tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79636100725910241852024-03-14T00:53:29.813+05:30Blinded by Beauty, but not Blind *to* it...! ;) :)Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-28331705015090078422013-12-01T21:06:00.000+05:302013-12-01T21:31:58.148+05:30Is Ignorance Bliss or...?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">When I think a lot about the World about me (& within too!), & </span><span style="color: red;">also about my own stupidity & fallacies, & how I hurt my loved & loving ones sometimes [</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">though </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">always inadvertently!:-( ], </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">I cannot help but wonder if the phrase </span><span style="color: lime;"><b>'being blissful'</b> </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">involves being </span><i><b><span style="color: orange;">in-sensitive</span></b></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> of what is happening around; sort of being </span><span style="color: lime;">'A L O O F' </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">(anagram for </span><span style="color: red;">'A FOOL' </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">!! )...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #ea9999;">Is that how we should be 'blissful' ? <br /><br />Or is '</span><b style="color: #ea9999;">bliss'</b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> all about maintaining a state of </span><i><span style="color: #ea9999;">'</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">feigned ignorance'</span></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> ?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /><span style="color: #ea9999;">What if the </span><span style="color: red;">apparent 'ignorance'</span><span style="color: #ea9999;"> (as seen by the other person) were</span><i> <span style="color: lime;">true 'innocence' ??</span></i><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Sigh !! I Do Not Know...</span><br /><span style="color: orange;">Do I Need To ?? I do not know That either.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #f1c232;">I just wonder & ponder, as I mull & wander...</span></span></span><br />
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Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-41024905342330270112012-11-04T22:40:00.000+05:302012-11-06T23:05:01.810+05:30Ball Park-ing ! :)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, yester-night, me stayed over with my dear friends (<b>Amod</b> & <b>Vijay</b>)...since the weather (& my health! :-( My Fever...! :) !) was not very good...!<br /><br />But we slept at dunno...bout 3 am or so purr-haps...!!! :)</span></span>
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fer werk...(we'd have dozed off sooner if it was jussst our stupid
werk! In fact, we did some good progress on our work first...)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: small;">But...discussing & doodling on a problem I had preposed while I was in the UK to my friends...<br /> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><b>I asked my friends again if we could...try
to see what is the MAX size of a smaller ball that will fit in the
space left when a Bigger ball rests in a cubical enclosure..</b></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: small;">...initially, it was bout packing circles ( 2 Dimensions)...</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: small;">...then, I took it 'higher'...to 3 Dimensions...!!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: small;">....and
there. started the FUN! Because it is NOT easy to imagine 3-D spatial
relationships...We 3 friends were like 3 Blind POETS/MEN trying to
describe the proverbial ELEPHANT, gesturing, doodling, & doing our
best to get a "handle" on our intuitive "grasp" of what could really
happen in different scenarios...! Our heads got scrambled when we
realized that in a 3-D cube, the "space" available at the CORNER is MORE
compared to that at the meeting of just 2 faces...!!</span></span></li>
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based on some great li'l insights that my friend <b>Amod</b> stumbled upon, we were able to <b>"break-ice, make in-roads"</b> & slowly began to see some beautiful results. <br /> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: small;">We
also began wondering HOW amazing the patterns are in Nature...in
<i>multiple-dimensions</i> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">
</span><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>[right frem ZERO to THREE...</b><i>it also got me back to wondering...as to what exactly is "space"..."dimensions", etc...! Hmmm...</i><b>]</b>..!! :)</span><br /><span style="color: orange;"><br />I
could DREAM of OLL sorts of NUMBERS n EQUATIONS n maddening PATTERNS
jumping out o' nowhere & asserting their existence<span style="color: red;">(?!?)</span> to me..!!</span><br />And I
went on "venting" them out to my dear friends, who were more than
willing to listen, & even contribute to oLL that....!!<br /><br />In the end, it was deeep into the night (or MORNING!? :P ) when we "fainted" & "slipped" into the valley of Sleeeep...<br /><br />I used our 2D result that we got thanks to the work by <b>Amod</b>, & intuitively guessed the pattern fer 3-D...<br /><span style="color: #ea9999;">We
could even "verify" it experimentally, but our fatigued, stressed,
THINKING Minds could NOT find the equation Formally, TRY as WE
MIGHT...!!! :-(</span><br /><br />AND I woke up EARLY in the MORNING, n sat Listening to SONGS....without THINKING about it, & LO & BEHOLD..!!!!!<br />I suddenly "got" the way to find the equation fer the 3D case that we were SO desperately TRYING to "derive"! <span style="color: orange;"><b>["The 'EUREKA' PHENOMENON" :-) ]</b></span><br /><br />Anyways,
Don't think that OLL we did was some crazy doodling in our scrap-books,
& write some "imaginary" equations & symbols...!!<br />The beautiful lit'l patterns we discovered have kept us animated n all awake....!!!! <3 :)<br /><br />I enclose below few pics of some
<i><b>Mathematica-l</b></i> "doodles" I did immediately yester-night in order to "visualize" & "verify" our Mathematical results. :)</span></span><br />
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And I must say, I'm pleased as punch with them all! :)<span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;">[Coz these drawings are
"driven" by the mad doodling n equations we friends scribbled all
