My Heroes

I never had any childhood heroes I looked upto... nor any role models I wanted to emulate..not that I regret it or anything :P Of course I did and do admire a lot of people but the aspiration to be even a bit like them or to try doing something like them curiously enough hasn't happened. And obviously they are far too great to be emulated by an average prick like me. Also, this character trait is not necessarily a bad thing i guess ( I was never very good at the whole senior-respect worship thing at kharagpur for instance :P)

Since I seem to be forgetting a lot of stuff in life, I figure it is better to write down a short list of the people i truly admire .. Well calling them heroes sounds gimmicky .. but then again who cares.

Unquestionably in any particular order. and in no way comprehensive :)

The Active
Paavo Nurmi

Erich Hartmann : "Get close .. when he fills the entire windscreen ... then you can't possibly miss."
Simo Häyhä : 542 kills :O

Doug Pruden: stupid really :P

The Authors
Orwell
Marquez

The Artists
Zdislaw Beksinsky
Bouguereau
Doré
Dali
Frida

The Intellectuals
Landau : When you are that good it definitely shows
Feynman: who else could say "To win a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but to win it with an IQ of 125, now that's something."

Euler : well he had 13 kids and was probably the most prolific guy who ever lived .. 
"Grisha" Perelman : It is the 21st century after all.. we celebrate recluses.

The Assholes
Sacha Cohen: he makes a *decent* living screwing and screwing with people.. need i say more

The South Park guys :P
 
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The author is listening to Op. 18: String Quartet No.4 In C Minor: Allegro ma non tanto by Beethoven but doubts whether it has any effect whatsoever on his thought.
The author has become a regular user of CIA.vc and Ohloh

And if you haven't already used it, probably boost could sweep you off your feet

Afterthought: 2.3 crore out of the 16.8 crore people that soviet had died in world war 2 :) W are indeed such lovely creatures :) <>

Girls I *like*

On Misogyny

There are three mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive sets of girls the author knows / is acquainted with.

A. Girls who think they *like/liked* the author ( as un-probabilistic as it sounds , there are all kinds of people in the world apparently. The duration of liking, from the data the author has access to, varies from picoseconds(1) to months )

B. Girls who think the author *like/liked* them ( yikes.. well apparently being antisocial and a bit acerbic is not much help. . female vanity no bounds . It probably helps female psyche to feel appreciated and admired - the author concurs that this is a shallow chauvinistic remark )

C. Girls who don't give a damn about the author ( Of course this includes the vast majority who are oblivious about my existence amongst many others)

Assumption:
The author assumes the fact that he mostly *likes* people belonging to 3rd subset need not be considered an anomalous character trait.

Lemma: Please not the pairwise disjoint nature of the above sets. For example there have never been girls who liked the author and thought he liked them or girls who think the author likes them and whom the author like ( namely C). Proof is trivial.

Lemma: Also note that for all logical purposes ,
Cardinality of C >> Cardinality of B >> Cardinality of A
Proof is trivial.

Thesis: Subject is not a misogynist. Q.E.D

Proof: Due tothe lemmas , C forms a sizeable proportion of female author *likes* thus negating the claim that author is a misogynist.

The author concurs that one should do a more detailed sigma-algebra or topology based analysis(2). In the absence of a fallacious logic such study would be inexpedient.

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1. On second thoughts picoseconds is stretching it a bit.. Depending on various neuronal proceses a better assumption would be milliseconds to seconds ( Arbib, M. A, Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, MIT Press, 2003, p47-67 )
2. Rudin, W. , Real and complex analysis, McGraw Hill, 1987, p8-20

Addendum

Top 5 crushes of all time ( in no particular order)

1. Dr. Harleen Quinzel
2. Amélie Poulain
3. Ms. Audrey Woods
4. Catherine Zeta Jones for doing Gwen Harrisson
5. Dancing girl ?

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Author is currently pursuing some work on Parametrics and Constraints under Ballistic Research Laboratory-Computer Aided Design system under gsoc program