gr'apple with jobs' loss

So Anijo Mathew called on us early this week and over good food, and more good food we started to chat up about life in general, architecture in general, design in general, conferences in general, technology in general, and while at that, Apple in general.

It was September and until Anijo reminded me of it, I forgot it was September. September is when Apple comes up with its babies that send the United States and the rest of the world into a frenzy, no matter how unjustified it seems to the ones who don't care.

I said, "Oh shit! I hope he doesn't come up with something thinner than a MacBook Air this time!"

Anijo replied, "Nah! it is just nanos with video feature this time around."

Anijo hadn't seen this one for sure!

I didn't know I would be alluding, albeit ignorantly, to Steve Jobs himself.

The super thin MacBook Airs can now go take a leak!

Ford Escort

It is really nice to see the in-the-ICU-still-on-ventilator US auto giant endorsing a federal ban on banning texting while driving. Engaging in any activity that takes away your attention from the road is ban-worthy, and why all states, despite the necessity, didn't ban that long ago is really a no-brainer. This isn't to say that I support hands-free, Bluetooth technology for speaking while driving. But while speaking at least doesn't require one to take one's eyes away from the traffic, texting that demands more attention, ignoring the freaks and geeks, could be far more fatal. As a person who has witnessed the stupid acts of girls and boys here while driving, I simply do not understand why states would not budge from their careless stance until they were threatened to be pulled away federal highway funds from!

apostrophe catastrophe

I have been enduring it for years now, in fact more than a decade, but it doesn't seem to wane one bit. It was O.K when I saw school kids do it, when I was one, but it is a pain to see supposedly accomplished people commit it.

Just why the hell can't people not think of apostrophe at all when they mean to pluralize nouns? For the period I have been noticing it for now, I hope it doesn't become one cultural and linguistic phenomenon like the SMS language I have to get used to. Call me outdated and senile, I can take it. You cannot convince me mentioning the flexible and dynamic requirement of language.

I do not want to reconcile to it.

It suck's (sic)

zoom baraabar zoom

I feel the success of any writer, professor, storyteller, lecturer, policymaker, I will include lawyer and doctor in that, depends on how much the person can zoom in to the detail, and pull out when necessary. Pulling out or zooming out at the time appropriate is very essential because no matter how heavenly detail is, and I deify detail, it wouldn't make sense unless it is viewed in the purview of the bigger picture. You cannot be too subtle for you run the risk of being ignored by the less discerning (and the less discerning make the majority), yet you have to come out clean, unscathed by the accusations of insulting the collective intelligence of your potential audience. It is the right balance of how much to elaborate, and how much to leave it to be deciphered between the lines that defines the followership (ergo, success) of any person in any type of profession I have mentioned.