mind=body=soul

I was thinking which aspect of the song, attracts one the most?
1. Lyrics
2. Music
3. Singer
4. Video(probably if the first you saw it was on a video)

To me, I feel I first get attracted to 2. but what keeps me really liking it forever, is the lyrics. I have esp noticed with tamil songs, the only songs I carry in my favorite list for years, are only due to lyrics. Good song writers definitely have a way to evoke some kind of good feeling I guess.

Only few songs seem to have both good lyrics and music. I feel thats bcos good music most often dominates good lyrics, so it might fall into the 'good music' category(esp in the beginning),. Unfortunately that means, some good lyrics songs will never be discovered if the music was horrible.
So does it mean a good musician might suppress the good lyrics guy due to grabbing your attention more to the music than the lyrics? Singer's voice doesnt seem to suppress either, but never seem to stand out. Its always subtle. For eg: we all agree that X is a good singer, but will have a hard time, identifying the best of his/her songs. Different people might give different list(I've rarely heard someone say they like the song bcos of the singer, its either music or lyrics) But I dont think that would be the case with song writers, there are clear winners among thier own work.
I think singers achieve thier purpose when the listeners don't pay attention to the voice, but to the flow of the song/lyrics. I guess that makes them less appreciated unfortunately (on a per song basis).

Regd video, I've definitely liked some songs just because of the video, but the fact that I cant recollect them in 1min, says probably it doesnt matter as much as opposed to what I thought otherwise earlier when I started the post.

Just like a song, the 4 points(=people characteristics) can be also equated to people I guess. I leave that as an exercise to the reader:)

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finally southpark guys get it. they have put all episodes online(with ads). today its impossible for anybody(content producer) to prevent uploading to video sharing sites or p2p downloads. when they are detected and pulled down, new ones crop at different places by different users.
instead of allowing some ppl to earn out of illegal content, the producers should embrace this and try to cash out as much as they can.
a day will come when all music/movies will be distributed legally for free and supported by premium membership or ads.

see the episodes here

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I discovered that when people say,

Iam into photography .. it means they have bought an used SLR on ebay
Iam into travel .. it means they take pictures and post it in orkut
Iam into working out .. it means they have been to the gym "recently" once.
Iam into hacking .. it means they can write a hello world program in C. a great hacker can also write that in C++
Iam into art .. it means they can successfully deceive their friends that they are appreciating the hangings they see in restaurants
Iam into nature .. similar to above
Iam into blogging .. it means ppl can write crap like this.
Iam into blogging .. it means ppl can read crap like this.

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Then:
Not a day passes by, without being scolded by mom,because you didnt remove your shoes while entering the house or you are watching too much TV when you dont have a clue about what exam is on the next day.
Now:
Its very hard to get scolded by mom. She is too forgiving now.

Then:
You think you have wasted too much time today,not doing anything what you planned.
Now:
You think you have wasted too much time today,not doing anything what you planned.

Then:
You wear "color dress"(even colored uniforms are uncolored) to school and distribute choclate to each of your classmates on your birthday. You then goto a temple with your parents.
Now:
You get birthday greetings in emails,Orkut scraps or voicemails, because all your friends are seperated physically by more than the distance you had ever travelled in your entire childhood life.You then goto a pub with your girl friend who is another loser.

Then:
You say to yourself -"Unlike today I will get up early tomorrow".
Now:
You say to yourself -"Unlike today I will get up early tomorrow".

Then:
You are busy saving your pocket money because your friends asked for a treat for the new bicyle that you got.
Now:
You are busy saving your salary for paying your house loan and your kid's education.

Then:
You think "Street Cat"s are cool.
Now:
You think BMWs are cool.

Then:
You eat choclates,cakes and ice-creams fallen on the floor.
Now:
You don't eat anything before knowing how much calories it is.

Then:
You are eagerly looking forward to that summer vacation at your grandma's house where you play 24/7 with your cousins and other friends.
Now:
You are eagerly looking forward to that "get away" with your
wife to a God forsaken island.

Then:
You want become like your dad.
Now:
You don't know what you want to become.

Then:
You "collect" all your friends in bicycles and sit at the "kutti-suvaru" to discuss all your views about why life sucks.
Now:
You blog and your friends get RSS feeds.

