And why is this song popular?

ok, tell me in two lines or take as many lines as you want but tell me why you like this song.

Comment space isnt what one looks forward to in the online world. Rediff's  comment space is abyss but most other sites are just a step above that and nothing more. The blogging world has exactly two kinds - one of the facebook vareity -awesomebeautifulprettynice - another of the troll - ustupidfoolidiot. 

Which is why baradwaj rangan's comment space somewhat surprises me. Often I skip his post and jump to the comment space, because let'ss face it - his real articles for paper  as much as they do make a delish read aren't really light. They need to be enjoyed at the privacy of one's home with nothing else to disturb us.

Links to nice articles, songs, some good discussions with some new perspectives - all this is randomly interpersed in the comment space. Ofcourse, there are trolls - but the regular trolls are just people's obsessed with a single topic and go on a literally thenji pona record mode. All this is only 70% of that comment space.

It is still a phenomena worth studying.

My thoughts on piracy - some one else's words :)

I know not what SOPA and PIPA are but these are pretty much thoughts on piracy too.

" I think something else is going on. I believe that downloaders are making a moral calculation and coming to the conclusion that the content industry immorally perpetuates an artificial scarcity to maximize their profits at the expense of users and artists. They understand that content is a non-rival good, that unlike an apple, they can consume it without diminishing anyone else’s ability to consume the same thing. They know that the content owner paid nothing to reproduce or distribute the content on the Internet. They also know that the artists who created the original content get a tiny fraction of the revenue. So they are making a moral judgement that the content owners are pricing their product to extract unjustifiable profits and they feel morally justified taking the content they find out there on the web." 

- http://bradburnham.tumblr.com/

Except for a line that doesnt apply to me -  "They also know that the artists who created the original content get a tiny fraction of the revenue."  I differ, I think most artists compensated way beyond the pleasure I derive out of hearing their music!

I speaketh from the experience of a person who has done her contribution to the bay area indian music shop and some.

Women at Work

Warning: If words like women's period makes you squirm, you might want to skip this post!

Of all the things that get discussed about women at work, why have I never seen discussion on what we have to go through to work through our periods? 

Most women I know cant work atleast for few hours of their period time.

My own body took a long long time to get used to chums. Atleast thats what it looked like to me. There was a lot of puking at the onset of my chums for many years well into even my grad school days. My room mates then thought I was going to die. After the saga (of puking of course), I have to have some food and sleep. Imagine being at work at the onset.

I was interning those days and this one time I had taken all the care to go to a bathroom in 'unoccupied' first floor and puked my guts out. Moment I returned  to my cube in the second floor, one look at my face  my colleague(male  - that place was 95% male!) asked if I should be taken to the hospital -  I looked that sick.

 Those days, I had some vague notions of hiding the fact I had my chums  and act all normal. I dont believe that anymore  - I mean 3.5 billion people suffer through this monthly for a major portion of the life  - so why hide it? It is another matter but I still hide it or use the brahmastram of stomach ache.

Sometimes a bit of dysentry, stomach ache, utter discomfort and physical weakness and so on. Atleast in my case it has gotten better with age. Myraid problems, Varying from woman to woman. I  know of some women who are lucky enough not to go through major discomfort.

But the general talk with other women at work during these times reveal most of them do feel physically horrible - Sufferings strong enough to disrupt work. And this happens on a monthly basis. 

How come we have never seen any discussion on this?

Ps: it wasnt easy writing this post!

I love how the 'city' has this cute little throw away fabulous  places.  Last week I stumbled at 4.00am with D, her friend and her friends in tow onto coit tower.

Like all roads leading to golden gate, in SF all the special places lead to a view of golden gate.

Death by exhaustion!

Goals for november

This is an SK'ish post.  I have often seen her do it in her blog with considerable success but never took it up because of fear of Jinx. Also writing a task list doesnt work for me. Once I write down any task for some weird reason, my brain things it is done. I never have to do list(except at work). FACT. May be I should write WORLD PEACE and make my brain believe it is done :)

But... it isnt like I have achieved anything without these lists lists either. So as well make a list. Here it goes.

1. Home cooked meals for atleast 5 days  a week.
I did do this last december and it was great for my weight. I have always wanted to make it a habit.

2.  Excerise 

if not anything else atleast the most popular sport practised by Indians -'walk' .

Walk the 'walk'. I used to do it quite regularly and not sure when I stopped it. Then, there is yoga, kickboxing and my beloved elliptical.  Exercise  is suppose to be increase 'endowhatisit' - which is suppose to give you happiness. Pppls.. Happiness apparently is just  chemical substance. So here is to more of that. 

3, Books 

  Finish a book I am reading for career and 'Norwegian wood'

4. Shop 

I know! Shopping in their goals list. I will give you a half second to take your time and judge me.

But I have skipped it for past few months and now my wardrobe has nothing new. The dressing standard at my work place is relatively high for a place filled with Indians. On most days, I end up going to work as if I woke up from my sleep(let us not comment on how close to truth that is). I need all therapy I can get in my life right now so why leave out retail therapy.

Work is as usual well work. I dont  give a damn about it but we have a deadline end of this year so November is very much under the gun. And I have another thing undergoing related to career right now. 

So, it should be interesting check at the end of november :)