Archive for July 2nd, 2009
Random…
Nothin new…just banal reality….
now..if you were rich and a cool job ..say your own island in the Barrier reef…now that would have given something to write bout everyday…but..you my friend are no better than me..:P
You are reading this post..out of same/similar boredom which causes me to write it in the very first place.
Speaking of random, I did some random experiment which I had read in one of those RC passages bout evolution. I had this 20 digit random sequence, and I had these 20 zeros on the other hand. I wrote this small simple script to modify the zeros using a random number generator and match it with the number…
after less than 100 modifications…I achieved the actual sequence.
Now this may seem a little too absurd to you, but just to clear it out, this supports the Darwinian evolution..that a series of simple selections/retentions could lead to more favorable things…or species!!
Having established Darwin 
I went on to read Maximum city…and I must say that either Suketu Mehta is really daring(he better be) or he is just making stuff up. I mean…who really goes to Pakistan to interview the D-company guys?? Daring.
He makes me fall in love with the city, then slowly as he reveals the layers of this hinterland….and makes you fall out of that love. Reading bout Mumbai..just makes me feel more safe here in Delhi..without any Shiv Sena…or the shooters going astray..killing people in public.
Suketu Mehta won me over with this…..
“I had written down in my computer the name of god and then backspaced over it, so that His name would be woven invisibly into the screen, would form a foundation or wash for all the accounts of murder and assault I would be writing that day”
The craft and the guts..do make him such a fine fine wirter. I am just awestruck.
