Pelican Story

February 2, 2011

Pelican Story
He was an ex-income tax officer who was seen as good choice for help for Mahanabrahma’s Assistant not only as a Flying Officer but also as a delivery man. Pelicans are known to deliver babies to mums at least when the second one arrives unexpectedly and the first one born asks the silly question from where the hell the second one came.
The pelican come into operational requirement of mothers often in the West but not so much here in Sri-Lanka.
In this context as a delivery man he does not have to deliver babies but all what he has to do is to drop baskets full of documents to sea often containing false declarations made by expectant candidates for their next round of birth and to get favours from Mahabrahma’s Assistant.

When he thinks something is cooked up especially coming from Sri-Lanka, the assistant delvers them to the pelican to be dropped to sea so that the ink and all the forgeries are wiped out by the ocean currents ( the ocean can take any rubbish come what it may).

On his return pelican has to pick few of them back to heaven and the assistant checks to see if any merits are left tangled with the soggy paper and if not delivers them straight to Appaya (AI) International with a tag number for prompt action.

At AI the soggy paper is irradiated with UV light and then a special black ink is sprayed and that is when all the Papa Karmas are exposed for my equation to take cognizant and automatic reprisal by Apaya authorities.

Unlike in the heaven my equation has to be modified when new crimes like that are committed by American investors and speculators are discovered.

Very severe scrutiny is done unlike the Federal Regulators of USA.

The pelican is the go between the Apaya and the Heaven.

In some cases when the documents are landed on high ground or floating ice there is a chance some might escape the sea currents and get a respite but if they are discovered on a subsequent birth it is not the pelican who is punished but the holder of the certificate.

Pelican has no jurisdiction in matters of merits and demerits but only a go between and a mechanism of delaying merits or demerits so that backlog is prevented at the  entry point be that it may be Apaya or Heaven.

Pelican navigation skill are considered to be complimentary to the operational mechanics.

How he became a trainer Flying Officers was purely an accident by meeting our crab and the tortoise at the lake side. 

He was offered foreign currency initially by the Air Marshal but when he decided to pay that in Sri-Lankann equivalent of Rupees he really got annoyed since neither Apaya nor Heaven recognize Sri-Lankan Rupees.

That is why he deserted the Flying Operations in mid air.

I have suggested to remedy this situation soon with a plastic card that automatically converts itself of the credit balance to the currency type moment the airspace of the country is entered but there are few navigational glitches / hitches when the pelican decides to stay in border zones like Palk Straight and the likes.
It is currently worn around the pelican neck and it has dual responsibility of location guide and a currency convertor. Once it is tested to Apaya satisfaction it will be used by our pelican and he may decide to return to his substantive post on Earth but that is all at his discretion.

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie is no more.

October 18, 2011

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie is no more.
We have lost two outstanding personalities within the space of 3 weeks.
Mr. Steve Job of Apple Mac is one of them.
The other one is Mr.Dennis Ritchie.
He coauthored with Mr. Kernighan “The C Programming Language” (popularly known as “K. & R.).
That was the beginning of modern computing.
He (Mathematician) was the principal designer of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system, working closely with Mr. Ken Thompson (Electrical Engineer), his longtime Bell Labs collaborator.
His father, Alistair, was an engineer at Bell Labs.
He was recruited by the Sandia National Laboratories, which conducted weapons research and testing.
in fact making A Bomb.
He left Sandia National Laboratories and Joined Bell Labs and remained there till 2007.

Thank god he left lab testing weapons of mass destruction.

Linux we use today originated from UNIX he pioneered.

It is strange coincidence that when cloud computing is on the horizon and tablet becoming  a universal utility both of them passed away without seeing their dream products.

There are two others that matter.
They are Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.
These two will oversee that these products are within the reach of every human being with Amazon bringing the price of Kindle down.
There going to be a sea change.
We have to turn back and reflect on these gentlemen’s achievements.
It was all collective responsibility.

Finding a Partner for a Lonely (Common) Cuckoo

 May 15, 2011

Finding a Partner for a Lonely (Common) Cuckoo

Not only I observe bizarre flowering pattern of some plants including onions I beginning to wonder whether the unusually warm and bizarre temperature pattern is affecting the birds.
April is the time of the year when common cuckoo sounds the arrival of new year.
One hears them singing in the early hours and late in the evening for the pairs to meet and retire to their resting places.

These birds are very secretive and even though one hears them it is very difficult to spot them.
They are either in tall tree or hidden behind the leaves.
Their singing is characteristic and musical and a treat to hear in the morning instead of Radio Ceylon’s opening music.
Every knows about the Koha (common cuckoo) and why one should worry about.

1. Bird population has drastically dropped and dropping rapidly including common village crows and cuckoos.
2. I can recognize a young one’s song from old one by their tone.
3. The are rared by crows and once chased out of the brood they have a characteristic nervy cry of a loner for few days.
4. Then they come to term with it and start a new life.
5. This new life is basically of finding a partner.
6. By May they are paired and the cry is more musical and vibrant.

7. Present context
I heard the nervy cry at 3 in the morning.
Luckily I spotted the girly (not a guy-guy has feathers similar to sparrow hawk and is extremely secretive) feeding briefly on the mulberry tree grown to encourage butterflies. They love the caterpillars more than the berries.
Keep on crying for hours on end for the past few days.

8. Conclusion
She has not found partner and very unlikely till the next year.
This one is odd one out and would continue this lonely cry for another year.

I wish with the 2600 year celebrations of Buddhists and Pinkamas there would be one extra guy born (cuckoo) for this lonely cuckoo.

On reflection Buddha was a born environmentalist.
Unlike present day Buddhist monks who build big and palatial residences Buddha left the palace and retired to the jungle except during Wassana (rainy monsoon season).
He was born under a tree.
He attained enlightenment under a pipal tree.
He spent one week gazing at the Bodhi tree (as a gesture of gratitude).
When rain came down and struggling to realize the four Nobel Truths a giant cobra gave shelter to Buddha (this is something who kill snakes should note).
Flowers, birds and monkeys were his constant companion when meditating and concentrating to realize final goal.