night...!! :P :) And the results just made us smile with joy !!<span style="color: black;"> <b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: red;">The Very Spirit of SCIENCE...! <3 <span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><i>--Prediction("Guesses"), Observ</i></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><i>ation/Experimentation, and Refin</i></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><i>ement of the Pred</i></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><i>iction/Guess...!</i></span> </span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>:)<span style="color: #b00000;"> </span></b>]</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /><br />TC, n Keep Smilin'....</span><br /><b><br /><span style="color: magenta;">Love n Best Wishes,</span><br /><span style="color: #009900;">The boy in "rags"<img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/981" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" /></span></b></span></span></span>
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Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-6944585882021293142012-10-11T23:42:00.001+05:302012-10-13T17:12:05.195+05:30No Time to Stand and Stare<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Looking at our own hectic ( & yet, "empty" :-( ) lives, I sometimes ponder WHY we no Longer 'have' ANY quality leisure time to loaf & float around...to be in ALONE-ness...to reflect, to take in the nature surrounding us, etc..</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">We may work in offices surrounded by lush, beautifully pruned gardens, but as I noticed, people hardly have the time to EVEN take note of <i>the riot of colors</i> put up by the flowers, <i>the chirping song-birds, the buzzing bees, or the lovely patterns of lit'l butterflies flitting by</i> in the sun...! :(</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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We have no time to stand and stare.</span><br /><br />
<span style="color: #93c47d;">No time to stand beneath the boughs</span></i><span style="color: #93c47d;">
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And stare as long as sheep or cows.</span><br /><br />
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Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Annnd now, WHAT a poem by the great <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda" target="_blank"><b><i>Pablo Neruda</i></b></a></span>...!<br /><br />Piercing in its desolation...and the direct & honest way it implores the LOVED one NOT to Leave one ALONE n Go....!!</span></span></span><br />
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Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-11225281607405590762012-09-18T09:22:00.001+05:302012-09-18T22:49:54.696+05:30I shut my eyes and...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">A deeply romantic, brooding poem by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><i>Sylvia Plath</i></b></span></u></a>. . .<br />Though it is written from the point of view of a girl, I feel it is equally applicable to anyone that experienced unrequited Love...!!...<br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br />Sometimes, we 'imagine' so much about sweet LOVE, but Reality turns out to be bitter...</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><br />We imagine a loving world, but then see that it is only governed by insensitivity, & what we purr-ceived to be Love, is only Conditional & superficial, and more of a business of calculations, profits & losses...!! :'(</span><br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br />Hmmm...read/feel on...!!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I lift my lids and all is born again.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange;">(I think I made you up inside my head.)</span><br /><br />
The stars go waltzing out in <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>blue</b></span> and <span style="color: red;"><b>red</b></span>,</span>
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And arbitrary <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>blackness</b></span></span> gallops in:<span style="color: red;"><br />
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.</span><br /><br />
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed</span>
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And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.<br />
<span style="color: orange;">(I think I made you up inside my head.)</span><br /><br />
God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:</span>
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Exit seraphim and Satan’s men:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">I fancied you’d return the way you said,</span>
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But I grow old and I forget your name.<br />
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I should have loved a thunderbird instead;</span>
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At least when spring comes they roar back again.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;">(I think I made you up inside my head.) </span></span></span></span><br />
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<br />Well, I just realized ( & was made to realize by my dear friends!) that I have been forgetting to have food almost everyday--I tend to simply 'ferget' lunch/dinner...while being "Lost" in my own crazy wor(l)ds....and sometimes, not feel like eating alone...hmmm...<br />
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">But I wonder how I always remember to have <b style="color: lime;">TEA</b>...and miss it sorely after a while, along with the company of either my dearest Mommy or my dear friends...!</span><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">I feel such Bliss in getting "Lost" in silent contemplation over a cup o' Tea, and I don't know how or why I seldom feel any HUNGER of the literal kind, except when I am with my dear friends...! </span><br />
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Here's another 'figurative' gem by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: magenta;">Cummings</span></u></a> <br />
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</div>Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-14782310804305745582012-06-13T23:11:00.002+05:302012-06-13T23:11:30.739+05:30Poetry for the eye...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-32620435542591268562012-06-04T21:25:00.001+05:302012-06-04T21:26:36.986+05:30A Knotty M.E for You!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Knots are a separate field in Mathematics now with lots of significance, concerned frem Topology to the Physics of dimensions, String Theory, etc...<br /><br />Well we can't know what secrets lie where, in our surprising Universe...both outside..as well as within...both on the edge of the observable Cosmos...as well as deep within the atomic-levels...!!</span></div>
