Caffeine

I used to joke with old friends that we cannot do without caffeine and endorphin, but they can keep the morphine .

Now I realize that there is another Caffeine we cannot do without: Google’s new search, code name Caffeine.

It is a clever code name . To produce endorphin, you need to work out and get sweaty.

A caffeine boost however is easy to come by.

Coffee makers come in all sorts of sizes and shapes.

In Vietnam, where people still have some free time, hot water is poured over the coffee for it to drip down.

Here, in the US, I use the stove top espresso maker with boiled water shooting up, defying gravity.

Caffeine and computer go well together, with their common denominator – insomnia.

When TV and Computer converge, as they increasingly are, we will have a potent addictive combo.

40 years ago,  “man’s search for meaning” used to be “groovy”.

40 years later, “man’s search for infotainment”.  (where is that man with the blanket at Woodstock?)

Try “single mom” entry, then you will find the changing pattern from the WW II generation to today’s.

BTW, 60 years ago, the Geneva Convention was signed to curtail civilian casualties when nations were at war.

The stats are astounding: WW I, 10-1 (army vs civilian casualties), WW II 50-50, and lately 1-10.

Talking about getting lost in translation (French to English). Madam Secretary, what does President Clinton think?

Whoops! Sorry to set you off. Vous ne comprenez pas.

There is a new book coming out on “it’s not the flat world” subject. Pankaj Ghemawat is from India, and teaches at Harvard, his alma-mater . Unlike Friedman, he draws our attention to regional differences in a global economy.

The Q & A sessions are certainly different in town halls across America than in Africa with Mrs Clinton.

Ironically, people are wearing suits and ties when addressing Madam Secretary vs T-shirts when asking Obama

(given that’s it’s summer time and the American penchant for informality).  The video clips showed  Mrs Clinton sitting down during Q&A explosion, while Mr Obama was standing in New Hampshire (or PA senator Alan Specter during a shouting match).

More to come in Denver and Dakota?  with Obama-care town hall meetings.

More “sleepless in Seattle” for a nation which is always-at-war. This time, civilian casualties is 100%, since Health care is to be universal.  More Caffeine, more search, but not for meaning. Just the facts,  mam. What was Mr President thinking? Whoops! I meant the other President. Pardon mois!