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This' one of my favorite strips... Anyway.. after that sombre second post, the blog needs something to cheer up...
Calvin to the rescue..

Life... Or Something Like It

Red Redding in Shawshank Redemption:

“….But that wasn't the only reason. Prison time is slow time. So you do what you can to keep going. Some fellas collect stamps. Others build matchstick houses…. It was the same reason Andy spent years shaping and polishing those rocks. The same reason he hung his fantasy girls on the wall. In prison... a man will do most anything to keep his mind occupied.”

Well…If you ask me, It’s the same reason I played minesweeper millions of times… even after reaching (almost unbeatable) scores of 2 seconds in beginner, 27 seconds intermediate and 101s in expert. The same reason I played 5000+ games of FreeCell … the same reason I continue to play Tetris and Trivia… The same reason I read all the novels I can get my hands on…The same reason why I watched 700 odd movies (regardless of the fact that the frequency of even reasonably watch-able ones only is about 1 in 25, the good ones are even rarer)…watched some 15 different serials (everything from Friends, House MD to Avatar)… The same goddamn reason why the whole bloody lan is drained and empty…

They say that an idle mind is a devil’s workshop (this goes way back to the twelfth century …Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee' :

“Therefore seith Seint Jerome: "Dooth somme goode deedes that the devil, which is oure enemy, ne fynde yow nat unoccupied.")

Bollocks. A devil’s workshop? Count me in. Any day. Period.

THIS is what happens in an idle mind… give the useless brains like mine a fart a breathing time and questions like the below keep popping up…

And thus, good people, by induction, using the above question as n = 1, introducing. in the place of ‘INTEGERS’, anything from ‘fractions’, ‘imaginary numbers’, ‘chester barnard’s principles’ to ‘Routh - Hurwitz criterion for determining the number of roots on the right half of the s- plane’ et al.... it can easily be shown that for all n, the damn question still remains unanswered.

The shit doesn’t stop right there… things always go from the frying pan to check out the flames below… if that was a tough question… try this… ladies and the gentlemen… introducing the eternal question …POL… the purpose of life... the reason for human existence...

And, likewise… all other theories from pragmatist, utilitarian, existentialist, humanist, spiritual et cetera to even scientific and individual views on the meaning of life, sound just as ridiculous, and provide just as much satisfaction…

Man...these are some haunting questions…it’s so easy to spend the entire lifetime (well… ages, at least) searching futilely for the ghosts of the answers to these questions…
I don’t want to get caught in that chakravyuha …
I really, really need a new project...
I just can’t stay idle...
This is it for now..
I blog.

PS: Shawshank Redemption is one helluva movie. Also, Bill Waterson is a genius.
Hats off to both of ‘em.

Namakarana

Input:

Through looking glasses…
Lost in thought...
Mind dung…
Brain fcuk…
The Punctured Pensieve…
Dha blog to beat all blogs…
Post it…
Fully half empty…
Fresh and Honest…
Obfuscation Eschewed…
The second chapter…
The third scroll…
The n^th title…
Arbit ideas/ images/ mutterings/ utterings/ speeches/ garbage…
Random ideas/ images/ mutterings/ utterings/ speeches/ garbage…
Lost in transliteration…
Scrambled Scribbling…
Eternal nonsense of the spotted mind…
Writing on the wall…
Musings, Memories and Much Less…
Transcendental Insights…
From voltage hogging to current blogging…
….
.…
yada yada…

Processing:

Critical Error: NO BRAINS FOUND
System Failure…

Output:

White Noise

Peace!!

:D