Quid Pro Quo With The Gods

Button Maths

I am eating button (microwaved) idlis and thinking ...




... thinking about banach-tarski paradox.

Take a ball and break it. Then with some advanced geometry you can create two balls of the same size and volume from that one ball.




There are two types of nimble brains. One brain: who fluently understand the equations and math behind that set geometry. Another brain: who find button idlis more fulfilling than mind-boggling maths. Do I even need to tell you which kind you are talking to?

I wonder, why is maths very evasive for me. Ramanujun casts a mathematical spin even on an unassuming taxi number. Whereas, I can't even grasp the ghoulish maths in turning my button idli into two idlis.

You might console - Ira, stick with stuff your brain can handle and don't swerve too much into forbidden territory.

True that, I should not conjure up deviant maths in my rice flour pie. Banach and Tarski might double objects with the sleight of complex maths but the same can be claimed by tucking into eight button idlis rather than one regular idli.

 

Indeed, unusual! But the Romans are fabled for their decadence that during extravagant feasts they would vomit the chewed cud to gobble more from the plate in greed. The 'vomitorium' could have origin from such adaptations.

 

Al di la; del bene piu prezioso, ci sei tu.
Al di la; del sogno piu ambizioso, ci sei tu.
Al di la; delle cose piu belle.
Al di la; delle stelle, ci sei tu.

I just looked up that 'al di la' and learnt that the lyrical word means 'beyond'.

Then, I searched for the lyrics translation.

I didn't believe it was possible,
that you could say say these words:
Beyond the most valuable thing, there you are.
Beyond the most ambitious dream, there you are.
Beyond the most beautiful things.
Beyond the stars, there you are.
Beyond, there you are for me, for me, only for me.
Beyond the deepest sea, there you are.
Beyond the world's limits, there you are.
Beyond the infinite sky vault, beyond the life.
There you are, beyond, there you are for me.

In lover's symbolism, usually one person is behind another person, customarily it is a shrewd woman behind a put-upon man. I wonder, what is 'beyond' in a relationship compared to a 'behind'.

 

Google-fu

Wherever you venture, I am a step behind you or should I say beyond you.

I rely on Google heavily for all my quotidian needs. I would be crippled without the search engine Google.

Recently, I opened up my eyes to this coinage "Google-fu" which I assumed was a play on foo placeholder or a gibberish construct when used in the context of search skills. But it is a play on kung-fu, that means, when someone remarks to use your "Google-fu", it means exert your diabolic search skills like the martial kung-fu.

Huh! Now we cannot sustain if we don't search, we don't Google, and also learn those Google-fu tricks of kung-fu panda.

 

Last night while reading the book 1001 inventions that changed the world, I stumbled on the history of toothbrush and toothpaste. The Egyptians and the Babylonians nurtured the insight that human teeth were supposed to be systematically cleaned but with that? Toothbrush was easier to invent, with a furry animal's tail, but what about the toothpaste? The essential ingredients ranged as wild as ground pumice and eggshells and white chalk. The ancient dentists were aggrieved fixing the chipped teeth from the abrasive toothpastes than from the natural erosion to the teeth. Years later, with much speculation and trial, the toothpaste evolved into today's soft form.

I could not help thinking, Cheeniya will have something to grit this teeth on the agonies incurred from the forlorn and disastrous toothpastes of our ancestors.