081127WhiteNoise
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White Noise -- tinmoorthy
White Noise is a collection of musings over diverse
subjects
This
mo[u]rning I wanted to donate blood and accordingly called the
Hospital -- to be responded by their IVR [Interactive Voice Response]. After
the machine collected my kundali, the Zodiac signs, time of birth, my
dietary preferences but no blood -- I gave up. It suddenly dawned that blood
may not be piped through the telephone channels. Can IVR be an all pervasive
solution to any issue? Alladdin
examines this predicament
Bit
By Bit is a title for which Stan Augarten is
just famous. It is the favourite bed time story book in our household. We
do not get tired to read that over -- again and again. What makes it so
appealing? The contexts are so familiar and so convincing. You would also
experience so when you peruse a local narration of the BitByBit
There
is fine distinction between communication and communicating. Successful authors
are good communicators. Communikation
in this collection addresses an altogether different issue
across the dimension of time
There
is no dialtone in the cell phones -- why? Becoz it does not
want you to waste time looking for one. In the next generation handset there
will be no keypad -- how about that?
How
to link Egmore - Central?
It was seriously debated lately in a popular web site. Some suggestions
My
hobby is collecting maps -- more particularly metro maps. I proposed a metro
map for the city of Mumbai and nobody wanted it. I have now come with one for
the city of Bangalore. Have you ever wondered why metro maps are drawn in
regular shapes such as rectangles, circles or ellipses? When they are made as emaps,
immediate MS support is not extended for irregular shapes. That is why!
Extrapolation
is one game that fascinates everybody. What will the fast trains
of tomorrow be like? An imagination that featured in a
Forum recently
Gears
are symbolic of progress. It impressed the industrialists so much that they
filled each automobile with them. Why should there be four gears? Not five or
three and one half? Have any answers??
Interestingly,
contrary to popular belief, Kabul has solutions to many issues. One of them is
leaving your lamp lit outside your home. An analysis of the royal dictum
Konkoje
makes one wiser. Through his pronouncements that can knock
even an obstinate object down. Including the babus in the daftar
Before
the days of the IT explosion, young man, you met me -- and explained how to
transmit faxes for free with guaranteed reliability. I miss you. I want
to make up now for the lost opportunity.
May we negotiate?
This
introduction was indexed through a new software called StoryAlgo.
The appellation and the technologies are protected by IPR but certainly you can
have a peek preview of the contexts that led to its discovery
Zero Watt
refers to the vigor of a bulb lighted above my head, whenever running short of
ideas. It is not offended by White Noise
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Make the door bell
sound like a phone
There
was a tip, once upon a time, in the Popular Mechanics Magazine. It asked -- are
you looking for a worm wheel? I said yes, without ever knowing what could I do
with the same. The magazine explained further that the first half length of any
wood screw has a uniform helix, so uniform that you may exploit that section
for a worm gear. I guess it must have been a great suggestion -- because there
was no user feedback. Nonetheless I considered having become wiser
Not
long ago I came across another tip -- this time from my home town. What can you
do with the left over badam-halwah (a cookie with a wonderful taste
beyond words)? While I was still scratching my head for a clue, the
correspondent suggested that you could feed the rose plants, at the window
sill, with the left over badam. It makes a nice good sumptuous feed for
the roses, we ought to understand. Now I consider myself to have been doubly
blessed
Lately
I received an offer. Build your own crystal radio set -- it says. The kit comes
for only nine dollars and cents 95. Once upon a time we assembled the crystal
receiver with whatever odds and ends we picked up from the junk. Now there is a
price -- for the good, clean, harmless, guaranteed junk. Like the badam of
the last para
Dear Reader! I belong to the Popular Mechanics family. I attempt to
discover value itching to be located. In each of the above articles some
property in a device normally missed at first sight will be dealt with. To this
end Intelligent Value Addition has been cooked to OEM Products
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Locked
up in a jammed bathroom is a crazy situation for any comedy -- wrote my critic.
