Deepest Turtle

  • Is Linux Really Ready for Prime Time?

    I don’t understand why some people are saying that Linux is ready for prime time. Recently I installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop and had to do the following things to make it usable. While I am a developer so I can do these things pretty easily, I can’t see… Read ⇢

  • World’s Most Dangerous Formula

    Most people would agree that the most powerful and dangerous formula of the last century was: E = mc² It is at the heart of the deadliest weapons ever created, weapons with power way beyond anything human beings have evolved to handle. We have too many psychological flaws, too many… Read ⇢

  • Work, Poetry, and… Universal Basic Income?

    Trying something new this time – finding connections among things that I have seen recently in seemingly totally unconnected contexts. First, I came across this fun meme on Facebook last week: I would say that this is probably true of most professions. When we are in school, many of us… Read ⇢

  • Power Lines and Boundary Lines

      I thought a little bit of poetry might go well with these pictures. I still need to work on the words a little, but here is the thought anyway: Advancing lines of civilization Some connect, some divide. Shimmering fields of grass Undeterred, unconcerned. Read ⇢

    Power Lines and Boundary Lines

  • The “Natural” Method for Discovering and Living Your Passion

    Over the years, all of us have come across tons of blogs, books, TED talks, and every other form of delivering advice to people, on the subject of “Discovering Your Passion”. There are many online tests and workshops on the subject. There are life coaches who provide personal assistance to… Read ⇢

    The “Natural” Method for Discovering and Living Your Passion

  • The Zen of Writing

    I am just an amateur at this point, so I guess I am prone to dreamy thoughts about writing that may get shattered at some point when it gets more real for me. (But may be, in the shattering of those dreams, I will discover some far more interesting truths.… Read ⇢

  • Sapnon Se Bhare Naina (Hindi Song)

    I attended a great concert by Shankar / Ehsan / Loy last weekend. They performed many great songs, but skipped my favorite song, Sapnon Se Bhare Naina. (Probably because the crowd was too pumped up and they didn’t want to put them in a pensive / reflective mood?) In any case, this… Read ⇢

  • Egg and Cheese Biscuit

    I have had a long and tumultuous relationship with McDonalds. Like any such relationship, I have had many amazing experiences, many ups and downs, many memories. And the relationship has endured through all of that. Until last week, that is. But let us not start there. Flash back to the… Read ⇢

    Egg and Cheese Biscuit

  • On Buying Happiness

    Wise men have told us for millennia that the only way to attain eternal peace and happiness is to free yourself of all the trappings of life. And for the same millennia, we have taken their word for it on that. But as if that wasn’t already enough of an… Read ⇢