Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that the more accurately you try to measure the position of a particle, the less accurately you can measure its velocity, and vice versa. It is not that the particle itself does not have an exact position or velocity; rather, the act of observation itself is associated with such uncertainty.
A strange thought struck me this week. The more sure I feel about where I stand, the less sure I feel about where I am going. If I manage to decide upon where I am indeed going with my life, I feel insecure about where I stand right now in the context of that goal.
Profound, or profoundly stupid? I don't know.
Cheers,
Prashanth.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Monday, November 06, 2006
Table for one, please
It happened again.
I walked into a restaurant, and said those words. And they had to ask, with raised eyebrow, "Just one?"
What is it with these Americans? If you have lunch alone, is there something wrong with you? I'm a poor Indian graduate student... this is hardly unusual for me, anywhere.
In India, if you saw a guy working late in his lab on a friday night, you would think, "That's one hard-working guy." Here, if you see the same, you're supposed to think, "Loser." The culture conditions you to think like that.
Wake up, America. You can't complain about offshoring when party culture rules work culture in your midst.
Btw, Jorge Cham knows where to hit the humour nail:
Say Cheese,
Prashanth.
I walked into a restaurant, and said those words. And they had to ask, with raised eyebrow, "Just one?"
What is it with these Americans? If you have lunch alone, is there something wrong with you? I'm a poor Indian graduate student... this is hardly unusual for me, anywhere.
In India, if you saw a guy working late in his lab on a friday night, you would think, "That's one hard-working guy." Here, if you see the same, you're supposed to think, "Loser." The culture conditions you to think like that.
Wake up, America. You can't complain about offshoring when party culture rules work culture in your midst.
Btw, Jorge Cham knows where to hit the humour nail:
Say Cheese,Prashanth.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
I'll never understand...
- How I can be an expert on cooking in theory (thanks to a lifetime's worth of influence of Tamil Nadu's foremost expert in the field) but suck at it in practice... big time!
- How I can consider it a compliment to be described thus: "Prashanth is a nice guy but very, very weird."
- Why there is a Northern Blot, a Southern Blot, and a Western Blot but no Eastern Blot. And the fact that none of those blots have anything do with the cardinal directions (they are names of experimental techniques in biology, for those who are wondering what on Earth I'm talking about).
- Why I do a lot of day-dreaming but little of regular, ol' fashioned night dreaming.
- How I can clench my teeth stoically at physical pain but cry like a baby when watching a sentimental movie.
- How I can be a systematic and analytical thinker when it comes to academics but keep messing up the mundane matters in life.
*sigh* What can I say, that's me.
- How I can consider it a compliment to be described thus: "Prashanth is a nice guy but very, very weird."
- Why there is a Northern Blot, a Southern Blot, and a Western Blot but no Eastern Blot. And the fact that none of those blots have anything do with the cardinal directions (they are names of experimental techniques in biology, for those who are wondering what on Earth I'm talking about).
- Why I do a lot of day-dreaming but little of regular, ol' fashioned night dreaming.
- How I can clench my teeth stoically at physical pain but cry like a baby when watching a sentimental movie.
- How I can be a systematic and analytical thinker when it comes to academics but keep messing up the mundane matters in life.
*sigh* What can I say, that's me.
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