Trivial Weirdness

Read this nice thought!

Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit.
-Rudolf Arnheim, psychologist and author (1904-2007)

And the trivial weirdness?
Well on Sunday I lost my SIM card in the weirdest possible manner! Had gone to Chandu Trojan's place to meet him since he was leaving for India the next day. On reaching his place, saw he was playing around with an i-phone. Apparently it was the other great man's phone and CT was trying to unlock it which he had managed to do but he was not getting the menu! So, me being the ever nice guy (:-p) decided to help and gave my phone's sim card to try and see if we get the menu. The result was expected, but when he removed my card to give it back to me and he dropped it on the sofa (i had a funny feeling he would do it!). Nothing out of the ordinary so far, but you know who's law kicked in (sadly the law is preventing me from remembering that guy's name!) and the card decided to go and park itself in the micrometer gap between the sofa arm rest and the sofa seat (if you can imagine that!). All we could see was the tip of the card! (and just remembered, it is Murphy's law! :-D)

Then us 3 enggrs (bro was also there) got down to the task of trying to pry out the card. CT got 3 different knives, one being big enuff to chop a human being, and we tried to push the card down, then up and poke the knife in what ever gaps we could but the thing refused to budge! And alas, our last ditch effort saw the card sink into an abyss and I have been with out my phone since :-(

Moral of the story :- your worst fears come true when you least expect/want them to and 3 enggrs cannot retrieve a teeny weeny SIM card!! :-D and then again, going by the above thought, nothing is small or trivial :-)

-uv.