Humour and the Blasts

Here are 2 of the funniest cartoons I have seen on the Blasts:

This one from the AsianAge:

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While this one is from DNA

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It seems some of you didn't get it, that the thought I had last expressed was a sarcastic one. I wrote that coz some sill hack would soon claim some numerical reason for the bomb blasts happening on 11/7/2006, and I wanted to pre-emept that.

And low and behold, I got two emails claiming exactly that.

The first one claimed:

11 minutes 7 places 8 blasts.
Tuesday was the 11^th day of the 7^th month, in the year 2006; and we know the numerical root of 2006 is 2+0+0+6=8

while another claimed that :

The blasts happened on 11/7/2006; Now 1+1+7+2+6=17; 1+7=8;
now we know that 8 is the number of Saturn, which brings along calamity and destruction; Further more 8 will explain why bad things happen on the 26^th; becaue 2+6=8 [refer to my earlier post: 26, The bad luck day!]

The thing with numerology, and especial this hindsight kind of numerology is that once you have a series of random numbers, you can definitely find some complicated formula which will fit that data. I'll start believing in numerology, once they effectively predict a future event, and it happens exactly when they claim it will happen.

Mumbai Train Blasts

So Mumbai now suffers from Terrorist attacks after the onslaught of Rain and hooliganism in the matter of 10 days.
They have attacked trains, which as you know are the lifeline of Mumbai. They have not only been well planned, but well executed as well.

If you look at it, they are quite different then the 1993 bomb-blasts. Those were targeted at prestigious places like Air India Building and Passport office.

This time the bastards have acted smartly. They have targeted those places which are frequented by the common man. They want to spread panic, terror and mayhem among the ordinary citizens of Mumbai.

Think about it: As an ordinary person how many times do you go to the Air India building and the BSE? Wouldn't you spend more time in the trains everyday.

With these blasts wouldn't you worry a little bit before taking a train? But the sad thing is that you have no choice. There are very few people who can travel by car or bus to work. About 5.5 Million people travel by train everyday, and some of those who left today morning, won't be reaching home tonight. Really sad to think about it. May god give strength to the families of the victims.

A totally inappropriate thought now:
Today is Tuesday, If you look at one of my earlier posts, http://dev3.blogspot.com/2005/08/26-bad-luck-day.html
Most of the incidents mentioned, also happened on Tuesdays
A lot to think about tonight.

Tags: Mumbai, Bomb blasts, terror, trains, terrorists

Feynman

Whenever we think of something, we often have thought along similar lines before, and we extrapolate that thought process to solve this new problem. Other people might call it 'Assuming'. Nothing wrong with it, except for the fact that this thinking becomes sort of mechanical and very often we do not understand the problem in a fundamental way. Feynman was never like that. He would like to understand a problem from a fundamental view in a sort of unconscious way and he would often come up with a totally new and better way of looking at the problem. His thought process was a very unique one, because he refused to have any preconceived notions and assumptions, looking only at the relevant factors. For example look at this link:

If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft

let me quote to show you how he thinks:

Interviewer: I mean, why are there round ones at all? Is there some particular value to having round ones?

Feynman: Yes. Round covers are used when the hole they are covering up is also round. It'’s simplest to cover a round hole with a round cover.

If you have more time, look at this link:

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine

Tags: Feynman, thinking, though process