Knock, Knock

Who’s there?

Mexican scientists.

Mexican scientists who?

Mexican scientists who turn tequila into diamonds.

 

Mindblowing

http://www.flong.com/storage/experience/yellowtail/

http://www.flong.com/storage/experience/meshy/index.html

http://www.flong.com/storage/experience/floccus/

http://www.flong.com/storage/experience/stripe/

and my favorite

http://www.flong.com/storage/experience/dakadaka/dakadaka.html

 

An Exercise in Insanity

Here’s my harebrained scheme of the week:

Last semester, I vowed to get more bang for my buck timewise. I’d be a productive little guy, I told myself. I’d lock myself up in the library Monday through Friday, emerging at the crack of dawn on Saturday to live it up (or maybe, “live it up”). Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, and all said and done, I’d be a smarter, happier Panda.

Somewhere along the line, the plan broke down. I don’t need to explain; nearly everyone is familiar with life’s wild disregard for personal plans, and by mid-semester, my old (normal) habits from days past had returned, and it became clear that no smarter, happier Panda would rise from the rubble at semester’s end.

Well, this is my counteroffensive.

The plan is to spot exactly where my 24 hours go each day. Is the Internet the culprit? Other people? Blogging?

Here’s how I’m going to do this:

I’m going to write down what I do throughout the day for different time intervals in a log. 2:26 PM – 2:XY PM, for example, would be logged as “vomited on blog”. Anything that takes 2+ minutes will be logged. Each activity will also fall under a category tag:

• SL (sleep): zzzzz…
• EC (extracurricular committments): my job, for example, or class government (the category will be broken into subcategories)
• SP (social pursuits): you know, talking to other people.
• PP (private pursuits): this includes things like blogging or wasting time on the Internet or learning how to play Parcheesi
• AC (academics): what?
• RS (random shit): walking from place to place, and stuff like that

I’ll try to log things in a small notebook, and put the whole thing into an Excel file. At the end of each week, I can get a category-by-category breakdown of where my time went. If I feel extra-tool, I’ll even make a pie chart (and switch my major to Woody Woo or ORFE).

Grades not so hot? Maybe academics should take up more than 2% of my time. People hate me? Maybe I should socialize more – or maybe less. Do I need to increase academic productivity? Or should I spend a greater portion of my weekends studying? Or maybe drop an extracurricular commitment? Very soon, I will have answers.

It seems reasonable enough that knowing life is squarely beating me is the first step in fighting back. I’ll figure out where I ought to allocate my time, do it really well, and be better than the rest of you non-activity-logging fools. I’ll get a better job, earn more money, have a more beautiful wife, love snottier children, and be shoved into a more expensive casket than you. And then won’t you be jealous?

No?

Well, fuck.

Goodnight to you all,

Aditya

 

Happy New Year!

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”

~Benjamin Franklin

 

Of Course It Works. Don’t You Know Who I Am?

(01:02:52) The Voice of Reason: i’ve changed my buddy alias to “the voice of reason”
(01:03:06) Abhir Adhate: ?
(01:03:30) The Voice of Reason: i figure it’ll give me more certainty as i plunge into nebulous logical debates
(01:03:44) The Voice of Reason: i can always say
(01:03:58) The Voice of Reason: “look, who’s the voice of reason in this conversation?”
(01:04:14) Abhir Adhate: wait you changed your own alias … to the voice of reason… i dont think you are qualified to make that assertion
(01:04:24) Abhir Adhate: it needs to be peer reviewed!
(01:04:50) Abhir Adhate: and needs to be indepedently tested by other peers
(01:04:57) Abhir Adhate: in extensive double blind tests
(01:05:10) Abhir Adhate: then and only then can you call yourself the voice of reason
(01:06:25) The Voice of Reason: look, that’d all make sense, but i believe in the diametric opposite of what you said
(01:06:38) The Voice of Reason: and, really now, who’s the voice of reason in this conversation?
(01:06:57) Abhir Adhate: touche!
(01:07:10) Abhir Adhate: i guess it works

 

Book Progress Report, 9/8/07

• Stumbling on Happiness – Pg. 83 of 263
• The Second World War – Pg. 8 of 286
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street – Pg. 62 of 396
• America: Democracy Inaction – Pg. 10 of 220

Let’s see what tomorrow’s sun brings!

 

The Clear Thinking Dick Cheney

Mr. Cheney, on Iraq, in 1994:

 

I Haven’t Quit

I’ve just been floating in a psychedelic land of tiger-planes and cookie-seductresses. The last few days have been bizarre, to say the least.

Anyway, I’m back home in the US, and will be resuming posting soon. So shut it, Sauhard.

 

“Hey baby…I think that we need…to take a little time off, ya know?…no, baby, this isn’t me breaking up with you…baby! i swear!”

So. Sometime around 1:00 AM last night, while working on Econ pickup lines, I came to the painful conclusion that my memory of the subject isn’t as sharp as I’d prefer this close to final exams.

This means that you and I will have to take a break for a bit. My sincere apologies and promise that, soon, I’ll be spilling the contents of my mind once more (next entry: “Dartmouth. Fact or Fiction?”).

Till then!

 

The Obligatory Second Entry…

… has now been posted.

Which means I’ll soon overcome my mental inertia and make a real post sometime. Merry Christmas to you all.