I renamed my blog again. For the fourth time if I remember right. And I guess this time it is an honest title (title #1 “Motorcycle diary of Joy Dutta” – too specific, title #2 “Joy Dutta’s blog” – too boring, title #3 “Joy Dutta on work|play|life” — too cheesy).
I hate boredom since eternity. To stay productive, I had to make a safety net of hobbies that I can enjoy in a round robin fashion. In other words I simply rotate my activities in convenient intervals. Photography consumes the most of my free time and it is something very hard to be bored with. Despite that sometimes I am full of ideas to build physical objects rather than two dimensional ones. That is when I find the most pleasure using my woodworking tools to convert my 3D visualizations into a product. Those are the good times.
Even outside hobbies, there are many productivity tasks to be done. Too much progress is happening in the internet technology arena and it would be a career suicide if we software engineer folks don’t keep up with the latest ideas and workflows. There is non-stop learning and self-improvement opportunities which we must avail. We are living in exponential times and must deal with the ever shortening times to do even more interesting stuff.
My blog is really an attempt to jot down my productive explorations and life experiences. Tech tips, tutorials, ideas, homemade contraptions. You name it, you can see it here.
In other words, there is simply no time to watch the stupid TV !
#1 by Francesco Gallarotti on October 23, 2009 - 5:30 am
Nice title… I agree with what you said and feel pretty much the same as you do… Sometimes I wonder why I am paying $30/month for cable TV when I am not even turning it on except once in a blue moon.
As an exception to the rule (you know me, I always need some exceptions) during the past two weeks I have been spending 99% of my free time watching four seasons of the ABC’s TV series “Lost” on Netflix… I admit it, once in a while, for my own brain sanity, I need to unplug completely and nothing works as well as a good movie or some episodes of a series like “Lost” to take you away for a few hours.
#2 by Francesco Gallarotti on October 23, 2009 - 5:37 am
“IIRC”?
How lazy do you have to be to think that it’s ok to use such an unusual acronym forcing every person that is not familiar with it to google it?
By the way, IIRC can also mean:
- If I Read Correctly
- If I Really Cared
- If It Really Counts
- Immunity and Infection Research Centre
- In Internet Relay Chat
- Internet Information Research Center
- Iraqi Islamic Reconciliation Conference
- Isn’t It Really Cool
#3 by therider on October 23, 2009 - 10:26 am
The urge to watch a few favorite shows once in a while can be done via hulu but they don’t always have captions, so that is a minor annoyance.
I fixed IIRC