Public Blog of Satya Komatineni

20-May-13). Kaalalu (Recipes)

Kaalalu

20-May-13). Breakfast Diaries (Health)

Breakfast Diaries

13-May-13). Boss (Shells)

I came here uninvited,
Like a River drawn by the slope.
I have no Over Lord.

Yet, uninstructed, as it is my way,
That I shall enrich the lands and minds,
That I pass by!

Precisely, perhaps, as desired by the
Lord that mandated the Slope,
Which at times appear as,
Gravity,
Incline,
Drift,
Charm,
Beauty,
Even Service!

13-May-13). At Work (Shells)

Day turns to Night,
Night turns into Day,

Behind me, before me, and then all around,
Shades of light wax, wane, and turn,
As in a heaving bosom,
Mornings rise and fall.

Like the dried up bark of a Joshua tree,
I press on to my tomorrow,
For 5000 years.

Still working,
Through Rain, chill, and frost,
Through Skies clear, blue, and stormy.

11-May-13). Understand parcellable (Android 1.5)

Understand parcellable

10-May-13). Women Pioneers in Medicine (05.10-Letters To My Daughter)

Women Pioneers in Medicine

9-May-13). Stanton Multi (Humanities Current)

Stanton Multi

9-May-13). What is facebook OpenGraph (00.15-Research)

What is facebook OpenGraph

8-May-13). #GreatWriters Nannapaneni Narayana Rao on Electro Magnetism (Books)

#GreatWriters Narayan Rao on Electro Magnetism

6-May-13). Exploring Push Notifications with Parse (Parse Cloud)

Exploring Push Notifications with Parse

4-May-13). Being Smart! (Shells)

Every puzzle,
Every Trick,
Every Legerdemain,
Every Idea that is brilliant,
Are like the master Notes of a Composition.

Not for the Notes,
But Search for the Composition,
as it is that which is the genesis,
Of the Puzzle,
Of the Trick,
Of the Legerdemain,
Of every idea that is Brilliant!

4-May-13). Notification Manager (Android 1.5)

Notification Manager

4-May-13). How do you analyze and address anxious thoughts? (Health)

It is often suggested that one uses meditation to address anxious thoughts. I have failed utterly every time I sit to watch my breath. The pinnacle I have reached is count to 10!!! The usual result is an attack of the Super Sleepiness!

So this is still a problem for me. However there is one activity that seem to help. I really need someone to discover an "advil" for anxiety. I don't know if one exists, at least legally anyways.

Here is a quick list that seem to help me a bit.

Getting up early on weekends in the morning to a quiet home
A cup of coffee
Reading a National newspaper that rises above the local din
A very long walk (about 2 hours)
A good movie
Old familiar music with character and complexity
Working with my kids on Math, or Science, or Language

Most of these lowers my anxiety, the first part, but don't address the anxiety. Except for the very long walk.

Here is how it works. (Mind you it has to be a long walk.) In the first 40 minutes there are so many buzzing thoughts hitting each other as you walk. You can try to initiate a thought that is a good constructive thought. The mind will be going back and forth and slowly comes around to the good thought. In that sense I call walking the converter of bad thoughts to good thoughts.

At about an hour into the walking you enter a slightly better physiological state where the body is relaxed and walking becomes natural and you start breathing from the stomach and not lungs.

By this hour you tend to latch on to the productive thoughts and they become crystalized. You form these conclusive opinions on the actions that you need to do. Or you start seeing these crystalized truths after discarding all the negative emotions.

yes it does happen. A good 70% of the time. It may be different for you. But the walk has to be long. And may be alone! I have never done to this level when walking together with others. Quietness and Movement seem to be essential to do this.

3-May-13). Much about Brain (Health)

This is a collection of various articles related to Brain. I have no idea if they are true or otherwise. Merely collecting information, so use it as you see fit. In general if something smells fishy it probably is, except rarely. So use your judgement with all miracles!

3-May-13). A fastway to cook Eggplant (Recipes)

A fastway to cook Eggplant

3-May-13). Tea Diaries (Health)

Tea Diaries

2-May-13). Research log on push notifications (Parse Cloud)

This research log looks into the push notification capabilities of parse.com. It also gives out a few code samples to test various scenarios. I will have a formal article soon here based on this information here.

2-May-13). How to use a broadcast receiver (Android 1.5)

How to use a broadcast receiver

1-May-13). Beginer Code snippets and code samples for Android (Android 1.5)

Direct code snippets and links to other places where you can get more code snippets.

30-Apr-13). Emulator issues in Android 4.0 (Android Avds, Install, Emulator)

Emulator issues in Android 4.0

23-Apr-13). Seeking Evolution (Shells)

I roam freely as long and as far my limbs let me.
I see the abundant green canopies sway in soothing gait.
I am free and no one could judge otherwise.

