Poetry In Small Pieces

I know what you are thinking. This blog has been reduced to just refrences to things I read and want to keep for future. Well cant help it, unless until I get a better device than my computer to post online. Came across this excellent poet : Monica Mody's blog titled In Small Pieces
Her poems are soft and sensous like old Hindi film song.
I have always been enthralled by creative people, partly because this is something I have always desired to have and I dont know why. May be because I have always seen my parents who have been my role model throughout as Operational people, and they have been brilliant at that frankly speaking.
May be it has something to do with my disillusion with money and the ways people adopt to make it. Most of the time they dont create but resell. Someday I would write more on this.
As for now, I just loved Miss Monica's I want you
May she brings recognition to the country and the family with her poems.

US Patent Woes

So much for free society. I have always thought of US as stupidly litiguos. And here is something which supports me.
Read IEEE Spectrum's analysis of the malaise of the current Patent regime in US.
I think patents are hurdles in the progress of mankind. They are impediments in the pursuit of happiness. If we calculate the total energy spent on all the patents and on fighting legal battles on the same, its really not worth it.
Look at it...I remeber reading that US PTO grants some 30 odd patents on toilet design every year...God damn it, none of them have solved the problem of the water required to flush a toilet. If sulabh was patented, would it have been a revolution it has been today?

You are wrong Mr. Behrendt...

Not sure how many of you guys are a fans of Sex and the City...here is a book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo advising women on dating and stuff...On asked why he choose to call it 'He's Just Not That Into You' and not 'She's Just Not That Into You', he says ""Sure, we could have written that book," he says. "And about eight guys would have bought it." (http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/11/29/books.hes.not.into.you.ap/index.html)

Going by what I have seen (and unfortunately experienced) I am sure the book would have sold millions...

HimS
PS: What do you think about this? Lets write a book?

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