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</div>Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-30489878997195776002012-02-20T00:42:00.000+05:302013-04-11T22:50:19.872+05:30Poe-tic Lie-scents ! :)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Another peculiar thing fer my dear friends to observe is the 'dimensions' of the 'FRAME' in which I have 'composed' this; the white image originally is of the size <b style="color: orange;">1034 X 639</b> pixels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The ratio<b> <span style="color: orange;">1034/639</span></b> approaches the value of <b>1.618</b>,<a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRatio.html"> the <i>Golden Ratio</i>-'<i>Phi'</i></a>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">[<b>Incidentally</b>, the pun was on<span style="color: red;"> High-Five</span>, and <b style="color: orange;">Phi</b> plays a vital role in all things five sided, from the Pentagon to the Star-shape...Hmmm.....! :)]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was Christmas, & I was lazing around with my friends in the utter cold weather...</span></div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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And that got me thinking...<span style="color: #9fc5e8;">(& literally, <b>rummaging</b> the cup-boards in my memory-p(a)lace <span style="color: #d5a6bd;">(a dingy hut rather..!! :P)</span>)</span>...<br />
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And soon, i found something interesting, an utterly simple way of making mountains...based on pairs of Parentheses which can be nested together as well as shown below...<span style="color: orange; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: x-small;">[click the pic below to see better! ]</span></span></div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I was working on an alternative way of making mountains out of "strings' while my dear friend <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=577064093" href="http://www.facebook.com/prashant.bhate">Prashant</a> came up with this beauty (<u style="color: orange;"><a href="http://on.fb.me/vOOgx0" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://on.fb.me/vOOgx0</a>)</u>... :)<br />
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Jusst made my own, "verbose" (like me moron..!:P) version...which is more like instructing a robotic arm(or a child) to draw the mountains, with a simple rule as below:</div><ul style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"><li style="color: #ea9999;">Traverse the string of brackets...given as <b>input</b> </li>
<li><b style="color: #ea9999;">If</b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> you encounter a </span><b style="color: magenta;">"("</b>, <b style="color: orange;">ASCEND</b> <i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">i.e.,</span></i> <b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">draw a line moving towards the UPPER-RIGHT hand corner.</span></b></li>
<li><b style="color: #ea9999;">Else</b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> (if it is a </span><b style="color: magenta;">")"</b>), <b style="color: orange;">DESCEND</b> <i><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">i.e.,</span></i> <b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">draw a line moving towards the LOWER-RIGHT hand corner.</span></b></li>
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As I came running DOWN the Stairs & shared with Prashant <span style="color: #f4cccc;">[it's always the</span> <b style="color: orange;"><i>Eureka! phenomenon</i></b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">, albeit with my clothes on..! ;) ]</span>, the thing of JOY (& BEAUTY!) that I discovered, & want to point out in this 'technique', is that <b style="color: #ea9999;">it is a "look-see" device, or a sort of visual "check" fer whether a string of parentheses are properly 'balanced' or NOT! :-)</b><br />
<span style="color: #93c47d;">[</span></div><div style="color: #93c47d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The simple heuristic/observation is that the brackets are 'okay' if the mountain-ranges reach 'back to ground-zero' i.e., the same <b>height</b> that they started out with/frem!</div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The beauty of this is the utter simplicity; NO Need of sophisticated programs, nothing..!! :)<br />
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Even a child can doodle it & discover...& create a infinite number of mountain-ranges of different shapes & sizes...!</div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<li>Also, YOU can 'guess &/or calculate & prove' the relationship between the TOTAL number of bracket-pairs & the TOTAL possible number of ways in which a 'proper' mountain range could be created.</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Merry X-mas</span></b></span> & a <span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: large;"><b>Wonder-Filled Happy New Year</b></span> to YOU n oLL your dear ones..!</div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Take care, & Keep Smiling, AL(L)-ways..! </div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: magenta; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Love & Best Wishes,</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: lime;">The boy in "rags" :-)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">I was thinking randomly...a lot about random numbers... </span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">(Hmmmm....i've not yet stopped...nor will I ever...hahaha!)</span><br />
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As one of my thoughts encouraged me to do, I took out a coin...& flipped it...</span><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">(yeah...Cricket -match coin-TOSS! :P )...</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">And as it turns out...fer a few tosses, it appeared to be biased towards HEADS or TAILS...</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">[Out of 10 chances...7 will be heads, or even 8 or 9 will be tails...!]</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">But then, I imagined....</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><b>WHAT if...what if I extend this tossing OVER & OVER & OVER egain....& egain..!?!?</b></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">In the short-term...we may feel the Universe/God is biased...but over a Loooong term...there is JUSTICE..n EQUALITY (of Probability..)..?? :P</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">So armed with this thought...and tonnes of emptiness....i sat blinking before my monitor....waiting....fer the magic to happen...</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><b>And happen it did...!!</b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Before long, between my work....I had whipped up a couple of lines to show me graphically the results of 1,000 coin tosses...to help me 'see'...</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">And the results...are <i>(t)</i>here fer YOU to see...! :)</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: orange;">n(heads) = </span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">504</span><span style="color: orange;"> </span></b></span></li>
