Laws without an F

Why must there always be silly rules that are left open to interpretation. People need to plan these things out more carefully. What is bothersome is the fact that rules hardly ever come with an interpretation guide, and if the enforcer happens to be a clueless brain dead moron (as is almost always the case), then, Houston, we do indeed have a problem.

Cars are useless. If you want to go around feeling safe and comfortable, go drive around in your mom's station wagon. If you want speed, then don't waste your time with cars. Heavy bikes are where it's at. If you have no idea what heavy bikes are capable of (apart from being noizy irritating little crotch rockets), go check out Google Video for some of the Suzuki Hayabusa runs. Watch the speedometers. There're also a couple of Yahama R1 videos, and one particular one that caught my attention was this R1 that was doing it's top speed when a Hayabusa goes past fast enough to make it look like the R1 was standing still.

For all you faggots who think they're too dangerous, learn how to ride one, learn how to read situations, develop situational awareness, improvise, predict, simulate, calculate, improve your reflexes.. oh, and also develop a working relationship with God, because as tempting as it may be to think that you are God once you get on a bike, the real one (if He exists, theoretically), miiight get a little tee'd off and a send a spill or two your way, so, yeah, just to be on the safe side. Now the only problems with spills are that they might damage the bike (or at 250+ km/h, they WILL definitely), and worse still might prevent you from biking again by killing you or some such means.

Reckless. I know.

Nature

If only my Friday the 13ths were unlucky.

Hmm, that statement has multiple interpretations, doesn't it? This is going to be an uncharacteristic serious post.

Why do people assume mankind to be "not natural", or not part of nature. I guess you can define the word any way you want to, but the commonly accepted belief is that mankind is destroying nature, and we have to take matters into our own hands since nature can't handle the havoc we're creating here on Earth. Has anyone ever stopped to think that maybe since we came from "nature", maybe it has mechanisms to deal with (comparatively) complex and notoriously self-destructive organisms like humans? You could argue that if that is true, the way it'll probably do it is by wiping us out. Nature would then go on existing, quite happily I might add, without humans. Then again maybe nature really is designed to be "benevolent" (as far as appearances go, but then, what's the difference?), so it might just let enough of mankind survive to continue existing, but not be much of a nuisance for some time (oh, a couple of thousand years maybe, until they advance and discover nukes all over again).

How can ye reject the faith in Allah.- seeing that ye were without life, and He gave you life; then will He cause you to die, and will again bring you to life; and again to Him will ye return.

It is He Who hath created for you all things that are on earth; Moreover His design comprehended the heavens, for He gave order and perfection to the seven firmaments; and of all things He hath perfect knowledge.

Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: "I will create a vicegerent on earth." They said: "Wilt Thou place therein one who will make mischief therein and shed blood?- whilst we do celebrate Thy praises and glorify Thy holy (name)?" He said: "I know what ye know not."

Al-Quran, Surah 2, Verse 28-30

Oh yeah, and for those who were in doubt; I am a Muslim.

GIK Part 3

Lest the unwary reader be deceived, there are no first two parts to this post. Knowing the fact that this seemingly innocent picture could be tortured into giving away my identity, I resisted for this long only to finally give in to temptation and post it.

Now a lot of people will tell you GIK is a great place to study, but be warned, living on a campus in the middle of nowhere can have its side effects. Also the fact that there are around SIX girls on the entire campus (all the others you see are paid, hired actors, i'm sure of it) leads to rather disturbing behaviour-trends, but that's material for another post.

And then there's the beautiful architecture, as seen in the picture. Looking closely, and later aided by the shadows created by the setting sun, we (the CounterStrike gamers representing LUMS who went to GIK for the Uber Game.X tournament) came to the conclusion that there was no doubt that the designs on the building seen behind me in the picture were inspired by a fist showing the middle finger.

Fascinating, no?

Trains and Dragons

Snobby, yeah, but I still had to ask whether or not the railway station would have a phone. It seemed funny at the time. Later on it turned out they had a computer as well (which apparently "speeded up" the ticket-giving process by a factor of -5.3 (yeah, that's a minus)). How fascinating. As snobby as people can be, thanks to the "efficient" computer system, I was fortunate enough to witness a train going through the station minutes after a crackly, barely understandable announcement. The train went past at 1.07 pm. Me and my chowkidaar went up to the timetable and figured it to be the Quetta Express, and it was 2 minutes early! Wow. How efficient. Turned out the train that went past was the 12 noon one, and the one the announcement was for was nowhere in sight. Apparently the announcements/schedule and the trains themselves have no connection.

In other news, the dragon slayer doesn't complain about the size of the dragons. If the dragons weren't that big compared to him, he wouldn't be a dragon slayer. He'd be just another guy.

There's a new Roxette mix "The Rox Medley", which has all their songs choruses put into one remixed song. It's not that great, but I love it for some reason. I seriously wonder why some songs strike a chord in my mind even when they're not that good :/

Onto more concrete things, Musharraf's controversial book is easier to get a hold of than I thought. My sister ordered it from the Liberty Books website using her credit card and it arrived in one day (and she got a discount too!). As astoundingly efficient as that was for a Pakistani company, I got over the shock long enough to read a couple of pages. The prologue was quite fascinating and involved Musharraf evading Mango trees and assasination attempts to live on to be the destined ruler of Pakistan.

Don't get me wrong, I like the guy, he's a practical ruler. You can go blue in the face calling him arrogant and a dictator and what not, but in a less than perfect world, I think he's done a good enough job to keep us from being "bombed into the stone age". Sure he isn't perfect, but he's sure as hell better than the majority of rulers who have come before him, all things taken into account.

In other news, people need to write a HOWTO manual for understanding and writing Social-Sciences-English at LUMS. It's apparently different from the English that's used in everyday life.

And that's all I'm going to say about that.

Aristotle

This post has nothing about aristotle. You are being mislead by the evil Google Empire.

They call it "chillie" when it's cold outside, and yet, you add chillies to your food to make it hot. Is someone who is uncool, hot? If someone's not hot, they're cool? Who the hell comes up with this stuff anyway?

The usual gems from bash.org:

#696388 +(1214)- [X]

[Jace> god this computer is running like a dog
[h0ax> Jace unless it is a lame dog or missing several limbs, dogs usually run pretty fast
[h0ax> I wouldnt want to race one
[Jace> god this computer is running like an elepant
[Jace> hope they run slow
[h0ax> memory is working well then?
[mole-inc> elephants are pretty fast
[ReKTeK> they can run faster than humans :P
[h0ax> why dont you say a turtle or something
[h0ax> turtles are KNOWN for being slow
[Jace> god this computer is running like a TURTLE FINE HA
[h0ax> but then.. it did beat the hare..
[Jace> god this computer is running like a hare
[h0ax> no, they're fast, usually. except against turtles.
[mole-inc> god this computer is running like a crippled ant.
[Jace> god this computer is running like a turtle unless competing against a hare in which case the computer is running like a hare
[h0ax> you know you could just say it's running slow.
[Jace> oh yeh
[Jace> could do that... i guess...

#696364 +(382)- [X]

[Maverick] just imagine if it was a 10 dollar fee to get into heaven
[Maverick] and you died
[Maverick] but left your wallet in your car
[Maverick] so you couldn't pay the 10 dollar admin. fee
[BallsDeep] i would mug the next guy