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My legendary Macbook - the home of my ideas and thoughts for last more than 18 months. I hope it get backs to shape soon :(
Spilled Water. On the Macbook.
My legendary Macbook - the home of my ideas and thoughts for last more than 18 months. I hope it get backs to shape soon :(
Futility of the Blip on Radar.
One fine day, when Mother Earth is going about its revolutions and rotations, the birds are trying to hunt for birdseed, millions of men and women would be running around doing meaningless work, trying to justify their jobs and existence, someone on the radar, a blip would flash brilliantly. And then it will fade away. To oblivion.
All the meaningless things (read cribbing, working, blogging, traveling, sleeping, walking, talking, writing, reading, justifying, even thinking) that we humans engage in, trying to follow the crowd, in hopes of leading the pack someday are futile. We are just trying to while away time. And mind, the machine needs constant motion. It needs some cranks, something or the other keep itself occupied. We oil it by indulging in mental masturbation. It takes different shapes for different people. Some people play cricket, some create companies, some donate their money, some are left in oblivion, some think they think what they are thinking and the things that they think and not really worth thinking, some travel, some sleep and many dream. Most work. Without realizing the futility. Of being just a blip on radar.
All the meaningless things (read cribbing, working, blogging, traveling, sleeping, walking, talking, writing, reading, justifying, even thinking) that we humans engage in, trying to follow the crowd, in hopes of leading the pack someday are futile. We are just trying to while away time. And mind, the machine needs constant motion. It needs some cranks, something or the other keep itself occupied. We oil it by indulging in mental masturbation. It takes different shapes for different people. Some people play cricket, some create companies, some donate their money, some are left in oblivion, some think they think what they are thinking and the things that they think and not really worth thinking, some travel, some sleep and many dream. Most work. Without realizing the futility. Of being just a blip on radar.
Luck By Chance
Saw Luck By Chance today. Amongst other things, Farhan Akhtar continues to impress with his performances. Konkana Sen Sharma looks gorgeous as ever. Isha Sharvani added the glitz to the movie. And then there were assorted stars, semi-stars, starlets, yester-stars, almost-stars etc.Few things that I can recall from the movie
- luck, fate, destiny are all words coined by weak to justify their failure to reach their goals
- if someone is content in life, nothing would happen
- confidence is nice, over-confidence is not
- people who know you when you were growing up, they tell you the truth and you need them more than the new friends that you way. (reminds me of that quote, "people you meet on the way up, remember them, you will meet them on the way down")
Strawberry Frog - Dinosaur and Frog
Ever since I heard about this guy called Scott Goodson, I have been inspired by his work and his thoughts. His agency - Strawberry Frog is an interesting way to go about running an advertising and marketing business. Today on his blog, he shared this video that they made "a few years ago to have some fun with the way we do it". I think all agencies should learn from him.
GE Money to shut down Consumer Finance business
Economic Times reports that Jeff Immelt said
And more importantly the report says that GE would miss its 2010 revenue target of USD 8 billion. Worried about my friends back at GECF :(
We will get out of consumer loans and focus on a few segments such as the credit card and infrastructure financing business, may be do a bit of commercial loanToo bad. Although I left GE Money way back in 2007, it is still close to my heart. It was my first job post MBA and it was an awesome learning experience. Unfortunate that we weren't really made for each other and I decided to part ways.
And more importantly the report says that GE would miss its 2010 revenue target of USD 8 billion. Worried about my friends back at GECF :(
Offbeat Tracks in Maharashtra
I finally bought Milind Gunaji's (apart from being an actor, he is a photographer, traveller and author) Offbeat Tracks in Maharashtra (from FlipKart). I think in 2009, I will use that book as a guide. I will select a destination and strike it off the index once I have visited that place. Let me start with Amruteshwar Temple in Ratanwadi (close to Bhandardara - a pic of Bhandardara). I was there last weekend.
Other links
Milind Gunaji's Book in Marathi
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