I like some things cooked and some raw. Most foods are better off cooked in some way or the other. Some are delicious raw. Like Watermelons.
I think the same applies to Video of an event, specifically a news event. That which is supposed to show the action as it unravels. Media outlets make a big deal when they show RAW VIDEO ... since we know what obviously is shown all the time to the awed public is COOKED.
Also on that subject there is always a lot of 'footage' of a particular juicy disaster or a not so epic rain shower, never any 'handage'. Wonder why? I would think that the camera shooting the said video is artistically held in the hands of the holder thence handage would seem apropo but no.
Aside from documentation of such travails I now turn my attention to the subject of cooking. Auditors of large and small businesses are supposed to check if a company has cooked its books so to speak. They want to see raw data and draw their conclusions.
These drawings often take the form of a large tome full of paras and numerical columns. Yet we learn that many of the large and larger institutions have a number of chefs that have proven too smart for the auditors leaving a whole section of their larder fully cooked. What is more irksome is that these auditors did not even smell a rat. Not that it was on the menu but the smell of cooking was well masked.
However every once in a while there is a leak of some sort and then these large institutions forward their scapegoat - whose goose at that point is fully cooked. Here we learn that for a goat to have a goose is not common except in corporate cultures.
On an informal mission to read one book a week as long as the eyes allow for such ambition. Fiction or non is not important as long as it entertains and /or educates. To that end the past few weeks have brought a bounty in the form of some wonderful and then not so engaging literature. Among the notables are - Non fiction category: 1. Good arguments by Bo Seo (how to handle a dispute or debate the most efficient way possible) 2. Genesis by Eric Schmidt (and former US Secy of State Henry Kissinger, who recently passed) - how AI might affect our lives as we know it 3. One in a billion - Zarna Garg (an autobiographical look at an Indian born American woman with a bindi narrated in a standup format - yes it is at times cliched but still funny) Fiction: 1. Personal by Lee Child (a vigilante story with Jack Reacher the giant, nomad protagonist of Child's novels goes hunting for a sniper) 2. Ramayana unraveled by Ami Ganatra (she might disagree about it being a work of fiction but oh wel...
There is a certain Cook who seems to be cooking the goose for Dhoni and his men, aided by Pietersen and some others.
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