been defined too narrowly. Either you are considered to be genius, or stupid, not just as a child but also in your adulthood. What’s more worrisome is that it can make most kids (and some adults) to deprave their own self-esteem. Last week, I was…
I’ve been reading a lot about “Augmented Reality” lately. Just the other day, I saw this beautiful short film titled ‘World Builder [http://vimeo.com/3365942]‘, that also depicts this powerful holographic technology to express the fusion of the physical and virtual worlds. Augmented Reality [http://en.wikipedia.org/…