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<b style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><u><span style="color: yellow;">Moral:</span></u></b><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">EVEN a state of ORDER has <b>CHAOS & Randomness </b>underneath...! :) </span><br />
<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">It is just amazing HOW a seemingly random set of events...can aggregate and 'appear' to be 'orderly' to our Mind/Brain...! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><i><b>Is it not pa..? :)</b></i></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="color: magenta; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Love & Best Wishes,</span></b></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">The boy in "rags"</span></b></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-30926758099024326512011-07-08T11:04:00.000+05:302011-07-08T11:04:16.686+05:30if<div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>If. . . !</u> </b></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> <b>you can keep your head when all about you </b></span><b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"> you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">But make allowance for their doubting too;</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br />
<b>Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,<br />
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, </b><br />
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;</span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">you can dream - and not make dreams your master; </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; </span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">you can meet with triumph and disaster </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">And treat those two </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">imposters </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">just the same; </span><br />
</span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken<br />
Twisted by <i>knaves </i>to make a trap for fools,<br />
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,<br />
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;</span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> you can make one heap of all your winnings<br />
And risk it on one turn of <i>pitch-and-toss</i>,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">And lose, and start again at your beginnings<br />
And never breath a word about your loss; </span><br />
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</span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<br />
To serve your turn long after they are gone, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">And so</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> hold on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">when there is nothing in you </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Except the Will which says to them:</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> "Hold on";</span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; </span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> neither foes nor loving friends </span><b style="color: #b4a7d6;">can hurt you; </b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>If</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> all men count with you, but none too much; </span><br />
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</span></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">If</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>you can fill the unforgiving minute<br />
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - </b><br />
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,<br />
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! </span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>:~ Rudyard Kipling</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">----------------------------</span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my favourite poems---it truly inspires me in moments of despair & loneliness...!<br />
Hope you can FEEL it too pa..??</span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please DO let me know...<b>IF</b> you like...! :-)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was the birthday of Miss <b>Sinda</b> & <b>Dinsa</b>, my dear friends at the office...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apart frem being identical twins their names are anagrams of each other, & their b'day is a Prime (17) , with their star-sign's constellation being <b>Gemini </b>which also stands fer <b>twins</b>..!! This really made me ponder & smile a bit..</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another good friend of mine <b>Amod Pandey</b>, had posted a pic of him completing a marathon in the city of Bangalore. But due to heavy work at the office, I hadn't noticed it at till, late in the night of <b>June-17, 2011(Friday)</b>, while was doing some official work at home, I just see it...& smile...!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">The number on his shirt, caught my attention---</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">3649.</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, suffice it to say that it drove my impending sleep away, as I began to find patterns in it, & ask my-self a barrage of questions like what is the smallest number with such a pattern, etc...!</span><br />
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I secretly wanted to gift my Pappa something he'll feel happy about--because, he's always stressed the importance of Math ever since I was a child.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the previous night, I had also submitted my series of numbers to an extensive online search program which would apply all kinds of heuristics & algorithms to check & ensure if this series that I had stumbled upon, was indeed a NEW one, or else the proverbial, old-wine in a new bottle...! Luckily, I received confirmation that the series was indeed NEW..!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Along with this confirmation came the need for lots of formalities---I was asked to fill detailed forms about myself, & provide description about the series, & even give a program to compute the first <i><b>'n'</b></i> terms of the series...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[Else, anyone could reel off some random numbers & name the resulting series fer him/her-self... :)) ]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The series I had submitted was now in the '<b>proposed</b>' state---awaiting detailed analysis by REAL mathematicians & scientists behind the <i><u><b><a href="http://www.oeis.org/">Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences</a></b></u></i>, who would take the final decision...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My lit'l Discovery had changed its status frem <b>PROPOSED to APPROVED...!!</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mine is the 1,91,867'th series 'registered'---though it is actually a kind of generating function for an infinite(?) number of new similar series...! [I only considered <i><b>n=2</b></i> fer now, since the square has always had mysterious applications w.r.t. the Universe around us...!]</span><br />
