Brown Motion

 This by no means is a blueprint for tackling the obvious but rather a series of thoughts I have had since this pandemic began.  As to how I could help and what can be done in some small way I found I could do what I think I am equipped to.  Educate.  I was part of a volunteer task force led by some eminences in MIT and co-funded by some prominent non profits to develop content to explain how to use mobile apps to do contact tracing, what Covid is and what the available testing means. I like to think few people benefited from reading some of that content. That said I think the overall scope of Covid and its impact and the subsequent required mitigation is to solve for or tackle the three boulders (big rocks). 1. Funding - probably a key component.  Adequate and consistent funding to pay for multitude of services and research and staffing and components and peripherals like masks, PPE etc. 2. Logistics - managing global supply chains to deliver everything from prophylactics or now vacci

 Su what? Well as I have said before I can write what I want when I want.  My blog. So this fine morning for no apparent reason I decided to investigate deeper into a particular last name from the Indian subcontinent. A name that has come to signify a person from the southeast part of India and I have had my fair shares of run ins with this Subramaniam.  It is most oft identified as a person's last name if they or their family hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu or home of the Tamils. Tamil is a language and the locals and diaspora that speak it are Tamils.  The members of this demographic contain a large number of Subramaniams.  There are of course  variations of this name in how it is spelled with an n or m or y or i but the word translates loosely to 'those that are favored by Brahmins - a high caste in India's caste system. They tend to be learned and scholarly and you might encounter that name here in America too.  I have also heard it being a first name and a la

 Oscar winner Chloe Zhao directs this adaptation of a book by the same name that narrates elements of real lives people lead.  A story about itinerant people in the modern day.  People that cannot be held down in one place. They look for odd jobs to support their lifestyle.  Some come from well to do families and some because they are down on their luck.  But it is a tribe.  Their common purpose is to thrive discovering a new experience and not get stuck to the material. The film plays like a documentary and the scenery is vast.  Largely shot in the western United States it is a tad long in runtime but well worth it. I am considering leaving corporate America behind for a while myself and hitting the road.  Not quite go nomadic but not have a plan for some time. I will see how it goes.  Where it leads.  I do not expect anything.

 They oft cite a cliché about a particular repeating occurrence being tied to something in the local water.  Could be disease.  Could be smart kids.  Whatever. Recent past has produced some news that might be trending in that direction.  Area in question is the exurbs of leafy NW city called Seattle. Think Amazon.com and think Microsoft. Large corporate titans both.  Run by founders who live local.  Bezos and Gates. Both incredibly wealthy.  Both are philanthropist and more than one can ever imagine but they do have their share of pissing contests. Now both these titans of industry divorced.  Something in that water alright. What I found oddly humorous (aside from the fact that perhaps a break up from a long marriage of potentially good synergy cannot be easy) is the comment Gates' apparently shared with the media - on what else - Twitter.. "We ask for privacy and space for our family in these times where we adjust to the new way" or some such.   And I am thinking - the n