In this Kandy City somebody put poison to kill monkeys.
Municipality is constantly uprooting the trees in the name of road clearance and development.
There aren’t many pipal trees left in the city.
There aren’t many tortoises (two in number) in the lake and the fish are sick and the monitors are devouring the dead.
There aren’t any sparrows or pigeons resting in the big upright buildings.
No bees or wasp that used to build their combs in tall buildings.
There are no flower bed that used to be in the center of the city.
Dogs are chased away in the name of rabies.

I am pretty sure the next Buddha to be who is Maithree (kindness probably to animals), assuming Gautama was kind to the mother nature by example and precept, would not choose this city of Kandy for his attainment of Nibbana.
Unless of course we protect our mother nature and trees for resting and nesting for lonely birds and monkeys.

There were more monkeys in this city than humans a century ago when Britishers were reigning and none of them were Buddhists.
My question is how can one attain Nibbana by visiting this sacred city?
In any case Gautama Buddha preferred not to.
Why?
That is also a question that come to my mind constantly.

E-Governance and white lies

January 24, 2011

E-Governance and white lies
Please note that this is an update for a post on parafox and it is very easy to find a daily topic to write daily unlike in the West but it is very difficult to find a true story and I have decided to write a few of my fantasies related to my work with Apaya and Heaven. I have not decided whether to join Apaya or Heaven but like a true diplomat I prefer to shuttle in between them not knowing whether it is a fantasy or a real lfe situation.

I am bit confused but following is a true story and factually correct about E-Governance and downloading for a fact.

Uploading is no better.

Comment I wrote for a National Daily not published due to its banal content.

It is very difficult to differentiate a lie from a the word E-governance in Sri-Lanka.

I prefer E-Governance  for a white lie because it is like WiKi Leakes very difficult to differentiate whether an American (for that matter any European diplomat) diplomat is talking through his Mouth or MOUSE or ASS.

I think they are trained not to talk from birth but to lie by all means.

Unlike our diplomats who do not know how to lie like Goerge Washinton in his prime and if they do lie it looks just like plain truth and nobody including Bun Ki Moon belives it a lie or not  a lie.

Whereas our politicians are trained to lie from birth and it is that their birth right.

If one cannot lie he or she is not good enough to be in the parliament or President House. Average Buddhists except Colombo 7 elite do not lie as a habit but only on demand by politicians at election meetings and political rallies.

Our national papers for their own survival lie on a regular basis like our George Bush they do not know how to tell the truth in plain English or Sinhala. We  are now portrayed as the heaven on Earth but if one goes to Batticoloa or North East the plain truth is evident in abundance.

This is just a big joke. i.e. E-Governance in Sri-Lanka is a plain lie but what I state below is truth and nothing but truth.

It takes almost 7 days to download 1.1 GB of Kororoaa of out of 1.5 GB and god only knows how long it takes to finish.

I was down with a miner flu and for three days I managed to download Light House Puppy of 223 MiB through Firefox and in spite of the computer being on overnight for three days. I am trying to download PocketWriter-Salix and it is stuck at 280 MiB currently and Saline was disconnected without completing three times.

Now I am talking about Saline like Predient Reagon our Health minister could not say the difference between a truth and a lie.

Our Health Statistics is the Biggest Lie of all which the WHO is very fond of exaggerating!

It is 3 am in the morning and I got up to empty my bladder.

Checked to see K-torrent is working (do the downloads only after midnight).

NO.

I stopped the normal download to read the English daily but Apache at their site is broken.

I have 250 paused downloads for the month of December (for updating current Linux distributions which I do at the end of each year).
K-torrent is inactive.

Firefox download speed is below 5KB per seconds.

I pay over Rs.7000/- to Telecoms and Rs.10,000/- electricity.

If I save three months of these bills and buy a ticket to Singapore I can download all these in the airport lounge for nothing but in triple not double quick time.

It is a shame that a National Paper not highlighting how Buddhists are downloading porn at Nanasalas.

Even we have 10,00,000 NanaSalas without English we cannot progress in IT industry.

All the alphanumeric characters are in English not Sinhala.

Progress does not come from data or rhetoric.

They come through hard work, dedication and concrete actions!

All my downloads are inactive at 3,30 am and bare bone facts speak for themselves.

How come a Pelican becoming a Flying Trainer in Ceylon

January 26, 2011

How come a Pelican becoming a Flying Trainer in Ceylon
The pelican was his annual pilgrimage to Ceylon to avoid harsh winter and got trapped in the Batticoloa floods and was waiting to devour some unfortunate sea fish that have come ashore. When he was about to partake the first mouthful of fish in came the Tortoised Chief Minister (TCM) from nowhere and warned him not to do so.

He was puzzled.

I have been eating fish all my life how dare you intervene in my cuisine.

Brother do not be annoyed.

Be calm.

I will tell you the reason.

They are poisoned by accident and not by purpose or design.

We got a consignment of food for flood victims from UNO and in the transport of it on a vehicle with fertilizer by some strange coincidence the bags’ label changed from UNO to USA and a certain politician in Colombo decided that they were no good for human consumption and not even for animals.

Then the local politician requested that they were to be dumped into sea.

The transport man designed a coup. 

The food items were quickly changed hands with a label UREA and UREA was changed to USA by substituting S for EA. Then only a few UREA bags that contained deadly cadmium were dumped with political acumen to the sea in front of starving residents and they were asked to go fishing in troubled waters!

So you may now go fishing in troubled waters!

The pelican was visibly annoyed.

I traveled over 8000 miles to land hear on my holidays and you guys spoil it for me.

Don’t you people advertise come here and tither?

Sorry for the misadventure it would have been a different story if the weather gods did not intervene.

The TCM said in a quiet voice.

You may go down further and find another island he suggested.

There are no islands till Antarctica and I haven’t got the strength to fly that far. 

Then he asked are you good in navigation.