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<div><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What a love-ly SONG....! </span></div><div><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">{I'm mailing this to SOME of my FrienDs right away...!!}</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">i will never pass for a perfect bride, or a perfect daughter</span><span style="color: #ea9999; margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex;"><img goomoji="323" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/323" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">Can it be i'm not meant to play this part...??</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999; margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex;"><img goomoji="322" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/322" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">Now i see that if i were truly to be myself </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">i would break my family's heart</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999; margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex;"><img goomoji="324" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/324" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Who is that girl I see. . .<br />
. . .staring straight back at me?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex;"><img goomoji="322" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/322" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Some how i can not hide </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">who i am, though i've tried. . .</span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>When will my reflection show who i am inside...??!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex;"><img goomoji="320" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/320" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
When will my reflection show who i am inside...??!!! <span style="margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex;"><img goomoji="33C" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/33C" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span> </b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
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</b></span></div></div>Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-73122543478520497512011-06-05T18:42:00.002+05:302011-06-05T19:40:49.455+05:30Unlearning misht-lakes..!! :-/ :)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">I pursed my eyes, observed deeply, & realized a shocking truth, that I was mis-spelling the name of the great Hungarian genius </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Pál Erdős</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">...!!! :-/ :-(</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You too are mistaken, if you thought that the <strong>o</strong> in his name has an ordinary<strong> 'umlaut' </strong>over its head ! :P Decided to type it out & share...! :)</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Also, thanks to my teacher<strong> Mrs.Sanhita Mahindrakar</strong> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d5a6bd;">(who was such a great friend & guide & changed my life forever, by gifting me this book I didn't read for the 1st 2 years---"<strong>A Brief History of Time</strong>" by Prof.<strong>Stephen W Hawking ! :) </strong>)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> at high-school, I learnt very late in my life about 2 more typos in my brain...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">'vaccum'</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> (should be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"> '<strong>vacuum</strong>'</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">!), & </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">'seperate'</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> (should be </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">'<strong>separate</strong>'</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> !)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and here's the right way, with what is called a <b>Hungarian umlaut </b>accent mark on the letter "<b>o</b>" : [Click on it...to see it better..]</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QqBRooF4IA0/Tet9HPN0WJI/AAAAAAAAB74/eSrKjRlbkpo/s1600/rags_Erdos_right.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="97" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QqBRooF4IA0/Tet9HPN0WJI/AAAAAAAAB74/eSrKjRlbkpo/s320/rags_Erdos_right.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Sigh...our mind/intellect, takes too many things fer granted...we must try and be... </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">awake</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">,</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">...</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">alert</span></b><b style="color: #b4a7d6;">,</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">...and </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">aware</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">...of the sheer emtpiness inside..!! </span></span><br />
