Does your thoughts make you what you are? I say yes. Allow me to expound on this thought process.
Have you noticed that the day you get up and feel that you had got out of the wrong side of the bed, your day gets totally shot to hell.
Try this, for a change ...When you feel,what you felt, as mentioned in the para two above of this said page, further referenced to in annexure B subclause 44.3 section 3 para 12.4.a......OOPS my day is shot to hell, these damm SLA agreements I need to go through!
a) JUST LET GO.
Just let go of all thoughts, close your eyes,(if you are the sort of weakling who depends on cigarettes and uses them as crutches,go ahead and DO NOT LIGHTUP and DON'T PANIC...I smoke too!). Allow your mind to flow with thoughts that are flittering in your head, but DO NOT THINK or follow any of these thoughts,just let them flow in and out. Do not worry about what is happening around you, ofcourse if your house is on fire etc or your spouse decides to get cosy with the milkman or the maid during this time then quickly change the plan.
Do this for about 15 minutes and then open your eyes and see the difference. This is the basic concept of meditation(as i know). To really get into meditation, it is recommended that you spend sometime with a Guru or a teacher,who can guide you.
b) Take what Toffler says "I am okay, you are okay" to a new level ie. "Everything is OKAY" .
Try it it works. everything is actually okay. This is the refined evolution of the famous thought process/theory ie. "Shit Happens".
kind of running of steam right now...
Check out the following site Samadhi meditation , SSY was a founded by Rishi Prabhakar. more on this in a latter blog.
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Monday, November 22, 2004
Photography and other thinks that go click
After watching and waiting for a loooooonng time, I finally bit the byte(!) and added a digital camera to my arsenal of cameras.
Photography has become more interesting, but I seem to be spending more time on the computer post the photo sessions, downloading, sorting,deleting, and finally editing and then uploading.
It is funny just a few months back, I kept filling up cupboards with prints, negetives and the albums, now my harddisk is filling up with the RAW files, the 4 to 5 variants of the digitally processed files,the backups of the images which are WIP. Not to forget the backup of the original files on CD's,(DVD writers still looks expensive..i know, i know about the amount of space you get on a dvd blah blah...)
Has my photography improved? not sure, but I sure have become a little lazy. The PC is there to fix it!
Digital world has opened up more options, previously shots which I would have thrown out(exposure problems) seem to be salvagable.
Interesting stuff which I figured out in the last 10 days. You can take 2 images ,one exposed for the highlights and the other exposed for shadow and blend the both using a photo editing software. Considering that I am lazy,(hey dude,use the tripod!) I change the exposure in the RAW file editors and merge the original with the modified exposure one... seems to work.
Wonder what other stuff I am going to figure out.
Previously I never had the energy to scan a slide and correct it...but now,anyway you need to sit on the pc to see the results of the days work,so you tend to screw around with the editors. See Newton was right about the inertia stuff.
Does it matter what software you use?
Some of the more interesting try and buy software which I have laid my hands(oops the mouse) on...Noise Ninja(why do you leave lines all over the image, oh ninja master?what have we evaluators done to you?) Shortcut PhotoZoom ( an impressive sharpening tool), how could I forget my first imaging software IrfanView.
Nikon's Capture editing software is real nifty.
Not very impressed by Bibble (must have tried out an old version, could not open the D-70 NEF's)
PhotoShop CS (seems to have too many options for a simple mind people like me! But a real powerhouse of a software)
Will i purchase these programs?I may end up paying more that what I paid for the camera, so till then it is IrfanView.
P.S: Just in case you are wondering about the rig i use : f-80(right now gathering dust), d-70, 18-70 (kit lense), 80-400 vr and a 50 mm(love this one and it costs so little,at least compared to the other shit i blow up money on)
Photography has become more interesting, but I seem to be spending more time on the computer post the photo sessions, downloading, sorting,deleting, and finally editing and then uploading.
It is funny just a few months back, I kept filling up cupboards with prints, negetives and the albums, now my harddisk is filling up with the RAW files, the 4 to 5 variants of the digitally processed files,the backups of the images which are WIP. Not to forget the backup of the original files on CD's,(DVD writers still looks expensive..i know, i know about the amount of space you get on a dvd blah blah...)
Has my photography improved? not sure, but I sure have become a little lazy. The PC is there to fix it!
Digital world has opened up more options, previously shots which I would have thrown out(exposure problems) seem to be salvagable.
Interesting stuff which I figured out in the last 10 days. You can take 2 images ,one exposed for the highlights and the other exposed for shadow and blend the both using a photo editing software. Considering that I am lazy,(hey dude,use the tripod!) I change the exposure in the RAW file editors and merge the original with the modified exposure one... seems to work.
Wonder what other stuff I am going to figure out.
Previously I never had the energy to scan a slide and correct it...but now,anyway you need to sit on the pc to see the results of the days work,so you tend to screw around with the editors. See Newton was right about the inertia stuff.
