Prevarication, what a beautiful word!
5 Jan 2011, 2 PM
This is the first time I'm writing a note while I'm at work. I work in an engineering office which operates building automation projects. I kinda like my job, though the payments are rather low.
Last nite I undertook the job of correcting my phone contacts information. It took more than 4 hours and it's not done yet, actually the main task is complete, but I like to add a contact icon for each person, and preferably his/her Facebook profile photo.
HTC Smart doesn't support Farsi fonts, so my sister rejects it and I take it! I don't know which one of us will pay for it, but I've decided to pay for it myself. It's not that bad, but it's not vert good either. The touch isn't sensitive enough, actually I tap on it using my fingernails, while I type this note using fingers themselves.
For last few notes I surfed the net trying to know my iPod Touch better. I had jailbreaked it the first nite, but it took some nites for Ceydia to download its packages.
I hate bunch everything! Not that I don't like to apply a routine to a frequent procedure (like finding lyrics for my music collection), but bunch collections of everything sucks. If you unload your friends' movie collection from his/her hard drive to yours, you've made a mistake. I can argue in support of my theory, but there is no room for that in this note. The same applies to music collections and software collections.
So, instead of downloading a .ipa file collection, I searched for the best apps and games for iPhone, and so far, my favorite app and games are these:
Dictionary.com: useful, user friendly, offline and comprehensive. The title word, prevarication, is its today's "word of the day". I've installed another dictionary too, it's called wordbook, but the former is better.
Angry Birds: I don't wanna brag about its addictiveness, and I don't think I'm addicted to it, but it's very cool and interesting.
Fieldrunners: Interesting point about this game and angry birds is that I've seen my frowned playing them on their iPod touch or iPhones. The disappointing thing about all these games is that they're in the same level which some years ago flash games were. I mean they don't use multitouch function properly. Maybe there are good multitouch games, but I haven't played any.
Wurdle: It was so absurd that I changed its settings so that three letter words wouldn't count. It's better now, but sometimes I make a word that I don't know the meaning of it.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
4. Politics
4. Politics
3 Jan 2011, 1 AM
Adding a new item to list of mass opiates, here comes politics.
The point is that democracy does not work. I don't mean that there should be dictatorship, but direct voting system doesn't lead to an effective election. Majority of human beings are dumb-asses who will get exited over every promise and are very easy to fool and handle. They believe, they trust and they colonize. In fact they are miserable creatures who can't take any jeopardy. They are overconcerned and overworried.
And in which way it can count as an opiate? Well, what's the most obvious common point among other items? they all. Try to colonize! The point is to produce a uniform population, and politics tries in the same way, by trying to unite masses. And since every population can only get summarize by it's mean value, so this union point should be somewhere around this mean value, which I'm afraid is too low to be interesting!
Every goddamn Iranian talks about politics, every goddamn one of them, that's one of the reasons why I hate them. Those in favor of regime are idiots and it's quite typical of them to try to show some politic intelligence [which in their case means repeating state tv news headlines] in order to avoid being considered ignorant. Anyway I'm not interested in their behavior, and I dare say it would be waste of my time trying to say something that everybody knows. What I'm interested in is the behavior of the opposition. This micro-intellect sub-culture is very important for me. First of all, every last one of my friends belongs to this sub-culture, and even more important is the fact that nobody criticizes this sub-culture.
[I think I'll write a full essay criticizing them, so enough for now]
3 Jan 2011, 1 AM
Adding a new item to list of mass opiates, here comes politics.
The point is that democracy does not work. I don't mean that there should be dictatorship, but direct voting system doesn't lead to an effective election. Majority of human beings are dumb-asses who will get exited over every promise and are very easy to fool and handle. They believe, they trust and they colonize. In fact they are miserable creatures who can't take any jeopardy. They are overconcerned and overworried.
And in which way it can count as an opiate? Well, what's the most obvious common point among other items? they all. Try to colonize! The point is to produce a uniform population, and politics tries in the same way, by trying to unite masses. And since every population can only get summarize by it's mean value, so this union point should be somewhere around this mean value, which I'm afraid is too low to be interesting!
