February 2012
2 posts
1 tag
Hayao Miyazaki
I stumbled upon this profile on Hayao Miyazaki recently. Hayao Miyazaki is the genius behind films such as My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle. The article is based on a lot of interviews made over time by Hayao Miyazaki and his colleagues.
If you are a fan of Hayao Miyazaki, and don’t know much about the person, you owe it to yourself to...
1 tag
“One cannot always tell what it is that keeps us shut in, confines us, seems to...”
– Vincent van Gogh, letter to his brother, July 1880
Source for quote: Open, by Andre Agassi
January 2012
1 post
An Important Time for Design →
Build something that fixes the insanity of modern education. Or helps people weather the upcoming financial crises and rise in unemployment. Or improves the health of people around the world. Or brings neighbors closer together. Or helps people run small businesses. Or strengthens the bonds of families. Or puts existing abusive, mammoth institutions out of business (pretty please).
December 2011
1 post
3 tags
October 2011
1 post
1 tag
John Lilly on Steve Jobs →
Be yourself and work as hard as you can to bring wonderful things into the world. Figure out how you want to contribute and do that, in your own way, on your own terms, as hard as you can, as much as you can, as long as you can.
August 2011
2 posts
2 tags
Disposable Culture →
Surat Lozowick:
Place lasting value over beguiling immediacy; sustainability over disposability.
4 tags
Improv, for life
I was recently reading the memoir Bossypants by Tina Fey (of 30 Rock fame). There is a section in the book that I found to be very interesting. In the section, Fey talks about the rules of improvisation. (Wikipedia - Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one’s immediate environment and...
July 2011
4 posts
4 tags
WatchTurning of the Powell-Mason cable car at the Powell and Market turntable, San Francisco. I found it to be very amusing.
Great that they have managed to keep the cable cars operational to this day.
2 tags
WatchChocolate making process at the flagship Ghirardelli store, Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco.
4 tags
Earthporn - Great pictures every day →
I chanced upon this page thanks to the excellent Opera speed dial extension - ‘Earthporn in your Speed Dial’.
3 tags
YouTube, without the mess
YouTube is awesome and all. But it is very very cluttery. There are so many things vying for your attention - related videos, comments and what not.
Want some peaceful time? Just drag and drop this bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar, and hit it when you are on a YouTube video page. It will forward you to a quietube page where all you see is your video.
Alternatively, if you’d like to have an...
June 2011
2 posts
4 tags
Comments on the Internet
The comment sections on the Internet draw me in. They’re magnetic. I used to spend considerable amount of time following random people’s bickering, only to realize later it didn’t help me in the slightest. My opinion on the matter in the original piece did not much change, and I’m now only more flustered. Most of the times, the opinions will be uninformed or spiteful. The...
13 tags
Laptops
This post is my feelings towards a lot of laptops on the market. For reasons I cannot comprehend, most companies make absurd design choices. I can only assume they don’t use the products they design themselves. To be fair, some laptops get most everything right except for a few mistakes. In such cases, I tend to be forgiving and overlook the mistakes for all the good things that were...
1 tag
“O ME! O life!… of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains...”
– Walt Whitman
4 tags
Easy IOU
If you’ve ever gone on a trip with a bunch of friends, you’ll know what a pain it is to consolidate the expenses made on the trip and calculate who owes how much to whom.
I had been on a 15 day long trip to North India with 7 other friends. We simply used a notebook to keep a tab on expenses made during the trip with details such as who paid, how much, where, etc. I was already...
March 2010
1 post
2 tags
Hello, World
Well, hello there!
I don’t really have anything very specific to blog about (read my blog title). I’ll try to post varied stuff - experiences, music, movies, computers, technology, science, quotes, etc.
Here’s to hoping that I keep my blogging interesting and regular.