To Say There Are No Regrets In Life, Is Just To Fool Yourself. How Boring It'd Be Without Regrets

"I am in a charming state of confusion." • Ada Lovelace | #iphoneonly #midsemester (at G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons at Georgia Tech)

it’s september

your birthday is in 21 days and mine in 25. melancholy might kick in soon. great. oh and apparently september babies are born the most romantic lol (i’m going to look back one day and just feel silly and smile)

hbd

i miss you so much all of a sudden.

“Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.” Richard Feynman

robots are getting faster, literally.

^ Page-Scanning robot reads faster than you.

Do you consider yourself a fast reader? If so, how long does it take you to read a book? 2 days? Good for you but that’s nothing compared to the BFS-Auto book-scanning robot. It can handle 250 pages in a minute. That’s fast even for a machine. It’s just epic when you imagine how they could make widespread book digitization a reality and deal with entire libraries in a matter of days. I wish this technology is available to consumers before my graduation (2015) so that the robot could read the text to me.

Wonder what this technology could lead to? Check out this video.

Does it matter how you get there? | #iphoneonly #GT

Transcending tunes and epic time-lapse always go well together!

Federer after loss "Usually you learn more when you lose, just in the sense that you analyse losses harder, deeper at times. That's where you learn a lot about your game, about your attitude, about your fitness... Not always. Sometimes you just walk away and you forget about it."

The 2015 US Open final: Roger Federer vs Novak Djokovic

H2H: 21-20 

US Open meetings: 3-2

Grand Slam finals: 1-2

Sound I like (also known as music)

Before you start to read this post, listen to this music as you read through.

My taste in music is “eclectic”*. I like all of the music I listen to, so obviously I have really good taste in music.

There is nothing quite so magical or moving as an powerful orchestral piece played by a full symphony orchestra. I have nothing against poppy music, nor do I have anything against wild bashing and screaming music (except that I mostly hate it), but if I were stuck in Antarctic for the rest of my life, I would die quickly of Hypothermia listen to epic soundtracks like:

“Imagine the Fire”, Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight Rises

“The Promise”, Michael Nyman

“Extraction Point” , Hans Zimmer, Modern Warfare 2 (a video game with epic score?)

“Escape”, Craig Armstrong

 London Philharmonic’s finest.

 Or simply instrumental.

If you’re still listening to the music, I hope so, right? Imagine you’re sitting in that room, as a group of 50 people playing a song – using violins, bass drums, cellos, and a touch of piano – it precisely melds together into a beautiful, powerful, multifaceted sound…  and it’s just magical as the conductor keeps the whole thing together..  

As you might have seen in movies (like Harry Potter), a wand is portrayed as an instrument for magical occurrence. If you realize, a conductor’s baton (wand) also produces magical waves. I mean, with the flick of a wrist, a conductor can shape music like a painter with his paint brush. He can create striking thunders from the bass drums to the electrifying sharp pitch of the violins.

*I really do have a weird (wide spectrum) taste in music.

By the time I finished writing this, I realized that music is an expression, as it can only be played or heard (its really hard to ‘talk’ about music).

Apollo era is still the golden age of aerospace!

Ode to Apollo 11 and the joy of discovery