Yes of course and if I may ask you why you raised that question? 

Even though I am here I still have some connection with the Air Force Top Brass and I can fix you a job with them till spring with full on board service.

He was not happy but picked the crab instead and took to flight and landed on a tree top.

He tried hard to pierce the shell bone but could not and in with anger dumped the fellow down but it landed with a thud and turned upside up downside down and side tracked safely to water.

This he has never seen before and went back to the now friendly TCM and asked how come the shell of a Sir-Lankan crab is so hard?

Elementary my dear!

He was in charge of my armed car when in service.

He was also in charge of making service to my vehicle with three quotation in hand which is the usual practice.

He was given the bullet proof metal sample for verification.

He without my knowledge changed the specification to inferior quality metal and hid the real metal sample under his helmet and pocketed out the contract extras.

Then in the final blast of which we all died in an unfortunate accident the metal got stuck to his skin.

He is a hard nut in any case and was difficult even for me to pierce his intentions!

In that case I say yes to your offer with some reservation.

That was how the pelican was made a the flying trainer for healthy remuneration.

You have to wait why he quit and deserted the post for my next edition on web.

Keep counting the SiRs please.

Good bye!

Please note even though these stories are quite akin to Buddhist stories and anthology, they are not designed for Dhamma sermons and any recitals without my implied consent will be strictly prohibited.

PS.

The chief minister who took over from the TCM was mildly hurt when in a routine test a bullet pierced the serviced part of the vehicle and went inside. It was an indirect hit; that is why the injuries were minimal.

He quickly dumped the vehicle to junk and bought a new one from the fresh quota allocated to him. He did not forget to send a telegram to the ex-officer thanking him for his service acumen.

I had to deliver it through my special courier service in conjunction with Apaya International.

Flying Officer Grounded

 January 25, 2011

Flying Officer Grounded
You may think that the war efforts are accomplished that most of the flying officers are grounded and not flying any more.

Nothing of that kind but a flight record of a blackbox conversation of the final 5 to 7 minutes of ill fated flight of SL (UL-Usually Late) named P.P.P.

Thank god it is not a civilian flight but a training flight with only two involved one surviving and the other succumbing to injuries ending at Maha Brahma for another round of life cycle.

I have to put the middle of the story first (but the beginning will related briefly in the flight record) to make it brief and interesting and I may have to go for another record for how Maha Brama (his assistant-that part would be interesting) dealt with the emerging crisis.

Flying is a pastime for some (politicians on our money and government coffers) and fantasy for many Sir-Lankans. Many a Sir-Lankan young blood wants to become a flying officer but never get a chance to get there.

I remember I wanted to become a volunteer officer many moons ago but even though I had all the qualifications and the paper work my application never got to the scrutiny table when Public Service  Commission was in operation.

In my case, I was able to make amends and fly almost once a year or more on my own money never a red cent reedemed from the Government and one of my posts  abroad down under was almost a Flying Doctor on distress calls (not me in distress but with adrenaline high and mood elevated)

It is a different story now that the Chief Minister decides the fate of everybody.

In this story Chief Minister also has a fair share of involvement.

Sit tight and listen to the flight recorded data.

The conversation is between a pelican (Flying Instructor) and the flying officer in training.

You may wonder what the hell the pelican doing in the cockpit.

He was not trapped in air but he was the trainer in white suit with beautiful avian stripes to adorn.

Yes he was the trainer.
Then who was the trainee?

The trainee was a typical Sir-Lankan man who went up the ladder by being a yes man all his life without any decoration or qualification to boast about

He was somewhat similar to Bun Ki Moon who is a yes man for the big nations and red bully for small nations.

I hope you got the picture.

If he say yes to big shots he will be sure of another term in UNO.

Our man of course did not have applied mathematics but a forged certificate to say he passed the “O” Level in mathematics applied and general.

The conversation went on like this rudely terminated in mid air.

Hello Sir!
You are my trainer?

Yes is there any problem?
No Sir have I got to Sir you.
It depends!

If you end up passing with flying colours yes but not otherwise.

He was bit confused but continued to say SiR to which the pelican with good senses did not object.

He was wanting to count how many times he Sirs him during the first flight.

Sir, you have a big beak but no hands.

So Sir, how are you going to help me with the joystick?

I have good eyes and a small brain and that were enough to navigate from Europe to Sir-Lanka to escape from harsh winter believe me I can navigate you if you listen to me carefully instead of saying Sir.

He firmly ascertained his navigation skills.

Besides you have too hands, don’t you?

Now nose up, flaps up and raise off the ground.

Yes Sir.

Now they were in flight in the first few seconds and the flying officer was inquisitive  enough and wanted to find the loop holes in his flight instructor’s credibility to get some bonus in the first flight itself.
Sir how you come you become a trainer in Ceylon (In heaven they still call it Ceylon coming from Cinnamon Garden).

It is easy any foreign joker or a bird can get a job in Sri-Lanka even in supermarkets without knowing the  food habits of locals. You just put a label for export and that works.

I had a export label tagged from my childhood he said.

Sir who appointed you and turned his head around to the right and the plane  the two seater veered to the left?

Look what you  are doing get the nose straight not your butt.

OK Sir!

It is your Chief Minister who appointed me and it is a long story.

But Sir, I would like to hear more, thinking one day he might become a trainer himself by getting in good books with the Chief Minister and twisting his arms.

But your ex-chief Minister is a tortoise now.

How come Sir, I thought he went to heaven by the celebration we had after his death.

He never got a chance. The way he abused official vehicles and the way he drove with the entourage annoyed the Maha and he decided to pace him down to earth and made him a tortoise.

Sir my goodness will the Maha makes me also a tortoise in my next birth Sir!

In the first place you have to die!
Are you ready for that.

Yes Sir!

This answer pleased the pelican very much since he knew he did not have to train this guy for long.

Where did you meet this Tortoised Chief Minister, SiR?

Near a lake flooded in Batticoloa with a water crab with him.

