Genes just are, some genes more so than others, and that is all there is to it.

- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

All Your History Belong To Us!

kamyar@luna:~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s \n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head
109 ls
67 cd
63 sudo
21 wget
20 man
19 ping
16 ifconfig
14 less
14 exit
14 emacs

Old Debt

Today I found this in my wallet. I almost forgot it. I owed it to the 16 years old boy that still lives inside me.

And thank you Viju, without your help I couldn't make it.

Music Discovery

If you are into NWOBHM and Black Sabbath, check this band out.

Native Dwellers of Section mb-31

Varian Chronicles - 001

Squadmaster Varian Kloger had an uneasy feeling that he and his squad were under surveillance but all of his nuro-transplant-sensors were blank. This feeling was with him since they had landed in mb-31 sector and taking charge of protecting Eco Construction Unit. He reviewed mission briefing in his mind reader once more. There shouldn’t have been any major security threat in this sector. But nevertheless the feeling persisted. He transmitted the order to his squad to form *-chaos formation around the construction site. It was 17 hours since they have arrived. The briefing has nothing as to what was the task of EcoC unit except a vague notion of setting up an EcoCom station. And they didn’t show any sign of progress which was unusual in itself. Kloger was about to question the unit leader that suddenly it happened.

He couldn’t believe what his enhanced neurosensors showed him. The whole landscape before him was changing. The lush tropical view was transforming into glowing sight of what he could recognize as a huge ancient building. And it was not just visual; he got same readings in full spectrum, from IR to UV. His squad members and EcoC unit workers were actually disintegrating before him. One by one all of them were going off his sensors. He was anticipating the same fate for himself but all that he could sense was a resonating inertial vibration. And then the next moment it was total oblivion.

Quest for Questions: Part I

One of the things that I learned in my life is that searching for the answers is a waste of time. It's not because they are unattainable but simply because once you know what the question is the answer is pretty obvious. So my approach to learning a new subject is to find the initial question that it tries to answer. One of the advantages of this approach is the fresh perspective that you get. Sometimes you discover that there is more a better answer or even the initial question is in itself flawed or short-sighted (I refrain myself from putting some OOP related example here ;) ) .

Of course the metaphor of question and answer may be a little misleading since it can be applied to many aspects of life. For instance, what we desire and hope for, all of our dreams and goals in life are actually just questions that we ask the universe that surround us (or to be more precise, the universe that at any given time appears to surround us) and those who achieve their goals are the ones who know exactly what they want and more importantly why they want it.