Saturday, May 31, 2008
Iron Man!
Wow!! What an awesome, inspiring movie! It makes me so proud to be an engineer! And I'm soooo glad that they picked Robert Downey Jr. if he can bounce back from all the trouble that he has been in, then I can bounce back from my poor academic record... :-P
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Kravitz understands me... thinks/feels like me...
Acoustic version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P750Xyt6uU&feature=related
Commercial version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCpu20WxF4k&feature=related
As long as I'm breathing... I'll be waiting..
The conviction that I feel on a particular subject scares me. I'm a commitment-phobe of the nth degree and the fear that this decision induces in me is akin to riding down a really steep slope on a bike with failed brakes...
Contrary to everything my friends/family may think about me I take a lot of risks in my life. I have put money, figuratively, on people/ideas that no one would trust. I did it because I believed the payoff would be worth the risk and right now I feel the cost of inaction is higher than that of action. So, I'm taking the meager action that my situation permits and I am hoping that the celestial gears will click and that he who needs to wait will wait.. and see me when I need him to.
It is tough to manage or come to grips with a situation where all your efforts/hopes/desires/dreams really don't count. In controls speak, its when you let your system with marginally stable poles launch into its response with the hope that your extremely low gain inputs will affect the system and guide the poles to stability eventually.
I believe that if nothing else, courage of conviction will give you that peace of mind which lack of action never could. So, I hope that the universe doesn't hate me enough to thwart my machinations and that it lets me win just a couple of the next few rounds and lets me be happy for a short interval of time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P750Xyt6uU&feature=related
Commercial version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCpu20WxF4k&feature=related
As long as I'm breathing... I'll be waiting..
The conviction that I feel on a particular subject scares me. I'm a commitment-phobe of the nth degree and the fear that this decision induces in me is akin to riding down a really steep slope on a bike with failed brakes...
Contrary to everything my friends/family may think about me I take a lot of risks in my life. I have put money, figuratively, on people/ideas that no one would trust. I did it because I believed the payoff would be worth the risk and right now I feel the cost of inaction is higher than that of action. So, I'm taking the meager action that my situation permits and I am hoping that the celestial gears will click and that he who needs to wait will wait.. and see me when I need him to.
It is tough to manage or come to grips with a situation where all your efforts/hopes/desires/dreams really don't count. In controls speak, its when you let your system with marginally stable poles launch into its response with the hope that your extremely low gain inputs will affect the system and guide the poles to stability eventually.
I believe that if nothing else, courage of conviction will give you that peace of mind which lack of action never could. So, I hope that the universe doesn't hate me enough to thwart my machinations and that it lets me win just a couple of the next few rounds and lets me be happy for a short interval of time...
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