Last Thursday and Friday, I went on a short, quick pilgrimage to Salem-Namakkal and returned back with a tonsured Yul Brynner look – an attention grabber to say the least!
Saturday afternoon, after the blog on UID, I went out for a cuppa and smoke. There is a neighbourhood stray dog ‘Red’, who always wags, begs and hinders me (and a couple of others), to feed her 2 porai (hard-baked-hand-made-flour-biscuits). Whether it is early morning when fetching milk or out for after dinner smoke, Rs. 2/- for 2 biscuits have become a habit.
As I went across the street to the tea shop, I saw Red lapping up rain water from a roadside puddle. Though she was facing me at an angle, I manoeuvred to pass within 8 feet of her, but downwind. She was aware of me as part of her threat perception, but had not implicitly recognized me. At my approach to the counter, Red had had her fill and turning away was immersed in a soul satisfying scratching frenzy.
Watching her out of the corner of my eyes, I called for tea and smokes. At that her ears perked up and Red glanced a few times around, but still didn’t recognize me. The tea boy and another local guy, started laughing and commented on the fact that Red seems to have ‘forgotten’ me.
I too laughed and replied that it must be the ‘tonsure’ effect. At that Red sparkled up and wagging her tail came up to me, but still seemingly doubtful, gave me a quick sniff-over. The wagging and begging assumed a furious pace, till she got her 2 biscuits.
As I’d blogged just then about UID and its bio-metric ID system, my wicked half went off on a tangent. When a dog can mis-identify a person after a tonsure, what will the bio metrics do?
It sent me on a 3 hour hunt on webland and results … wait for a new blog
Saturday afternoon, after the blog on UID, I went out for a cuppa and smoke. There is a neighbourhood stray dog ‘Red’, who always wags, begs and hinders me (and a couple of others), to feed her 2 porai (hard-baked-hand-made-flour-biscuits). Whether it is early morning when fetching milk or out for after dinner smoke, Rs. 2/- for 2 biscuits have become a habit.
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As I went across the street to the tea shop, I saw Red lapping up rain water from a roadside puddle. Though she was facing me at an angle, I manoeuvred to pass within 8 feet of her, but downwind. She was aware of me as part of her threat perception, but had not implicitly recognized me. At my approach to the counter, Red had had her fill and turning away was immersed in a soul satisfying scratching frenzy.
Watching her out of the corner of my eyes, I called for tea and smokes. At that her ears perked up and Red glanced a few times around, but still didn’t recognize me. The tea boy and another local guy, started laughing and commented on the fact that Red seems to have ‘forgotten’ me.
I too laughed and replied that it must be the ‘tonsure’ effect. At that Red sparkled up and wagging her tail came up to me, but still seemingly doubtful, gave me a quick sniff-over. The wagging and begging assumed a furious pace, till she got her 2 biscuits.
As I’d blogged just then about UID and its bio-metric ID system, my wicked half went off on a tangent. When a dog can mis-identify a person after a tonsure, what will the bio metrics do?
It sent me on a 3 hour hunt on webland and results … wait for a new blog
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