The
case of the Value Added Door [Feb 2002] was
meant to be a satire -- and readers found traces of humor. It originated at a
time when vendors discovered lavish potentials amongst the Value Added
(Telecom) Services. That was much before the dotcom burst. The story has
since been retold many times
Acute
regionalism makes you feel sad. When the leader was talking about the virtues
of bijli to the masses, the audience in an interior hinterland wanted electricity!
Accommodation by the language called English is profound. Towards
an E-Career [Dec 2001] underscores this and is a pointer to the other
eighteen recognized tongues of the Nation
The
hypocrites within us show on an incoming telephone call. Great is the impact,
particularly if it is a wrong number. Having put through millions of them (wrong
numbers, that is) in my career, a Primer was an urgent need of the hour. Ask
Captain Dialtone [Aug 2001] was visualized in
that vein. Interestingly Dialtone materialized during a PR campaign at Mumbai
while promoting new value added services
Engineering
a Solution [Jun 2001] impressed many. It
is as simple as preparing tea. It was a satire hitting ruthlessly on the
re-invention of the wheels. The solutions were considered seriously by readers
and improved upon. As of this writing I am inventing an algorithm for
manufacturing killer applications fit only for Bill Gates, Narayanamurthy or
Shabir Bhatia -- Pneu is the raw
material
Ramar
Pillai and his herbal petrol might have been forgotten. But not by me yet. How
could people be so gullible? I cannot fathom. Inspired by that thought Wonders
Little Known to The World [Mar 2001] was
conceived. It appeared some cartoons would make the stuff livelier.
Illustratively some were suggested along with the MSS. The Editor, obviously
impressed by the (ready) artwork, printed them along with the text, after of
course, giving due credits to the MAD magazine of which I continue to be a fan
Chunnel
was a widely debated subject in those days. It was also a
prestigious project for the Nations connected. A must-see in any European
Program. I wondered what could be its shape if conceived within the country.
Reviving the Sethu Samunder (at Rameswaram) could have been appropriate
but the subject was regional and politically out of time. I devised an argument
for a tunnel without a waterway. From
Delhi to Bombay via Tunnel [Nov 2000] the
focus was the desi chunnel. The message was hopelessly lost -- readers
accusing of plagiarism. Being the first attempt in an e-zine, I conceded it was
a necessary investment in a learning process
My
first House has been occupied by the Sun, the second by the Moon. In the fourth
is Mars and at the sixth Venus. I have already moved to the pavement. Have
faith, my astrologer says, Jupiter
in the Seventh House [Sep 2001] marks
intelligence, prosperity and proximity. That guaranteed I am waiting to become
a multi-crorepati.
How much
land does a car need? Calculations show so much space is just not feasible
in this planet for the automobiles already assembled and thrown on the road.
That day is in the near future -- you will park your car in Pokran and walk to
the office. The country boasting a long coastal line, the article suggests you
can also take a hovercraft instead of walking. In any case, there is an issue.
Beware.
A
tap can fill a tank in two hours. Another can empty in three hours. If both of
them are let open what will happen? There will be riot if you want to know. Can
anybody afford to waste precious water? Here is another nugget. If ten people
can do a job in twenty days, what can thirty do on the same assignment? They
can organize a trade union. In the new mathematics this kind of torture does no
more prevail. The kids are now taught computry. A pleasant revelation to
the relevance of such questions suddenly dawns -- in the half mango
Privatize
Money Mint, surprisingly appeared
in a Law Journal. For once my arguments have been conceded -- this time by the
Lawyers, themselves
All
these articles appeared in Sulekha (and other e-zines) roughly over a year. You
have to know your readers and also the critics. The results are instantaneous.
So you need to be alert. Jupiter in the Seventh House marks to convey that
wisdom. I suppose you would enjoy reading them as much as I did creating the
same. Have a great day
Post
Script: Yes, I missed that
very point of yours -- why don't you email
it to me so I may share with
others?