Wishmaster

Working as a PA, I have officially run through so many semicolon errors in third year Verilog code that I shall go mad if there are any more.

On another note, a friend told me about something he had heard regarding outcome bias - which basically means that if something goes wrong after taking a certain decision, one would tend to pause and ponder before taking that same decision in a similar situation, regardless of statistically the outcomes work out. Or, exaggerated (as is my wont), someone who has lost by calling heads nine times will tend to call a tail on the tenth flip of a completely unbiased coin.

All this sounds like a lot of nonsense (which it probably is), but it also tends to get me thinking about whether I am too quick in thinking that a whole lot of my decisions in life have been wrong. And still, I am not entirely convinced to the contrary. Decision biases et cetera notwithstanding, I still think that, contrary to the cliched 'I'd do the same all over again', I probably would act differently at the crossroads that I stumbled at, and choose the exact opposite path. Stands to reason, I guess. (or maybe not)

Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid

Some people feel that abstraction is undesirable. The world requires hard, proper, concrete stuff, and has little time for the person who thrives on the unknown and the unsaid. In this world of 'rapine, avarice and expense', as Wordsworth put it (and he lived more than a hundred years before us), the tenuous, inchoate clouds of thought and feeling are rarely welcome. Often in a half-formed state, they are rent, ripped or brought to earth by rampaging hordes of base materialists, hell-bent on pursuing arbitrary motives, which are ironically often not very clear to themselves. The thousand deafening echoes of a single cry of supposed certainty, more often than not drown out the inaudible sighs and whispers of more ephemeral feelings.

Dreamers, I sometimes feel, more often now than at any time in the past, are scarce, and will continue to be so.