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  • Rana Sanga and My Bot

    What historical event fascinates you the most?

    ‘the most’ in the above question ruins the question but helps me answer with something anyway.

    All of history, all the events, down to the smallest ones, if sufficient details are available or accessible, offer plenty to be fascinated with. How much time do we have to go through them in sufficient details, go through our lives in sufficient details and survive all the same?

    Rana Sanga’s personal physical condition, his arsenal, and his battles to defend and expand Mewar… A few years back, when I recounted all of that on a leisurely trip to Kumbhalgarh, I found myself in an unshakeable thrall!

    Meanwhile, the historical event in my context is my exchange with a bot which throws fascinating titles of books at me to wonder and explore. Mind you, the event isn’t over. And there are plenty of titles that the bot hides from me, waiting for me initiate another query…

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  • Build a brand? Build?

    Is that the word? Think about it.

    “Build”

    Look at the meaning of ‘brand’, look at the meaning of ‘build’.

    For a long time, I’ve had doubts about this expression and similar other expressions which include ‘brand’.

    Folks say, the name of my brand is…

    ‘Brand’ if understood in the sense of its the original meanings, whether as a verb or a noun, doesn’t make any sense in such expressions as ‘build a brand’.

    Actually, ‘brand’ feels like an abstraction. An abstract name given to the phenomenon of making one remember your name at the moment of truth.

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  • 3

    Daily writing prompt
    What does it mean to be a kid at heart?
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    Be curious, be ready to ask a lot of questions, don’t mind playing at any time of the day.

    Is that enough to be a kid at heart? I think so.

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  • On choosing software

    Software must be chosen, like you choose your motorcycle.

    But they do not make it like that, I say.

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  • Handsome

    How much would you pay to go to the moon?

    Considering the risk, the ones, who plan to make me go to the moon, must pay me a very handsome amount.

    I love moon without being there.

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  • IBT

    Daily writing prompt
    What food would you say is your specialty?
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    Interesting Book Titles, that’s the food I can say is my specialty.

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  • To breathe

    We may find the urge to travel to just breathe in a different air, to feel a different air on the skin…

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  • Typology

    Typology.

    There are types of typology. But I am fascinated by just the sound and the simple spelling of the word Typology, and all that I may be able explore through books carrying Typology in their titles.

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  • I’ve witnessed this

    What makes a good neighbor?

    What all make a good neighbor?

    • Cleanliness
    • Respecting territorial boundaries
    • Sharing good preparations
    • Mutual invitations to celebrate
    • Raising voice together in situations of unfairness or unreasonableness

    That looks like a lot.

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  • Who remembers all such things?

    Daily writing prompt
    When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?
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    Who remembers all such things?

    May be the first time I was made to put my signature on a dotted line, and the realization that this signature can make things happen.

    Don’t I feel like a grown-up when I feel guilty?

    Or, when I have to handle the fuss before taking a big decision? What would be a non-grown-up’s way of handling the fuss before taking big decisions? Fuss, or the handling of it makes one grown-up I guess. In which case, I grew up long long long back. But I do not remember the first time, as asked in the question. I can tell though that some moment of fuss while taking a decision preceded the moment of the first time I was made to put my signature on a dotted line, and the realization of the power of that signature.

    I don’t know, am confused what exactly constitutes a grown-up. Foolishness abounds.

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  • Not sufficient?

    Daily writing prompt
    If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to?
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    How much is million dollars?

    I have 3 ideas at the moment dominating my thoughts:

    1. Tennis Vacation
    2. Boatiness
    3. Aircan

    I would give a million dollars to myself. Million dollars isn’t sufficient, or is it?

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  • Breathtakers

    Breathtaking and breathless. A related expression to breathless is ‘out of breath’. Am I getting this right?

    What is the difference between breathtaking and breathless?

    When you sprint, is it breathtaking and is it breathlessness inducing?

    When you scroll through your Instagram feed, is it breathtaking and breathlessness inducing?

    Breathtaking and breathlessness inducing, both can cause death?

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  • Experiments in Stubbornness

    Daily writing prompt
    Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.
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    Treat your own behavior as ‘experiments’. And make sure that one of your experiments is ‘stubbornness’.

    You’ve to be stubborn, and record your experiences emerging out of your stubbornness.

    That’s the surest way of understanding and making good of your thoughts, ideas or ambitions.

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  • Tried a beading pattern

    And turned out beautiful. Have a look.

    Encouraging for me. Will try some more patterns in the coming days.

    www.mississippiearrings.com

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  • Difficult

    What are you doing this evening?

    Having a difficult conversation with a difficult person.

    I will update this, if it is worth it.

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    1. caseymariez Avatar
      caseymariez

      Ho hum. Guess it wasn’t worth it.

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      1. Siddharth Soni Avatar
        Siddharth Soni

        😀 r u good at spamming?

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        1. caseymariez Avatar
          caseymariez

          What?

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    2. joyfulstephanie Avatar
      joyfulstephanie

      Good luck. Sending positive vibes. 🌻

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      1. Siddharth Soni Avatar
        Siddharth Soni

        🙏💐

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  • Thread

    Unpredictable

    Contingent

    Mood Swings

    There’s a thread there.

    A rope to traipse on.

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  • AA

    What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?

    Ambiguous Answers/ Statements/ Compliments

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  • Avoiding the horror

    Interview someone — a friend, another blogger, your mother, the mailman — and write a post based on their responses.

    Huh! I interview myself in the company of good writers almost every day.

    So, I asked myself an important question:

    Why did they, the ancients take the trouble to carve out rocks and stone to produce all the temples across the length and breadth of present day India and around India?

    My response to myself: To avoid the horror, rather the boredom, of ugly information. They knew it, not in these very words, but they knew it. And that was only way of information storage they knew.

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  • 😀

    What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?

    Few questions as immediacy-oriented as this one.

    This couldn’t have been asked in the year 1989. Come to think of it.

    And that ‘why’ will kill you if you really are honest.

    I was looking for a Nikon Z mount DX lens that ends up around 35mm focal length in equivalent full-frame terms.

    Why? Just like that. To have a camera to fiddle buttons on and create pictures. I already 3 very good cameras, mind you. Sorry, wait, I have 8 good cameras. You see, ‘why’ can kill you.

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  • When does it become memory?

    I just came across a book title WHEN WE ARE NO MORE: HOW DIGITAL MEMORY IS SHAPING OUR FUTURE.

    How easy to lure us into thinking that it is DIGITAL MEMORY!

    It is storage. DIGITAL STORAGE.

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