Dear automatic flush in the middle stall in the Skyclub in Terminal A at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport,

I absolutely admire all the enthusiasm.
But I was not done yet.

Signed,
RR
June 28, 2014

A few days back, New York Daily News reported two frogs entering into holy matrimony in India. See the following link for more details. It even has a picture of the two frogs purportedly kissing. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/indian-village-performs-wedding-ceremony-frogs-break-drought-article-1.1095903

At the end of the ceremony, the obviously furious she-frog bitterly complained of getting duped. She was promised, she alleged, that the bull frog would turn into Prince Charming at the first kiss. When asked what was she going to do about it, she replied nonchalantly “Ah! He is going to croak some day” 🙂

Found on the internet. The poem is called “Dig”

I dig

You dig

He digs

She digs

They dig

We all dig.

This poem is not very good, but it is deep 🙂

So, here I was stuck in Atlanta airport with a much delayed puddle jumper. It was too early to call up people and I was getting bored. And then got this really really funny cartoon from Chris. As a context, see the other picture of text messages where we started by punning on “dog”.

Before I forget, Chris himself is a very very funny guy. We have worked together for years but are more friends than colleagues. One of my most common ribs on Chris was “you are too cynical, Chris”. And his memorable response was “just because I am cynical does not mean I am not right” 🙂 Game, set and match to Chris!!

Learnt a few things. All county roads in here are named after letters. County road A, B etc etc. Also found out there is a falls called Sheboygan falls on the river called Sheboygan river by the city Sheboygan in the county called Sheboygan.

This makes Wisconsin only marginally more innovative than Atlanta where we name all our roads Peachtree!!! 🙂

It appears that research at CMU has shown that if you think of food, you feel like you have eaten it!!! Your appetite goes away!!!

Or as a modern day Shakespeare would put it…
“There is nothing food or so m’lord
Only thinking makes it so”

🙂

http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2010/December/dec9_thoughtforfood.shtml

Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found that body mass index, waist-hip ratio, waist-height ratio and waist circumference all increased with increasing exposure to light at night.

http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/health/exposure-to-light-while-sleeping-can-make-you-fat/

Are you kidding me? This the Institute of “Cancer” Research. Why are they studying what makes people fat? And how did they even come up with the idea of switching off and on the lights as people sleep? Who is giving them research money?

Can they not, for just now, accept eating less food, exercising a little more as the answer? And whatever little fat is leftover, maybe they can come back to it after they have….. let’s say…. errrr…. found a cure for cancer or something?