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In the last 20 years ,we have been lucky to see some scientific developments like invention of personal computer, mobile phone and ofcourse internet. However, offlate, there has not been much development in the science or technology front. Ofcoure everyday gazillion gadgets come out, but none of them are breakthroughs like the invention of a personal computer or car. Fields other than technology, whatelse have happened in the last decade? Hmmmm ... ??? I think only intrusion of technology in other fields is the revolution in other fields?
Definitely the growth rate is decreasing(does it mean we are reaching saturation)
What else could be the coming breakthroughs?
My guess:
-personal robots for doing chores like laundry,dish washing.
-better, robots with emotions.have an irritating spouse? no problem.
-flying cars or personal aircrafts
-no traffic lights or even auto car drive.
-free telephone calls worldwide.
-internet at speed of local machine
-video conferencing to the core and useful for daily lives. as useful,simple and common as email.
-literally no queues or waiting anywhere with improvisation in automated systems and traffic.

Even if atleast 2 of those didnt happen in the next 50years, I think we have reached saturation or could be that we would have died of global warming. Thank you for raping the planet.

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Since I was bored, I watched this video for the nth time (Steve Jobs grad commencement speech @Stanford).

Both these pictures taken from here

What occurs to you when you look at these "really moving" pics? I mean not what "moment" it was or what caused that "moment", but what does it tell you?

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Today I got an email from a guy (who claimed was my neighbour in Chennai). His name doesn't ring any bell to me. He sent his resume asking to refer him. He also left me a voicemail, in which he said "I had sent my resume, please forward anna". I think it indeed came from India.
Sure, I can understand his need, but I was surprised he did actually try to *call* me. Im also surprised whether he had assumed people will interview for positions in US from India? His resume shows that he is a fresh college grad. He never said where/how found my contact info? Web search? univ page? orkut? blog?

Sure, whenever I remember or hear about any friend(esp if not close), I immediately lookup on the web or orkut to see if he has any homepage and see what he has been upto or any interesting info happenning with him? (Btw, any guess on the success rate?:) ). But making an international call is little over the limit, especially since I still couldnt recollect his identity :)
But I think he really wanted me to fwd his resume(otherwise just an email could have worked). So, I did.
[UPDATE : No fun,pun etc intended ]
Moral of the day: The world is sure smaller than u think.

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Spoiler Warning :
This article may not make any sense. Actually I think this should be a default header!

I think in some ways web search engines(SE) and human brains are similar. For one thing, both have/store vast information and try to process/get it based on user queries(for SE) or needs of different parts/senses of the body(for brain). Now who cares anyway?
I think the way search engines evolve and improve themselves may teach us something about how to improve ourselves in some aspects.
There are reasons why some search engines are great and some suck,. (just like some ppl are smart and some are stupid) Im not going to point out the differences but they use different techniques to crawl, index and serve the documents. These 3 are the main things. I will go little in detail on them(with the fear of boring u).
1.Crawling is just discovering all the informatin on web, like when we learn things around us, when we were kids. SEs want to give you the latest info on any searched topic. So it simply crawls the pages again and again and in the process discovers new pages and due to this, new "perspective" about old pages. Simple. But, do we do that? I highly doubt it! We do keep learning new stuff thru different phases of our life(school, college, profession etc) but when we learn some stuff, we never try to learn it again. Most of the things in life get solved by going back to the very fundamentals. So crawl often. That is wherever possible try to unlearn stuff and learn it again. Use your own judgement , to determine which things should be crawled again. i dont think its the text books or anything of that sort, but its the habits we have, perspection of ppl related to us etc are some of the things which need to unlerant and learnt often.

2.Index. In a SE it means identifying what a page is "about", so that when somebody asks for "it", you can "quickly" serve it. I think our brain inheritently handles this. Now, imagine a sunset view along the beach.... Did you imagine? Ok-I know, you didn't, but wat Im trying to say is , you have so much "stuff" in your brain, but when I say something you were able to immediately recollect the picture in ur mind somehow. I dont know ways to improve it. Some memory mgmt techinques or whatever.

3.Serve. My comparision on this is so big and since the post is already big, I will publish it in another post. I can see you getting relieved.

Disclaimer:
I am no authority on the subject of brains or SE, so my comparision might totally be unrelated. Atleast I work on SE, but brain is totally out of my thinking :)
Oh, btw this post also assumes you have a brain, otherwise Im sorry to have wasted ur time . Ok,though not funny it was joke. If you had taken it seriously, you should stop browsing and go to a doctor first !!!

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