No one hurt me.
I am not a prisoner.
I have all one can ask! Freedom.

I saw a Pa and a Son,
On a spring evening coming to a close.
A slushy mat of rolling grass,
barely drained of the morning pours.

A ball is pitched.
A hit! Run and get it!
A miss! Run again and Repeat.

Say I, "You want a catcher?"
Caught a few right in the Mitt,
And just one on the nape of my Wrist,
Pride moved the dusk along.

Move a door ajar,
Hold a cup,
Turn a wheel,
It is a tortuous pain a few dusks forward.

It is not sudden,
It is not unbearable,
Yet on every movement,
Guttorally "ouuuuuuu...",
If not me, perhaps for the World to bear,
it is so painful!

I have no misgivings,
that I am anything like a tiger,
but wailed like one on each step,
whose shoulder dislocated a few days prior

For the first time in a long time I am alive,
Complacency to my wrist is a distant memory!

With each blinding pain, I wondered,
Whose heart is wrenched?
Whose eyes swelled an Ocean?

I stare!
I am not a prisoner!
I am free!

A horse, a cat,
a dog, a human,
Aren't we all, when naked of norms,
Alone?

Perhaps it is early morning,
and the dusk of Evolution is far!

23-Apr-13). Can I place unique constraints on columns in Parse? (Parse Cloud)

Can I place unique constraints on columns in Parse?

22-Apr-13). Enhancing Parse with Parcelables: An article (Parse Cloud)

This article talks about how to parcel parse objects so that the target activities can receive parse objects through intents. Parse objects don't natively support any form of serialization. So the approach presented here is an approximation of sending parse object through a parcelable and would meet most simple needs.

22-Apr-13). Defining Present (Shells)

Present is not benevolent,
Present is not kind,
Nor is it anger or revenge,
Neither, as such, it is ambivalent,
It demands none nor favors any,
For Present is not a state of mind!
 
Present is not a zero hour,
Present is not at 8,
Nor is it at 5 and quarter,
Neither, as such, it is temporal,
Although perhaps of Time,
Present is not a moment in Time.
 
Present is not quiet,
Present is slow or slower,
Present is fast or faster,
For sure, say I, Present moves!
 
By Counts and Clocks,
Present is when you make not,
An Account it!!
Allowed duration for a task,
Mundane or Profound,
When Exceeds infinitum,
Present then Is for all foreseeable future!

21-Apr-13). Slowing Time (Shells)

When you tie your shoes,
Seconds, or a Minute, they will be tied!
Why count?

When you read a Book,
It will be read!
Why flip again and again,
Only to see "How much left?"

When going to Disney,
why ask,
"Are we there yet?"

Be it tieing shoes,
Or Reading a Book,
Or going to Disney,
They all take what they take.

Pondering the end before due,
is only going to ruin the Joy,
Which otherwise could have been!!
Or delay precisely what you seek.
And worse, could manifest plaques,
Alas, Of the Arterial type.

Why sprint,
Slow the Time instead!

20-Apr-13). Rabindranath Maitra and Manmoyee Girls School (Humanities Current)

Rabindranath Maitra and Manmoyee Girls School

19-Apr-13). A Simple Choice (Shells)

A fork in the road,
I have found myself at.

The first path straight in all its turns,
The other perhaps curvy all the way.

Neither I know well enough for bias.
I could take any as they both get me there.

I agonize, instead.
"is this right or that?
Would I regret?
Would one be too long?
Or the other hard?"

I asked a Sage, the Siri, the Oracle, 
And even an 8 ball!
"How should I lead?"

They all replied the same!!!

"Take any as it matters little which!
Matters most is you commit to what you choose.

Yet be there a lingering doubt,
Take the one that perhaps be harder,
as in equal proportion it would be rewarding!"

15-Apr-13). We (Shells)

Naadi, Nenu, Naaku,
Maaku, Memu, Manadi,
Us, I, We, Ours,
Mine, Mine, or Me!!

Would be perfectly alright,
If uttered,
By a well dweller,
Or a bridled horse with blinders!

Else should heed Krak des Chevaliers:
"Grace, wisdom and beauty you may enjoy, 
but beware pride, 
which alone can tarnish all the rest"

15-Apr-13). Cloud, Salesforce, Amazon (00.15-Research)

Cloud, Salesforce, Amazon

15-Apr-13). Playing with Parse for Android Apps (Parse Cloud)

These are working notes the BAAS platform Parse. This is going to be a new chapter in our upcoming book. We are also developing a few apps with Parse as the backend. It has been a wonderful experience so far.