Kids’s story two

For your consideration and enjoyment readers: 

There it is: kids’ story 2

There once was a little mouse much like jerry living near a 
cabin by the lake.

THe wild goose fly around the lake, calls of the wild foxes are 
heard during the night.

Some days it get so much colder and wet and windy that the 
trees start to talk to each other. Such was the environment this mouse lived in. 

This little mouse was scared of all these things for he was so small that the wildness of nature was too hard for his little mouse mind. 

There was one thing special about this mouse though, he had a 
brilliant mind. Such a mind was so naive and smart at the same 
time that it was quite difficult to fathom the depths of it.

One day on a dry sunlight day. The kind of day that you’d find if 
you woke up early one day

The mouse stumbled upon its door the lonely grandpa tortoise(don’t ask how interspecies relationship is born), Grandpa tortoise was
this century old person who seemed to have become so lonely in life that he could suck the wind out of a dementor(by this time kids should be familiar with HP). 

BTW The purpose of this inquisitive mouse mind was to invent a device to bottle up feelings like the ones that collector of coffees carry with them. These coffee drinking cockroaches as we shall call them (CDC)

The mouse after months of enquiry obtained this huge chemistry set where one could store feelings in. 
He runs to the Grandpa tortoise’s house and finds lounging in his chair smoking his old pipe with good quality aromatic cavendish tobacco. The mouse hurries for Grandps has a habit of dozing off into different dimensions. 

Finding Grandps the mouse gathers some of the loneliness from grandps and bottles it up in the vial that came with his chemistry set. 

The mouse thanks grandps and with excited face and speed in his walk reaches the tree of the great eagle. 
So named after the next of the great eagle that like on those old trees. The mouse realizing where it was quickly turns around for this is the scene of the next story… 

The mouse finding his right way reaches the doors of this goofy dog named “heyDaug” heyDaug is this very friendly character that is too social for it’s own good. ( heyDaug has been friendzoned so many times that he wonders deeply about this thing called friendship, he could probably write a thesis on that matter) anyway, heyDaug welcomes our little mouse and gives him a bit of him mind enough to fill the curiosity of the mouse. The mouse thanks his good friends and hurry back home. 

He collect the findings in chemistry set though. 
He reaches home and find that he is now in possession of these two powerful emotions, loneliness and social happiness. 

He pulls out his chemistry set without pausing to read the manual he starts off the experiment. He has dreamed of doing this experiment for a long time. Every time he imagined that this could be done he couldn’t contain his joy. 

The chemistry set was real. He took a little of the loneliness and heated it, you could say saute’d it, yeah that’s the right word. He was amazed to see the result the loneliness was actually very brilliant in nature he left it aside and heated up the social happiness from the dog, similar changes the social skills turned in to a powerful artifact of confidence. 

The last step of the experiment as you guessed it was to see what’ll happen if you mix both of this together in and 
apply heat. 

The mouse found to it’s surprise that: 

Loneliness and brilliance 
Social and confidence. 
Mixing too much these things together blows up in the face.

 

Mirrors and reflections

My first kids’ story: 

There once lived in the grasslands of a nice mountain lived a big bear.  This bear wanders the gentle rolling plains and valleys in hopes for food and searches all over the place in  vain.  It looks down smells the grass, sees the pond, looks under the rocks but fails to find food.  

It goes hungry and sad back to it’s cave somewhere vowing to start the next day early. 

Dawn breaks the gentle dew of the glowing morning drips of the greenest blade of the grass around the bear. It sees the weather and hopes to stay back at home for it knows that to just venture out in this weather would be dangerous and it was aware of the extra energy needed to do this task. 

But this time there was something in the fresh air outside, that inspired this bear to venture out.  This was a strong natural bond that attracts most bears… That it could not ignore.  

It goes out to this valley and finds a gentle lake there to wash his claws and freshen up his sleepy eyes.   

He gentle washes his face and stares socked its reflection in the pure water mirror like. 
He sees its own reflection and considers for the first time in its life the possibly that it might not be the reflection that is broken but could be the mirror that is broken.  

He realizes that he is a bear.

He remembers reading in fairy tales about bears liking honey. He has always imagined a bear with honey for some reason.   

He looks up at the tree and finds the honey and he is content for now he thinks he is indeed a bear.  

It gives undo credit to realization found the honey only because he came to the realization that he is a bear.  

Is this bear right ?

Is it really a bear? 

 Is it really you in the mirror or is your mirror broken the real you not the one you see in the mirror ! 

 

Internet is a must have

Internet is a must have for us people. This is more true to the kind of work we do….
Any time any issue pops up in our servers we want instant notification. We want to be able to go to the mental model of your system and find out if this could wait for you to finish your coffee or not.

We need data we need the information exchange between teams we need to have connectivity at all costs.

We can manage without water for a day but the Internet connectivity is a must. It is like the very extension of our mind.

When you get into this work mode nothing around you makes any difference. I for instance have worked out of a moving bus, out in a trek and from places where one would not think of work. These are the true nature of the enabling Internet.

We need to position our systems in the war field in many different places and options to allow for implementing dynamic strategies.
I have seen some systems thAt are triggered by a single file placed at the right place. Such huge operations are triggered and carried out behind the screens, one wonders what the system did at those times. Did it do the job for you for did it just lie about it and you missed it.

We don’t have the visibility there. Systems that are well positioned. These should broadcast it s location, it s metric, it should throw up debug messages if we wanted.
These have the flexbility.

Internet needs to evolve as a system.

Corrupt govt. officers a staple of Tamil Nadu

It is a shame that my father over 60 years of age has to bribe officials in the educational department and the treasury of nilgiris just to receive the death benefits of my deceased mother.

She was a government school teacher. If I knew her right she would have put her trust in the system to take care of her family.