The water crab was his escort Police Officer. on entourage who could always bend the law of the country for his master’s favour in real life in Sir-Lanka.

But he could not prevent the premature death of the entourage who met with a fatal accident.

SiR why he was made a crab

Two reasons.
It is a delicacy in Sir-Lanka.
This officer could never walk straight with the law he always side stepped and went horizontally instead of straight.

By birth right he had to be a crab in next life.

SiR will I become a crab in next life.
This was too distracting for the pelican that the plane was in full speed now in turbulent weather.

He said autopilot now!

My friend in excitement put the nose down.
He was only educated in Sinhala and could not read the English word autopilot and he pressed the button right under his nose without reading it in the first place.

Pelican was very happy now that his flying lesson would end abruptly.

Pelican opened the cockpit door and before making a nose dive himself said, your first and the last flying lesson are over.

Good bye and slammed the door closed.

To which our yes man said.
Yes Sir!

The rest is history and the blackbox is the only evidence we have now.

Incidentally this plane was taxied from Hambantota and landed nose down in the newly build port at Hambantota.

The blackbox was traced within minutes since the water level of the harbour is deep enough to see even a blackbox from above and our pelican friend hovered around it as if he was looking for a dead body of fish that helped the Navy very much.

Unfortunately the body of the victim was never found and the air force is still looking for the deserted officer in flight training and the flight trainer.

Our flying officer trainer, the pelican disappeared from his post.

I will tell you the rest of the story if you could count correctly the number of times this unfortunately grounded officer said Sirs in his first flight lesson instead of concentrating on flying and why the pelican deserted his post!

Flight P.P.P stands for Paksheta Pashsha Pora and I hear even the Pakshaya is having a nose dive now!

Please note even though these stories are quite akin to Buddhist stories and anthology, they are not designed for Dhamma sermons and any recitals without my implied consent will be strictly prohibited.

P.P.P can  even stands for Paksheta Patata Pakshapatha (Pora)

Spacesuit and its Occupant

 February 9, 2011

Spacesuit and its Occupant
Mind this is an introduction for anybody who is running short of an idea to write about in WordPress blogging site.

This is an idea I hit upon by reading a blog writing of a experienced civil pilot not a fighter pilot.

Have you ever thought of the 50 thinks that the spacesuit occupant in space won’t share with his body soul?

You probably have not but I was one who was very much interested in this in my school days and in early days as medical student.

I cannot remember what I wrote then but this is an attempt to revise some of those physiological constraints not in particular order or in any order of merits.

Suffice is to say, I get a sickly feeling when I think of space (occupied especially by alien elements).

Imagine yourself trapped in a escalator without illumination (light) and the computer circuit controlling it up and down movement gone haywire and it is going up and down in an erratic fashion.

That is a the feeling I get moment I put on a spacesuit for travel.

That is one thing you must consider when paying for, an enormous amount for a single trip in space.

Is is worth the experience and the money?

Probably not but having said that I have tremendously high regard for those guys who trained for years end on to go to space. They are a dedicated lot and give them the due respect they deserve if you happen to meet anyone of them.

They were the human guinea pigs on space.

I often wonder how many times they felt sick and vertiginous even in their sleep.

Probably many many times and uncountable and that is the feeling I get if I am invited to wear a spacesuit and come hither for a go.

I will list the feeling inside my head with little imagination and some understanding of my own physiology if not of another being.

1. I hate the space constraint. This is the feeling one gets if one has to stay in a tiny hotel room in Singapore overnight due to some delay, cancellation or transit. I have had that feeling once or twice before traveling by cheap air flights. When you fly on a good aircraft and not on a budget or Mihin (Hemin) Lanka.

2. I hate heights. Imagine you are in a hotel overnight on the 21st floor room due to flight cancellation. You are well away from a fire exit and there is a blackout and fire drill. You don’t have a pen torch. If you are one floor above you can think of jumping out and breaking your legs but not on 21st Floor. That is why rooms are cheap as you go above. Please pay a good some and ask for a room down below. It is better even if you go to Colombo taking a pen torch with you with these high rising development projects. Born to this earth with feet firmly grounded and ample space to breath pristine air (not now even in Kandy) as an embodiment, getting into a spacesuit is the luxury I do not want to avail myself not even in my incarnation.

3. Now about the daily routines I enjoy. Sleep to begin with. I think I can manage sleep upside down on space inside a spacesuit since there is nothing else I can do there except dreaming coming home. I can do this since I have learned how to sleep standing on an express bus plying from Kandy to Colombo on a Monday morning. I believe all Sri-Lankans are good at this. Only if you do not have money in your back pocket. There are plenty of pickpockets in this country including politicians who pick our vote without our knowledge. They are called pickvotters or even better pickpotters (stuffing the ballot boxes).
These two are new words, I have coined for the Oxford Dictionary with local elections due now).

4. What about food. I want enjoy the high calorie, high protein dehydrated food fads of space travelers especially they are floating about and not placed on a plate with a well laid out nice table. My worry is not the quality of food but how I to partake them in a more sociable way. Not empty them to my mouth from paper carton after paper carton.

5. Coming to spirits (if they are allowed like a commercial flight) and drinks. When I suck (not drink them) a little, I want them to stay a while in the mouth and oesophagus and stomach and not go flushing down like a vacuum cleaner on full throttle to the colon in one go..

6. After meal I want to brush my teeth as my good dental friends tell me with a tooth brush floating in air and the toothpaste all over the face with me trying to reach as far as it goes to the third molar.

7. That also I can manage but how about a quick spend a penny in the loo with my prostrate pushing hard on the correct track inside but the squirt getting between my spacesuit and the underwear. That is my major worry since I will never master my physiology how ever much I train on earth and mid air.

8. Then the master job of course I have decided one last one here and never in the shuttle till I come home and take some constipating medicare one a week before the departure. I do not want my smelly secrets floating in air and taking pictures of me in flight.

No thank you.

