You might really learn & better the last item with time & practice. Whats mystery are still the 1st two. Me too interested in getting to know things &’ll be in a constant search (not a Google search thou’). Ping me when you really felt lucky with these terms.
Meanwhile, I arrived at some intermediate answers. Here are they:
He was never a fisherman, but had a strong desire to become one. Having nothing to do today, he thought of doing some fishing. There is plenty of fish out-there in the lake nearby. He’s amateurish & wanted some fun. He took his rod & went on a float. Stopped it somewhere in the middle, hooked up a bait & dropped into the water. A few minutes passed by & still no fish. He waited.
Meanwhile, a large fish felt its boredom to be killing. It also wanted some fun. Seeing the bait, it knew that someone is out-there to play with. It came up to the surface & flipped the water with its tail fin. He got alerted with this & gave a jerk to his bait. The fish too got enthused. It came up again & popped its head to see who the bloody he is. He came to the edge of the float, to have a proper look at what this fish is upto.
The fish got a good glimpse of he & decided he to be the right person to play with. It went near the bait, took a mouthful & pulled deep inside the water. He having no support, fell in the lake & sinked eventually. Being hurt with the bait, the fish helped itself away from it & swam far-off. He was later fished-out, pale & tired, but alive.
He then lay by the shore & watched all the fishy activity. He cannot go home with nothing to eat. He needs fish to support his family. I donno when he’ll plunge.
Update #0: After the dinner today, I sat down to catchup with something on TV. Went thro’ all the movie channels & in Zee Studio, a Tom Hanks movie was running. Hoping it to be good, kept aside the remote & relaxed on the chair. Then I realized that coincidence, after watching it for a few minutes. Splash was running. Guess what? The girl whom Tom Hanks loves is a mermaid. I guess, its a kinda fish. The rest is left to your imagination. :)
December 9, 2007 at 9:50 pm
· Filed under BumpedUpon
A few days back, happened to hear Rajesh Shetty’s podcasts. In one of them, he says:
This world is moving so fast, that one has to run to stay in the place he already is!
I think, this is a fantastic thought telling all of us the kinda things that’s going around. I felt so, & as always, the thought just dampened away.
I bumped on it again; in today’s TOI’s Life supplement. Quoting from one of the articles, as said by Red Queen in “Alice in Wonderland” to Alice:
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
Is this some kinda omen, I need to pick the cues from & do something about it? May be, it is.
One might trail backwards when there’s no gravity. To keep abreast, one has to run. This is obvious. Applying the same, the gravity here is the force that the job has in you. That keeps you engaged & gets you going. You are required to do nothing extraordinary, just do things that come to your table. But this gravity dies-off quickly & you float mid-air. Not knowing that you lost your firm support, you continue to keep doing for whatever you are paid for. In the meanwhile, there are lot many people underneath you who keep abreast with this world. You being mid-air, comfortably floating in the cushions of atmosphere, cared for nothing.
One fine day, you land, to check-out on what this world is upto. To your surprise, you’ll realize that the place you landed is not the place you wanted to be. You’ll see all the people around you ran to keep-up with this world. You’ll be a victim with no one to hurt. You would have lost a race which no one had initiated. You’ll curse the plight &’ll search for the options you are left with.
Isn’t this terrible? At least, run just enough to stay.
December 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm
· Filed under WriteThings
Way back in 1998, my 1st encounter with the Internet was via www.yahoo.com. People publicized saying that one can find anything & everything in the Internet. Such a statement indirectly portraited the power of search engines. The importance of Google in www, in the recent times, just reinforces the potential of search.
Take a look at my “all time” search queries with Google:
The slump in December is because, I still have 30 more days to go. This is just Google, un-accounting things with Wikipedia & IMDB. But its hard to believe that one can do, on an average, about 400 searches a month. Thats the index about our dependency with Google or any other search engine.
Search queries are very much disjointed. Meaning, I may search for “OLPC” & once I get to know, I may move on to find out how a “Platypus is poisonous“. I may search for “Hill stations in India” one day & for “axxo” the other day. Such terms may prove meaningless in isolation but when associated with the person who queried for, one can manage to derive a lot of information. His personality & interests gets converted into related search terms. Provides a good amount of insight & introduction about the person.
With the visitor tracking tools available with the search engines, they can very well predict the various areas a particular organization is working on. Think of DRDO secretly starting to work on a Humanoid project to help-out troops in loading nuclear warheads on missiles. Google might instantly get to know this with the rise in search queries related to warheads & robots from DRDO. Or be it ISRO wanting to do some Diamond mining on the moon during its Chandrayaan mission. The search engines would be the 1st outsider to know about it. Policies on IT Security apart from blocking access to certain websites, should also offer guidelines on search engine usage. Or the IT team can annonymize HTTP connections made to the search engines.
Yesterday, we re-scanned all the channels in our set-top-box & the original channel ordering got messed up. So, we didn’t know which channel belongs to which number. We had to merely push the channel-up button & wait for our favorite channel to appear. Won’t it be good, if we have a search button & an AlphaNumeric keypad on our remote, & backed by a dictionary of channel names?
