Ego Arguments

Often when we argue with someone, we are very worried about losing the argument. The argument starts because your understanding of something is not parallel to the understanding of the other person. Somewhere down the line you understand the point made by the other person, but you still continue to argue, and in the process even make up facts. Why can you not acknowledge a good point when you see one ? I think its your ego getting in the way. But then backing off straight away without trying to argue is also not good. Arguments let you explore the problem more. Its a fine balance like the rest of the phenomena in this delicately balanced world.

Workout Shirkout

I was feeling down today morning. I carried it over from yesterday evening. I had planned to go to the gym today morning. The alarm woke me up alright, but no part of my body wanted to get out of the bed. I ratiocinated, and was about to conclude that I should be going to the gym to "work", and in the present state of mind I dont think I can do any work at the gym. I wanted to get some coffee and rush to work and solve some of the boolean equations that caused me grief the previous evening. I somehow convinced myself to get my butt onto the elliptical machine.
As I walked towards my office building I was feeling upbeat, partly because I had thought of a solution while having a bath after my workout and partly because I just felt good after the workout.
So my conundrum is that everytime I workout I feel good and thats the thing I remember about working out. So why does my body have this inertia against working out. Shouldnt it like to do what it likes.

I could just refute all this babble by saying that I dont like the workiong out part and thats what pops into my head when I think of the gym. But there is clearly a way to re-train my head.

EETimes.com - AMD's new chip ploy--open source sockets

EETimes.com - AMD's new chip ploy--open source sockets: "Advanced Micro Device plans to publish its Opteron socket specification in a move that it hopes will boost sales by letting other chip makers design application-specific co-processors to be integrated alongside Opteron for optimized performance."

noTunes

Have you heard Silence, lately ??

Stress of sruvival

Have you ever seen sparrows feed on stuff thats on the ground. They seem to be so damn nervous.
Do you think they feel stress of survival being low in the food-chain ?
Do you think some of them get a thrill out of getting food in the most dangerous situations ?

Whither shall I go

It hurts to be out in the Sun and being the Dark is depressing.
Is it me or is it really difficult to find shade from the Sun ?
Whither shall I go ??

Riding in Cars with Boys

Riding in Cars with Boys is a 2001 film based on the autobiography of the same name by Beverly D'Onofrio, about a woman who overcame difficulties including being a teen mother to earning a master's degree from the span of 1961 to 1986. It starred Drew Barrymore, Steve ZahnJames Woods. It was directed by Penny Marshall and co-produced by Beverly D'Onofrio herself, though many details from the book and film differ.

There are just 4-5 days which set the course of our lives. What are we doing the rest of the time ? Just living the consequences of these 4-5 days. Shouldn't we be having more of such days. Infact we should try to make every day such a day.

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Millenium Technology Prize

BBC NEWS | Technology | Top prize for 'light' inventor

Professor Shuji Nakamura was given the 1m Euro (£680,000) prize at a ceremony in Helsinki, Finland.

The award recognised his inventions of blue, green and white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and the blue laser diode.

White LEDs could provide a sustainable, low-cost alternative to lightbulbs, especially in developing countries.

His other inventions such as blue LEDs are used in flat-screen displays, while blue lasers are already being exploited in the next generation of DVD player.

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Merkel trumps Rice on power list

BBC NEWS | Europe | Merkel trumps Rice on power list: "Angela Merkel, German chancellor
Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state
Wu Yi, Chinese vice-premier
Indra Nooyi, chief executive-designate, PepsiCo
Anne Mulcahy, chairman and chief executive, Xerox
Sallie Krawcheck, chief financial officer, Citigroup
Patricia Woertz, chief executive, Archer Daniels Midland
Anne Lauvergeon, chairman Areva
Brenda Barnes, chairman and chief executive, Sara Lee
Zoe Cruz, co-president, Morgan Stanley"