Thursday, April 27, 2023
The connectome
Lesson from Chitkara sir, which really stuck on me beyond school study.
If you really want to understand something, push that thing to the limits, take it to the far ends. (I might have rephrased)
I apply this more to philosophy and systems than to solving maths problems today.
But really, thinking further and adding inputs from another teacher Marty Anderson on the topic of EEM - Extended Enterprise Management. (This is really nothing but ERP growing outside of your own organisation and into your vendor and supply chain.)
One might feel that the entire world is an EEM waiting to happen. Our work is to quietly connect everything, every organization, every group, every association (this is happening as we speak via internet) creating perfect channels that share perfect information, and thus doing the perfect thing for the greater good.
ChatGPT's take on life
Oh, in the depths of the soul's despair,
Where sorrows lay, and the heart is bare,
Morbidity lingers, ever there,
A pall that drapes in the very air.
A purposeless existence, so forlorn,
Where dreams and hopes are ripped and torn,
And loneliness doth leave us worn,
With a yearning for a love that died before being born.
The days go by, with no delight,
In endless circles, without respite,
With burdens heavy, and no end in sight,
A weight that crushes with all its might.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Nightmare life
Thinking 'Was I the monster in there?'
- KC
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Stubborn Penguin
And somehow that just seems like a lie
Of clear skies, with frozen feet
I do imagine and I cry
I'd like to soar the heights unknown
And let bygones, go by
I have webbed feet and wings 'no-meat'
It seems like fair aint Thy
If only I could reach that far high,
I would ask Thee why
I seek adventure and I'm ready
To get away from here. And why??
Cause I know what I want and
I aint got not what I need to thrive
So bound and stuck.
The seagulls make me shy
"Dive down below and you will see"
A wise one one day said passing by
Why webs are webs, and flaps are flaps
Adventure is not always far away.
- Karan Checker
The Devil brought us flowers
Treasures, jewels and dreams in coffer
The fallen one is the one indulgent
In the fruits of life, so abundant
Godmen preach of 'Holy' restraint
Yet loot and plunder, the blue ones taint.
Commoners fearful of Divine wrath
As God has named the seven shames; Froth!
If that were true, oh wise minister
Did the devil bring us flowers? Is that sinister?
- Karan Checker
Friday, January 21, 2011
Once gods walked..
Friday, April 2, 2010
Gravity got me down
Thursday, January 21, 2010
A Psalm of Life
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
"Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us further than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act -- act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Breathe - Pink Floyd
Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave, but don't leave me
Look around
Choose your own ground
Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be
Run, rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down
It's time to dig another one
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
A love affair with dew drops
Like a diamond I smile
Monday, July 6, 2009
Blind moth
Flutter all its kin around globes of light
The ever so gravitational, the globes of light
Flutter all night, until the globes no more shine
And the tired pair of wings retire to soulless sleep
The blind moth flutters, it knows not where it goes
The blind moth flutters, amongst the butterflies
The blind moth doesn't flutter around the globes of light
The blind moth doesn't flutter around the globes of light
- Karan Checker
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
True treasure
you can see through them
Like a book without words.
Sharing silence is difficult for most
Sad or happy moments
they are there to say, "Prost!"
The dictionary constrained
there is no words like lie or cheat
With their support
the world you can beat
FRIENDS
This is to all my friends who have stood by me.. and also those who have faded away.
- Karan Checker
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Greatness vs. Happiness
Please read her blog at Greatness vs. Happiness
Gloomy Sunday
Here are the lyrics:
Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows, I live with are numberless
Little white flowers will never awaken you
Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts of ever returning you
Would they be angry, if I thought of joining you?
Gloomy Sunday
Gloomy is Sunday, with shadows I spend it all
My heart and I have decided to end it all
Soon there'll be candles and prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep, let them know that I'm glad to go
Death is no dream for in death I'm caressing you
With the last breath of my soul I'll be blessing you
Gloomy Sunday
Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep in the deep of my heart here
Darling I hope, that my dream never haunted you
My heart is telling you how much I wanted you
Gloomy Sunday
*** This song when first written was just the first two paragraphs. After the controversy the song had sparked, the third paragraph was later added. Read it again.
If you want to read about it on Wikipedia here is a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday
Gloomy Sunday
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
From Shell to Plate
And pour me out
On a hot molten plate
On a pool and they fry
They play with me and hurt me
Ruthless! they hit me
Jab me and slash me
I just lay there and I dry
They sprinkle my wounds
With the powder of pain
It goes right within - the dark spice
A tear in my eye
I'm helpless and deprived
I need my chance to survive
'If I had the wings'
I would fly
- Karan Checker
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
GLORY
Meager mortals, we die
Icarus! He flew high, and lost his wings
Why is it that we remember him?
Did his fall make him immortal?
Or was it his flight?
- Karan Checker