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Tread Softly, Johnny Walker!

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet,
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
This, of course, [...]

2010 01 16 yzt ignore Comments (2)

The Human and the Machine

I was watching George Dyson’s interesting presentation at TED about birth of the digital computer, and something rather frightening occurred to me.
When I started out with computers, maybe 18 years ago, I was in awe of them. Computers and what they did were a closed book to me, the way a great musician’s work is [...]

2009 12 16 yzt programming
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Tonight was the first time ever that I drank alone. I was, am, in a very bad mood. I sat on my couch and downed a third of bottle of whiskey, and then I cooked for myself too (that’s almost another first.) No matter how hard I try to forget what I did that led [...]

2009 10 30 yzt ignore
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Self-justifying Choices

Running away is a solution to many things. Giving up, throwing in the towel, passing the buck, unshouldering the burden, admitting your incapability, playing dead…
It’s a perfect solution for mediocrity, isn’t it?
If you thought that was the rant, you’re sourly mistaken. Here it is.
Let’s try a thought experiment. Nothing real, just a wild and fantastical [...]

2009 08 05 yzt entertainment
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Apathy Their Stepping Stone

Justice Is Lost
Justice Is Raped
Justice Is Gone…
…And no justice for all, because a bunch of petty, raisin-brained dictator-wannabes wanna be dictators. And frak them all.

2009 06 20 yzt frak-them
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جای خوب و خلوت

بیشتر مردم دو مادر بزرگ و دو پدربزرگ دارند. پدرِ پدرم قبل از اینکه من – نوه اولش – به دنیا بیایم مرد. تنها چیزی که از او می‌دانم نامش است و شغلش و تنها نشانه‌اش دو سه عکس‌ای است که از او دیده‌ام. از مادرِ پدرم هنوز قیافه‌ای به یاد دارم. او هم وقتی [...]

2009 05 22 yzt ignore Comments (5)

Positive Thinking

I’m always a positive person and I always think positive. I firmly believe that today can never be as bad as tomorrow and this year cannot compete with the next in sucking. Therefore, we have every reason to be happy and cherish every moment of our lives.
To misuse the famous lyrics, “Carpe diem, baby!”

2009 05 01 yzt rants Comments (2)

Unbearably Excruciating Pains for Unbelievably Small People

ای کوه تو فریاد من امروز شنیدی
دردیست در این سینه که همزاد جهان است
از داد و وداع آن همه گفتند و نکردند
یا رب چقدَر فاصله دست و زبان است
خون می‌رود از دیده در این کنج صبوری
این صبر که من میکنم افشردن جان است

We have all tasted that feeling… when you’re alone and you’re cold inside; [...]

2009 04 26 yzt Poetry
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Useless, Egoistic Self-pity

Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
That’s Sir Walter Scott. I can’t say I know one end of poetry from the other… well, that’s it. I have no point to make there!

2009 04 21 yzt Poetry
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New Year Delusion

You will not become a better person with the turn of the year. You will not suddenly become more lucky, more handsome or more successful. Your life will not suddenly and magically flip over for the better. Your family will not become the ideal family. Your investments won’t start paying off the moment the year [...]

2009 03 19 yzt rants Comments (7)

Irregular Being

I am sometimes, rarely, full of energy and activity and hope. I want to change the world (small parts of it anyway) and I feel I just might be able to. Most of the time, I do absolutely nothing of any value to anyone, including myself, and I don’t want to. If I were a [...]

2009 02 13 yzt rants Comments (4)

Fight, Cut, Kill

(This has nothing to do with BiteFight. This was an old draft of mine which I took off the dusty shelf, in part by means of inspiration from this.)
I am finished doing what I swore an oath to God 28 years ago to never do again. I’ve created, “something that kills people.” And in that [...]

2008 12 27 yzt Quotes Comments (1)

Snowshed

Here’s a new idea: listen to Opeth’s “Watershed” album while walking in heavy, dry and driving snow.
You should give it a try sometime.

2008 12 16 yzt General
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