Saturday, December 20, 2008

Somnambulist

I pray for peace but it refuses,
The alarm wins after six snoozes.
Body gets bathed and the face gets shaven,
In a rush to catch the shuttle at seven.

The sun is out and the skies are bright,
But the sway of night still holds deep,
I hear the bells ring in a distant temple,
And I keep on walking in my sleep.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; the soul that rises with us, our life's star.
~Illusions, Richard Bach

17 comments:

Ashish said...

and people who sleep deeply are awaken by the cranky noise of motor outside ...jokes apart ...this ordinary soul cud not relate the quote of bach and your tract ....

Shwetank said...

@Ashish: Logon to hgtp://askBABA.com.
For the unitiated hgtp stands for hyper gyaan transfer protocol. :D

Floyd said...

Are you not sleep walking now?

Shwetank said...

@Floyd: All sleep no walk :)

Floyd said...

Yeah, all sleep and cycling!

Shwetank said...

Sleepy cycling, cyclic sleeping ;)

Stupidosaur said...

Good to know you have a sleep cycle.

Is it annual? Semi-annual?

Wake up!

Especially since your word verification says anarator, narate something.

you can't argue anarator is opposite of nar(r)ator with a typo.
Its English. So its a narator with two typos

Shwetank said...

It's a cycle with undefined frequency. BTW if Asin can be the opposite of sin, anarator can also be the opposite of narrator. Poetic liberty you may say ;)

Stupidosaur said...

Sin? Asin?

Acot*Acot + Asin+Asin = 1.

Never mind. 1 is also the number of followers you now have. C'mon man! write your next awesome post already!

You must! Especially to celebrate the fact that my word verification is

logradm

Stupidosaur said...

I think word verification is not as innocent and random as it looks. Its a testing or trial version of a far deeper AI project Google is working on. At least it definitely uses a mishmash of (maybe less important) technologies that go into the making of that big bad AI.

The 'random' text is always very very context specific, though in a very oblique way.

You commented with 'sin','frequency', 'opposite' ...all math. And then suddenly google churns up 'logradm'!

As if that were not enough, word veri for current comment is 'erdso'.

Most people would have missed seeing any relation here and though it to be perfectly random. But luckily, just yesterday I read about a Hungarian Mathematician Erdos on wikipedia after a number of references were made about him in this webcomic:

http://xkcd.com/

BTW the comic is hilarious and brilliant! I finished the entire thing from current till the beginning in last 3 days.

Stupidosaur said...

'fletua'

why?

Stupidosaur said...

tedgesa

:P

Stupidosaur said...

mingst

Stupidosaur said...

disatik

Shwetank said...

@Stupidosaur: Your comments are better than my posts. One more reason for my laziness :)
xkcd...Ventured there once, came out with a few fused neurons (If at all they ever existed in my head), I guess it's not for lesser mortals like us.

BTW what do you make of "plizem"?

Shwetank said...

Damn! Just realized it's almost an year since my last post. Soon...pretty soon!

Stupidosaur said...

Lets take the conspiracy theory forward.

Google Word Veri AI perfectly understood its expose in my comment.

So just like any intelligent crook, it tried to pooh pooh my comment by calling it all 'gas' through next word 'fletua'.

Still I was undeterred, so it repeated the same technique, but this time decided to psych me out even further like a blackmailer who unexpectedly brings confidential rabbit out of the hat! How? It told me that it knew the place I worked in earier based on the IP address of where I used to login to blogger from! So it gave me a fuddled up Ted gas!

Or maybe it even knows that the current pace I work has an employee named Ted Gass!

By now it was really enjoying the sadistic game with me! It knew it was trying to psych me out. It
was trying to mess with my Mind. It felt as happily evil Ming The Merciless. So out came 'mingst' followed by a modification of 'sadistic'!

"plizem" was meant for you and you alone. Words from word veri are like words of the Oracle of The Matrix. So only you will be able to make sense out of that one.
;)