Okay...this is a heads up on how my reddit fast is going. Mother of god...its actually not bad. However, the only reason again is that I have been readjusting to youtube and facebook. Again...however, those are starting to lose their spark. I have noticed that slowly the originality I found in going on youtube after researching on reddit, is now gone. The way youtube is formatted made it so that actually trying to find new things on the net is nearly impossible because youtube only uses subscriptions to make sure you only focus on what you normally go on. However, this is one of the limitations of web searching.
There is a point where once you settled, there is a layer that starts forming around your experience. This layer is mainly dictated by what you once searched for during your stay and gradually evolves once you search enough, but the early sediments are very stable, and very geared to one side. In many ways, it is extremely annoying, and makes me yearn to try to learn more, but alas I am slightly stuck on certain things. I can't tell whether it's because I have gotten so much in, or that I'm jsut not looking in the right places.
Now, I'm counting the days until June 15th, where I delete my facebook and stop going on youtube. Sadly I must confess that I broke one of the rule..and as of now I will try to continue on strong. Admittedly it gives off a few more questions that I didn't expect, but it delves into how one can limit one's sexual needs in response to what is happening. Truth Trying to find a way to realize the Jedi in my is something I must practice to try to be a better person overall. Overall, sexual needs kind of suck even though it's awesome at the same time....The days are counting...TIME TO BE STRONG.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Phone Culture and Groupings
Lately, I believe everyone has noticed that people go on their phone all the time. Whether it's because they are bored, they are expecting something, someone is expecting something of them, something is happening, all of it is combined to form this amalgam of added pressure to check and reassure oneself using their phone. In many cases, it's a reassurance of being part of a collective that forces oneself to check their phone/smart-phone on the daily. However, if you are already part of a collective, there is a moment of slight awkwardness when you check your phone during an outing with a group of friends. Especially at a bar, it is quite the embarrassment and quite a show of disregard because it proves that whatever conversation or happening on text is more important than the physical being. One bar decided to try to end that streak by creating a pint glass that has a small divot on the bottom side of the glass that enables one to insert his/her phone into it. Thereby, the phone acts as a third stool leg so that the glass does not tip over. Of course, they literally carve the divot into the glass, so I believe they only wish to attack Iphone users as though android users are immaculate in their usage of their phone, but I digress. The idea is this, the brewing company is trying to reassure that the customer is reassured by the people around, and break away from this need to be wound up with their phone. I believe its a good step, a very shallow and unconvincing step, but a slight breach towards a culture that needs to recognize community no totally through technology but by necessary human interaction. I know that greensandmachines might have a disagreement with it, but I still believe it is a worthy addition.
Those are my thoughts anyhow.
I hope you all have a great day.
P.S.: This the glass article.
Those are my thoughts anyhow.
I hope you all have a great day.
P.S.: This the glass article.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
SAT scores you and me
Personally, I think standardized tests are a bane to society as they limit the possibility of the divergent, ever changing personality and talents of an invidual, but understand their purpose because of the need to judge in order to define entrance.
People say they are better at one thing than another are willing to fail one thing in order to purely succeed at another. This is not to say it is either a good or bad thing, but a happenstance that could snowball to a singularity of one talent rather than a multitude in order to culminate a diversity within a single person. By focusing, you get a variety of groups that are specialized expertly, but at the same time one find themselves stuck in that specialization and does not take the possiblity that other studies comes to play.