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</span></span></div></div></div>Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-27002382589085360392011-05-29T18:33:00.011+05:302011-06-16T23:52:55.048+05:30A Font-astic quote on Fractals..!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Fractal Universe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">! :)</span></b></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Would you believe that it took almost 45 minutes to carefully "type" out the above paragraph..?? :) You may find the book mentioned above, but you will never find it in a way presented above.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Just notice the minute details, like for example, the way the words </span><b style="color: #b4a7d6;">"cold"</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> & </span><b style="color: #b4a7d6;">"dry"</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;">(the quotes around them rather !)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> have been 'rendered', as also the fact that "<b>i</b>" is/am wearing a "hat" too...!!! ;-) :)</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">This is in fact, the opening paragraph of the </span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">magnum-opus</span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot">Benoit Mandelbrot</a></u></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> (notice the right way to spell his name)--</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">"The Fractal Geometry of Nature"</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">, which took the world by storm, & almost single-handedly elevated </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals"><b>Fractals</b> </a></u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">into the realm of the believable, rather than being mocked upon as '</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">silly program artefacts</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">' that have no practical applications or implications what-so-ever...! It now turns out that Fractals & Chaos are at the 'heart' of almost every Physical phenomenon or manifestations of the Universe...!!</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">I am really shocked to find people who routinely ask me --</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">"WHAT use is OLL this mathematics of?? It does not have any practical use..."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">That is the farthest from the TruTh anyone could ever get! :-)</span></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Monaco;">Anyway, I just wanted to share this fantastic piece of quote by 'dressing it up' with an amount of care perhaps never given to it before..! Hope you liked it, & it makes you (p/w)onder pa...?</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Monaco;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Monaco;">I should soon make some FRESH starts...of discoveries, & this has really inspired me indeed...! :-)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Monaco;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Monaco;">The boy in '</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-family: Monaco;">rags</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Monaco;">'</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>'B</b>egin<b> </b>at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">the beginning</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b;">,'</span> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">the King said gravely,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b;">'and go on till you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b;">come to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> the end: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b;">then stop<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">.'</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well, one of my friends Shreyas, had shared a link on the topic of matrices in general, & there they had shown a very interesting "shear" transformation of the image of the famous MonaLisa of Leonardo Da Vinci.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here is that image...courtesy <b>Wikipedia ( <a href="http://bit.ly/jXGt9j">Click this link</a> )</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I had promised that I too would try n somehow do that on my own...!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because, I felt, with my <b style="font-style: italic;">Wishful Thinking, </b>that OLL it needs, is a matrix representation of the image in question, & then, apply a <b>2X2 </b>or <b>3X3X3 "transformation" matrix </b>on it...! :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I shut myself up, trying this way & that...checking if there's a very simple representation I could work with...but all my efforts had either gone astray or in vain...into the drain...!! :-(</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As fer me, i jusst LOVE--D it...(including the snap of Maria too..! ;) Sorry Maria...but thanks fer your b'ful snap & fer bearing with this...!! :) )</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Thus, with some stubborn determination & </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">image-ination</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">, we can always manage to do some</span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> "transformations"...!! :P</span></b></i></span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Keep Smiling....AL(L)-ways...! :-* :)</b></span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><b><u>Note:</u></b></i> As a follow-up to this, I was able to extend it, & achieve a <b>3-D shear</b> also..by setting up a nice, <b>3-dimensional [3X3X3]</b> matrix. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's one of my favourite oxy-moronic quotes in this context... :) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I close my eyes,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in order to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <b>"see"...</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>- Paul Gauguin</b></span><br />
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</span></div>Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-30567954016159061262011-04-17T14:04:00.001+05:302011-04-17T16:57:34.248+05:30A pithy lit'l ge(R?)m..!! <3 :)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Recently, this quote "came to me" out of nowhere, in response to a cute little cartoon shared by my dear friend <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><u><b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/arun.r.kapoor">Arun Kapoor</a></b></u></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">And i felt it deserve(s/d) to be shared...with YOU too/esp....!! </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">J</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">================</span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">that </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">since there a<b>R</b>e 3 <b>?</b> symbols, (<b>0 or 1</b> occurrences!), there a<b>R</b>e <b>2^3 = 8</b> possible combinations & hence quotes possible...!</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Now, that's <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">pithy</span></b>....ain't it..!?! ;-) :P</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">[</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Yeah...what a <b>PiTy</b>...!! :( </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Indeed it is...that the language has to suffer a fool like me gladly !:D</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b>]</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">================</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>* * (000)</b></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>"....OLL i need....is a...Hmmm..."