Networks

Posted on by Reena Saxena

I cannot differentiate people in the sea of beards around me. The faces are lost, and they all look like clones of emptiness within. This guy is receiving an award for something, and I look at my wife for enlightenment.

“Is he a maverick interior decorator to have put those umbrellas out there?”

“No. He is a scientist who captures solar energy and provides internet connectivity with the help of umbrellas.”

I must be growing old. These guys do have brains. Yet, I can’t see the wires connecting the umbrellas. The world is networked more than ever, but no connections.

(100 words)

 

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43 thoughts on “Networks”

  3. The proliferation of beards these days is a good observation, in some parts there are many who look alike, but some are pushing the boundaries, I used a naked umbrella for a tv Ariel at uni for a while, worked a treat until I tried my metal bed frame which was even better!
    Good stuff as ever

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    1. Thanks! Great to know your successful atempts! I remember a child in a village for getting an award for brining TV connectivity to his village with an inverted umbrella. So, it does help.

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  5. If an umbrella would give me internet, I’d buy ten! Love the story… hmmm, One wonders when the day will come that such a contrivance will be made. I know that in Ham Radio, we can make a directional antenna out of such… If I could just find the right parts….

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      1. I remember the home I was nompar at had a huge 10 satellite dish in the yard. It was awesome. I could watch my favorite show (StarTrek) in German and Japanese…they were hilarious dubbed!

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  7. Surrounded by a sea of hipsters…There is nothing like the distrust of the younger generation by the older. The younger wonder why things were ever done that way, and the older wonder why things ever changed. You capture that perplexity well!

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