Wonderfalls

I haven't seen Wonderfalls in quite some time now and was reminded about it only when I saw the Caroline Dhavernas has a lookalike (from Europe and non related even!). Although I can only confess to have seen only 3 episodes, I loved the concept (not the lame talking animals thing) of witty dialogues filling up a drama about nothing. (Isn't that what popular television is all about)

The philosophical irony in the commentary will definetly catch you off-guard even when you're watching re-runs!

A few good ones that I remember
From wikiquote

Jaye: I make good life choices—mostly because they’re forced on me—but I make them, and I find myself in unpleasant situations all the time. You know why? Because even if you have a choice it can and will be taken away from you. We’re all fate’s bitch. You might as well go ahead and bend over for destiny now.

Bianca: Your home is a trailer. Don't you see the beautiful poetry in that? It's a thing that's been designed to go someplace, and yet the hitch isn't hooked up to anything. So it just sits here, never living up to it's potential… but never in any danger of breaking down either.

I was really surprised when I read that there are just 13 episodes of Wonderfalls! Atleast they show all of them on StarWorld. I just hope I'll get to see the 10 that I haven't seen.

Wikipedia in your Opera

Opera is the fastest browser there is, not only because of its unique caching system but also because it's got a hundred of shortcuts to improve your efficiency.

One of them is the "Hotclick".When a word, on any page is doubleclicked or highlighted, a different menu comes up when its rightclicked. Using this menu can improve your web-experience tremendously.

The trick lies in moderating your standard_menu.ini file. Windows users have this file in their C:/My Programs/Opera/ini folder while Linux users have it in the /usr/share/opera/ini folder.

WARNING:Don't modify this file while Opera is running.

First find where your hotclick popup menu section starts, it'll probably look something like this.

[Hotclick Popup Menu]

Item, 50872 = Copy

Item, 67652 = Copy to note

Platform Win2000-Unix-Mac, Feature Voice, Item, 70494 = Speak selection

--------------------1

Item, 65184 = Hotclick search, 200

;Submenu, 291920, Search with menu

Submenu, 291920, Internal Search With

Item, 65187 = Hotclick search, 50

Item, 65188 = Hotclick search, 51



I'm in love with Wikipedia so I just had to have it in here and I've found that Googling for definitions is much faster than the answers.com redirect that is provided by default. So now my hotclick section looks like this.

[Hotclick Popup Menu]

Item, 50872 = Copy

Item, 67652 = Copy to note

Platform Win2000-Unix-Mac, Feature Voice, Item, 70494 = Speak selection

--------------------1

Item, 65184 = Hotclick search, 200

;Submenu, 291920, Search with menu

Submenu, 291920, Internal Search With

Item, 65187 = Hotclick search, 50

Item, 65188 = Hotclick search, 51

Item, "Wikipedia" = Go to page, "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=%t"

Item, "Define" = Go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=define:&t&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8"


Now you can easily add your own favorite sites to the menu by just looking at the search string in your browser's address bar when you're searching at that site and replacing the word that you queried for with "%t" without the quotes. That's it.

  

Song of the Day

From Audioslave's Dandelion

Seasons come along and seasons go
And what they'll leave behind
I don't pretend to know
I'm afraid that all I have missed
Will loom very large when the darkness lifts

Upgrade

I thought it was all in my head the first time, but I'm positive that the humble BEST bus ticket has had an upgrade. The paper's become a bit thicker and glazed of the front too.

Trust

One would assume that a failure in trust ,in someone, will be forgiven if this failure is due to incompetence, but things don't always work the way you want them too(For an optimist it would be - things always fall into place slower than expected)

I've seen that many people are in the opinion that power begets trust. I don't really think that's possible. Its more of a moral choice. Hence, You can't trust the King - Power begets Respect

Ambition

My lifelong ambition is to be accepted into Densa. No luck so far...

Inconvenient

I think I learn about things faster when I see it happen with other people as compared to when the same things happen to me. I think of not making the same mistakes whenever I look at problems, and them it hits me that I've been making the same one for ages.

