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Home Alone It was Scary !

October 23rd, 2006

There r things in life which cannot be measured… One such things is when one says “I m Bored!!” .. And you Yawn a lot .. like hell to show that u r really not interested in doing anything right now/ listening to any thing ..
This day i am alone.. Trying to figure out if i can read/prepare myself for some technical material. But it didn’t work out as planned…So the whole day i read hardly a chapter from what seemed to be an interesting book said by me .. till yesterday.. May be it was me .. i wanted to get bored.. or is it something natural.. that’s like evolution.. wherein people get bored sitting alone..

I spent endless days sitting alone in my child hood.. there were other ways to entertain however..
But i was never bored like today.. So i decided that i search on how people look when they yawn (kinda stupid when it comes to reality – But.. who cares) . So Google Image Search gave me interesting images like these.

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So i was wondering if we were to simulate a program to bore a computer.. So what do we need.

1) Definitely we need some input mechanism.. just like keyboard.. mouse.. and the most interesting thing would be the video camera.

There have been great programs written by the MIT AI Labs.. which would bore a computer.. but that sleeps.. mine yawns :) .

2) Is a program which contains some conditionals on which the computer should get bored. This unlike should be run on a different processor altogether.

The reason being.. If a CheckBoredOrNot Program runs on the same processor on which the program has to be check on, there is always a program running and hence its would mean the computer is not idling.. So threading wont help here .. the only alternative would be to keep a different processor to help the same.

3) Here would be some conditions that came up to my mind ..

  • If a similar process is being run over and over giving the same output – then bingo 1st condition.
  • If a similar memory locations are getting accessed over and over again..
  • If repetitive patterns are entered on the keyboard, then
  • If mouse always is being used in a specific section of the monitor, or click of similar links.
  • If the computer is on for too many days.. it should get impatient..like the above facts/conditions should get more weighed..

There i did it again.. My life is just not complete without computer.. and the Internet.. I sometimes dream about the Movie Matrix batteries….. Not specifically being the One or Two or something.. But ya.. i feel we r already controlled by computers.. or may be a grid of computers.. and will be take over soon… I hope I’ll not be a slave.. and be prisoned and used as rechargeable batteries or something… Rather i work for them :)

The Road Trip !..

October 21st, 2006

Oh. The traffic is up to the peak. Yet there are a few more metres for me to drive and cross the bloody red light that never seem to have worked.

The festival rush has created havoc near the Anand Vihar Bus station in Delhi. And there i was trying to reach my destiny (cough..cough.. ahem) . For now i’ll call it that way :) . I was like frustrated for having travelled only a few miles for the past 1 hour in my automobile (Honda Activa). I tried my best to over take most of the cars/Lorries… and all other kinds of vehicles on the road.. but could not reach the crossing. So here where my thoughts while i was idling on the road.. waiting for an action..

“What if there were some Extra Terrestrials and they be helping the traffic problem on earth!” ..

Since they have already had their zipping.. zooping..Flying saucers as always claimed by fiction and some poor folks who even got a picture snapped with an alien.. I was just praying for one such kind alien to teleport me to a few yards away so that i can
go there along with my scooter which i cant anyway leave it back !.

This again makes me feel alone in this world dominated by normal people.. who have decided the solution would be not to own a vehicle but use a public transport and walk their way to freedom..

Will technology advance to take me with it (as in this case i would like to be teleported by aliens a few yards ahead.. Or will the “Others” get me in this storm thats never going to end. !

Time will tell… for now.. I missed reaching the destiny on time. But i am happy to have given a fight. :)

 

Are We Slaves of this Digitized World ??

October 19th, 2006

This question often goes through my mind when it comes to the real life, while I drive my little Scooter on the heavy roads of Noida. It happens that I m a lot faster at using electronic gadgets but I suck big time at driving on these roads. Its always like one or the other cut’s me off, eventually either I loose control and get off with a couple of bruises or yell at the speedster who nothing but gives a deaf ear to what I say.

So do I really am not ready to leave my computer to stay with reality after the office ? . Do I need a computer to accompany me always ?? .

I would love to have some sort of a Computer enabled boxing problem for I got pissed off today when the Parking lot guy mishandled the scooter and left my rearview mirror hanging off the hook. But yet, this wasnt the life earlier..

I’ve been using computers since I was in 3rd Grade. But there was time out. Things change rapidly. Its difficult to track how much the dependability has grown up.

I’ll come up with more opinions on why and how we get entangled to this electronic world, so dependent on it. I’ll want some opinions to get any better than what I am now :) more from you.