Brown Motion

Since time is a meaningless idea the sheer audacity of the humans in counting it is noteworthy.  In the realm of trips made around our sun I happened to be approaching the half century mark. The spouse too.  Turned out it was an occasion that we celebrated with friends in Silicon Valley that we do not see that often. It was in a bistro like setting serving food from Northern India mere blocks outside the Stanford University campus.  I had eaten their food some time back but as takeout never on site. We arrived early and were able to get a set of complicated orders in before the place got mobbed.  I still messed up my wife's order after spending a quarter century with her - such enigma the matter between the ears is. Nonetheless it was pleasant company where we chatted about everything and nothing in particular all at the same time.  From possibility of procreation to evangelism to aspirations and perspirations to state of our planet and everything one c...

I flew SW by Southwest.  To chill.  To gather in the gathering place.  My favorite isle in the WWW. Oahu. Hawaiians call it 'The Gathering Place'.  Most populous of the Hawaiian archipelago in the Pacific it is second oldest island in the chain.  The largest and youngest island is not Oahu but Big Isle of Hawaii, the furthest east and it's still forming as witnessed by Pele's activities in Kilauea national park. But Oahu is where I first landed on the US shore and a quarter century later remains a favorite haunt, albeit to visit for few days. This trip was memorable for a variety of reasons.  I reconnected with a dear old friend whom I befriended during our first landing 25 years back.  He is of Sri Lankan descent and a gentleman.  He regaled me with his exotic tales as I listened raptured.  From almost getting killed in Tesla's newest vehicles to having a pet pig for a companion the stories were uniquely his and I expected nothing l...

Fortunately I still see well.  So it is not about the insipid chore of rinsing little glass contacts with special formulaic liquids that I was involved with over the weekend.  Rather updating the lifeline device aka Cellular Phone after having bestowed a new one by my telco (that is slang for telecommunications service provider).  There are contacts contained therein and it had been a long time since any cleaning had been undertaken.  So in the spirit of all things anew for Spring I decided to spring for some spring cleaning of the cell phone contact list.  Hence the title. So as I embarked on this activity, which I found cathartic.  It constituted of the following - 1.  Deleting some meaningless contact written using shorthand that I use to save a number when I get a call from someone I think I might be interested in following up, only to realize that it was an optimistic attempt at doing so. 2.  Data became Information - Editing con...