Missed a couple of dreams

Missed a few dreams because I had not logged in with my personal id on the laptop I am reviewing right now. These were quite immersive and colourful ones. Urban exploration has reached deep into my subconsciousness, where I explore decaying cities with interesting constructions, and document them with photos on my smartphone. Now this mental model of both the phone and the camera and the UI has all been sharpened, so things like photos not being saved, the device being an odd shape or the UI being off no longer occur, and I do not get lucid. I remember exploring a temple city with a tank yesterday. 

Today morning I saw some beautiful sights. One was of solitary glowing trees of bright bejewelled colours and textures like rubies and sapphires in fields of light or clouds. Another was lots of tiny blinking small glowing particles filling the sky and making different patterns like the murmurations of swarming starlings. Woke up feeling pretty elated. 

Newbie journos are the worst

 What I hate is idiot reporters not looking up the phrases of what they mean. If you are a writer, there are two things that you need to do before writing 1. Read and 2. Consult a dictionary. If you are not in the habit of 1 and 2 then you should not be writing, you are better off opening up a momo stall or a beauty parlour. 

X breaks silence on Y... there was no silence if X is just talking about it. Stop using. Use single quotes not double quotes. If you use 'Exclusive' in your headline, that just means the rest of the content on your site is copied and shitty. Even worse is quoting the exclusive story of another site, that's just a shitty site copying from another shitty site making a biofilm of shit. (Note: This is not the same as a biopic). Stop using AI especially if the adjectives and descriptions are wonky. A sequel with a gap of 20 years from the predecessor does not continue right where the previous movie left off. Fuck it Im going home. 

I need to get back to my website

 I got all excited and made a website, but I am not getting inspired enough to add new stories. When I initially started it I was deeply interested in space without spaceflight, but my work requires me to dwell into spaceflight all the time. Anyway, I have decided on a new approach, which will hopefully work. 

Have also been watching all the Star Trek episodes back to back, and now only the original series is left, after having gone through The Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space 9 and Enterprise. I guess among all of these Voyager is my favorite, and I like DS9 and Enterprise more than The Next Generation, so I am not sure how much I will like the original series. Might just pick up Prime for a couple of months to watch Picard. In the middle of the second season of Enterprise right now. 

I also enjoyed vibe coding for a while, but not anymore. The AI kept messing up perfectly fine code. 

Swiggy delivery boy just gave me dieting advice

 Swiggy really needs to train its uneducated workforce of idiot delivery boys better. North India is full of retards who are very willing to give out of domain, unasked for advice. This asshole is giving me paani puri and telling me that I should not eat gol gappe in winter season for some health reason. I pretended to not listen to the idiot. I wanted to yell 'Who the fuck asked you?', but I ignored him and concentrated on my other order. 

The problem is not just this one idiot, everyone in Delhi is very willing and ready to give their advice and talk about the most inane, personal details. For example in office cab the driver was telling all the workers how he does not like to sleep with the bedsheet over his head. The remaining idiots in the cab were also very willing to engage in this conversation. 

Another time a taxi driver advised my colleague that 'your beauty is your biggest enemy, and you don't understand it yet.' I mean who the fuck asked you? Another time some young 16 year old kid at a tapri looked at my long hair and said 'Sir ladies jaise dikhte ho', I smiled, flashed the V sign and went home, and he was utterly confused by my simple reaction. This long hair attracts a ton of comments, one uniformed dog in metro checkin made me go through ladies queue. Another uniformed dog told me that it makes my neck weak. 

I mean all of these uneducated idiots have stuffed dust in their brains, and that makes them going around spreading that nonsense to everyone. I feel they get stomach ulcers if they do not perpetuate their ignorance to others. Turning wheat into useless noise is a hate crime against the fertile Earth. Living in Delhi is making me increasingly racist against everyone in North India. 

