Get Smart

If you are smart, you will definitely avoid this one. Except if you go in a group to the theater and enjoy among yourselves rather than the movie :-)

Rating : 3/10

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Interesting movie.

MIT brains vs Vegas Blackjack.

Card counting and back stabbing are the name of the game in Vegas.

Kevin Spacey...hmmm...not edgy enough and hence the movie tends to not be as tight as it could potentially have been...

Seat of the pants rating : 4/10...kinda okay

Random Comments

Does a teaspoon of guilt keep the human race from becoming an anarchy instead of staying a civil society?

Google

finished David Vise's take on the company that will define a "few" things as regards the future of computing and access to information for the common man in the ultimate democratic medium...the internet.

interesting read and some of the issues are like a breath of fresh air as they provide vindication of certain old time facts that still ring true in modern times and corporations.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Poignant and moving. What else can i say?

Read it to get a different perspective on modern day living and the inherent traps and trappings that supersede the state of existentialia.

Can love be a rational act?

this think thread got kicked off on reading the book, tuesdays with morrie. One of the seminal passages has Morrie say that love is the most rational thing as an act.

in the context that Morrie put it, seems like there is merit in the argument.

Here is a corollary: Can something rational supercede unconditionality?

are not rationality and unconditionality two opposing forces of nature, the yin and yang, as it may of the emotional spectrum.

if love were rational then it would imply that it is conditional as well, this goes against the grain of all thought put forth by conventional romance pundits about love being irrational and hence bearing unconditionality as a basic premise.

if we were to argue that love is rational then is there a set of conditions that needs to be met for love to flourish and continue flourishing.

got me thinking, need to whet this argumentation with others in the field :-)

Infinite Choices

Does mankind inherently face a loss of decision making ability in the face of infinite choices?

Look at the fate of modern day "stars" and how their lives seemingly spin out of control. Fame gets all sorts of doors open for them and they seem to not be able to decide which door to take. Some doors are obvious mis-steps while others might be the best move that you could make.