Every goddamn Iranian talks about politics, every goddamn one of them, that's one of the reasons why I hate them. Those in favor of regime are idiots and it's quite typical of them to try to show some politic intelligence [which in their case means repeating state tv news headlines] in order to avoid being considered ignorant. Anyway I'm not interested in their behavior, and I dare say it would be waste of my time trying to say something that everybody knows. What I'm interested in is the behavior of the opposition. This micro-intellect sub-culture is very important for me. First of all, every last one of my friends belongs to this sub-culture, and even more important is the fact that nobody criticizes this sub-culture.
[I think I'll write a full essay criticizing them, so enough for now]
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Poynter.org
Poynter.org
2 Jan 2011 1 AM
Just found this Poynter site, I only read one article, but it seems kinda helpful. Here is the address: http://www.poynter.org/tag/writing-tips-and-techniques/
2 Jan 2011 1 AM
Just found this Poynter site, I only read one article, but it seems kinda helpful. Here is the address: http://www.poynter.org/tag/writing-tips-and-techniques/
P.S. : last night I slept for like 3 hours, and there is just 5 hours and half left for me from tonight's, so I better sleep now.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
I hate the poor!
I hate the poor!
1 Jan 2011, 10 PM
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please note that I hate the poor, and not poverty itself!
Tonight I purchased a htc smart for my sister, and you know what? It sucks! But you know what sucks even more? These salesmen at Alaeddin shopping center. If I wanted to buy it for myself, I would ask for a sealed package and nothing more. But it wasn't for me, which means it should have guaranty and warranty and software service (oh my god, I can't believed they charged me 10 bucks for some java applications!) and sure enough a memory card, all-together boosting the price from 150 to 203 bucks. They are all frauds. I've had a good number of purchases from Paytakht shopping center and I can say I was pleased with all of them more or less, but every time I've bought something from Alaeddin, it turns out to be a nightmare. I agree they are a little bit different, but the most noticeable difference between the two of them is this social classes. In Alaeddin, not only shopkeepers are young boys from poor families, but also customers themselves are from working class, you won't be surprised at the sight of a construction worker handling the latest Nokia model (most of it's features he is not able to use, either technologically or intellectually). This last sentence led me to conclusion that quite unlikely, mobile phones have found their place among opiates of these masses! I know it's a little bit harsh to consider it an opiate, it's so much important for them that at least it's fair to say it's their [only] representative of prestige.
Opiates of masses:
1. Religion
2. Education
3. Entertainments (in fact mobile phones take place here, alongside with television, Internet and maybe some other things)
4. I'm sure there is more, but for now I can't remember any other, maybe I'll explain my theories about it in a future post.
Being a big consumer of the entertainment productions myself, it's hard to consider entertainments here, but maybe there are exceptions and conditions. More on that later.
1 Jan 2011, 10 PM
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please note that I hate the poor, and not poverty itself!
Tonight I purchased a htc smart for my sister, and you know what? It sucks! But you know what sucks even more? These salesmen at Alaeddin shopping center. If I wanted to buy it for myself, I would ask for a sealed package and nothing more. But it wasn't for me, which means it should have guaranty and warranty and software service (oh my god, I can't believed they charged me 10 bucks for some java applications!) and sure enough a memory card, all-together boosting the price from 150 to 203 bucks. They are all frauds. I've had a good number of purchases from Paytakht shopping center and I can say I was pleased with all of them more or less, but every time I've bought something from Alaeddin, it turns out to be a nightmare. I agree they are a little bit different, but the most noticeable difference between the two of them is this social classes. In Alaeddin, not only shopkeepers are young boys from poor families, but also customers themselves are from working class, you won't be surprised at the sight of a construction worker handling the latest Nokia model (most of it's features he is not able to use, either technologically or intellectually). This last sentence led me to conclusion that quite unlikely, mobile phones have found their place among opiates of these masses! I know it's a little bit harsh to consider it an opiate, it's so much important for them that at least it's fair to say it's their [only] representative of prestige.
