This Week - 7th December 2009

This week has not been too much interesting for me.Too much drinking (almost 4 out of 5 working days) & freak outs.Now it has become a personal agenda of highest priority to cut down on that count.Anyway's,even in this freak week there were some interesting things that caught my attention.

2012 The Movie

Last Tuesday I managed to see the movie "2012" finally..
There are a couple of reasons for which I wanted to see this movie.The first and foremost is the theme of the movie.The prediction of apocalypse in 2012 as per Mayan calendar becoming true and human race is struggling for it's existence.Mayan civilization and particularly their astronomy and calendar always awed me with mystery.On top of that it was a Roland Emmerich(of Independence Day and Day After Tomorrow fame) movie.I was eager to watch how the master of disaster genre portrays the doomsday.

Why Will I Go To A Community/Club Event

I have been part of various communities and clubs in Kolkata for quite sometime now.Be it a cine club or some technology community events (at least once in a year) is part of the regular program.Sometimes we see a very good turnaround of the members/audiences and sometimes that is not the case.For the past few days I am just trying to find out what are the possible circumstances under which a person will come to this kind of gathering and why we normally miss some of them in these events:

Knowing - By Design Or By Chance

Recently Nicholas Cage starrer Knowing has hit the theatres.I came to know about this movie from my Flixter updates.After reading the storyline I just can't wait to watch this movie.Not sure,when'll that happen.It deals with a very basic question of philosophy and science that has been a constant source of debate among scholars.To me a constant source of quest.Are we here today as part of grand scheme designed by some divine force or just by chance?Let me quickly try to explain the two school of thoughts.

Music Wood Coalition Project - Green Guitars

I think guitar is the most popular among all musical instruments in the world.Unlike most of my observations and statements this is not backed by any well researched (googled so to say) data.I think this way, because I feel so, of course based on my small world of friends and foes.Guitar is the instrument I love to listen and my inability to play it is one of the topmost items in the list of my have nots.Till date I have never thought about what impact it's manufacturing process can have on our environment or how it's raw materials are obtained.But today an article in Scientific American changed my perception about this.

Intelligence Amplification over Web

Yesterday I bought a copy of Richard Dooling's "Rapture For The Geeks:When AI outsmarts IQ".This book discusses about technological singularity which is one of my topics of interest.The idea of machine intelligence surpassing that of their human creators seemed interesting to me when I first saw Terminator back in school days.The term technological singularity was not known to me then.I have not yet completed reading Mr. Dooling's book but the discussion on Intelligence Amplification in context of Web 2.0 helped me to understand the term in newer and better way.