If this is the state of things for educated, literate people in this country I hate to think what would be the case of illiterate majority.

How long should one turn a blind eye towards this atrocity. I guess the vast majority who seek rightful help from the system are left unaware of their basic rights.

We are happy to sing praises of the nation in beautiful prose that rhymes and makes one proud. Better to throw away the facade of false pride and face the abuses of reality that shoves it ugly bottom at our faces.

Special buzzer for the washing machines

I wonder who has designed this buzzer system for washing machine.
Most of the ones that I have seen have this annoying buzzz as their sound.

My aim to change this atrocity on usability

The fictional dimension

Recently came across a curious app call Tucker’s phone

Yo’d understand this immediately if you who the legendary Malcolm Tucker is.

Malcolm tucker is the  fierce character in the tv series “the thick of it.”
I’m a big fan of this show.

Malcolm tucker uses a lot of his phone during his typical day at office.
Sheparding his people for the lack of a better word.

This app is tucker s phone.  

He has lot his phone an now you get to see the fictional dimension of the character’s real life portraying his life events.

This app gives you access to his email. His voicemails and extras that is provided in a typical phone.

Even Malcolm tucker himself has left a voicemail for you to listen – the twat who has his lost phone.

I’m enjoying this level of depth in making a fiction come true

Imagine the spoof accounts that are in twitter like devious borat which provide an entertaining glimpse into the life’s of fictional characters.

Takin this to new fictional dimension is going to be the future of story telling, this app is going places.

Kishore Kumar

Sadness and grief

My mom passed away last month.  What started out as symptoms related to some UT problems was later discovered to be full blown Lymphoma.   She underwent treatment for a few months and we all hoped for a recovery and a normal life, she was even counting the days when she could rejoin the school.

I could see that the treatment was affecting her and she was getting weaker by the day.  There were times when she was real happy when her colleagues came to visit her in the hospital.  We thought the worst was behind us.   She was a positive person in all aspects and wished good things for many people and herself.

Things went out of very quickly and we were helpless. The last few days that I was with her I could see that she was becoming desperately weak. Doctors couldn’t do much, the conditioned worsened and we stuck as long as was possible.  She had somehow realized she was not going to survive and asked us to stay with her.  She passed away in the morning with the people of her side of the family and father’s side beside her.

I couldn’t panic or grow desperate even when the doctors told me she couldn’t survive. We just took necessary actions without thinking.  Her side of the family were the ones who took great pride in taking care of her in her last days.  We’re grateful for the time they gave her.

We held the cremation at her hometown in Kumbakonam, I could sadly imagine she’d have preferred that.

The next few days passed away in sadness and somehow in an realization that we’re born of the dust and become dust; the quality of our life is reflected in the actions and the people we leave behind.

I’m still sad, we do miss her and sometimes imagine her to be at home when I visit there or call. It is but the memory of the love and kindness shown to us for decades that makes me think this.  My only wish is that she would believe we were worthy of her time and love.

She was a teacher, student, a poet and one of her published poem was about her longing for her mother, how sadly apt it is to us now!

This was a harsh lesson to learn, to value people when they are alive and cherish our time with them.

I’ve always thought people were the real source of all the riches in ones life. I’m adding time as one of the things to value.

Life is not going to be the same without her….

Our Mom

Basketball in the google doodle and simulated inputs.

Was looking at the various ways people in reddit were beating the events in today’s google doodle. 

Our India page was showing shooting hoops. 

A bit of a trial and error and this my highest score so far in the game.

Simulate the player events

import pyatspi
import time 

time.sleep(5) 
count=0 
for i in range (1, 10000) :
    pyatspi.Registry.generateKeyboardEvent(65, None, pyatspi.KEY_PRESSRELEASE)
    count=count+1 
    if count < 33:
	time.sleep(0.5107)
    else:
    	time.sleep(0.6)
    print count

 My highest was 30. Try yours.

There was a failed attempt with C, check it out
Space_input

Paying for cable or ads ?

It’s ads all around.  In no less that 400 channels.    

Why don’t we just ditch cable and stick to quality channels that are sans ads. There was DW-TV available over DTH that had 0 ads.. 

I think a sleek new harddisk with quality content connected should provide hours of entertainment… 

If someone does insist on watching ads we could download some 10GB of ads in all shapes and colors and serve it up them in a loop.

Biology class at Breeks.

I was just watching this documentary about the origin of species and
it took my thoughts way back into the past when I was at school.

I was a Biology student then by choice, we had this mini lectures
that we were supposed to present to class every Friday or so in
spare classroom periods, this was Mrs. Sarah class.

My lecture was on Origin of Species (the textbook being typical of
state school quality had a page and a half about this)
I remember preparing for the lecture by borrowing a tiny book on Darwin from cousin and
reading others in the Library.

I remember fumbling about trying to talk to classmates about these ideas of evolution and
others that we’ve all learnt. We’d had gradually accumulated enough science to dispel
any myths about the origin of life. We scarcely had any ideas about creationism put inside
us in any way.

When looking at human cells under Mr.Manoharan’s microscope  we always saw them as
Animal cells. That was profound, others I meet around these days don’t identify humans as animals but as creatures straight from God’s own lap with dominion over every other living thing.

We should count ourselves lucky to have had such training and curiosity to learn in a fact based
curriculum.

I just realized how much of information I’ve understood about the matter now for I’ve not
stopped learning Biology or science in general even after years of computer studies.

I’m subconsiously thinking of refinements to my talk that I gave when in school, some may consider
it stupid to remember such details after so many years, but I can visualize myself in the dim lit
classroom clearly and hope to make a bit better.

A many of us went into engineering, I can’t think how many find those classes relevant today.

Given a chance I’d like to sit in such classes today and see if students these days learn
the same way we did back then.