While your lips are still red
Nightwish is one of my favourite bands. The album “Once” has always succeded to cheer me up (a.k.a “don’t give a shit” mode: Advanced) when I am obssessed with my profesionality of magnifying tiny, unworthy things as if I should pay attention them. Anyway, in short, I love this band.
If you follow the metal music world, then you must have probably heard that Tarja, the Goddess of Nightwish, left / was kicked away from the band. The past is past. So I don’t see any point in discussing Tarja’s farewell. Moreover, I started this topic for only one reason: To recommend you listen to the new ballad “While your lips are still red” of Nightwish.
Here is the lyrics:
Sweet little words made for silence
Not so young, heartfelt love not heartache
Dark hair fall, catch in the wind
Light the way, the sight of a cold world
Kiss,
While your lips are still red
While he’s still in silent rest
A bosom is still untouched
Unveiled on another hair
While the hand’s still without a tool
Drown into eyes while they’re still blind
Love while the night still hides the withering dawn
First day of love never comes back
Compassion, its power’s never a wasted wrong
The violin, the poet’s hand
Every thawing heart plays your theme wïth care
More detail: “While Your Lips Are Still Red” music from Markku Pölönen Film Lieksa! by Tuomas Holopainen/Marco Hietala. Music/Lyrics Tuomas Holopainen
Vocals Marco Hietala
Film Lieksa! will be relased on 14.9 in Finland. Cast in this video is Jenni Banerjee, Peter Franzen and Samuli Vauramo.
Synopsis – shortly.
The Koppelos are an old family of tailors way back from the court of Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia. They are in constant journey for the place of their happier future. For them “El Dorado” is a town called Lieksa.
Love, hate and troubles of all kind, that`s life, but like in almost every road movie, the journey it self here is the point. “Your home is where your heart is.” {This comment is taken from the YouTube link provided above.}
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Books #1
Okay. As I told you before, I am not a fan of “books”. I am not educated to be so. I rarely pick up some books and try to finish them unless I get bored after the first 10-20 pages. I will write down some books that I am currently reading, and if by some chance I finish them, I am going to try to make some comments on them.
2 days ago I got two books from the library.
- The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
I have no particular interest in this Dawkins. I am kinda interested in the evolution theory (given that I am a creationist), and it would be nice to read some books defending the evolution theory by pointing out -the rumour says- strong arguments. I made a quick search and met with The Blind Watchmaker in which Dawkins tries to explain the evolution theory of Darwin by trying to refute the opposite arguments. I have just started reading this book. It is too early to make a worthy comment on this book, however, there have so far two things that bothered me:
- I agree with him that you cannot really convey an idea or theory unless you completely believe it by each of your cells. However, I think it is not the case for this book. In my opinion, he is passionately and totally blinded by the evolution theory that you can see “everything besides the evolution theory is just crap, and Darwin is the God himself”. As I commented before, this is a comment on his style after I read only 20 pages. I do not know if he continues with that for rest.
- He aims to reach to the readers at any level. I know that it is a difficult task to begin with, and you may create a mess while trying to come up with a clear text. For the 20 pages left behind, it was a total mess. But since it is an introduction chapter, I think it is not a vital problem. I just wanted to note this.
The other book is The Selfish Gene. I suppose it argues some ideas on how our genes affect our behaviours. It is going to be quite interesting to read some stuff on this.
My Reading List (a.k.a. To Read List)
- Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
- Metaphysics of Love by Arthur Schopenhauer (I started this book, and read about 20-30 pages, however, I stopped reading it since I had a project assignment.)
- The Cathcer in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
On-going Readings
- Freakonomics by Steve Levitt (Absolutely an interesting book on economics)
- How to Lie with Statistics by Darrel Huff (Quite an old book)
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Nice quotes
Here are some nice quotes I have fetched so far from here and there. Enjoy them. I will update this list periodically.
[1] “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.”
Comment: There is a considerable difference between theory and practice. Some guys like myself go with “reality sucks”, and raise hands for ‘theory’. Some guys take the red pill, and enjoy the Matrix, where practice reigns.
[2] “First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. They they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.” – Pastor Martin Niemoller, 1945, Germany
[3] Light travels faster than sound, which is why some people appear smart before you hear them speak.
[4] To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. – Chinese proverb
Comment: Unless you are not so arrogant to ask.
[5] “Vermutlich haben sie mit der terrestrischen venus so viel zu schaffen, dass sie die himmlische darüber vergessen.”
Comment: This quote was communicated to Carl Friedrich by one of his friends when Gauss concentrated so much on his wife that his works -that were used to appear incredibly often- began to appear rarely. Gauss is one of the most productive scientists ever. In this quote taken from a letter, his friend says Gauss, “I suppose you are so busy with the Venus on earth (referring to Gauss’ wife) that you forgot the heavenly one. (referring to mathematics, physics, astronomy)”
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Tags: Chinese proverb, Gauss, nice quotes, Pastor Martin Niemoller
Statistics and this blog
Hey,
Okay. I will -at least- try to be direct and to-the-point while I am using this blog: I hate Statistics. It is not because it is said to be hard, and a lot of mathematics. I do love mathematics, and I do not think Statistics is hard. We humans are intrinsically Statisticians. [1] However, there is something that I do not feel comfortable with Statistics. It is really not nice to play around with some data sets. I do not know. Maybe I just got bored of my Applied Statistics homework, and…. Wait. I created this blog minutes ago, and I admit that it has a lot to do with getting-bored-of-my-Applied-Statistics-homework. However, I was already planning to create a blog to communicate some stuff with Internet wanderers. In this manner, Statistics can be said to trigger me to create this blog. Okay, I think I am making it long, so just proceed to next paragraph where I tell the story about “Autoregression”.
Actually, there is not much a story. I was asked to pick up a blog name, and the first word that came to my mind was Autoregression. I was just reading a passage about Autoregression, that’s why it was the first. Otherwise, I am not a freak thinking of some Statistics terminology all day long.
During this blog I will be trying to communicate my ideas on various topics. I plan this blog to be an e-diary, recommendation / criticism / review corner. {Unfortunately, there might appear some posts on Statistiscs, such as Monty Hall problem.}
I will be posting in a few minutes. See you on the next post!!!
[1] I would recommend the book called “How to Lie with Statistics” by Darrel Huff to those who want to go deeper in human nature and its tendancy to use Statistics in daily life. One confess here: I started this book, and read about 8-10 pages. I am not very into reading books. The recommendation is based on the fancy and yet quite interesting title of the book.
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