This is the issue in which standardized tests come in. Before they came in two flavors, whether you could read and quantitatively analyze (verbal and math separately). Next they found out that the nation's writing ability is lacking, so on top of the latest ability to read and analyze, the SAT had to predict whether the student could organize one's thoughts verily to communicate to another sane human being. In other words, could one's opinion on a specific subject be reflected clearly enough under stress to be analyzed and worked though. This is a necessary talent in which students upon entering high studies must learn. Quantitative analysis requires one to use the purest of logic to create formulas in with possibility within a set situation. Verbal analysis requires one to take a a multitude of situations, translate, and be able to clearly identify the argument/problem one has. These are two pursuits necessary internally, and relates to the translation and understanding within the mind. The issue now is, how can one translate outside the mind, which is thoroughly harder than one may seem. True a sane man, with sane tendencies can easily do both and convey information in a clear concise manner that allows the reader thorough knowledge on a specific argument. However, with people like me, and engineers abound, this ability is not existent or easily found. In a world that is growing ever more diverse, and ever more changing, the ability to organize one's thoughts quickly and under stress is extremely necessary, and is something I believe the SAT should reflect on.
The SAT is a basic standardized test meant to challenge up-and-coming scholars with the said ability to critically thing not only inward to understand the topic, but outward to express that understanding to a larger audience. It should not be created to be easier, but meant to realize for the current working/teaching generation that the next generation will be fine and that their ability on this test will reflect that. The fact that SAT's are eliminating it and dampening vocabulary...is worrisome and should be remarked on.
Truthfully, I did not do well in the verbal or essay sections, and my SAT was not above par according to typical Indian standards laid upon me. I regret being a lazy ass and not actually enjoying learning as I do now. I regret not trying my hardest to care about a subject like caring for a pet, willing to love as it it will love you in respect. I regret not trying....but that almost makes me worried about whether the next generation will try or whether I'm pushing them to hard. One can never tell. However the fact is, the world is dark, hellish place willing to replace everyone easily. We must strive to work together to help each other and improve constantly...never look back and dampen....but to harden and to grow through harder. If we do that, I completely believe and have hope in the next generation. Until then...I regret not having much yet.
People say they are better at one thing than another are willing to fail one thing in order to purely succeed at another. This is not to say it is either a good or bad thing, but a happenstance that could snowball to a singularity of one talent rather than a multitude in order to culminate a diversity within a single person. By focusing, you get a variety of groups that are specialized expertly, but at the same time one find themselves stuck in that specialization and does not take the possiblity that other studies comes to play.
This is the issue in which standardized tests come in. Before they came in two flavors, whether you could read and quantitatively analyze (verbal and math separately). Next they found out that the nation's writing ability is lacking, so on top of the latest ability to read and analyze, the SAT had to predict whether the student could organize one's thoughts verily to communicate to another sane human being. In other words, could one's opinion on a specific subject be reflected clearly enough under stress to be analyzed and worked though. This is a necessary talent in which students upon entering high studies must learn. Quantitative analysis requires one to use the purest of logic to create formulas in with possibility within a set situation. Verbal analysis requires one to take a a multitude of situations, translate, and be able to clearly identify the argument/problem one has. These are two pursuits necessary internally, and relates to the translation and understanding within the mind. The issue now is, how can one translate outside the mind, which is thoroughly harder than one may seem. True a sane man, with sane tendencies can easily do both and convey information in a clear concise manner that allows the reader thorough knowledge on a specific argument. However, with people like me, and engineers abound, this ability is not existent or easily found. In a world that is growing ever more diverse, and ever more changing, the ability to organize one's thoughts quickly and under stress is extremely necessary, and is something I believe the SAT should reflect on.
The SAT is a basic standardized test meant to challenge up-and-coming scholars with the said ability to critically thing not only inward to understand the topic, but outward to express that understanding to a larger audience. It should not be created to be easier, but meant to realize for the current working/teaching generation that the next generation will be fine and that their ability on this test will reflect that. The fact that SAT's are eliminating it and dampening vocabulary...is worrisome and should be remarked on.
