Great quote by the great _why

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.

Fun Stuff: handling server error @ goroveshark

quote from a book

I have been reading "The Last Lecture" by randy Pausch on and off. In one of the chapters he writes about his love life and courtship with his would be wife. Somehow it happens that she thinks their ways are different and at that very moment Randy delivers fantastic line. What an attitude! Am impressed and now when I recalled it; I thought lets put it on my blog too. Here it goes.

Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

Movie : Good Will Hunting

As everyone I too got confused while watching this movie? Whats the fuss all about? But man I loved the dialogues here. And that makes it really good movie.

Here are some of the dialogues.

Sean: Do you have a soul mate?

Will: Define that.

Sean: Someone you can relate to, someone who opens things up for you.

Will: Sure, I got plenty.

Sean: Well, name them.

Will: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Frost, O'Conner, Kant, Pope, Locke...

Sean: Well that's great. They're all dead.

Will: Not to me, they're not.

Sean: You can't have a lot of dialogue with them.

Will: Not without a heater and some serious smelling salts.

Sean: Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. You'll never have that kind of a relationship in a world where you're always afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road.

and the other one

Chuckie: All right, are we gonna have a problem?

Clark: There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the early colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War the economic modalities, especially of the southern colonies could most aptly be characterized as agrarian pre-capitalist and...

Will: [interrupting] Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just got finished some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison prob’ly, you’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when you get to James Lemon, then you’re gonna be talkin’ about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year, you’re gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin’ about you know, the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.

Clark: [taken aback] Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of--

Will: ..."Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..." You got that from "Work in Essex County," Page 98, right? Yeah I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us- you have any thoughts of- of your own on this matter? Or do- is that your thing, you come into a bar, you read some obscure passage and then you pretend- you pawn it off as your own- your own idea just to impress some girls? Embarrass my friend?

[Clark is stunned]

Will: See the sad thing about a guy like you, is in about 50 years you’re gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One, don't do that. And two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin’ education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.

Clark: Yeah, but I will have a degree, and you'll be serving my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.

Will: [smiles] Yeah, maybe. But at least I won't be unoriginal.

Hard hitting isn't it?

new phone finally

pic courtesy: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/08/22.html

Orkut Pains

Its buggy we knew but check out the attached pic below. I guess there are better ways to handle this data-fetch failure.



Orkut communities is another thing I don't get. Its good concept but doesn't work as scraps/messages serve purpose of connecting. Tools provided by orkut are quite limited. There are events/messaging to whole community but its use is not understood by lot of people I guess so User interface for communities page lacks emphasis on these tools.

In last few days I got these error messages.

1. Commenting on picture is temporarily disabled.
2. Some posts on my community got marked as spam
3. Some members got banned without any moderator/owner action
4. Very old posts of my orkut community went missing without any sort of alert/warning
   

a quote

There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.