I have been reading a lot lately. No not anything that vaguely resembles good literature. After staring at a screen all day, the last thing you want to do when you come home is spend another 3 hours looking at some scrawl in size 9 font. However, its this new thing called "guilt adjusted relaxation" that I have begun to do at work. I feel too guilty to just slack off for a couple of hours and take a walk or get some coffee or something. So, I sit at my desk and visit random websites, that are sort of intellectually enlightening. So it is guilt adjusted. While I am wasting time in terms of adding to the codebase and coming up with well converging numerical solutions, I am growing in my knowledge of the universe.
I mostly to stick to Wikipedia, its an encyclopedia you know, lots of knowledge, which means it has the best "guilt adjustment characteristic". I know all about Nazi Germany. All the evil guys and all the stupid things they did. Its kind of funny how all these neo-Nazi white supremist groups use the ancient religious symbol (Swastika) of a bunch of brown guys. Then there is chaos theory. I know a bit in a fun anecdotal bullshit way. I even learnt some esoteric sounds like "diffeomorphism".
A month or so back I spent about 20 mins a day over a week tracking down Tam actors. "Kaptaaan" Vijay was the most fun. Must go to his website I say. It epitomises all the key things you should NOT do while putting up a bunch of pages. God knows how many tatas got coronaries looking at that stuff. Also, do you know that when MGR is almost 31 years older than JJ. So he basically married one of his daughters friends. It was also his 4th go at the marriage deal. Another intersting factoid is that he is not MGR but Dr. MGR. He got a Ph. D. from "The World University" in Arizona. Wonder what he got it for? Running around trees with sundry girls?
Another website thats got me is this blog called dealbreaker. It is to financial reporting what "The Sun" is to current affairs reporting. It is classy, well balanced and suave...NOT. Interesting gossip about payscales, who got hired and fired, and links to Craigs list profiles of well to do but super lonely i bankers. One of the funnest episodes was when some college kid came up with a 20 minute video of why he would make a great banker. Hilarious! I would be inclined to think that he didn't get so far with this particular self promotion technique.
I also read a lot of blogs. It is interesting to see how, like in real life, where similar people are more likely to hang out with each other, similar blogs link to each other.
Lame graduate students link to other graduate students.
Crazy ranting chicks (CRCs, different from Cyclic Redundancy Check) link to others CRCs , CWCs (Crazy Whining Chicks) and some CDOGs (Crazy Doped Out Guys).
Writers link to other writers.
Technojunkies link to other junkies.
The age group, region, language and background also remains quite consistent across all the blogs you click through too. Delhi types link to other delhi types. Bongs link to a bunch of other bongs. And of course, Tam Brahms link to other Tam Brahms. Sriram links to Sivaram. Debonita links to Purohita.
Another interesting phenomenon I see is in blog activity. All the blogs within a "click radius" tend to be active or in-active all together. A blog which is frequently updated and well commented upon is more likely to lead you to another active blog than a dead blog. Of course, this doesn't count those blogs that link to like 200000 blogs just to get a lot of hits. I can see it in my own set of blogs too. I started blogging kind of regularly in May '05 mostly because I was alone and quite bored during an internship. I become part of this community that had a round of posts coming up every week. Then it died. Now there are these synchronized bursts where 2-3 blogs put up a post in the span of a few days, and then it dies out again.
I can keep going on but one must stop somewhere. That kind of sums of my foray into "guilt adjusted relaxation". See, it has enabled me to present you with this fascinating information.
I mostly to stick to Wikipedia, its an encyclopedia you know, lots of knowledge, which means it has the best "guilt adjustment characteristic". I know all about Nazi Germany. All the evil guys and all the stupid things they did. Its kind of funny how all these neo-Nazi white supremist groups use the ancient religious symbol (Swastika) of a bunch of brown guys. Then there is chaos theory. I know a bit in a fun anecdotal bullshit way. I even learnt some esoteric sounds like "diffeomorphism".
A month or so back I spent about 20 mins a day over a week tracking down Tam actors. "Kaptaaan" Vijay was the most fun. Must go to his website I say. It epitomises all the key things you should NOT do while putting up a bunch of pages. God knows how many tatas got coronaries looking at that stuff. Also, do you know that when MGR is almost 31 years older than JJ. So he basically married one of his daughters friends. It was also his 4th go at the marriage deal. Another intersting factoid is that he is not MGR but Dr. MGR. He got a Ph. D. from "The World University" in Arizona. Wonder what he got it for? Running around trees with sundry girls?
Another website thats got me is this blog called dealbreaker. It is to financial reporting what "The Sun" is to current affairs reporting. It is classy, well balanced and suave...NOT. Interesting gossip about payscales, who got hired and fired, and links to Craigs list profiles of well to do but super lonely i bankers. One of the funnest episodes was when some college kid came up with a 20 minute video of why he would make a great banker. Hilarious! I would be inclined to think that he didn't get so far with this particular self promotion technique.
I also read a lot of blogs. It is interesting to see how, like in real life, where similar people are more likely to hang out with each other, similar blogs link to each other.
Lame graduate students link to other graduate students.
Crazy ranting chicks (CRCs, different from Cyclic Redundancy Check) link to others CRCs , CWCs (Crazy Whining Chicks) and some CDOGs (Crazy Doped Out Guys).
Writers link to other writers.
Technojunkies link to other junkies.
The age group, region, language and background also remains quite consistent across all the blogs you click through too. Delhi types link to other delhi types. Bongs link to a bunch of other bongs. And of course, Tam Brahms link to other Tam Brahms. Sriram links to Sivaram. Debonita links to Purohita.
Another interesting phenomenon I see is in blog activity. All the blogs within a "click radius" tend to be active or in-active all together. A blog which is frequently updated and well commented upon is more likely to lead you to another active blog than a dead blog. Of course, this doesn't count those blogs that link to like 200000 blogs just to get a lot of hits. I can see it in my own set of blogs too. I started blogging kind of regularly in May '05 mostly because I was alone and quite bored during an internship. I become part of this community that had a round of posts coming up every week. Then it died. Now there are these synchronized bursts where 2-3 blogs put up a post in the span of a few days, and then it dies out again.
I can keep going on but one must stop somewhere. That kind of sums of my foray into "guilt adjusted relaxation". See, it has enabled me to present you with this fascinating information.
5 comments:
So where's the connection betn vengaya bajji and guilt adjusted relaxation??? Sorry, beats me!
Both are delicious. I just made that up. Nothing really.
I demand more forays into "guilt adjusted relaxation", pronto.
I loved this post!
Thanks :)...
you're quite hilarious...and i'm totally for the random titling...shorter ones go well too :)
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