And they lived happily forever!

Oct 25 2009 - The average amount of time a youngster spends on a computer is almost half of the total time he is awake. Thanks to the internet.

2015 AD - Work from home - Commuting to and from work became a big overhead. People started working from home full-time.

2025 AD - Play from home/Shop from home/"Do what you want" from home - There was no need to take the pain of going out to do anything. Everything was just a click away.

2040 AD - Most of the menial work human beings do are replaced by machines/computers - ATM's, Gas stations, Automated cars, and fully computerized shops, hotels, post offices, - you name it.

2100 AD - Slowly more intelligent machines replace human beings in other intellectual professions - teaching, research, art ...

2200 AD - The only work human beings have been doing - inventing new machines, is also done by machines now. There is absolutely no job that human beings can do but machines can't.

2300 AD - Machines will do anything and everything. Only activites human beings do are eat, sleep, reproduce. (remember caveman?)

2500 AD - Eating food was such a waste of time. A new vaccine was invented that would be administered as soon as a baby is born, so that it will never get the "hunger disease" in its life. Without human beings eating, he is not able to tolerate other disturbances like plants and animals on earth. Slowly all other plants and animals are "made to go extinct". Digestive system and the related organs slowly become vestigial.

After a few hundred years - Reproduction is the only physical activity that human beings do. Someone comes up with a bright idea - What if I can simulate the "effect" in human brain without having to go through so much physical stress. People started liking the idea and eventually just like everyone fell a prey for facebook and twitter, they adopt this one universally too.

A few hundred years passed - Wait a min... if you are still thinking of human beings as a species with a pair of limbs, a pair of hands and a head over a trunk, you are wrong. They don't have hands or legs any more. They have not been using them for so many hundred years. They dont have mouth or ears. They interact with other human beings through neuro-transponders. They just have a brain (to sense) , a lung (to breathe). The size of a human being is 1 cubic feet almost like a soccer ball.

After a few hundred years the human beings started thinking - "why should I strain myself breathing and sensing all stupid stuff around me?". Slowly they became even more lazy that their only two organs - brain and lungs also became vestigial. After sometime, the rest of the (so called?) human beings get sedimented into a new form of rock called the homo-sapien rocks. And the machines lived happily for ever throwing homo-sapien rocks at each other.

Vadivelu Interview

For all those hardcore Vadivelu fans:

Interview Part1

Interview Part2

Droste Effect!

All those who love recursively designed structures would love this - its a recursive type of picture that infinitely diminishes into a smaller version of its own, unending as it seems to the viewer!

Well, I had seen dozens of email-forwards and mails carrying such with such images that demand a high visual processing by your brain to understand them, but never knew there was a term for it. Thanks to my reader for letting me know.

Read more on this: 50 Stunning Examples of the Droste Effect

Doordarshan

Doordarshan has had a special appeal to me, especially because of the fact that I grew up watching this national channel, which was the only one available during those days (late 1980s and early 1990s). In particular, my bonding towards these DD channels was more stronger that others, I grew up at a place where cable TV was clearly out of reach and I had no choice but to savour the DD1 and DD2 (metro). But, looking back at it, in a way that was fun. I seldom have the same excitement on watching television channels now, infact its not even a fraction of what I used to hold as a kid. The world has metamorphosized and we now only flip-channels. Its a race that all channels have gotten in, to show stuff that would catch you eye as you hurriedly button away to the end of the list. If a channel gave you even five minutes of boredom, they ran the risk of being completely ignored for rest of the day or worse-even being blacklisted so that nobody in the entire family watched it again :) Back then, the case was different, all you had were the twin DD channels with their regional equivalents of course, these entertained the people (whether they liked it or not). But, the entertainment and knowledge-sharing it provided was complete - we had news, movies, documentaries, mythological soaps, advertisements, thrillers, detective serials, educational programmes, sports telecast, so on..

This post is to reminiscence of all those moments, all those good old commercials/serials/theme music tracks that drag me back to those days. My personal favorites were Amul Surabhi (I love the intro music track), Rangoli (the programme was on Sunday and I woke up listening to its songs), Chandrakanta (the thrilling fantasy series), Sri Krishna (I never missed a single episode, this was the best of Ramanand Sagar's creations!) and so on..

These are some randomly picked up stuff I found on youtube that took me back to that age and I felt like archiving them. Hope you do enjoy them as well!

Doordarshan Signature

Doordarshan AD

DD News Intro

Mile Sur Mera Tumhara

Baje Sargam

Vijayi Vishwa Tiranga Pyara

Jungle book title song

Duck Tales

Alif Laila

Surabhi

Bharat Ek Khoj

Oshin

Chandrakanta (music track alone, could n't locate original video)

Sri Krishna serial Title Song

Shaktimaan Title Song

Om Namah Shivay Serial Title Song

Jai Hanuman Serial Title Song

Cadburys AD

Dairy Milk AD

Bajaj AD

Dhara AD

Asian Paints

Nescafe AD

Tipu Sultan Intro

Vico Vajratanti

Vico Turmeric Cream

Complan AD

Parle-G Commercial

Splendor Commercial

Fevicol Oldest AD

Feviquick AD

Titan Commercial

Lifebuoy AD

Doodh AD

Doordarshan Nostalgic Moments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E78RcIFQCRc&feature=related

Everybody wants a Guitar :)

Ek baar ek aadmi ne badi tapasya ki.

Shivji khush.

Prakat hue.

Bole.

Puttar maang ...

maang kya chahiye tujhey !

Bhakth utha ...

Bola - "Shivji! Mujhey to aap sirf ek guitar de do !"

Shivji bole - "kaisa gadha hai ?"

Unhone kaha - "puttar! tuney badi achchi tapsya ki hai, kuch bada maang!"

Woh fir bola - "nahi ji, mujhey to aap guitar hi do!"

Shivji ne phir samajhaya - "abey .. kuch dhang ka maang ...!"

Par wo to ada hi hua tha ... bola "nahi ... aap to mujhey guitar hi do !"

Shivji usey bade pyaar se khopch me lekar samjhane lage, bole "yaar tu kuch aur maang.. guitar

na maang..."

Woh bola - "nahi nahi nahi !! mujhey sirf guitar hi chahiye!!"

abb shivji gussey main aa gaye ... boley ,(scroll down)

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"Saale!! agar guitar mere paas hota to main ye damaru kyun bajata.."

Wingsuit base jumping

"Wing Suit Flying is the sport of flying the human body through the air using a special jumpsuit, called a wingsuit, that shapes the human body into an airfoil which can create lift. The wingsuit creates the airfoil shape with fabric sewn between the legs and under the arms. It is also knownby the public as a birdman suit or squirrel suit" - Courtesy: Wikipedia

From bungee jumping to sky-diving, this video revealed to me something that could be the craziest ever attempt by a person. This is the heights of risk a person can take, but its just amazing!!

Watch it guys -

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.