The new year is barely underway and already two questions are knocking on my skull. Two days, two questions. The new year is already setting the course of the rest of the year. My dread was that this year was going to be a somewhat confused year. A political mess to be sorted out by November just didn't seem possible and yet...somehow, it will be sorted out come November.
Tonight watching Charlie Rose, Neil De Grasse Tyson was giving an educate interviewed. Charlie Rose ask him what would be his most important question to ask about the universe and his answer was something that has been answered much the same way already by a photographer. Tyson said his question would be the question that has not yet been ask because we are not smart enough to ask it yet. The photographer had been ask what is his best picture and his reply was the one that had not yet been taken.
The first question that came to me in reverse order here would be one that is a more powerful one on all fronts. The story behind the question has been tested for more than a few days now and only yesterday did the actual question form and begin pounding on my skull.
The story that formed the base of this question is: A grad student at UCLA has been going to the San Diego Zoo every day for more than a year as part of his research for his doctorate. He had, in the beginning, ask such a simple question: how does a monkey peel a banana? The results has proven almost everyone has been doing it wrong. These past few days as I ate my daily banana, I peeled the banana the way the monkey peeled his. As a result of the grad students research, my first question of the year came about.
There is no question that after having tried it myself for several days the monkey has a winner. But, that still does not answer my question that all this fuss generated. In fact, now, a second part to the original question has come into play. So before I can ask the perplexing question, there is now a second part to be answered to the original question. That answer will just have to wait. The only way that I can get the answer that I need will require going to the Dallas Zoo and maybe even the Ft. Worth Zoo. You see, part of the answer is a visual answer. The only way that I can get that visual answer is go to the zoo. My best picture is one that hasn't been taken yet and I have a project and a plan! It is a once-in-a-lifetime shot. It will take some planning. Seeing an orangutan (on YouTube Orangutan) fall to the floor and roll in laughter when he watched a magician do a magic trick that fooled him was priceless. This might be the only project on my agenda this year. But if I get the shot that I am hoping to get, it will have been a very good year.
Tonight watching Charlie Rose, Neil De Grasse Tyson was giving an educate interviewed. Charlie Rose ask him what would be his most important question to ask about the universe and his answer was something that has been answered much the same way already by a photographer. Tyson said his question would be the question that has not yet been ask because we are not smart enough to ask it yet. The photographer had been ask what is his best picture and his reply was the one that had not yet been taken.
The first question that came to me in reverse order here would be one that is a more powerful one on all fronts. The story behind the question has been tested for more than a few days now and only yesterday did the actual question form and begin pounding on my skull.
The story that formed the base of this question is: A grad student at UCLA has been going to the San Diego Zoo every day for more than a year as part of his research for his doctorate. He had, in the beginning, ask such a simple question: how does a monkey peel a banana? The results has proven almost everyone has been doing it wrong. These past few days as I ate my daily banana, I peeled the banana the way the monkey peeled his. As a result of the grad students research, my first question of the year came about.
There is no question that after having tried it myself for several days the monkey has a winner. But, that still does not answer my question that all this fuss generated. In fact, now, a second part to the original question has come into play. So before I can ask the perplexing question, there is now a second part to be answered to the original question. That answer will just have to wait. The only way that I can get the answer that I need will require going to the Dallas Zoo and maybe even the Ft. Worth Zoo. You see, part of the answer is a visual answer. The only way that I can get that visual answer is go to the zoo. My best picture is one that hasn't been taken yet and I have a project and a plan! It is a once-in-a-lifetime shot. It will take some planning. Seeing an orangutan (on YouTube Orangutan) fall to the floor and roll in laughter when he watched a magician do a magic trick that fooled him was priceless. This might be the only project on my agenda this year. But if I get the shot that I am hoping to get, it will have been a very good year.
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