Everything for me

This posting is continuation of the title Human Fantasies.


Olden
Conquering land, search for secret treasure, digging out gold, alchemist, black orchid, voyage for new land etc etc are few of the technique we followed to amass wealth. There were great warriors determined to conquer the entire world. They marched through half the globe. They all got a six by three or ended up into ash, as per their culture.

Modern
The business venture, acquisition, crazy stock and the bust, etc seems to be modern day manner of wealth aggrandising.

The next topic is on longevity.

Happy husbands - when wives are away

VY hosted the lunch as it is his birthday today. We went to Royale Comforts. Food is ok.

These days MsAD (should I say MsKD?) is showing lot of interest in understanding the complex relationship between husband and wife. MS showed a brilliant glow while telling us that his wife will be joining him after 2 months. Thou he didn't want to show the smile in an explicit manner, we were able to get ecstasy he was in :-)
MsAD observed this and out of curiosity questioned MS on his state of mind and what he was up to etc.

Married guys shared their experience and how they tackle situation at home.

Later I was wondering what is that brings that happiness. Is it the relief out of monotonous activities and voice? Or is it an eagerness to live through the all-free bachelor life for a short time? Or to enjoy the personal space of loneliness, till the need of wife arises?
May be a combination of all this with a pinch of a factor called male madness.

Miniature pets

Other day I was thinking about bonzai plants.  If it is feasible to grow a big tree on a small scale, will it be able to do the same with animals?Imagine playing with an elephant, which is on your table top.  
Or a Kangaroo that is tall upto your knee.


With genetically engineering progressing, these things should come to reality in near future.

The question is: do we want it?  If we think about the negative aspect, when it is possible to minimize, it will be possible to enlarge too.  A group aiming to create roits in a city, can unleash megasize elephants into the  city.

My daddy is bigger than yours

This posting is continuation of the title Human Fantasies.

Let us see the way people were showing off their powers.

Olden
When one clan started using stones as weapons, the other groups had to withdraw from the battle. They had to go back, do some R&D and invent something like bow, arrow or spears. One these people got an upper hand. Other people got a defensive shield and also swords. I guess this is inbuilt nature of any species. We see that the conflicts in jungle and ocean are resolved by power. Once human started inventing equipment for fighting, the race for better tools began and improved the warfare. Mere possession of superior tools gave the owners protection and dominance over others.

Modern
Interesting twist in the modern story is to blame others that they have powerful equip and kill them. (I dont understand this part completely. Is it legal for some bully to say, "I can have any number of weapons with me, but you should not")


The next is about money.

Human Fantasies

Ever wondered what kind of fantasies we carry? I do think in different domains and try to find few. Prominent ones I could think about are girls, wealth, youth etc. Fantasies differ from person to person. Also, the priority of these likings vary too.

I am planning to explore the fantasies carried by human civilization, right from the animal age to our modern days. Let us see what is driving us to do whatever we do and aspire.

Let us start with power struggle.

Bojug

Java User Group started functioning in Bangalore. The first meeting happened today at Sun Microsystems buildings. Thanks to Sun for allowing the team to conduct the event in their premise and providing facilities to the group.

It was nice to meet different people from different background experience.
The meeting was very friendly and healthy; quite informative too. Two technical sessions were conducted. One on Netbeans IDE usage, module development and the next about Java db. Very well prepared presentation and audience were interested to know more.

People have an idea about doing something useful in terms of project implementation. That would be great thing to happen. We will have a open source development community right at our doorstep (or in our backyard, whichever one wants to see and feel comfortable). With such dynamism, we will have innovation happening among us and technologies shaping here. I feel that is one area India needs to jump in. This meet seems to be a good start.

Looking forward to more jugging.

Guiding the students

While browsing through orkut, I found lakshya. This is an interesting social service activity put up by few people. Lakshya aims at raising the thinking capacity of the student so that they will be able to shape up their career and life.

I had registered with them. Planning to answer questions raised in my message board. So, if you are a student or a fresher, feel free drop by the site and post a quey.

Simplified tax

Discussion started when MS mentioned about the medical allowance and travel allowance. Various policies and practices pertaining to tax system came into perspective. I feel we should have a simple taxing system. A standard percentage of income to be deducted; maybe a slab on different income range is fine.

The current system of providing allowance for medical, travel, insurance, donation, etc etc provides loophole for people to misuse. A simplified taxing would free up people from these calculation and crookedness.

PG had a good counter argument about genuine people needing such provisions and benefits, and the difficulty of government to aid them in some other means.

Since I am not an expert in these domains, I couldn't provide more points; but feel that something can be done to simplify.

Lesson from sudoku

After playing for two or three weeks on a continuous basis, I checked the sudoku addiction relief web pages. Invariably they had a sample sudoku matrix and I started playing there :-)

Now it is more than 3 months and I am still playing the game with more interest. Best completion is in 7.51 mins at evil level. The sudoku site showed that I am one among 12% in the world to solve it so fast.

Here are my philosophical insights upon playing the game.

• Seldom you will get the numbers you want. There will be something missing. You will have to struggle to get the required things.
• Thou at times I felt I got a buggy puzzle, never that was proved. We might get difficult situation in life and feel that entire life is a total mistake or a failure. We just need the patience to put the pieces together to get the beautiful picture.
• Practice makes us perfect
• Successful completion gives great satisfaction

Beautiful road

I happened to travel to Vellore in the weekend. The road is really enjoyable from krishnagiri to Vellore and beyond. Visually it is pleasing as they had planted flower plants and maintaining too. The colors are varying and soothing. Good feast to the otherwise dry and blunt landscape.

Hats off to NHAI department who are constructing roads and also maintaining these shrubs. Good to see such positive things happening around. Hope these initiatives are sustained forever and also wish this will be practiced across the country.

I had sent a note of appreciation to that dept contacts.

Graph using flash

I had to gather data in the server side and display the result as a graph. Was hunting for good way to generate bar chart, pie chart etc. Thought of using flash in a way to get a decent presentation and also learning the tech :-)

Upon analyzing, maani.us seem to be close to what I want. Thou it is a freeware, the licensing part has a catch so that people who dont read may end up paying for them. The interesting part is that we cannot insert this graph display in some other flash screen. Hence, you will have a graph isolated from the rest of ur apps.

In order to overcome this limitation, I glued this flash graph into my pages with js, iframe and some patience.

Now my site looks decent.