heard obama speak on tv. man...does he captivate an audience.  this guy is going to be president one day.

Is Boston more than a feeling?? Is it going to be anything more than canned anger and canned rhetoric? is it going to signal the beginning of an unimaginative era for the Dems?

catch-22

if i realise that i am going nuts, i am not.
pause
relief.
pause
so i am not nuts. that means i am.

i am going nuts. period.

sunrise

watched the sun rise before i got to sleep last night. i am in one of those stretches (lasts for a few days every year) when i am at my anti-social best. i almost make efforts to keep away from people. especially people who know me and hence expect me to behave some particular way. its intensely relieving if no one around knows you. you are not expected to behave in a particular manner. almost as if you are in disguise. a quasi fresh start!
and amazingly easy to do to. go to a cafe you never been to and sit there. or maybe a part of town you never went to. many options...easier to do i guess if i were back in bombay or chennai.
this is what is happening over the last couple of days to me. and i am enjoying every bit of it. am awake all night. sleep after watching the sun rise. and when i mean watch...i actually mean watch. walk over to some vantage point on campus (none in urbana...so have to settle for open spaces) and watch another meaningless day dawn. another day on the fifth largest piece of rock circling a second grade star with a suspected history of scizhoprenia/multi-personality disorder.

problem with search engines: so apple things tiger can scare bill out of the gates with its new and powerful search feature. you know what these guys dont understand.half the people in trouble usually cannot phrase the proper question. once they do...they get the answer in any case. even if the search engine was made by genghis khan's grandma. its the question you senseless assholes, not the search algo. thats the case everywhere...search engines, research, life. the ones who ask the right question get the answer they want. wont it be nice if google or some wise guy could give 2 or 3 different sets of results (in different windows of course) based on various interpretations?? guys and gals...remember you read this here first.