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No, no. These lines are not from some comment based marketing, nor did the blog-marketing people mistakenly post their ad on my blog
( They do that in the comments section though ).
They are valid lines of this post.

Now, this post of mine sounds more like a marketing ad than like a post.
However, the content I have is more related to the word 'marketing'.
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No prizes for guessing. My next post will be based on one of the ideas mentioned there, most probably the first one - "How to . . ." ;)

an irreversible process

It was long back when we had Chemistry laboratory and we would experiment with all the salts and chemicals.
It was great fun. Some of them tasted sour, some of them more sour.
So, for a second, I thought it would be good to conduct a simple experiment, to revive all those memories of lab reports, practical etc.
Thus started my experiment.

I set out with a slightly bigger aim - I should successfully complete the experiment and the experiment should be useful to someone in one or the other way.
So here was my aim - "to increase the entropy of the universe". Now that the aim is defined, I set out to gather the apparatus needed for the experiment.
I really missed the burettes, the conical flask, the catalyst solutions and most importantly the pipette, which helped me taste the sweet chemicals, for these were not useful in the experiment I wanted to conduct.
Procedure was quite simple. Thermodynamics says that the entropy of the universe can be increased by an irreversible process. So to carry out my experiment, I had to find an irreversible process. But the other part of the aim was a bit difficult. What kind of irreversible processes are helpful to others?
When you don't know what side effects a process can result in, its always dangerous to execute an irreversible process. It can do more harm than help.
Finally, after a great bit of thinking, I found an irreversible process. Yes, it was both harmless, not at least for others, and it is useful in a way.
Thanks to my Chemistry professor who once mentioned that this kind of processes are also helpful in some ways.
So one Sunday morning, I had a hair cut. Yes, the irreversible process was executed, though it was a temporary irreversible process.
Observation - Entropy of the universe increased. But I couldn't exactly measure by how much it has increased, owing to my poor knowledge of formulae and stuff.
Result - Experiment conducted and aim reached. Oh, I forgot to mention that this experiment of mine has provided some extra stuff to work on, to the alpha-keratin research community experimenting on the keratin content in human hair. So it was both helpful and also successful.

the eye or the ear

A guy calls his s/w friend and says, "Dude, you know what! I got a job in XYZ, awesome package, great work and all".
And the s/w friend replies, "Sh!t, this happens every time. Not again!!!"
The first guy - "What??!!!???!!"
Poor guy, little does he know that the message on the monitor of his friend has "FATAL Exception occured!! Please shut down." flashing in red on it.

And the topic - The eye or the ear.
No doubt both these sensory organs are the most important, but when a conflict arises, which one of these does the brain prefer?
The one you see or the one you hear? Is it a general phenomenon that the message you see has priority over the ones you hear?
Is it context and the importance of the message that decide which one is preferred?

But given the same message and the same priority, which one does the brain understand first? The one read or the one heard?
In that case may be the language of the message and the complexity of the sentence are the deciding factors.
Seems like this topic is much more complex. Leaving it here, with a few questions unanswered.