It sounds like I am on my last leg ... as in famous or infamous last words... yet many a moron takes the microphone to start thanking all the yokels they have ever met and their barbie collections when put in the spotlight. Oscars and Grammys which are a uniquely American phenom are testament.
What is the point of all that thanking? Rich people publicly thanking other rich people for rubbing when it itches is hardly etiquette or manners. Anyway what I want to do is think of serious items that need thanking -
1. Lets start with daybreak - I want to thank the SUN for showing up each morning without fail. How about that? How many of us clumsies can make such a promise? Regardless of man made holidays and other mumbo this jumbo bulb never fails. Except when its total lights out - and some asteroid escapes NASA's tracking and simply slams us all out of existence. Then who is going to wake up to see it anyway?
2. I want to thank the rivers that continue to provide life sustaining liquids in raw (as in drinking water) form or a raw material that man has learned to tame (as in scotch).
3. The planet for putting up with all of our collective abuse and turning a blind eye to the idiocy it witnesses daily. It still is the only source of any manner of nutrition that keeps us producing more idiotic ideas daily.
4. Our immediate family that puts up with whatever idiocy you do produce and unconditionally forgives (in the hope that you are going to wake up one day and thank them).
Cool cat the Japanese are Tokyo at dusk My second visit to this land of the rising sun after almost a decade. Back then clearly I was wet behind the ears product manager and likely didn’t pay attention to all (efficient) things Japanese. But today I did and of course continue to be impressed. It is as much the obvious stuff like on time travel that is both clean and comfortable and all that which makes it possible. The impressive landmark and landscapes that these humans have put together despite their cramped (or because of it) surroundings and precarious geological conditions could amaze a novice architect among us. But it’s also the little things that someone had to think about which have a phenomenal impact on day to day lives that make the Japanese stand apart. Below are few random examples- 1. Providing a very fine machined wooden toothpick in every packet of wooden chopsticks. The said chapsticks are simply set on the To Go counter of any food vendor/ convenience store wher...
Thank you for this inspiring blog!
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