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!'
