1.31.2013

Sometimes, too close

This cartoon brought me memories of my mother. After receiving call she was dead, rushed home  to find her reanimated. For the first time since her death I dreamed of her. She was shouting I was late. In life she had never ever shouted at me.

1.29.2013

Touring regrets

Have been wondering for a long time why do retired people spend so much money touring the world. What good is seeing all this cultural monuments when one is one step away from the grave. Will they be able to take with them the wonderful images. And now, myself taking online classes at Coursera.


1.27.2013

Claim to fame (revisited)


Decided to take a look at the Game Theory class offered by Coursera. Just to check if they changed the odds in the Prisoners' Dilemma. Figured out now, that my claim to fame (best ever MIT Harvard score). was due to my complete misunderstanding of the strategy. This explains everything.  Of of all those who know me, who would be surprised by that.

1.24.2013

What part should I play?

Today, on line at Starbucks this thirty something man right in front of me was carrying a huge balloon.  It was floating right at the level of my head and as the guy was turning around, the balloon was knocking my head. What mask should I have put?  Was I supposed to be amused? or was I supposed to sternly ask this guy to watch  his parafenalia? Decided to cast a cold eye and order my grande....dark.

1.22.2013

Tragicomedy at nyt

Or is it a farce. Whatever the production values or interpretation  or even  Her personal views, the reviewer should have known that the comedy in tragicomedy refers to a happy ending, rather than amusing elements.

1.21.2013

Dixit

There is not much to add. Precisely so. But what would be the way to rebuild the economy? Is the inequality too big to be felled by some thinkers.

1.20.2013

Rhinoceros

Don't understand post election statistics and comments. Electorate has changed? America is only getting older and the there will be more and more voters post this or that. More fodder for the tea party. In political standing sixty is not the new forty (or viceversa). The country will not renew as we are all becoming rhinoceros. Memories of Grateful Dead concerts will fade. Oh Ionesco! The last human left on this continent will be a teapartysan - speaking Spanish, maybe.

1.19.2013

Imagining love

So much noise. What would one expect from football aficionados?  So the man was in love with Lennay Kekua. He had not seen her, but she had answered his twits. They had a strong relationship.  It turned out she never existed. Wouldn't this be extremely upsetting? Most of us had an imaginary lover. Most of us have an imaginary life. From the chivalrous Don Quixote down....
Well, this was a hoax played on him. Although he had never touched her, this rough football player called her his love.  For him she was real. What  Manti Te'o imagined was ethereal love.

metaphormose

We were going to be poets. All of us.

1.13.2013

Calm

This friend taught me yesterday the secret of falling asleep. Go to bed and lie all stretched. Do not think about anything. Especially about the past, the mistakes of your past. Do not think about the uncertain tomorrow. And if you can do not think about the present.

1.04.2013

French elephants

What is it with Russia adopting French elephants - Brigitte Bardot and Gerard Depardieu? The French Marianne and the French every-guy, now idols disfigured by old age looking for a place to die. And  why is Russia trying to piss everybody with its adoption policies. And all this reminds me of the Russian born French writer and great personage -Romain Gary with his Racines du ciel - the novel about freedom and elephants.

1.01.2013

Green side...


Starting a New Year

I believe one needs to start a new year wearing something new. Also drinking champagne at midnight. Not sure though if the champagne needs to be an expensive one.  And always make an impossible resolution. This year - keep my desk clean.