9. Last but not least I fear the algae and the fungi I have been accustomed on earth and living with me with mutual understanding all along my life for years taking advantage of the flight and growing all over me. In nails, wind pipe, mouth and all of my privates.

10. Last of all I love scratching my skin, just for fun and any other accessible point from my crown to the rump. With these fungi floating around and waiting for a breach, I won’t be able enjoy that luxury.

11. As for the rubbish I collect on flight no problem. We are trained to drop at any advantage point in the town and the Municipalities never clean them. I just open the window and drop it down when we are centering round Sri-Lanka with a note stating “coming from space shuttle in orbit no valuables dropped but destined for Sri-Lankans, war heroes included”.

This is why when President Obama invited me for a flight in space, I refused and gave 0ver 100 volunteers from our parliament elected and wanting to get elected. He of course refused nay parliamentarians after the Health bill was bailed out.

Cell Cycle and Maha Brahma

Cell Cycle and Maha Brahma 

Casual look at the interpretation of this dream is bizarre but if one applies modern scientific tenor, something radical is emerging with genome project well in advance now.

1. Man and many advanced animals have 50 cell cycles in their life time.

2. About 42 to 45 are consumed by about 15 years of age.

3. There is a condition called progeria where babies are born in advanced stage of cell cycle and rapidly age and die young.

4. If we take a somatocyte from (with mutated genome) a case of this condition one can modulate few more cell cycles to be advanced by culturing under correct conditions with sexual maturation and bald head.

Presto!

The conditioned mentioned by Maha Brahma is satisfied. 

I believe aliens who visit us have already perfected this method for their scientific studies in space and using them as guinea pigs for their experiments. They do not have to hijack humans now and only a few cells are all that is necessary. 

They probably have more advanced culturing methods in space.

There is very interesting genetic analysis that are emerging in America now.

They are studying Gorilla and us the humans and found what is missing in us in evolution.

Gorilla has 48 chromosomes and we have 46.

We have lost a certain receptor for androgen 3 to 5 million year ago. 

When that happened the phallus (penis) became smaller (of the human) and the brain became bigger.

Interestingly. the acquisition of language capability came some millions years later.

We have a living record of a child in the current century (in this country) saying Mahinda Mama in an election rally even before saying da da or ma ma.   I believe, the correct conditions are there in some gifted children to learn all three languages even before preschool.

There will be professors earning million of rupees employed by IMF with sexual precocity, economic vision and foreign language capability including Sinhala even before five years old. 

We do not need a 62 year prostatic and prostrate old man to run the IMF.

Only good thing about this precocious man is that the penis of this genius is very small and the brain is very large and any unlawful sex act even violent, causes minimal damage even to a virgin. We have to redefine the criminal law then with an exception to geniuses employed by IMF to enjoy their short life (may be 7 years or little bit more). 

American legislators won't be able to send them to gallows for 25 years.

One day in prison cell is OK without opposite sex in a nearby cell.

Cell Cycles, Cell Divisions and Prison Cells have to be different, then.

I hope I would be gone by then since in my geriatric age there is no place for me except in high heaven, advising the Maha's Assistant to reverse the trend and bring some sanity to earthlings, especially in America, Ceylon, Russia and the U.N.O.

Cell Cycle Events

 Read this article in parallel with Leonard Hayflick

Leonard Hayflick and 50 Cell Cycle

Cell Cycle Events 

1. Man and many advanced animals have 50 cell cycles in their life time.

2. Up to 42 cycles are used up by the age of 18 months of age.

3. About 42 to 45 are cycles are consumed by about 15 years of age.

That means for puberty 3 cycles are used up.

4. After puberty one is left with only 5 cycles.

3. There is a condition called progeria where babies are born in advanced stage of cell cycle and rapidly age and die young.

4. If we take a somatocyte from (with mutated genome) a case of this condition one can modulate few more cell cycles to be advanced by culturing under correct conditions with sexual maturation and bald head.

Box Utility of Debian Gnome

Box Utility of Debian Gnome

I have been testing all my Linux images in store and used BOX for live sessions. 

It took two days and to free my download folder started deleting them for good except a few of Arch Linux derivatives (in case somebody asks me about Arch Linux, I am not fan of ARCH Linux).

before taking about BOX let me dish out some comments.

I have written few lines here on this blog site on each of them.

1. ELive Linux has a very beautiful desktop effects.

2. Batocera images cannot be booted from a USB, lacks ESP partition.

3. GParted cannot be booted from USB.

4. Getting Puppy Linux images is difficult and with trial and error and searching Archive Linux site I have now collected over 20 old Puppy Linux images. All of them boots with box utility and all of them have Abiword, my favorite.

5. One should have Stacer Utility installed to test how your system works.

Yes I used Stacer to make some comments about BOX utility.

6. Notepadqq is a good text editor.

7. If one does not have packages use GDebi package Installer. All these can be downloaded using Synaptic Package manager.

8. Ubuntu is in panic stage but do not get caught to their advertisements ploys On has to pay for advice, even tiny.

9. If you want to get the feel of Ubuntu download Vinux-5.1-64 bit image from Archive Linux. It has a lovely graphic graphic installer. Run it live and get the feel of Ubuntu. It is a Ubuntu derivative. It can be used by visually handicapped person. Hope some body revive this distribution. Do not get confused with Wlinux (4.8GB) which is a hopeless distribution coming from windows guys. It is as bad as Wbuntu. Do not try them.

10. Do not listen to YouTube guys, coming from Windows background and spoil your taste.

11. Linux has already reached 10% (my unofficial results) and I wont be talking about Linux a lot from now onward.

My Linux Essentials would have most of the fine details including formatting of the disk.

12. Best option is to dual boot the system with whatever the operating system one uses. Apple's ARSHI Linux is hopeless, even to try.

Box Utility

It is a Virtual Box by default.

It needs at least 8GB RAM, the minimum.

Even testing Puppy Linux (20 or more images) it took almost 3.5GB of memory. 

If you are testing any distribution over 4GB it might freeze.

Box utility takes up lot of cashe.

