Frogs and Toads

Frogs and Toads

It is strange that many daily writers (Internet) and editors of national newspapers run short of ideas to write.

Most of them steal ideas from others and pad them up with their own prejudices.

Unfortunately, the unscientific and biased opinions make me feel sick.

My last post Measuring Prejudice was to make them analyze their own makeup and try to minimize their own fallacy when writing.

I hope they become detached, informative and creative and stimulate other freelance writers a space to emerge from the sand castles, the others have built around them.

In my case, it is the exactly the opposite.

I write for fun.

I come across, many ideas to write, but because I love reading more than writing (I was a late developer for writing), the time constrains are the major factors that make me not to pen them down all or enlarge upon, the new ideas.

I also get distracted by reading the material intended for brainwashing the reader with a theme (Racism, Buddhism, National Heroes) to suit a particular political agenda.

Some of my outrageous blog pieces come with that background and not spontaneous.

My outlook is scientific (not always) but satire is my goal.

For the last 10 years or more we did not have proper cartoonists or philosophical writers.

I did find anybody rivaling my outrageous views.

That was not the intention anyway.

If that happened, I would have retired gracefully, not due to pain or fear but I was happy that I was instrumental in making that trend constructive and alternative views find a fertile and viable ground to operate.

I am going to tone down and wind up slowly in this blog space.

That had been my long term goal, this space was for Linux and Linux is becoming less relevant to me now.

The Linux Magazine keeps me occupied and there are lot of Linux guys and girls to take the baton from my aging hand.

Particularly because, I do not want to be hunted down for reproducing materials taken out from some other sites to illustrate a point (Prejudice).

I do not know how the copyright law operates in World Wide Web.

In its original form (it was formulated before the existence of the Internet and digital material) it has no validity.

That is my opinion.

Wikileaks and other incidents opened  cans of worms and security arms are paranoid now and what is called 'Free Writing' is a myth and there is some eagle eye watching us incessantly.

Coming from the Free Software mentality, that leaves behind a bad taste in my mouth.

If you see this blog space die a natural death, please do not blame me.

It is like 'the radio killed the radio star' in operation.

Owl eyed operators / observers and lawyers with a penchant to file a case for money to be blamed.

Free Writing is no more in a corporate world.

I thank the Google for this space, the final good bye will come sooner than late.

Coming back to the title 'Frogs and Toads',

They are fast becoming extinct, in my locality.

The other day I found a large toad (for me frogs live mainly in the water and toads are basically terrestrial as adults) climbing up the coconut railing on our veranda. 

It hid behind the pole, having probably seen me with its large eyes.

I could see its belly and the front leg, which looked like a fingers of a bat.

I have never seen a bat in this position, thinking it was an injured soul, I came closer to investigate.

It was a large toad with beaming large eyes.

I ran for my camera by that time he was on the top railing enough to catch half of its body frame, in a camera frame.

Thank you and I clicked my camera with the flashed on.

In one go he feared the flash and jumped onto the roof of my fish tank below.

I lost him in the darkness outside.

He was targeting my indoor fish tanks for breeding.

Now he would do that on my outdoor tank with my fish at risk.

When the tadpoles come there is no place for me to dispense them.

The open well that was there is no more and is filled up with soil.

I wonder how many strains of frogs were decimated by our mega road development in the south, in open wetlands?

Somebody should do a study.

In New Zealand, they made open drains for frogs to migrate with the roads they built, but in this land of Buddhist revival, frogs are expendable.

Frogs and toads are a good barrow meter for water quality of the locality.

At least in that sense alone one should do a 'Frogs and Toads Study!'