</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">--Sadness...un-expressed emotions..!! :-(::</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">================</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Monaco; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><b>* * (001)</b></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>"....OLL i need....is a FRienD...Hmmm...."</b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">--Loneliness...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">================</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Soon, I also observed that (010) & (011) r not meaningful...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>* * (010) "....OLL i need....is a...ist...Hmmm..."</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">&</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><b>* * (011) "....OLL i need....is a ist FRienD...Hmmm..."</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">================</span></span></span></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">But the REMAINING were oLL fine :)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;">================</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">* * </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">(100)</span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> <b><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"....OLL i need....is a CARTOON...Hmmm...."</span></b> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">--again, someone lonely...but who loves cartoons..! :P [who else..! :P]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">================</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: .75pt solid windowtext; border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-bottom-alt: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-bottom: 1.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>* * (110)</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"....OLL i need....is a CARTOONist...Hmmm...."</span></b> <span class="apple-style-span">--Purrhaps..the editor of a newspaper/magazine..!? :P</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">================</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-between: .75pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; mso-padding-between: 1.0pt; mso-padding-top-alt: 0cm; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">* * </span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>(111)</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">"....OLL i need....is a CARTOONist FRienD...Hmmm...."</span></b> <span class="apple-style-span">--straight-forward... :)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">================</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Sorry fer irritating oll by stating the 'obvious' (?!)...but ONLY becoz i tried it did i realize that 2 of them were invalid..!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">But as I've quoted E.T.Bell in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><u><b><a href="http://bit.ly/ijrzdz)">my blog</a></b></u></span> ,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">"<b>Obvious</b>, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">is the most dangerous word</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> in mathematics." </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-style-span">Thanks fer bearing with me...!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><br />
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</span></span></div></div>Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-12856442214235186182011-03-21T22:44:00.004+05:302011-03-23T00:09:16.657+05:30A strange Black Swan. . . ! :)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Hi pa!</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i know you may laugh at it; i too did initially, till... </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">...till. . .i began hearing </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">it laugh at me..!! :)</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Here it is...a pattern that emerged by sheer chance...or in short, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">serendipity</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">..!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was shocked & amazed at HOW it looked like a mysterious, tantalizingly beautiful <b>SWAN...!! :)</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And before you laugh it off as a random cellection of numbers & symbols, let me assure you otherwise...!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is actually the exact expression, or, a short-cut if you want, to compute the sum of the first<i><b> 'n' </b></i>natural numbers, with each raised to the power of <b>100</b>. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Yes, you 'heard' it right...it is the value of :</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">{Click to see it as a larger image}</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-TACIrapiQcg/TYeD8tzPENI/AAAAAAAAB0o/2k7Yaqfi8UE/s1600/rags_Sum_100.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-TACIrapiQcg/TYeD8tzPENI/AAAAAAAAB0o/2k7Yaqfi8UE/s320/rags_Sum_100.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And you might be surprised to know that I had to toil more to get the above summation equation than the below expression...!! :)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">Anyways, here she is. . . my beautiful</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>Black Swan</b>...! :)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>"Why can't I too recognize/find visual patterns in beautiful numbers..?? <b>:-/</b></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Certainly, if our ancestors could find our so-called '<b>constellations</b>' by sheer co-incidence like the Big Bear(<b>Ursa Major</b>), the Hunter (<b>Orion</b>), Scorpius(<b>Scorpion</b>), The Bull(<b>Taurus</b>) <b>et al</b>, then, I too can ( & shall)...! :)"</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">~R. . . </span></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Monaco; font-size: x-large; line-height: 115%;">I</span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"> am silver and exact. </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;">I have no preconceptions.</span></span></span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Monaco; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;">Whatever I see,</span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;">I swallow immediately.