Opiates of masses:
1. Religion
2. Education
3. Entertainments (in fact mobile phones take place here, alongside with television, Internet and maybe some other things)
4. I'm sure there is more, but for now I can't remember any other, maybe I'll explain my theories about it in a future post.
Being a big consumer of the entertainment productions myself, it's hard to consider entertainments here, but maybe there are exceptions and conditions. More on that later.
Age of Excellence
Age of Excellence
1 Jan 2011, 5 AM
1988 or some year around it is all-time best year to be born! More on that later, for now enough to say that at 12 AM I was pretty sure that by 1 AM I'm sound sleep and at 5 AM not only I've started writing a diary, but also have created a weblog for it and posted on it and all of it from my iPod touch. I'm quite exited about it, there is an option on blogger which allows you to post on your blog via email, which means every note I write on my iPod can be sent to this secret email address and it will be published automatically. All I have to do is to click "email to blog".
By the way Tusk by Fleetwood Mac just finished, this Sara track is very good, I'm going to listen to it for the third time.
1 Jan 2011, 5 AM
1988 or some year around it is all-time best year to be born! More on that later, for now enough to say that at 12 AM I was pretty sure that by 1 AM I'm sound sleep and at 5 AM not only I've started writing a diary, but also have created a weblog for it and posted on it and all of it from my iPod touch. I'm quite exited about it, there is an option on blogger which allows you to post on your blog via email, which means every note I write on my iPod can be sent to this secret email address and it will be published automatically. All I have to do is to click "email to blog".
By the way Tusk by Fleetwood Mac just finished, this Sara track is very good, I'm going to listen to it for the third time.
Notes From my iPod
1 Jan 2011, 2 AM
F# A# Infinity by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Trying to sleep in order to attend my 8 AM micro economics class, how I hate my lack of ability to control my sleeping schedules on weekends and how (secretly) I love my ignorance to what may happen afterward.
Ignorance: the key indicator of the kind who consider themselves superior, it also is the main humiliating factor on the other side.
Humiliation: oh how important it is. The humiliated trying to revenge the humiliator by the same reaction, and how could it happen when it's ignored by the opposition!? Everybody trying to humiliate in order to avoid getting humiliated.
I've had the idea of keeping a blog for myself for a long time, the only time I had one was some 5 years ago, which I never read it myself after writing it, and the only time it was read was this summer by Mehran. No blog can be honest. In the sentimental stage, no written script is intended not to be read by others, in a less sentimental stage, nobody can be honest with himself in such a concept, and in the final and the most intellectual stage, even those who are aware of the former two, think highly of themselves in such level that still their insight is not implicit in their writing. But I'll try to be as honest as I can in this diary.
Having purchased my iPod touch for a couple if days, I've realized it's my second most important property if not the most important one. And what a mistake would it be to buy something else, like that htc tattoo I was intending to buy. I can see it changing my life, just like my laptop did two years ago. After running it, I found out how cool it is to have album art embedded in albums and in search of a program which will do the task automatically for my music archive (now containing nearly 1500 albums and 18000 songs), I came to this iArt gadget which does it for lyrics too! Albeit it's results for album arts is unsatisfactory. In a miraculous 24 hours I ran it through 70% of my library, and it does work.
The earth is not a dead cold place by explosion in the sky
Not that I like it very much, but post-rock is very good as background music while writing.
I was reading Freedom before going to bed (pardon the fact that I was reading it in bed:D), reaching page 162 of 208, I can tell by now that Franzen can't maintain his work's quality till the end. In The Corrections he lost it in Denise's part, and here he loses it after Walter and Patty separate, Walter loosing his edge on a speech and Joey donating his republican money, Patty being keen on forcing her version of the story and many other flaws. And how nice it would be if I didn't take sides about it before finishing it. But it would betray my code of ethics about being honest here! Most of my opinions are formed by others! In fact most of common beliefs of the intellect is formed beforehand. In this case Complete Review was the dominator of a negative foresight on me. Rating it B, not only these Austrian guys (I think) opposed every other review, but also dared me to trust them! And by their nearly perfect resume (Cloud Atlas as a magnum opus) its hard for me to ignore them. And how nice it would be if I said my opinions are quite independent of others', but alas, the whole scenario of independency is a way to impose superiority and therefore intending to humiliate. My opinion defers from yours is a euphemism for you don't understand what I do! And how strange it is that all of this makes sense in the end. Like a genetic algorithm running for thousands of iterations. There reaches a time when you really like experimental music and dislike mainstream music, in fact I can't listen to Now xx without feeling nauseated after half an hour.
