Had a great cup of coffee and a bowl of cereal. Ideal start to this Sunday morning.

Lots of work to do today. But before I delve into the chaos, thought i’d chat with you a little. Was reading an article on the entropy of the mind. Interesting.

Laws of thermodynamics do apply to the mind too!

Stillness is something that’s so easy to come by sometimes…. but sometimes …

How many hours of sleep do we need? Is there really a number or a range? Need to learn touch-typing …..

With this new set of responsibilities, managing time is now an indispensable skill…..

Well let’s get started then. Talk to you later.

Peace.

Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like the end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing. You must make adjustments if you want to survive. Much becomes expendable. You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you are at the bottom of hell, yet you can have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and feel you’re the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish.                     – Life of Pi (Pi , while ruminating over the power of the elements on him, and his moods oscillating between boredom and terror.)

This ship is not for going to places but for getting  away from them. – The Fountainhead

“Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.” Dave Barry

“The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.” -Colin Wilson

“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”- Calvin and Hobbes

“Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.” – Taylor Dane

“And I wonder where these dreams go when the world gets in your way. What’s the point in all this screaming , no one’s listening anyway.” Goo Goo Dolls- Acoustic #3

“The way back home is always long.” Shakira, The One

“I was searching all the time for something that I’d never lost or left behind.”- Jim Croce, Age

They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that they stayed with us unscreamed. That’s where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It’s the place where pride allows itself to cry. And in those sleep-lonely nights and think-rambled days, Modena’s face was always there, staring at the door.
-Lin, in ‘Shantaram’

The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They are wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, that when it speaks to us, we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn’t a weakness, but a strength. Still the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.
-Lin, in ‘Shantaram’

Best friends when life hurts – dog, books, alarm clock, computer, painkillers, bandages, ice-packs, chocolate milk, your ability to cook…… – Learned sage P

I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us. -Konrad Lorenz, ethologist, Nobel laureate (1903-1989)

“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity- it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.”-Life of Pi

I found hunger improved the taste of everything. – Life of Pi

Don’t bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? – Life of Pi

I didn’t know then that good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
-Lin, in ‘Shantaram’

“I take everything personally- that’s what being a person is all about.” – Karla, in ‘Shantaram

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on? -James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” [Stephen Roberts]

“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”
[Delos B. McKown]

It’s your god.
They’re your rules.
*You* go to hell.
[Unknown]

“You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don’t have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions”

The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway- Farewell To Arms

“Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” A.A. Milne, Winne the Pooh

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)

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There have always been people accusing us of being fraudulent criminals, of the I.P.C.C. being corrupt,” Dr. Schmidt said. “What is new is this paranoia combined with a spell of cold weather in the United States and the ‘climategate’ release. It’s a perfect storm that has allowed the nutters to control the agenda.”

The answer is simple, he said.

“Good science,” he said, “is the best revenge.”
A version of this article appeared in print on March 3, 2010, on page A11 of the New York edition.

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Stupidity is like nuclear power; it can be used for good or evil.
Dilbert

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.” – Chinese Proverb

“The shortest answer is doing.” – Lord Herbert

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” -Steve Jobs

Freedom is not the absence of commitments but the ability to choose and commit myself to what is best for me.
-Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

The Dogbert method of eliminating guilt is simple. All of your problems are caused by invisible people named Juan and Cindy. All you have to do is find them and kill them.
Dilbert

The world is full of attractive people whom you will never meet. Your only hope for romance is to lower your standards until co-workers look good.
- Dogbert, “Dating Co-Workers”

When you grow up you’ll be put in a container called a cubicle. The bleak oppressiveness will warp your spine and destroy your capacity to feel joy. Luckily you’ll have a boss like me to motivate you with something called fear.
Dilbert

For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money. -Arne Garborg, writer (1851-1924)

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
- Blaise Pascal

The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. – Unknown

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
-Robert Frost

“The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it: but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.”
-Madame de Sta’l

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost

The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas H. Huxley

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport.
- George Winters

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
– Pascal

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (Fullerenes – Carbon nanoparticles were later named after him)

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
— Dr. Seuss

“Integrity, as cynics say, does not put bread on the table. But people who are drawn into a movement  generally find that stockpiling bread on the table is not a major issue in their lives, not because they have all the bread they want, but because they have a more basic hunger. They understand that human beings do not live by bread alone.”
- Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach

“The courage to live divided no more comes from this simple insight: no punishment anyone lays on you could be possibly worse than the punishment you lay on yourself by conspiring in your own diminishment,”
- Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.
- Edward Abbey

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life. ~ The Notebook

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton

If you lose your one and only
There’s always room here for the lonely
To watch your broken dreams
Dance in and out of the beams
Of a neon moon
- Neon Moon, Brooks & Dunn

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
- John le Carre

“Nobody’s perfect. Well there was this one guy, but we killed him.” -Anonymous

If you’re choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, ‘Heimlich maneuver,’ and all will be well. Trouble is, it’s difficult to say ‘Heimlich maneuver’ when you’re choking to death.
- Eddie Izzard

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
- Mark Twain

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow

I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us. -Konrad Lorenz, ethologist, Nobel laureate (1903-1989)

Tragedy is when i cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. – Mel Brooks

If you are the credit card company, I already sent the money. If you are one of my friends, you owe me money. If you are female, don’t worry, I have plenty of money.

The key to happiness is self-delusion. Don’t think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing toward oblivion. – Scott Adams

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” [Stephen Roberts]

It’s your god.
They’re your rules.
YOU go to hell.
[Unknown]

They broke my legs but, the didn’t break my spirit.
But, I don’t feel the pain because I found more cocaine… – Cricket, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia