Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

Archive for October, 2004

Rotten Science

By Kamangir • Oct 30th, 2004 • Category: Iran

I am too concerned about the philosophy of science. A few days ago, Koroush, Ali, Ali, and me had a little chat about it. One of the main conclusions was so astonishing, or ask me, I will say deeply disgusting. It seems that science has turned into some kind of religion. Nobody is really thinking [...]



Politics? Never heard of!

By Kamangir • Oct 26th, 2004 • Category: Iran

Sharon is proposing a plan to withdraw Israeli forces from Gaza. He is the very man known for his rule in army as an activist for spreading the territories of the actual Zion. He is one of the key figures behind Sabra and Shatila slaughters. Is’nt he out of his mind? Bill Clinton has just [...]



The oath or the cock’s tail?

By Kamangir • Oct 26th, 2004 • Category: Iran

A Persian proverb says one day a fox stole a rooster. When he was carrying the rooster in a bag, to somewhere he could eat it, a man saw him. He asked him, a rooster is lost, have you seen it? The fox said, “I swear to God I have nothing to do with that [...]



The matter of dimension.

By Kamangir • Oct 26th, 2004 • Category: Iran

I was just listening to BCC. There was some news there about the recent operations of the Israeli army in Gaza. As the reporter was mentioning, the army has killed about 14 people including children just today. The name Gaza was so familiar for me, as I remembered the book Sinoha (I am not sure [...]



Fascinating webpage.

By Kamangir • Oct 19th, 2004 • Category: Iran

 
I was watching the clickonline program in BBC today. There, I found this TrekEarth thing. It is fascinating.



Technology vs. Science.

By Kamangir • Oct 19th, 2004 • Category: Iran

Today I was in this “Video Processing” class. In the class room you hear of many sophisticated methodologies and scientific approaches, but when you come to the real world, there is not much of that available.
For example, a few years ago the MPEG1 stnadard was legalized. Nowadays, everybody thinks about MPEG1 as something easily available [...]



Happy Ramadan!

By Kamangir • Oct 18th, 2004 • Category: Islam

The holy month of Ramadan has just begun in the Islamic world. Mulsims fast in Ramadan days. They neither eat nor drink from about 5AM to 5PM. At the mornings the family gathers for the “Sahari”, the food eaten at the early morning and then they keep being hungry for the rest of the day. [...]



TOEFL? So easy!

By Kamangir • Oct 18th, 2004 • Category: Iran

Are you going to take the TOEFL exam in near future? Are you so affraid? Do you keep transferring your worries to others? Are you that kind of people that “talk” about things ten times more than you realy “work” on them?
I know a place where such people gather every day. It’s Sharif [...]



The modeling game.

By Kamangir • Oct 17th, 2004 • Category: Iran

When Aristotle, Euclide, and other ancient greece philosophers started to think about systematizing the science, they had no idea about the “noise” concept, introduced thousands of years later. In fact, the human race have longly neglected the fact that the world is full of fuzzy bundled things that perform in tedious manner. Assume a worker. [...]



200$ Bank Note!

By Kamangir • Oct 17th, 2004 • Category: Iran

Police in Kentucky are looking for a customer who succeeded in paying for a $2 order at a fast-food restaurant with a phony $200 bill like the one passed in Pennsylvania. The back of the bill features lawn signs saying things such as “We like broccoli.” Read the full story in MSNBC.
 



Hello World!

By Kamangir • Oct 17th, 2004 • Category: Iran

This is the birth of this weblog. I am not sure that I am going to continue this game, but it seems nice right now. My close friends will almost kill me when they read this phrases, because I have had long discussions with them against such nasty things as weblogs. I am not sure [...]