Subject: random thoughts-2 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 11:46:13 -0400 From: sankar People, Hope you are all having a good day. Here are more random thoughts. Please let me know if you don't wish to receive such e-mail. Sankar 1. Human beings are meant to wake up with the sun (like all other animals). It makes me feel more energetic and fresh throughout the day. More sleep or sleeping after dawn only seems to make me lethargic and dull. 2. I think I saw George Stephanopoulos walking on M street, talking on his cell, around 8 am saturday. I was on my usual weekend morning hike. Also think it was a flock of double-crested cormorants that I saw on said hike on some trees along the edge of the river. Looked like the trees were bearing big black fruit from a distance. 3. Schubert's piano concerto in A major sounds really good on a rainy, grey, quiet day. Other candidates: Bach's English suite, Chopin's Nocturnes. 4. Think Italians are the best lovers among Europeans."Ti amo" sounds so much better than "te quiero" or even "je t'aime." "I love you" is okay. "Ich liebe dich"? Need to work on that, Herr Goethe. 5. Hilarious news item: (from a Newsweek article on Lear Corp., which designs car seats) Bonny Thomas, who oversees Lear's consumer research, has even taken Lear's research on the road. She has mapped bottoms in Europe and Asia. And besides gathering important data to build better seats, Thomas has discovered an interesting physiological difference among seat sitters around the world. Americans, she says, have the largest rear ends in the world.: -----------------------------179926848315881603741137157255 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="userfile"; filename="rt1.txt" Content-Type: text/plain From: sankar [mailto:sankar@scs.howard.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:44 PM Subject: random thoughts Some random thoughts (now, THIS message is truly random, Ms. Lopez :-) ) that popped up in my head recently: 1. Anything can be fun as long as you don't try to judge whether it is fun or if it is making you happy, etc., and just do it, go with the flow and stay curious. As evidence, I present to you some things I was able to enjoy during the immediate past that previously I didn't think I'd enjoy: Riding my bike for two hours in a steady drizzle on sunday along the Potomac; Watching a bunch of burly beer-bellied canadian men of all ages play rugby in said drizzle (these canadians--they are born with a special set of neurons for humour) at Gravelly pt; Watching basketball in a dim-lit cavernous restaurant with only middle aged Ethiopian men while listening to (and really enjoying) Ethiopian muzak on last night ( also realised monday night is the time to hang out with your buddies). 2. The best way to choose a video is to go to the video store and walk around randomly and just pick one -- I don't ever do this but will try soon -- because half the fun of watching a video is in just watching it. 3. Jogging in a different route every time can be liberating -- have been trying this the past few times I went jogging. 4. Most people like it when strangers talk to them -- you just have to shrug off the initial raised eyebrow--avoiding eye-contact--reticence. 5. Sometimes actual news items can be more hilarious than the best Seinfeld one-liner. Here is an exhibit from a recent article on the NFL draft: Miami tackle Bryant McKinnie, at 6-8 and 343 pounds, reportedly has never allowed a sack. He didn't play football in high school, and is still growing, a scary prospect for all those 280-pound defensive ends who'll be trying to get around him for the next 10 years. Okay, got to get back to work. S