It was late in December 2009 when I finished 2666. It has remained on top of my favorites for more than one year now. [actually I wanted to say I thought it will remain my best loved book for ever, but now I doubt it, and the only reason that it may remain there is the fact that I'm no longer able to read one novel every 5 days, but I couldn't find a beautiful way to put it in words]
#End
F# A# Infinity by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Trying to sleep in order to attend my 8 AM micro economics class, how I hate my lack of ability to control my sleeping schedules on weekends and how (secretly) I love my ignorance to what may happen afterward.
Ignorance: the key indicator of the kind who consider themselves superior, it also is the main humiliating factor on the other side.
Humiliation: oh how important it is. The humiliated trying to revenge the humiliator by the same reaction, and how could it happen when it's ignored by the opposition!? Everybody trying to humiliate in order to avoid getting humiliated.
I've had the idea of keeping a blog for myself for a long time, the only time I had one was some 5 years ago, which I never read it myself after writing it, and the only time it was read was this summer by Mehran. No blog can be honest. In the sentimental stage, no written script is intended not to be read by others, in a less sentimental stage, nobody can be honest with himself in such a concept, and in the final and the most intellectual stage, even those who are aware of the former two, think highly of themselves in such level that still their insight is not implicit in their writing. But I'll try to be as honest as I can in this diary.
Having purchased my iPod touch for a couple if days, I've realized it's my second most important property if not the most important one. And what a mistake would it be to buy something else, like that htc tattoo I was intending to buy. I can see it changing my life, just like my laptop did two years ago. After running it, I found out how cool it is to have album art embedded in albums and in search of a program which will do the task automatically for my music archive (now containing nearly 1500 albums and 18000 songs), I came to this iArt gadget which does it for lyrics too! Albeit it's results for album arts is unsatisfactory. In a miraculous 24 hours I ran it through 70% of my library, and it does work.
The earth is not a dead cold place by explosion in the sky
Not that I like it very much, but post-rock is very good as background music while writing.
I was reading Freedom before going to bed (pardon the fact that I was reading it in bed:D), reaching page 162 of 208, I can tell by now that Franzen can't maintain his work's quality till the end. In The Corrections he lost it in Denise's part, and here he loses it after Walter and Patty separate, Walter loosing his edge on a speech and Joey donating his republican money, Patty being keen on forcing her version of the story and many other flaws. And how nice it would be if I didn't take sides about it before finishing it. But it would betray my code of ethics about being honest here! Most of my opinions are formed by others! In fact most of common beliefs of the intellect is formed beforehand. In this case Complete Review was the dominator of a negative foresight on me. Rating it B, not only these Austrian guys (I think) opposed every other review, but also dared me to trust them! And by their nearly perfect resume (Cloud Atlas as a magnum opus) its hard for me to ignore them. And how nice it would be if I said my opinions are quite independent of others', but alas, the whole scenario of independency is a way to impose superiority and therefore intending to humiliate. My opinion defers from yours is a euphemism for you don't understand what I do! And how strange it is that all of this makes sense in the end. Like a genetic algorithm running for thousands of iterations. There reaches a time when you really like experimental music and dislike mainstream music, in fact I can't listen to Now xx without feeling nauseated after half an hour.
It was late in December 2009 when I finished 2666. It has remained on top of my favorites for more than one year now. [actually I wanted to say I thought it will remain my best loved book for ever, but now I doubt it, and the only reason that it may remain there is the fact that I'm no longer able to read one novel every 5 days, but I couldn't find a beautiful way to put it in words]
#End
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