Use it in parallel with Stacer.

Apple Mac and Cellphones Would have Hard Time Selling Their Gadgets

Apple Mac and Cellphones will have hard time selling their products.

I say this due to several reasons.

1. Number one is connectivity.

One should not depend only on WiFi.

2. Cellphones do not have direct ports to connect except Oculink and USB 4 derivatives. They need additional cords to connect.

3. Over time people have collected many gadgets including SATA and NVMVPCIe disks.

4. Most important factor is the emergence of wide variety Mini PCs with many ports in front and back of the system.

5. The most important factor is the heat throttling if all these are incorporated in one cellphone.

6. But what people give most concern is the cost. One can buy bare bone Mini PC under 200 dollars in eBay.

7. My guess is Ethernet port is the fastest only second to fiberoptics. 

 

8. Already HIGOL Mini PC has a cellphone interphase on it's top surface.

Taking all these into account tablet and cellphone demand will go down drastically.

Mini PC is the winner. One need not worry about the brand name when chip makers start flood the market with millions of small form factor chips.

9. One company worse hit will be FrameMaker. Laptops with small screen and short battery half life will be badly hit by this glut.

10. Desktop PC market will gradually fade away with guys buying a large TV (even Monitors will be badly hit).

11. Only thing that hold true for cellphone is portability and include battery.

12. Very soon these Mini PCs would even incorporate battery. What is stopping them is the heating that generate in a small space.

I never anticipated these chip industry outsmarting Moore's Law.

Guys who got USAID

President Putin does not allow these NGO guys to penetrate Russian culture.

Elon Musk's son is supposed to be a transgender guy and that is why he is involved in.

Donald Trump's involvement is based on his religious beliefs.

American society is really a fractured society and there in nothing good in them for us to emulate them.

Unfortunately, United Kingdom which was very conservative before 1980s.

This started changing during Mrs. Thatcher and Ronal Reagan and that was the reason for me leaving UK.

New Zealand is no different.

I won't make any comments about Australia where I currently residing.

This list contain 50 or more copied from Dharmasisri Kariryage.

No political party is free from American influence.

1. Mangala Sanaraweera 

LGBT.Q. Guy

Lesbian

Gay

Bisexual 

Transgender

? Questional or psychopaths 

This also called Woke Culture of Democrats.

These are not really problems in Ceylon but these are instruments to attack our Culture and Buddhist way of life.

India also deeply involved in this project.

2. Dhananath Fernando

I was inquisitive from where this guy came from promoting digital service in Ceylon.

3. Eran Wickamratne

4. Harini Amarasingle

Harini has special training for Woke Culture.

5. Harsha De Silva

6. Anura Bandaranaike 

7. Ranil Wickramasinghe ( obvious guy)

8. Rohan Samarjeewa

9. Malik Samarawickrama

10. Hirunika Premachandra

11. Dilip Jayaweera

12. Akila Viraj Karirlyawasam

13. Jude Fernando

14. Upeksha Thambugla 

15. Vajira Abeywardena

16. Rosy Senanayake 

17. Asoka Handagama

18. Ranjan Ramanayake

19. Vardas Thiayagarajah

20. Mano Thiththawalla

I was surprised Milinda Moragoda was not in this list.

No political party is free of American Influence.

We are taken for a ride.

There are lot of NGOs who depend on USAID for their activities.

Puppy Linux Derivatives Tested on Gnome BOX Utility

 Puppy Linux Derivatives Tested on Gnome BOX Utility

 I have tested all the Puppy Linux derivatives I have from series 4 to 8. In that process I learned may things including configuring the computer peripherals including PS to WiFi keyboards and monitors.

All of them had Abiword included and with option install LibreOffice or older versions. Only Puppy Linux that did not support Abiword was FatPup. which,  I deleted from my collection. All the images were less than 700GB which was the limit for a CD.

What it means one can test what is available in Ubuntu and Debian Linux and what WindowMnager each distribution uses.

Puppy Linux uses light weight JWM Window Manager.

They were;

1. Turbopup extreme

2. Top-unlimited 

3. Xenia Pup

4. Fossa Pup

5. Bionic Pup

6. Tahr Pup 

7. Light House Pup

8. Tiny Paw

9. Quirky

10.  Puppy Studio

11. Puppex-focal

12. Puppy Linux 430 which was 32 bits

13. GamePup

14. F96CE_XFCE is the Ubuntu derivative of PUP 

15. DebLive-bookworm is the Debian derivative of Puppy Linux 

16. Beaver 

17. Bookworm Pup

18. Lupu

19. There is a Devan derivative of Puppy Linux, too.

20. FatPup

21. MacPup

22. Live_gnome. 

23. Digi Pup

24. Precise Pup

25. Racy

26. Browser Pup

27. Dingo Pup

28. Buster Pup

29. Easy Pup

30. Devuan Pup

 

Sorry is not a Puppy Linux derivative but the very old Brazilian Linux distribution or Connectiva Linux.

That was the beginning of Linux with Xandros Linux which started the ball rolling.

XandrOS had a beautiful Linux desktop effects which lured me to Linux, I believe now.

It was much better at that of Windows at that time. 

I think I ran it on Windows 95 or 98. 

What a long journey?

Octapus Genome is Richer in Proteins

Human genome proteins 20,500.

Octapus 33,000

Caenorhabditis elegans has 20,000 proteins.

King Cobra-Naga Naja

 30-04-2011

King Cobra-Naga Naja

on King Cobra-Naja Naja

This is not something to alarm you but to point out how man has neglected the use of cobra venom for therapeutic use.

In addition there is a paucity of knowledge how venom evolved in animals and how some animals are resistant to smaller doses of venom.
 

I teach that it is the venom that is produced in our body after the bite that kills us not the cobra venom (to illustrate the fact that cytotoxins have multitude of actions).

 
For example bradykinin that causes pain is the product of our own tissues.

Snake venom is a modified saliva and we really do not know whether these are produced in evolution for digestion of the prey or to immobilize or anesthetize (humane to the dying prey). 

