Throw the stone

‘…and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.”‘

Lots of undesirable buzz going on, but hey, WHAT’S NEW for the last 2000 years uh? Only pray and trust…

And most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches…

If doug adams was still alive to write in these times, it’d probably be a satire of the already satirical world. Otherwise, reading his hitchhiker book of 1979 is good enough an escape from misery and reality most of the times. Not forgetting the circumstances in which he wrote his book was well, absurd at the very least.

An elephantine analogy

Business is like a PC – popular, and doubtless useful. Engineering is like a Mac – not SO popular, and terribly mistaken to be for ‘specialised’ uses. BUT when the need arises, the Mac runs windows too while the contrary does not apply, if you get the point.

I dont know, but this analogy/quote sounds like an elephant. Otherwise, i think is good an advice for those confused souls out there.

The Banker’s Syndrome

Tell me if you  find a better phrase that aptly describes the financial sector, but meanwhile, i say my phrase is the best okay. 🙂

A lot of INCOME, but no OUTCOME.

Which is like (my) life now, (relatively) a lot of income, BUT NO OUTCOME.

To aspire

I kinda realised this, after working thru Second Foundation (clandestinely, though less so than our favourite kill-time) during pockets of free time at work.

Tony Stark is somewhat the embodiment of the ENGINEER’S DREAM, graduating from MIT and starting his own tech company. Probably minus the babes, booze, cars, partayes and hot personal assistant..since most engineers regard those as worldly, frivolous obsessions. This is how he looks:

Hari Seldon (as found in Asimov’s Foundation trilogy) is the embodiment of the ECONOMIST’S DREAM, rebuilding the Empire with serious mathematics and psychohistory and preventing the world from crumbling into chaos. This is how he looks:

(CUI’s probably the word to describe it. New vocab of 2010)

So there you’ve got it. One of the few reasons why some jobs are more attractive than others. Though personally i think the Hari Seldon one’s overdone.. Paul Krugman actually looks like George Clooney or Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark, except fatter.

Evidence here: http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/151296.asp

To the Mums

Ah sidetrack.. Stiglitz’s Freefall has this ridiculous part. Quoted below…

“A well-designed stimulus program should reflect 7 principles:
1. It should be fast
2. It should be effective
3. It should address the country’s long term problems
… …
”

Kind of like saying, a good medication should 1) be taken fast 2) should be potent 3) should address the patient’s long term health issues.

Thought about Mother’s Day, and mothers in general, to realise that being a mum is like being commissioned officer after 9 months of hard work, feeling happy on the commissioning day, and to realise the immense duty to serve and raise her child only after. And there’s always that certainly higher expectations from the child like them officers to uphold their moral standards yadayada. Slightly remote analogy but yea, the entire process is kinda along similar lines.

Well except being a mum has no SAVER/FLEX medical benefits or market-pegged bonuses or job security. Ooh, and not forgetting, lifetime sign-on uh.

Math-er-math-ticks

Am back hitherto, at least. Life nowadays kinda needs more intellectual stimulation I guess.

Met _ _  (undisclosed, so as not to land him in shit) few days back and got enlightened to the apparent misery in MTI’s very prestigious dept. Anything but PRACTICAL happens that as it goes. Reveling in math, economic theory, methodology and feel-good, captain-obvious papers kinda doesn’t go well with the ministry thing ah?

I guess “mathematical rigour” always its appeal, yet often too casually used by the competent to (counterproductively) deliver irrelevance. Sigh. Getting a degree in astrology is probably better uh?