Animals FACE OFF!!!

This is kinda insane but I have been interested in pitching various animals against each other just to see which one wins.

Like wouldn't you want to know who would win in a match between and crocodile and a shark, or a grizzly and a siberian tiger or a hippo against a lion.

Anyways after months of time pass googling and reading from several sources- I can say I am pretty well informed in this depatrment. So starting from today I am going to pitch one animal against the other and tell you how it is going to go.

Who knows may be we can make it a knock out tournament to see which animal is the best fighter.

Special thanks to Umar who helped me a lot with my research on the craazy nights in Trivandrum.

First off

Croc Vs the Hippo

Crocodiles

The salt-water crocs in Australia grow to a length of 21 ft and weigh an astonishing 1200 kgs. They have one of the most powerful bites in the animal kingdom. The hide is very very thick and the tail packs a powerful whack for those who think they can attack it from behind.

The can swim upto speeds of 25 kmph, but need to come to the surface to breathe.

Hippos

They are one of the most dangerous animals in the whole of Africa(lions included). They weigh about 1800-2000 kgs. They are very aggressive and extremely territorial. And they kill a lot of humans. Only that this happens in africa so its not a big deal.

The Battle-field: a swampy slow moving river with a bank for the loser to run for safety.

Result(Extremely surprising): The Hippo wins 10/10 times. The croc stands no chance. The hippos jaw will snap the croc in half and before he knows it he'l be a suitcase and a pair of boots.

If you don believe me check this out.

My ride to whitefield, Jugaad and why India is growing despite itself

Every day I ride to whitefield, and yes its very very tiring. But what choice do I have. Going by bus is not an option- it takes double the time and is extremely boring. So riding is the best option. But it still takes an hour.

But after going riding for about 2 weeks I started finding ways to make my journey shorter. I go through gullies, riding on the footpath on some occasions and occasionally during extreme jams. I also squeeze between cars and change lanes to make maximum use of the little pockets of free road.

Contrary to being indisciplined, I think it makes sense that some of us do this. It reduces the load on the already clogged road. When a few people do this, it reduces the jams and makes maximum use of the resources. Occasionally the odd amateur creates a bigger jam. But thats just a learning experience. Soon he finds ways to get home faster without delaying himself or others. I know this is not the ideal thing to do. But I am not riding on ideal roads.

I guess this applies to India as well. The resources are never adequate. So people start finding shortcuts to work around that and the system. Making most use of our precious resources is what has kept us growing.

India cannot be compared to the west were resources are in abundance. Here people need to be more innovative, creative and have to really think out of the box. And this happens at the lowest levels- from rural India to small traders and businesses.

Now back to whitefield, if everybody maintained a minimum of 2 feet distance between the vehicle in front of you- the jam would look orderly but would be a mile long.

So before you comment saying "See the west. Everything is so orderly"... remember at some level it is our disorderliness which is helping us grow- and right now at a tremendous pace.

I would also like to share this post which I read recently

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/columnists/swaminathan-s-a-aiyar/Jugaad-is-our-most-precious-resource/articleshow/6313513.cms

Twitter's Revenue Model

Few days back, the number tweets exceeded the world population.
Also Twitter got to know about a recent small earthquake faster than the local media could get to know about it.
They have 70million users and they’ve grown 1300 odd% in a year.
But yet they don’t have a revenue model and don’t make any money.
So here are a few things I think they can do to become profitable.

• Divide the screen space and display ads.
  This is a tough one as people like Twitter for its simplistic view. But still there is a lot of screen space they can utilize. They can probably divide the page and on one side are the ads related tweets. These tweets can have graphical content which will stand out in comparison to the text based tweets. To tweet here ( lets call it b-tweets) you need to pay something to Twitter. They could charge you per tweet or per month with a usage limit or for the data content. Put in a lot of options which will give a lot of choice for businesses.
  


• Customized feeds.
  Twitter should ask people if they would like to subscribe for customized feeds of they're interests. Something like Yahoo does when you sign up, they ask you to check your interests. There would some people who would check for something which would make a portion of the users not complain about ads since they asked for it. Of course others like us should have the option of not getting any ads on our personal area.
  


• Communities/ Fan clubs
  Twitter should also have this thing like fans/communities where people with similar interests could have conversations. I think since Twitter is so open, there is no directions to the tweets; which is nice in a way but people should be able to direct it if they want to. Twitter could charge businesses for starting these communities to give people info about their product/services.
  


• Strike a deal with GOOGLE
  Also Twitter can strike a deal with Google and allow Google to access their site for real-time searches. This works for Google as well as they need to combat Facebook on the real time search front.(btw It takes a Facebook with 360mil users and Microsoft to take on Google and Google still rocks!!!)

I still haven’t given this much thought; I need to come up with more points.