None of the points I have raised have been addressed conclusively and potential for the use of the modified venom molecule for treatment of leukaemia or cancer cells or as antithrombotic activity have not been discussed in scientific journal adequately..
Why?
The answer is simple.
Once they discovered that antivenom as a cure, everybody forgot about the biological role and what system they act and why, when where and how they modify the homoeostatic mechanisms.

 
Moment the commercial activity of preparation of antivenom starts the scientific investigation of biological nature takes a back stage.
That is very unfortunate.
 

There lot we can learn from these cytotoxins.

Coming back to cobra (baby cobra-are as poisonous as the adult), I killed a young cobra with a ruler when I was as young as the tiny cobra who was under my bed.

When that little fellow made his hood and kissed the death I fell heroic and also very sad.

 
Then in another incident when I jumped over huge cobra in a big compound and looked around to see he was as frighted as I was and showed his hood with a warning and quietly slipped away to his safety, I wondered why fear an animal who is on his routine search of his food or prey.

I still say the jumped I made that day worth an Olympic record if somebody made an accurate measure on that day. 

Unfortunately I missed an Olympic record since officials were not there to record it. That would have changed my life completely but the day that completely changed my mind was another ordinary day.
 

I was walking along a stream with the intention of catching guppies and I had a stone in my hand (we used to play marbles those days unlike today’s kids) and I saw a water snake (harmless creature) quickly swimming across in fear.

I took an aim in a moment of irresponsible stroke of mind of ill will and thought, threw the stone at the poor creature and it landed right on his neck.

It was like a bulls eye shot but the agony of the creature who succumbed in a long drawn out 5 minutes of death dance made an impact in my mind never to hurt (reflecting my killing in fear of the young cobra) an animal in either fear or sport.

Then on one night (2 am in the morning) in darkness a Ceylon Krait landed on my right shoulder and I brushed it with my left hand gently and put the light in a flash to see creature landing on the cement flow with a thud and my dog charging at it, I was then a man thinking of three lives my dog, myself and the poor creature who ventured at night.

 
Mind you Ceylon Krait is the deadliest of Ceylonese venomous snakes.

I watched the creature and it quickly disappeared into crevice wide open due to rotten timber of the bathroom door.

I did not have any cement to seal and went to the kitchen an took some American flour (who says American flour has no place in this country) and sealed the hole with the dough hastily made since the price of flour was very cheap (cheaper than the cement) then.

Suffice is to say I flushed the hole with water before I did that and slept on the settee fearing a few more in my bedroom.

After three days it emerged (none elsewhere) from the kitchen floor cracked and we caught it and released it to safety.

Of course, I had to cement both holes in the bathroom end and the kitchen end.

The key point here is that animals fear us more than we fear them in this modern world where we are encroaching on their habitat with blatant disregard to biodiversity.

I have had two more COBRA incidents, since then.

1. Touched the belly of a cobra inadvertently, while going to fetch the Sunday Parer or letters in the letter box. I took my hand in an instance and it slithered away. I could not see its front end.

2. Then when I was feeding my pet fish (in a huge tank behind our house) and turned around, to see a huge cobra behind my back, I made a huge jump downwards (5 steps) and almost broke my right leg.

I was blocking its exit path and it waited patiently till I was safely away, and disappeared in a flash. 

It would have been 20 feet long, no exaggeration.

They come to drink water from the open tank during the dry season.

For some reason there are no frogs, except the big Tree FROG that visit us annually to lay eggs in my tanks. 

Perhaps the snakes are coming in the night and polishing the things.

One of my class friends, who had a pond was complaining to me he has a problem with frogs.

I just ask him did you kill the cobra?

I did not have an answer.

At least let the rattle snake or garadiya to vist your lawn.

Dog Life In China

Reproduction 

Mind YOU Chinese and Koreans eat dogs! 

Dog Life In China

When you approach the iron gate of Laifu Yard, located in Dahuichang Village off the west Sixth Ring Road in Beijing, you are greeted by dozens of enthusiastic dogs, some with obvious disabilities but they all look frantically happy to see any visitor. The gate is reinforced with boards, bars, and locks so that it is not pushed open by the hyperactive canines. Though most of the dogs here have experienced pain and abandonment, they have no idea that the world outside the gate is still a hostile one.

Laifu Yard is in trouble.

Founded in 1998 and one of the largest stray dog shelters in Beijing, the 0.4 acre yard now houses around 400 dogs and 200 cats, far beyond capacity. For several years, the villagers have been complaining about the noise and bad smell, quite reasonable considering households are in quite close proximity, and the complaints are coalescing into hatred. This year, the village committee is officially evicting Aunt Li, the founder of the shelter, and her dogs.     Most NGOs concerned with stray animal welfare in Beijing, like Laifu Yard, are facing a similar situation: a shortage in funds, hands, and space. They keep moving farther from the city, all while taking on more and more animals from the careless metropolis.

In Chinese cities, the pet industry is advancing at a stunning speed. In 1993, there was only one brand of dog food in China, Mars; however, by 2014, the dog-care industry had boomed so rapidly that it is became a 900 million RMB a year venture.

However, much like many other industries, the pet industry is growing staggeringly and grotesquely, causing new problems along the way.

Like anything else, there have been trends in Chinese people’s preference of dog, trends often defined by popular films. Labradors became all the rage on Beijing’s streets in 2004 with Quill and Lassie in 2006 made rough collies popular. Eight Below made Alaskan malamutes and huskies the most desired pets for a while, and Shiba won the hearts of Chinese people in Hachiko.

A Dog’s Story in 2009 (and of course the internet fame of Doge). However, as each trend came and went, Chinese dog owners realized that getting  a dog is not exactly like inviting a friendly angel into your home; with each trend saw a new peak in abandonment for that breed.

