Hubble in a camera?

Courtesy: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5333991

"Absolutely monstrous" , how else can you describe this picture!

As somebody pointed out " I guess this is the type of lens that you could shoot a flying mosquito from a thousand feet and tell if its a male or female". From what I learnt the longer ones are possibly 600 mm lens which can achieve a magnification of 144x. They are used in wildlife photography, where you can shoot the wildlife at a distance without disturbing them. You need these man-made beasts to capture the beasts of nature. You could buy yourself a brand new Accord by selling the stuffs she has strapped around.

Wintrodynamics

As you make the transition to winter months, a typical day may be less productive due to the following reasons.
->Inertia to wake up - increases with decreasing temperatures -> potentially 1/2 hour to 1 hour delay in getting up from bed.
->Increase in shower time - If you feel like spending the rest of the day in the warm water on a wintry day, you know what I'm talking about -> 10 minutes to upto 1/2 hour increase
=> Delay in getting to office - On an average 1 hour delay in reaching office due to the above reasons.
->Shorter days-Thanks to daylight savings, it gets dark soon. It has a psychological effect, doesn't it? Feels like good amount of useful time is already gone, time to go home. Typically you might leave an hour earlier.
==>less productivity - Above things add up to bring down your productivity. Your work day shrinks down on an average by a good 2 hours.

There is an innate positive feedback during wintry months, resulting in increased laziness, which left unchecked can be a disaster.
=> Cold temperatures -> less outdoor activity -> couch potato -> potentially results in increased laziness (results in more procrastination and so on) -> less outdoor activity -> couch potato->..........

Only a rise in will power can stabilise the system. Normally people are bound to stabilise the system by impending deadlines at work or home or for numerous other reasons.

Organized mess

If you are yet another lazy bugger, then I'm sure you would have felt badly about being disorganized, at least once in life. These days there is so much data floating around us, it can be quite tedious to cull the essentials from the heap. Yet order needs to be restored sooner or later before chaos starts to rule your world. People don't like chaos because it can be quite frustrating, highly inefficient etc. I totally agree with it.

If efficiency is what we target as a result of being organized, being organized by itself consumes some overhead, which in effect brings down the efficiency. The question arises as to how organized we need to be. Generally speaking, I visualize a curve as shown below (click on the image to enlarge it)




X axis shows the time it takes to reach a level of organization(Y axis)

If you really want to maximize your efficiency, you should be targeting somewhere around the knee of the curve. Thats what I call an organized mess. After all there might be little to no benefit in trying to be a perfectionist.