</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Monaco; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #548dd4;">Just as it is, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">unmisted by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">love </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">dislike</span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Monaco;"><span style="color: #00b050;">I am not cruel,</span><span style="color: #548dd4;"> </span><span style="color: #c00000;">only truthful –</span></span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Monaco;"><span style="color: #c00000;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Monaco;">The eye of a little god, four-cornered.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Monaco;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Most of the time </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">I meditate on the opposite wall.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">It is pink, with speckles.</span><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;">I have looked at it so long</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9d2e9;">I think it is a part of my heart.</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">But it flickers.</span></span></span></span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Monaco;">Faces and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">darkness </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Monaco;">separate us over and over.</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"><b>Now I am a lake.</b></span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;">A woman bends over me.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;">Searching my reaches for what she really is.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;">Then she turns to </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"><b>those liars,</b></span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"> the candles or the moon.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">I see her back, and reflect it faithfully</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #7f7f7f;">She rewards me with </span><span style="color: red;"><b>tears</b></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #e36c0a;">and </span><span style="color: red;"><b>an agitation of hands.</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;"></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;">I am important to her.</span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"> She comes and goes.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;">Each morning it is her face that replaces </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;">the darkness.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span><span style="color: #ea9999;">In me <b>she has drowned</b> a young girl</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">, <span class="Apple-style-span">and in me an old woman</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><u>PS:</u> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">I felt the<b> </b>beautifully<b> abstract, 'minimalistic' painting</b> above was tailor-made fer this gem of a poem I wanted to share. It was done 'extempore' (that too on MS-Paint!) by my dear friend</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://prasidhyasridhar.blogspot.com/"><b>Prasidhya Sridhar</b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">. Thanks a lot fer her allowing me-moron to use it here! :-)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Monaco;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Sylvia Plath</b> was a beautiful lady who wrote verse that is filled with great sensitivity & a keen observation of Life & its vagaries. Sadly, she ended her life due to depression when she was only 31. :-(</span></span><br />
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Calvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702462945374110935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963610072591024185.post-5742272483384568212011-03-10T22:56:00.004+05:302011-05-22T10:19:41.380+05:30A gem on Dreams...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">~o~o~o~o~o~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">o~o~</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">o~o~o~o~o~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">o~o~</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">~o~o~o~o~o~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">o~o~</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">o~o~o~o~o~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">o~o~</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;">Hold fast to dreams</span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> For if dreams die</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"> Life is a broken-winged bird</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
That cannot fly.</span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Hold fast to dreams</span></span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> For when dreams go</span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Life is a barren field</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Frozen with snow.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 16pt;"><br />
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<b style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 16pt;">:~ </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12pt;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes">Langston Hughes</a></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"> </span></span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">~o~o~o~o~o~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">o~o~</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">o~o~o~o~o~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Monaco;">o~o~</span></b></span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">Love & Best Wishes, </span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Dream</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">(er)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"> in "rags"...</span></span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Planet</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-weight: normal;"> (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">H</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-weight: normal;">)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">eart</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-weight: normal;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">H</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-weight: normal;">)</span></b></span><br />
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