Railway lines have an ambiguous familiarity I can't seem to completely account for. The journey's themselves; across the country; always meant you were heading for an exciting holiday or finally making your way home after one. Using one out of necessity is alien to me, and I presume it stems from that. But looking at the track itself today, with its assortment of anonymous rejects: bottle caps, expired tickets, a multitude of cigarette buds, well, I'm roughly amused. Nostalgia is just as new to me, and although I don't particularly condone the memory of India based on garbage and inefficiency, it is the little things that I notice, and that I take away from as memories.
The 11:44 train back home is an empty one. It's the last train. In comparison, my stint in Bombay saw me using trains as everyday transport, and the last train there (roughly 4AM) is absolutely packed. This city really seems to shut down comfortably before midnight. . So what's mindless banter doing on Random Lines... what its supposed to.

Between the odd and the same; you've gotta be rooting for the odd, don't you?
- Spanglish

No Great design is realised without conviction. Conviction my friend, is the absolute unwillingness to succumb to chains, constrains and mindless conventions. A "No-trade offs" mindset is the single biggest attitudinal driver in breakthrough success. A problem is not a problem but an opportunity to find a solution, it is a juicy challenge and not a reason to give in and settle for less.
Humm... I read this somewhere...

6 months

He walked over to the sink and poured himself a glass of water, downing it in two gulps, as if it had been beer or whisky.
- Neil Astley

It's been 6 months. 6 really diverse and terribly exciting months. And funnily it seems almost in vain to try and sum it up or anything. I really miss my bike though. Figured it would be nice to have a picture on the front page of the site. Make me feel better for a while. Need to get back on the open road though. And can feel the blood in my veins, disappointed as they return to the heart. But alas, it shall be a while.

Got heavily into 3D again. And completely blew everything I'd done before haywire. Working with the unreal engine to produce a mod. Potential is huge and much seems to be working out. So all feels fantastic.

The future looks full.

Artificial Intelligence

Everytime I sit down with Flash and try and push it around and try something new, I'm joyfully surprised. Flash is such a fascinating software. I wish Macromedia were paying me to say this but it really is a great product and a couple of days ago I went down the rabbit hole of Mathematics. I attempted (and succeded) in creating boids. Artificial Life. Well a start anyway.
Boids were developed by Craig Reynolds and I haven't done anything revolutionary. Its based on the flock motion of birds and simulates basic desires and purpose. my attempt is at http://www.therandomlines.com/boids.html
The great part about Flash is the fact that it handles advanced graphics. And the maths is only the beginning. Actionscript is a powerful language; object orientation is slow; but it has its moments and all in all it's a beautiful ride.

Reach out... say hello.

Language is such a beautiful thing!

1984 (George Orwell) was a revealing book to me. Its been so long since I've read it and I keep seeing so many things around me that represent that suppression of idea. One of the most striking to me is language. I don't speak too many languages, but English is as good an example as any. SMS has required that this shrink to some extent. Efficiency is the call of the generation and everything to prevent loss of precious time.

But interestingly, there is a movement that strives on; its ages old but it cant really die - slang. Oh glorious slang. Slang has forever existed to prove that it really doesn't matter what you say so long as your message is conveyed to the listener: its perfectly alright! Isn't that good shit. Doesn't it beat the crap outta the chicken. Being able to rock up, shout a round of drinks and camboosle your way through the day, simply means that every word can have infinite meaning. Even made up ones. In person ofcourse body-language makes this even more so!

So say hi, talk to people, stop being rigorous and clinical, talk a walk and chat when you're bored. Make life interesting.

Wow, this turned into a speech! Damn.

BLEDY Creative Heads get a "life"

man whats with creative heads and other apparent makeshift heads pressing their opinions or rather the client's "wants" down on us.... if you are above 38[playing it safe:)] please pretty please sit at home and design don't bring your stupid yesteryear inputs down on us like the ten commandments of design.... choots....
okay have a nice day everyone ;)

The All new...

So... finally. After being on a temporary site for a while, we've gone live. - if you're not reading this off there already - www.therandomlines.com
This is real exciting, cause this site takes quite a bit of the dream and makes it happen...
This site is the most dynamic we've had so far. This blog for instance, comes straight off blogger (thank you google). Which makes it really easy to add to and update. Thats great fun.
Also, I've delved a good amount into php and xml with flash so the work section is also drag and drop updatable. This feels good.

Its been 4 months is sunny australia, and its already hit 3 degrees. But all said and done, I really cant think of a negative thing to say at all. I love this city. I love Bangalore as well. And Goa.
But from the moment I walked in here, the city just seems welcoming. Free expression finds its way everywhere and everybody's just out to have a good time.

I've hooked up with Bliss Media. Great company. Which gives me something to do with my time - productively :D
And it helped me look into server-side scripting, which is really what random lines web was waiting for.

There's a lot that random lines can be. And it will, soon, slowly, but it will.

Cheers

The Best way to describe Life is "change". I guess one can never fully understand life because its always changing, and we are not casual observers of this change; we are a very small part of it.

when you do things right, people won't be sure you did anything at all.

Lets go...

OK, I'm not completely convinced about blogging, but I'm seeing its relevance as a historical cog. It definitely is a powerful medium of social expression. Anyway, that's a whole different discussion.
I'm reading about Philosophy in popular culture. Because 'philosopher' is not a profession, at least not a popular one, I think it's become merely an academic pursuit, as opposed to common sense. Philosophy is a little simpler than that.
In particular, the book I'm reading deals with Philosophy in Superheroes: their intent, controlling and misusing power, being able to wield it at all and a lot of different things.
What's a good thing to look at is the fact that we're talking about a fictional world here. So it was created by a person. And it's surprising how much real life wisdom you can draw from a story. Now, apart from obvious things like morals, the book delves into much deeper aspects of unintentional truths than can be drawn from the way a character acts under certain pressures, etc. I'm not going to go into it. But is it possible that we're ingrained with more knowledge than we know. And can we therefore find it within ourselves.
There's lots of implications. Collective memory for one.

Reference: Superheroes and Philosophy (edited by Tom Morris)

Blogging sucks...

Majorly presumptious this stupid blogging thing.
I don't feel like putting my thoughts online for the world to see. Whats the big deal. The damn thing is fooling me into doing it right now! bah!!!

Life is good....

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
peace...
guess those should have been small letters...
aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!

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If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?