Almost Famous

Lester Bangs: Aw, man. You made friends with them. See, friendship is the booze they feed you. They want you to get drunk on feeling like you belong.
William Miller: Well, it was fun.
Lester Bangs: They make you feel cool. And hey. I met you. You are not cool.
William Miller: I know. Even when I thought I was, I knew I wasn't.
Lester Bangs: That's because we're uncool. And while women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don't have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter.
William Miller: I can really see that now.
Lester Bangs: Yeah, great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love... and let's face it, you got a big head start.
William Miller: I'm glad you were home.
Lester Bangs: I'm always home. I'm uncool.
William Miller: Me too!
Lester Bangs: The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool.
William Miller: I feel better.
Lester Bangs: My advice to you. I know you think those guys are your friends. You wanna be a true friend to them? Be honest, and unmerciful.

Gone but not forgotten

December 8, 1980, John Lennon died. This year marks the 29th anniversary of his tragic murder

IMAGINE
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

and HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM..wherever you are ..

Music

tagged by iceman

Opening credits: Somewhere over the rainbow-Aselin debison

Waking up : Laguna sunrise- Black Sabbath

Average day: These days-Gregg Allman

First date: Wonderful tonight-Eric Clapton

Falling in love: Forever-Kiss

Love scene: Aa chal ke tujhe-Kishore Kumar :P

Fight scene: Raining blood-Slayer ;)

Breaking up: Babe I'm gonna leave you-Led Zeppelin

Getting back together: Piece of my heart-Janis Joplin

Secret love: Sweet child o' mine-Guns n' roses

Life's okay: Dream on-Aerosmith

Mental breakdown: Brain damage - Pink Floyd

Driving: Born to be wild-Steppenwolf

Learning a lesson: Like a rolling stone-Bob Dylan

Deep thought:Lost-Coldplay

Flashback: Forever young-Bob Dylan

Partying: Ace of spades-Motorhead

Regretting: No remorse-Metallica

Long night alone: Exit music-Radiohead

Death scene: One-Metallica

Closing credits: Guaranteed-Eddie Vedder

No time to stand and stare

Leisure

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stop and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

Not time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

by William Henry Davies

I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains; but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
-Ulysses (Alfred Tennyson)

Meet Google Linux !!

You knew it was coming. Surely you did.

First Google had their "Google Desktop" that mostly went nowhere. Then came Chrome, the browser that threatened to "out cool" any other browser. And then came Android, the operating system for the phone of the future (the one that supposedly could take down the iPhone). Android. An operating system for mobile phones.

And it could go further.

That's right. The creators of Mobile-Facts.com have managed (in less than four hours and with rusty skills) to compile Android to run on a netbook. That's not surprising since Android is Linux and Linux can run on everything from a toaster to a PS3. What is surprising is that they discovered Android was actually designed for both phones and for mobile Internet devices (such as netbooks).

Now remember, Google already has Google Mail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google this and Google that. It is now shy only a platform to run as a full-fledged system.

So there you have it. Google has always been really good about sneaking things under the radar. Chrome hit us in the back of the head with little to no warning. And now this. But what does it mean?

From my point of view it means this:

1. Google's Android finds some success with the mobile phone platform.
2. Android finds its way pre-installed on some netbooks taking advantage of all the Google gears and Google cloud.
3. Android-based Netbooks allow simple tethering to Android-based phones.
4. Android finds its way onto the PC desktop giving birth to Google Linux.

But this wouldn't be just any old Linux. This would be Linux with the support of the mighty Google. This would mean support, support, and more support. This would mean Google Linux would be the epitome of mobility and connectivity.
This would mean a big win for Linux. And I believe Google has been planning this all along. And why? Microsoft. This would be a serious coup de gras in the battle between Google and Microsoft.

Think about it this way. Everyone knows Google. Not everyone knows Linux. If everyone saw a netbook running "Google" they would snap it up right away. Why? It's Google! Imagine what you could "google" on a Google computer! You certainly couldn't "google" as much on a Microsoft netbook as you could a Google netbook.

Seriously though, it's about branding. Up until this point Linux had no branding. Even though the tech-inclined knew of Linux, the average user doesn't.

As much as I hate to admit it, Linux is still far from the taking command of the desktop war. But this could change that. Google Linux could be the deal maker. If the Google operating system comes to fruition the way it could, it would bring to Linux some serious branding cred.

A Google operating system could make Linux the easiest to use OS available as well as the slickest: Android uses Chrome which integrates seamlessly with Google docs/gears and does so with the stability and security of Linux. It's a perfect combination.

And with that thought in mind I happily say, let's all Meet Google Linux!

Life is difficult

This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

M. Scott Peck from The Road Less Traveled