Brown Motion

Do people need governing? That is the question that we try to answer every time we contemplate the whole election process. The answer lies in contemplating what might happen if we were not governed by the law of the land. As a species we have evolved to the point that individuals can ascertain what is beneficial to them and their loved ones. In achieving that level of comfort for themselves they seek to extend their sphere of influence in many ways big and small. While pushing this sphere outward or inward, what is beneficial to one can and at times tends to be encroaching on another's sense of freedom and enjoyment at which point the conflict of interest arises. Resolution to such conflicts big and small, local or global, regardless of color, caste, nationality tend to be matters requiring intervention from an astute and experienced individual or a group equipped to navigate the challenge. People believe in the concept (in a democractic society) of allowing the elders ...

Recently survived a 3 day conference of marketing experts and technology crusaders and CEOs (essentially a lot of type 'A' and some D+ personalities) espousing the virtues of what is now commonly refered to as the 'Social Network'. Ah - that is not to say that people did not network prior to the coining of said term - or that they were not social. It is merely depicting a technology enabled access and rapidly scalable version of connecting people that may have at one point been engaged in a relationship - perfunctory or profound; then forgotten of each others' existence after their respective careers or life streams took them afar. Facebook happens to be the 'King of the Hill' and a rapidly ascended King @ that in this space. So what of this concept and its applicability to what are called 'Millenials' (another jargonized word depciting people legal to drink but under the age of 34 today). This demographic (numbering close to 70 Million Ame...

Quite an oxymoron don't you think? I mean - if I did not have anything to say what the heck am I typing for? But such is life these days. Many outlets in the so called broadcasting business or serious journalism for that matter are filling the void with something akin to antimatter. What they publish is actually detrimental for the common good. Of course its just another point of view of where things are. Mine! Take for example the ramblings about the state of the economy. Do we really need a 24 x 7 news channel to make that point? As someone once noted - when you are unemployed the unemployment rate is 100%, no matter what the averages and the government or the so called pundits are yakking. So fear-mongering and ratings battle aside (rated by equally airheaded peers) there is not much that comes our way of intelligent and informed reporting. No matter, the public which is dazed and confused uses it as a tool for passing time - watercooler conversations that again ha...

There is a peculiar tendency for humans to summarize memorable ideas or events or moments in some catchy phrase or anagram - media airheads certainly do their part to contribute to this - they also have a word for that - sound bites. Apparently the origin of this word is credited to Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain. There again I am not sure what it is with this pen name nonsense. Mark did not like his given name or what? What was wrong with Samuel? Pelham Greenville Wodehouse did not seem to mind that - although he is fondly remembered in some circles as PG or his own family refered to him as Plum. Anyway getting back to this idea of catchy terms '9/11' is one such - I think about it because we are on the cusp of the anniversary of a horrible tragedy in American and World history - something dramatic in many ways yet in the scheme of things not comparable to say the genocide in Africa or the mass killings in former Yugoslavia. But somehow the media outlets had...

This summer before it finally wrapped up (as in before the schools began, which is late AUG), we took one last road trip - this time into the heart of the Sierras. The Sierra mountain chain to me represents the alpine wonder next door - as in 5 hour motorable wonderland with many snow capped peaks as high as 11,000 feet. Snow on some adjacent higher elevation peaks in some cases never melts and for someone like me who only likes to see it from a distance and not under my feet; provides a spectacle worth driving for. We also cruised into some other scenic wonders formed by ancient geological events that left alpine lakes in the bowls and valleys between the mountains. Distraction - I want to blog about this whole idea of limitation of the Queen's language forcing a young writers imagination to comparing my adventure to that in the ALPS - wonderful in many ways but not necessarily a Comparison Point I would argue. The Rockies and its subranges which includes the Sierra Nevada in...

Across large and small organizations in the jungle called Corporate America, management struggles with making the quarterly numbers that wall street is looking for, the only score card that matters as it would seem. Very little is understood of the makeup of the leadership that has been put in charge. Understood from a standpoint of their moral and ethical qualities that is. Much similar is the landscape on the local to state to the federal government leadership positions where 'Abuse/Misuse of Power' seems to be an undisclosed feature of the position in question and the only runway one has to navigate is the one that lasts till the next election. It is not easy being moral or ethical. Neither is leadership. To be a true leader requires that these qualities be inherent as one would think. Oddly all of these positions of power are elected or so it would appear; and so to an extent the people in a democracy deserve what they get. Shame on us then? So the question o...

This July I could not find time to blog since we (as in the family unit of 3) were on the road (in the air and on the water as well) a bit. After having wrapped a rather fun filled trip to Orange County (signifying the once extravagant citrus production but now taken over by humans wanting to change their skin tone through solar exposure on the sand) earlier in July we headed to the south coast of the Mexican United States - specifically to the state of Jalisco and to the city of Puerto Vallarta (IATA code is PVR). This city by the coast is part of the Mexican Riviera and affords its visitors with a view of lush tropical jungles on the slopes of the Sierra Madre on the east with sweeping coastlines and rocky coves making the western seafront. Our place of residence was a resort in the famous 'Bahia de Banderas'. It had its own beach front and a slew of wading options where one could choose to either get hammered by the natural salinity of the waves or loiter in the chlor...