Truthfully, I did not do well in the verbal or essay sections, and my SAT was not above par according to typical Indian standards laid upon me. I regret being a lazy ass and not actually enjoying learning as I do now. I regret not trying my hardest to care about a subject like caring for a pet, willing to love as it it will love you in respect. I regret not trying....but that almost makes me worried about whether the next generation will try or whether I'm pushing them to hard. One can never tell. However the fact is, the world is dark, hellish place willing to replace everyone easily. We must strive to work together to help each other and improve constantly...never look back and dampen....but to harden and to grow through harder. If we do that, I completely believe and have hope in the next generation. Until then...I regret not having much yet.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
...its Week 10
Holy mother of God, time is moving way too fast. I officially will have to cut the browsing of imgur/roosterteeth/HAWP/"porn"/instagram along with not going on reddit entirely. I just deleted instagram off my phone and I'm laying down the line on what to do. I will post later today or later this week on how this progress will be like, but so far...it seems worrisome. In any case, I hope all yee good day. Be safe, and have fun.
UBIK
UBIK. The unusual title is foreshadowing to the kind of story this plays out to be. Philip K. Dick starts off this story by recognizing two kinds of people, psionics and anti-psionics. Both have their respective industries, the latter trying to stop the former from forcibly interrogating or invading the mind spaces of human kind. They are both at a tug of war, or rather a checks and balances with each other to try to maintain the order in keep the system maintained. Industries have been built to capitalize on this happenstance. With this era, there is also a term called half-life in which people who have been injured/died can have their mind and body preserved in order to speak again to the living in order to give advice etc. These play crucial roles in our story for Philip K. Dick, just like the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch uses the idea of half-life and psionic capabilities to play mind games and produce the feeling of uneasiness as one's mind is forcibly going through an experience unlike what he/she has been before.
With any drug trip, one confuses reality with fantasy and questions both using basic logic in order to come back to any sense of order within one's surroundings. However, when the world around you feels so real, but completely wrong at the same time, there are too many possible factors that could hurt the credibility of one's choice. Dick fully exploits this in this wonderfully intense story of mental exploration and deterioration . As always, the book starts off slow in order to encapsulate the tedium of day to day life and the politics and technology of the time, but gathers an intense speed in order to describe what is happening. Just with any mental novel, the climax did not occur with action happening, but with the main protagonist going through his though process to figure out what is happening. For once, the idea of psionic abilities sounded necessary in order to bring out the plot of the book, but again could have been replaced with another industry etc. The main focus is the idea of half-life and should be noted extensively as one reads through the novel. The idea is impeccable, but brings so many more questions than it answers.
I completely recommend this book to any fans of sci-fi, and can't wait to start on my next novel Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick.
HAPPY READINGS.
With any drug trip, one confuses reality with fantasy and questions both using basic logic in order to come back to any sense of order within one's surroundings. However, when the world around you feels so real, but completely wrong at the same time, there are too many possible factors that could hurt the credibility of one's choice. Dick fully exploits this in this wonderfully intense story of mental exploration and deterioration . As always, the book starts off slow in order to encapsulate the tedium of day to day life and the politics and technology of the time, but gathers an intense speed in order to describe what is happening. Just with any mental novel, the climax did not occur with action happening, but with the main protagonist going through his though process to figure out what is happening. For once, the idea of psionic abilities sounded necessary in order to bring out the plot of the book, but again could have been replaced with another industry etc. The main focus is the idea of half-life and should be noted extensively as one reads through the novel. The idea is impeccable, but brings so many more questions than it answers.
I completely recommend this book to any fans of sci-fi, and can't wait to start on my next novel Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick.
HAPPY READINGS.
You Can Brew Beer in College too
On many a day, finding good beer is like going to take out. You have to go out of your way to find what you like, pay lots of money to try out new things, and spend more just to get more of your favorites. However, I have never really been accustomed to trying to make beer at home until I started reading You can Brew Beer In College too. This simple $2.50 recipe guide and beginner engineering toolbox of beer brewing encapsulated the DIY spirit of traditional cooking into things I would love to be intoxicated to. It amazed me how easy it could be to produce a huge amounts of delicious beer without creating too much of an initial dent to my wallet. I have tried many of the beers advertised and nothing has disappointing me in the least. Every beer, wine, and cider this man has created was delicious enough to buy many bottles off of. I could not recommend this more to any DIY beer brewer and any future brewer there.
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