Found this on Wikiquote

Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing. ~ Warren Bennis

But I think this one fits today more aptly.

Do whatever you do from your heart, never because its convenient ~ Sanat

Patience

What is patience?
From what I've learnt its something that separates the great from the immature, but what exactly is it?

Its like the monster in LOST, you know its there, you know what it does or what it can do, but you never quite understand what its made of.

The following are some of my personal theories on what patience could mean.

Its a more personalized version of "Hope" - Hoping that a problem, usually caused by someone else's intentional wrong doing will solve itself because the person will understand what is being done is wrong. You know that the person's wrong but you accept the fact that you cannot change it unless the person decides to change by themselves, and this won't happen any faster if you keep "nudging" them to change.
Actually come to think of it, this rate of "nudging" is invertionally proportional to the rate of change of said quality and or action(atleast when teenagers are involved).
Does the same thing apply - when you realize that you are not perfect, and what you will say could be wrong and optionally what the other person's saying could be right.

That gets me to another point - Just delaying yourself - Is that patience?
More often than not I'm deleting out whole lines that I've written in a chatbox, not because it seems out of context, but because it seems rude. I have a feeling that if I could just do the same to when I start talking I could be perceived as more patient - which in turn would give me more patience.

Is calmness equal to being patient. Obviously it has to do something with being patient, but the sanity of the calmness and the situation have so much to do with it. If you're calm in an argument, that could be patience - unless you've already lost - then you're "silent with shame".

Patience to go through tough times comes partly from hope and partly from diligence - according to me, if you believe that you've been doing the right thing, or you know what it is that needs to be done and you're willing to sacrifice older habits for solving a problem.

After having said everything, I still like this

"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." Alan Watts

A Trivial Matter

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Sanat!

1. Sanat is actually a mammal, not a fish.
2. Forty percent of the world's almonds and twenty percent of the world's peanuts are used in the manufacture of Sanat.
3. It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun's surface to Sanat.
4. Sanat can be found on a Cluedo board between the Library and the Conservatory.
5. On stone temples in southern India, there are more than 30 million carved images of Sanat.
6. Finding Sanat on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck.
7. A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are individually known as Sanat.
8. If you cut Sanat in half and count the number of seeds inside, you will know how many children you are going to have.
9. You should always store Sanat in an airtight container in the fridge.
10. Sanat is 1500 years older than the pyramids.

I am interested in - do tell me aboutherhimitthem

Back to the Stone Age !

Sunday is the day of tech news in the newspapers, and loads of it. I found one really interesting, a world of barter has evolved around us and most of us are oblivious to it. Plus it gets interesting if you happen to read this wikipedia article about how a guy got a two storey house from one red paperclip. Sounds like something I should try.
Dug out a few trade sites related to Mumbai but the following seems dismal.I Liked a few though
http://mumbai.craigslist.org/bar/
http://beta.we-exchange.com/
http://tradeshade.com/forum.php?id=1

It can only get better.

Direction

I think its like going home from Shewit's place, from the Marine Drive, where u can see till the horizon it seems like a shorter walk, and from Chira Bazaar where u cant see after the next curve it seems like a longer walk.

I can't look back now, since I can see where I have to go. It'll be an uphill climb all the way though.

I'm Back

I decided to get back.....just to get myself to write....
New heartaches....new plans....dunno if things will work out......
But I need determination to make it happen ....its not something I'm lacking, but something i haven't given a thought to in the few years.
The converse should be true too - Difficult come Difficult go. Or something like that.

The important thing should be that I have a plan and it'll be wonderful when it works out.

All Dug Up

Mumbai's just the most amazing city in the world...... and I have a feeling its gonna get so much better. Everywhere you see there's dirt.... its not a bad thing.... Because they've dug up everything around us, but they're gonna build it back again... the roads, the footpaths... everything and this is gonna be wonderful, for us and for the city.