Does it matter what software you use?
Some of the more interesting try and buy software which I have laid my hands(oops the mouse) on...Noise Ninja(why do you leave lines all over the image, oh ninja master?what have we evaluators done to you?) Shortcut PhotoZoom ( an impressive sharpening tool), how could I forget my first imaging software IrfanView.
Nikon's Capture editing software is real nifty.
Not very impressed by Bibble (must have tried out an old version, could not open the D-70 NEF's)
PhotoShop CS (seems to have too many options for a simple mind people like me! But a real powerhouse of a software)
Will i purchase these programs?I may end up paying more that what I paid for the camera, so till then it is IrfanView.
P.S: Just in case you are wondering about the rig i use : f-80(right now gathering dust), d-70, 18-70 (kit lense), 80-400 vr and a 50 mm(love this one and it costs so little,at least compared to the other shit i blow up money on)
Thanks to Abhijit
I did wonder what blogging was all about. I have been looking at what Abhijit has been putting up for the last few days on his blog, and it kind of triggered of a sort of thought process in me.
You can see that i am a very lucid person, with a clear sort of ..huh...focused sort of thought process... see what i mean?
Obviously, i cannot let all those amazing thoughts which i have die with me. Like i said somewhere previously, not that any of these thoughts are going to change the world in any way...
a few of Abhijit's interesting blogs are Pctweaks and Media hub and the Thoughts and Ideas
You can see that i am a very lucid person, with a clear sort of ..huh...focused sort of thought process... see what i mean?
Obviously, i cannot let all those amazing thoughts which i have die with me. Like i said somewhere previously, not that any of these thoughts are going to change the world in any way...
a few of Abhijit's interesting blogs are Pctweaks and Media hub and the Thoughts and Ideas
Musing caused by Raindrops
Not that I am pissed off about this…just curious, do others see what I see.
Last few months this has been bothering me, kind off shows the time I have on hand. This has nothing to do with anything, and has no universal significance, does not add value to anyone or any process. Would this be something which Arthur Dent would be bugged about?maybe …maybe not?
Have you noticed that if there are 6 urinals in a toilet, and all are unused, you either go to the one in the middle or the one on the extreme left or the extreme right?
(The 6 urinal is just an sample case study of my office loo, the theory seems to operate in otherframes of reference too, like in the airport loo)
The theory becomes slightly more complex when one ofthe urinal is in use...like so...
The new variable(y) entering the equation will ensure that he uses the urinal which is the farthest away from the one being used. Enter the third variable(z); this variable will make sure that there is a gap of at least one unused urinal on his left or the right.
And to get to the crux of the biscuit, when there is only one urinal, and the last variable is added into the equation, you would see an uncomfortable looking man furtively glancing around, wondering why fate has been so cruel to him.
I have seen a few men who decide to hold on to his "beliefs" and wait for the "comfort"zone rather than letting go.
The expression of pain on the "Judas" (*) during this"boot-up" time is priceless, (for everything elsethere is Master, right?)
Does modern man still have his caveman instincts? Isthis the territorial imperative at work? Not having spent much time with Dilbert, I am unsure if this has something to do with the mutation of the caveman instincts in modern man.
Like I said at the beginning, I am not pissed off at all, just curious.
DON’T PANIC.
Note : (*) Judas : The apostle who betrayed his divine master.
Last few months this has been bothering me, kind off shows the time I have on hand. This has nothing to do with anything, and has no universal significance, does not add value to anyone or any process. Would this be something which Arthur Dent would be bugged about?maybe …maybe not?
Have you noticed that if there are 6 urinals in a toilet, and all are unused, you either go to the one in the middle or the one on the extreme left or the extreme right?
(The 6 urinal is just an sample case study of my office loo, the theory seems to operate in otherframes of reference too, like in the airport loo)
The theory becomes slightly more complex when one ofthe urinal is in use...like so...
The new variable(y) entering the equation will ensure that he uses the urinal which is the farthest away from the one being used. Enter the third variable(z); this variable will make sure that there is a gap of at least one unused urinal on his left or the right.
And to get to the crux of the biscuit, when there is only one urinal, and the last variable is added into the equation, you would see an uncomfortable looking man furtively glancing around, wondering why fate has been so cruel to him.
I have seen a few men who decide to hold on to his "beliefs" and wait for the "comfort"zone rather than letting go.
The expression of pain on the "Judas" (*) during this"boot-up" time is priceless, (for everything elsethere is Master, right?)
Does modern man still have his caveman instincts? Isthis the territorial imperative at work? Not having spent much time with Dilbert, I am unsure if this has something to do with the mutation of the caveman instincts in modern man.
Like I said at the beginning, I am not pissed off at all, just curious.
DON’T PANIC.
Note : (*) Judas : The apostle who betrayed his divine master.
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