“Those films are not truthful representations of the dogs,” Angella Zheng, companion animal project officer at the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), explains. “After the screening of Eight Below, a lot of people were lured into the fantasy that, if they didn’t own such a smart dog, they wouldn’t live the happy life of the film’s protagonist. However, you cannot really live a film. Huskies can howl like a wolf that resounds around the whole block if they are not given proper training. Alaskan malamutes are born to exercise extensively, and when they are confined to the limits of an urban apartment, their pent up energy may lead to extreme destructiveness.”

Currently, the Bichon Frise-Shih Tzu mix (Shichon) is the preferred breed in China, a small dog also known as a “teddy”.

“Although there have been various trends in the choice of dogs, it’s the first time one single breed has become this popular,” Doctor Yin from the Saijia Animal Hospital says. He has been practising since 1998 and is one of the most acclaimed vets in Beijing. “Of course the phenomenon has its causes. The Shichon looks cute, and as a descendant of the poodle, it is also very intelligent. It doesn’t shed much hair, it’s small, and it is domestic by nature and doesn’t need to be walked a lot. In this respect, it’s almost perfect for Chinese urban residents in dense communities.”

However, Yin is concerned about the health of the dogs. “It’s a relatively newly-imported breed. Now that it has won Chinese people’s favor, it is multiplying in all Chinese dog breeding farms, but it is hard to tell the risks. It is already showing signs of hereditary diseases. Because of hip defects at birth, a lot of the Shichons I receive here suffer from necrosis of the hip joints. We will need to wait for another 10 or 15 years to see if it develops other hereditary defects.”

“There used to be more mongrel breeds in China,” Yin points out. “However, with the progress of urbanization and the dog breeding business becoming highly commercialized, most people purchase their dogs from markets instead of getting puppies from friends. Mostly, you can only see purebred dogs.”

Purebred dogs tend to have a much higher chance of hereditary diseases due to a lack of genetic diversity and inbreeding, and they are not as healthy as mongrels in general. While this is a fact all over the world, in China the situation is worse. “In China, the dog breeding business is extremely greedy. It is centred on self-interest only, instead of the dogs’ health,” Yin says. “That makes Chinese purebred dogs unhealthier than those abroad.”

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Linux penetration of the Desktop PC

It looks like Linux has reached my target of 10% already and AI (server domain) which is a derivative of Linux itself is shy to accept this fact.

No Linux guy visits my blog post and only when I post a political piece that it hits over 4K. That is the reality. I just posted a political piece naming all the big political big shots. I would report, in a few days.

 

Linux penetration of the Desktop PC (AI Generated)

 

As of July 2024, Linux had a 4.45% share of the global desktop operating system market. This is an increase from 3.12% in July 2023.
 

Explanation  

Microsoft Windows is the most widely used operating system for desktop computers and laptops, with a share of 73%.

Apple's macOS is the second most popular operating system, with a share of 14%.

Google's ChromeOS is the fourth most popular operating system, with a share of 1.9%. 

 

The remaining 6.4% of the market is unknown, but is thought to be Linux.

Linux is an open-source operating system that runs on a variety of computer architectures, including mobile phones and supercomputers. 

Because it's open source, developers can quickly update the code to improve security

Faked Bills (Economy), Faked News (Politics), Fucked Up Medicine (Drug-Mafia) and Faked Dharma

 

Faked Bills (Economy), Faked News (Politics), Fucked Up Medicine (Drug-Mafia) and Faked Dharma

For two solid 48 hours (not due to meditation practice) the TV was switched off fully and Dhamma Sermons (Faked Dharma probably Buddha never uttered) were banned electronically.

I think we are fucked up fully by politics, economy, medicine and religion.

This may be my final encounter in blog world, which I have been considering for over three years (could not keep this promise).

Finally, the curtain is down for good, from today. 

 

I have to confess but I am active again because of the election. 

I would hibernate once the election results are declared.

 

By the way, I am in Australia.

I do not want to be a part of this fucked up Web with Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram and Viber.

For me Viber tops the list and Twitter is close second and Facebook, never again.

I took up Twitter (twit twit of the Munia bird is my favorite bird song) seriously with President Trump's powerful message in his campaign for election in 2015.

He won the Battle with Russia in doldrums until Coronavirus took a tall in all three or four Western countries, in style.
 

My bone fide or bone of contention is that this virus will spread fast in the Western world like AIDS where homosexuality is legal from ?1984 or so. 
 

It has no colour barrier unlike violence in USA currently.
 

Racial prejudice (no genetic evidence of difference between Tamils and Sinhalese and we are a homogeneously mixed up race with English and Portuguese blood diluted by intra-breeding over the past 70 years) with questionable, "bloody variability"  is widely prevalent in this part of the world where Indira Gandhi created L.T.T.E to incite violence in already divided and violent nation.
 

By the way, India and Ceylon have no immunity to Coronavirus and it will last a decade or more.

Coming to the Title, number one is faked bills of the current government.
Electricity bill, Water bill and more importantly Telecom bills are artificially inflated to pay the salary of large government (three or four officers for a single post and none works and like a merry go round the buck is passed around in eternal cycles) sector.
 

Coffers are empty and I pay a handsome (not a single cent from Ceylon) amount to support the failed economy and the failed country.

Faked news is the Election propaganda of aspirations that were never delivered for 70 years.

We are a failed State and nation owned by a guy who is a Singaporean!
 

Fucked up medicine is endemic and Vitamin C tablet is over Rs.25/= per tablet and important eye drops are not seen in pharmacies and soon lot of elderly citizens will go blind (blind in politics,too) due to lack of Medicine.

On top of these are Buddhist monks advising the PM and the President and giving dead ropes in broad day light on this "Poson Paya Day".

Predicted rain by our meteorologists never materialized and the only bright spot was the Full Moon with rain clouds surrounding it making its brightness ever so beautiful.
 

It was a good photo-opportunity to which my wife beat me by narrow horse neck.

By the way, lotteries were not sold due to the curfew and not due to Poya.

Selling lotteries which S.W.R.D introduced Violate Buddhist Principles.
 

Very soon Buddhist monks will start selling them (lotteries) to fill the empty coffers!