Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Blogging again...

Good day to everyone. And love going out too all of you who missed me. Apologies for being off the grid lately as things have been a little screwey in the life and times of ‘The Clint’. Sometimes all need is to stare blankly at the ceiling and… well that’s it. Stare blankly at the ceiling. And yes sometimes just talk to it. So far its been a one way conversation.

Besides my intellectual babble with my roof, I also have been reading something about the ‘Total Perspective Vortex’

Lemme Explain…

The TPV is the deadliest weapon in the universe. Forget all the weapons that you know today, or ever will in the future, this one takes the cake. If you are wondering what this does, well here it is.

‘since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.

Trin Tragula - for that was his name - was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.

"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.

And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex - just to show her.

And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.’

And that my friends is whats been taking up most of my time and will till I read the whole trilogy of 5 by Douglas adams and the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Every page of the books are pure creative genius…

Have a read and find out for yourselfs…
And then only will you realize that having prolonged conversations with your ceiling actually makes sense.

Tomorow i plan to symphathise with my toothbrush, and how it feels like to be in my mouth twice a day.

Im not sure about the toothbrush but im sure the ceilings gonna start talking back to me...

16 comments:

Blogger alice said...

doug adams rulz!!!
and do post some conversations with ur ceiling....

12:24 PM  
Blogger karuna said...

aieyayayayaiee! Too many mental resources needed for comprehension.. i'm running low... ;)

12:28 PM  
Blogger Arroclint said...

alice: im gonna post the ceiling conversations soon.

Karuna: true that. lotsa resources needed to understand doug, although once focused, its very difficult to not understand.

12:43 PM  
Blogger Once the Conman said...

Clint... Not matter how much I am pulled towards reading that series this very moment... I must say...
U need help!
Just a wild guess... after watching any of the batman movies, did u come out of the hall and think you were it - Batman?
Just a thought...
Did u?

2:56 PM  
Blogger Arroclint said...

ofcourse not!
batman is a make-believe character.
plus 'batman' is taken by bruce wayne.
I on the other hand choose to use the alter-ego 'Clitoris Clint' (dont tell anyone i told you) they'll want a ride in the clitmobile!

3:34 PM  
Blogger Casablanca said...

Ok the TPV concept sounds totally cool... will get my hands on the book sometime.

Reminds me of something else I was reading the other day, which asked how can our finite brains understand infinity?
Well... mine cant.

4:44 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Yep, its five books.

Not to discourage you or anything, but the books get progressively worse. I have been stuck in the 4th book for an eon now. Can't bring myself to finish it.

But I do love TPV and I love "42". Oh I laughed for hours on that one! "42!"

5:44 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Casa-I have the books =D

5:45 AM  
Blogger Arroclint said...

i havent reached the 4th book yet. im still at 3. i still wanna know what the question to 42 is.

i think zephod is the coolest cat around

btw glad to see u managed to put up a pic of yours. finally a face to 2 put with the name.

8:30 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Zaphod is cool! The Vogon poetry takes the cake though. God, we're a bunch of h2g2 nerds I tell you!

Btw, the movie S.U.C.K.S.

Yeah, been wanting to upload the pic for a while, finally managed to do so with the help of a friendly little blogger-pal.

9:47 AM  
Blogger Arroclint said...

I dont think we are h2g2 nerds, i think we are h2g2 intelectuals. it takes a lot to fully understand what adams was sayin.
and yes the movie bites man. it just didnt have any poetic justice. althought i did like the song, "so long and thanks for all the fish"

9:56 AM  
Blogger Zii said...

shaving brushes are better listeneres.

3:38 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Haven't heard the song, will look it up.

Gadarene, I thought the movie blew because of the lacklustre cast (except Zaphod)and Stephen Fry's very propah yet snooze-able narration. True that Douglas Adams oversaw it but didn't he die halfway? I think the director wasn't able to capture a millionth of the book's charm, excitement or humour. Seriously, the actors didn't deliver. This wasn't just another movie that didn't live up to the book, this was far worse.

Here's hoping "The Da Vinci Code" doesn't disappoint-it does have a stunning cast.

6:16 AM  
Blogger Arroclint said...

gman: na dude. watch the movie, then read the book. i liked the movie. but then i read the book. and then i liked the book better. somehow while i was readin, my imagination made a better movie.

2:28 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Gee, and here i was thinking, i was the only one picking out the pieces on the TPV. Not bad :)

Conman: your comment did give me the impetus to check fluctuating Clint out.

Nice pic, Clint. The flash is a hint of mystery, wot?

5:41 PM  
Blogger Arroclint said...

meg: the pic is derived from the ying & yang concept. no mystery involved. just showin 2 faces, same person.

10:45 AM  

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