Immense hatred against Karnataka cops

I just have immense hatred against the corrupt dogs that wear uniform in Bengaluru. I curse them and hope that their families will wither and die because of the way they have destroyed society. All I can do is curse them. I hope some day they have their comeuppance, made to apologise to all the people they harassed and troubled, and the fined monies are returned. Bastards dishonour their ancestors. 

It is a Sunday, have finished with my work, but have to stay on for two hours and twiddle my thumbs. The progress on the laptop repair is not going well. There is a phillips screw that is stubbornly stuck and not dislodging. The base of the laptop has also warped and twisted because of the heat. The thermoplastic polymer used for construction is not great. This was supposed to be a reliable, long-lasting machine! 

I also have to open up my other laptop to see what is the problem with that. Need to update my astrophysics blog, but there is just no new info or papers that is exciting me any more. Time to dig deeper into the new publications. 

Will go to play the game now. 

Got work to do but tired

Cleaned my noisy laptop that is making brrm brrm brrm sound. There was dust collected on the inside, and somehow fungus had latched on to it. Even after scrubbing everything clean, the pattern of the fungal growth is etched into the base of the lid. The poor fan is struggling at one point, where a particularly stubborn piece of dust is lodged. I need to get a good set of screwdrivers for electronics to fix it, which is available at Mr DIY. The Saravana Bhavan at the Select Citywalk there is close by. IDK if I am going to extraordinary lengths to fix a noisy fan. 

I guess some things you take personally, and a machine that you use not performing properly is one of them. Sigh. Guess I better head out. 

Something Something

 I am ditching the weird timestamp thing, and hopefully getting back to daily blogging at the ends of work days. I went to a wedding in Chandigarh of an office colleague, and it was a lot of fun. The hotel had an abandoned wing that I also explored. There are so many things that I want to do in a day, but am not able to. 

Delhi is a funny city. You can get a lot of things for cheap, but you wont even imagine the kind of tricks that people here pull off. Almost nothing is actually priced at the printed MRP, which I don't know why it is there. You need to bargain for everything. Now you do not expect to buy dubious screwdrivers that crumble when used on screws, but you can get them in Delhi. Similarly the immersion heater can fry your plug points, the tissue paper can be non-absorbent, nail clippers will break against toenails, zips of jackets will fail... the list goes on. Basically you need to buy only good quality stuff from reliable, expensive stores, so in the end, Delhi is not as cheap as people claim it to be. 

Freaking dubious merchants all across the city. 

I also went to the ISPA conference IISC, which is confusingly named similar to the Indian Institute of Science. The exhibition was sad, and there was nothing new compared to the second NSD exhibition. I really should have asked GalaxEye about which vehicle they are using to go to Space, has to be a SpaceX transporter mission. The timeline of ISRO is getting changed so rapidly, that it is hard to keep up. First they juggled the order of the missions, and now they have juggled the payloads on the missions! 

Almost every week the configuration of the NGLV and LMLV are being updated. At the conference, I met some top space reporters from the country even though most of the media section was empty. It was a fun, off-beat conference, but the press release from the second day is not out yet. Waiting for that. 

My laptop fan is making a lot of noise and it is driving me nuts. I used the dubious screwdriver to open it up, and the internals were not only dusty, but also caked with some long-dead fungus. I cleaned it all out, but I think I need to remove and properly clean the problematic fan. It is funny that I can get it to shut down by just pressing down on the chassis. I do not have a good working machine now, because my gaming laptop is overheating and shutting down as well. Need to do something about it, and I am going to go home now and operate all my machines. Might need to go to Nehru Place to fix both the laptops, but before that I want to try by myself by getting a good screwdriver kit from MR DIY. I found a new store in Saket that is just outside Select CityWalk, which is pretty good. 

Also The Jughead Special at Saravana Bhavan at Janpath is something else. It is a milkshake made up of figs, dates, strawberry icecream and cold milk. Just crazy good, among the most beautiful things made by humans. Like forget the SpaceX Starship or the Intel Processor, this Jughead Special is what can truly rival neutron stars or interacting black holes.