Seeking Divine Intervention

To understand what this means:

“I am conservative with a modern outlook”

Yay

Seb’s 6th and Valentino’s 7th!!

We are watching geniuses, aren’t we!

Inglorious Basterds

After having watched this movie thrice (as that’s the best way to watch it), it is inappropriate to say nothing. So….

See it.

Berlusconi is at it again!

This guy is damn funny

News and memory

The memory of immersing myself reading this in the recent past, is brought back by this news. Along with the news come several facts that could potentially damage the feeling I got when I read. Strangely, that didn’t happen.

PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

By John McCarthy, the founder of LISP. Read here.

Most popular win

When Webber won at the Nurburgring, even opponents were happy

Webber celebrating with his team after winning his first F1 Grand Prix

In a highly politicised and ruthless sport where even team mates hate each other, this sentiment is a rare occurance.

Yours Sincerely

Dear Gupta,

I remembered you over the weekend, thanks to a conversation with someone[1]. When I did that, I went into an ironical tight loop – I wished I remembered you more often, and at the same time your memory evoked a deep sadness inside me! Why am I wishing to evoke sadness more often? I wouldn’t know.

The way you left us (myself, Mu, Ma, Noo) was shocking. We four weren’t the closest friends to you. It was more of a distant friendship and admiration. Ofcourse, a good deal of tutelage from your side. It is safe to say that what I have become in life as a human isn’t something that you (or anyone) would have imagined me to become. That doesn’t change the fact that you gave me at least an year of head start in my development process. I am not making any claims that you changed my life – you did not. You did accelerate my development process by helping me cover my basics when I had to. That apart, you taught me humility on the way back from Trichy to Chennai after our successful participation in Festember (1998?) in NIT, Trichy. The question that you asked “What if that was my father? Wouldn’t you have done the same?” humbled me and that’s the most painful question I have ever faced. As I said earlier, I would have reached the same realization eventually.

We might have failed in sustaining the award we created in your memory. We did manage to do that only for 5 years or so. That doesn’t imply that you aren’t in my memories anymore or that I am not indebted to you.

I did not get a chance to convey this to you or to anyone in the past (I did convey this to some extent to that “someone[1]” though). Hence, I am keeping it here for my record.

Yours Sincerely,

~A

[1] – is someone whom I have come to know and respect in the very recent past. Whom, i hope, will at least be a good friend for life.

Better than the best

If one thought this was the best of recent times, one is forced to think again.

A tennis champion who dared

As Fabrice’s career is coming to an end, its time to salute a tennis champion who hasn’t won any grand slam tournament (has never reached a grand slam tournament semi-final even!). Why is he a champion? I’ll rather let you see than trying to explain.