Still recovering from the two vaccinations I got on Monday; These shots are required by INS. It's such a great day outside but don't feel strong enough to play golf. Oh boy, oh boy oboy. Spring will be here soon and I can be out playing golf over the weekends.
Tested for purple belt yesterday. I have a Red, Red with one stripe and a Red with two stripes to go before I get a black belt. Unfortunately, my instructor's husband got relocated to Arkansas and she is willing to drive every saturday and continue the class but I have my doubts about continuing the class. I wanted to take the classes over the week cos it would be an optimal use of weekday evenings. Leave saturday morning for cartoons and news and chai! Plus I would be woozy from the pubbing on friday nights.
A friend mine is taking classes at Chung Ho Park martial arts institute. This guy is a grand master, a world champion (don't remember the weight category but I have seen the news paper clippings), coached the US Tae Kwan Do team and is simply cool. I have seen his class and his teaching methods; out of this world. He is a perfectionist and I prefer to be taught by one.
Guess I'll join his institute and start all over again...
I think I am delusional. Call it lack of sleep. Something I noticed in the past few days has been nagging me and I can't put a finger on it. I wish I can control my grey matter like some people I know. Few days ago I put an object of irregular dimensions and proportinate weight on my couch. I had few golf balls next to it and they all rolled towards it. Basic / elementary physics but still fascinating. I took all the objects to my bed and continued playing with them. Newton already proved this mysterious force called gravity exists. I got distracted and didn't get a chance to think about it.
Couple of hours ago I got out of bed to respond to a nature call and when I returned back to the bed I noticed that I created a shape / depression overnight. I lost all interest in sleep and started thinking about the experiment with heavy objects on impressionable layer, if you will. The heavier the object the bigger the depression. I expanded my horizon and thought about earth on an imaginary bed. It causes a big depression enough to keep the moon, a golf ball times couple of million, around. I noticed that the earth, moon and all the other planets are pulled into the depression caused by the sun. I remember reading that not all planets are revolving on the same plane. What I mean to say is, if you imagine a cuboid / spherical space big enough for the entire solar system, not all the planets are moving on the same plane. some are revolving at an angle different from some others, co-incidentally placing them on the same plane with few other planets. Then I started thinking that on this planet, the depression was towards the Earth's core / bottom / down, whatever. What about the galactic / universal plane? All planets in the solar system are pulled towards the sun and the solar system itself is probably being pulled towards the galactic core.
I took an heavy object and jammed it between the matressess. Voila, now the depression was on multiple sides. sweet. but the golf balls are not going against the pull of earth's gravity. I needed a bigger object so I stacked couple of heavy vb.net (thanks F. Balena) books in between the matresses and put some golf balls. If I was in space, with imaginary layers of matresses and sun was the heavy object in question it created a depression on multiple sides and all the golf balls, ahem, planets are falling towards it. But they are falling towards it in multiple angles, from all sides, unlike my crude model.
Then I started thinking, are we falling, on a solar system level, towards some mysterious force (er, the galactic core?) Expand. What about the milky way itself? Wouldn't it cause a depression big enough to pull galactic objects smaller then itself? Astrophysists have, to a certain degree, proved that we are expanding. Ok, stick with me here...its too early for me to coherently phrase the chaos in my mind into written form. Is our galaxy, in relation to an imaginary central point, falling up / down? I will not going into the detail of multiple dimensions (as in space) as I have rudimentary knowledge but the question is still intriguing. If the universe is theorized into a sphere, what is the core? Are we tied to it in some fashion, falling towards it by the depression it is causing in the non-existant ether?
I have seen pictures of water in the northern hemisphere go down the sink in counter-clockwise direction and vice versa in the southern hemisphere (or is it the other way around?) so can't we prove by looking at all the spiral galaxies; if the arms are all moving in certain direction in a given slice of co-ordinates? If we take earth as a point of corelation, can't we see which side of hemisphere are we on? I might be ranting but I'll clarify some more details and post another of the delusional direction question later in the day. What do you guys think? Have you ever wondered about this?
I just “acquired” a 17 inch monitor (atleast for this weekend) and with the above resolution, I feel like I am in visual heaven. I had been cranking code on a 14” and then a 15” for 5 years now and I feel like a frog liberated from its well. I wonder how the 21” plasma monitor with the highest resolution possible feel like ???
Working over the holiday weekend...got a project deadline and hopefully I'll crank out the asp.net articles I had in mind after that. Lessee...
drumroll....Well it's finally here. Thanks a bunch Donny! DotNetJunkies, you are awesome!!! I have been reading blogs ever since they started (and popularized by /. ) but never felt the need to add my 2 bits. well atleast not until now (heh, I did get one at blogspot but somehow it didn't appeal to me).
Cutting the story short, I have been fiddling with .Net for sometime now and it still never ceases to amaze (and sometimes amuse me with moments like wtf - they never thought of this? Don't believe me? for starters, I had to implement a solution to pass 4 parameters as querystring values from a hyperlink column in a bound datagrid. more on this later...) so most probably, I'll be putting in my aaaarrrrgh moments and a few aha moments (I luv stringbuilders and just the way objects work in .Net. long way to go, but we are on the path and walking walking...lift up your hearts for we are walking in the sunshine...! *hum your tune here at your own risk*)
I have been working on a project that demanded quite a bit of data on the client side and a lot of client side processing and I was frustrated that I still have to deal with Javascript for it. Why are we going back to dark ages? Most of my client's desktops are as powerful as the servers hosting the application. Why can't I harness all the beautiful processing power (short of writing a win app). Why can't the browser be smart enuf to download the client side assemblies required by the app (all you security patrolers, halt. It should be sandboxed/caged) and use the P4..oh wait. Web controls....
delirious...
darn it. Now I am 2 bits short of a byte.