Open Letter - 2014-01-15-21-54

. . . . From the desk of Ms. Ann Abraham . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia

To,

Stevias,

Procarvit.com

Hi,

Stevia leaves just dried in the sun, and then powdered fine is the safest way to consume this product.

It is a leaf of a herb with seed, so biblically it is a food plant, and it is the leaf, and not the sap, so it is edible for the body.

I am looking for powdered dried Stevia leaves.

I hope you will be able to supply this product.

It has minimum processing requirement (only drying the leaf in the sun, and then powdering it fine), but maximum goodness.

Regards,

Ms. Ann Abraham,

2014-01-15-21-53

Annanagar West

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

India.

Open Letter - To DiabeticsDesire - 2014-01-15-17-17

. . . . From the desk of Ms. Ann Abraham . .

Dear DiabeticsDesire,

Some years ago (though I really, really love sugar) I decided to be good and not eat sugar.  So I looked for some sugar-less sweets, and found a box of DiabeticsDezire at Nilgris.

I bought it and ate it, and it was nice.

Recently, on the internet, I found that there is a leaf of the “Stevia” plant, which is much sweeter than sugar, and so I’m looking for fresh Stevia leaves – it might be like curry leaves, or coriander leaves, or brinjal leaves, but sweet.

Because it is a leaf, and not the sap of the plant, it is good for the body, and I’m sure those diagnosed will be able to eat of it heartily.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia

Regards,

Ms. Ann Abraham.

2014-01-15-17-17

Chennai, India.

Annanagar West.

Open Letter - To DiabeticsDesire - 2014-01-15-17-17 

Open Letter - To KFC - 2014-01-15-11-53

. . . . From the desk of Ms. Ann Abraham . .

Dear KFC,

I had an order of KFC delivered to my doorstep, though my mother received it, and I was left searching for it… I even called you up again, but then I woke my mother, and she told me where it was… But it was cold by then.

Anyway, the point is, the chicken doesn’t have blood in it anymore… SO I could eat the Hot&Crispy.  And the skin wasn’t there, so I could eat the batter too… (Still waiting for the batter to be whole-grain, though).

So, a good improvement over the previous haemorrhaged chicken meat, and the fatty skin….!! Kudos!!

Oh, yes, my father had bought some KFC on the way, some time back, and bought a Rizo rice, which I hadn’t tried, because it was white rice.  But since he bought it, and there was gravy with it, I tried the gravy, and it was thick and nice, and very tasty, and I dipped the boneless chicken in it, and had that… which was good.

So this time, when I ordered by telephone, I requested a Rizo-rice, just for the sake of the gravy, since I liked that gravy, and not the dips that are supplied with the Dips bucket. 

So apparently, the Rizo gravy is available separately, and so I dropped the white-rice, and ordered just the gravy.

I ordered boneless without the DIPS bucket, just the boneless tray, and had Rizo gravy with it, and that was my day!  It was my mother and my father’s wedding anniversary that day, and so we celebrated.

(My mother asked me to order, so that she didn’t have to cook that day, and I obliged, and looks like I lived to tell the tale!).

Regards,

Ms. Ann Abraham.

2014-01-15-11-51

Ordered on 2014-01-12

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Open Letter to Apple - TechnoBlog - iMac - GarageBand - MusicalKeyboard - understand - 2014-01-10-19-36

. . . . From the desk of Ms. Ann Abraham . .

Okay, so there is thing called the musical keyboard in GarageBand.  Apparently it’s an onscreen keyboard. 

I would like to have a program (app) that associates a particular tone with each key on the physical keyboard.

Wonder how it would sound to actually type a character (single note), a string of characters (a word – oh my!  That would be a tune), and then a string of words (a paragraph – That would be another tune).

Imagine, type a song’s lyrics on the keyboard in a timing, and have the sounds sounding, and there is an automatic tune for the lyrics.  The chorus would sound the same each time, because the same lyrics are being typed out each time.

And then, when we get tired of that tune, or want another tune for the same lyrics, there should be a window on the iMac screen from this app, which allows the association of a particular frequency of note with a particular key on the keyboard.

So when the same lyrics are typed out again, this time with the revised frequency-notes, the tune is well, different!!

I would like to have this please...

And so would many others, except they don't know it yet,.... till it rolls out...

Dear Apple, would you do your best...?  Or less, doesn't matter... just get it done!

Yay! Yay!

Me and my iMac - 2014-01-10-05-46 - This turned into an open letter to Apple and Microsoft

SO where is the Macintosh laptop please?

Everything that an iMac is, except portable – so a smaller screen, a connected-by-wire (in addition to the wireless connection, for security reasons, connected-by-wire is better, - it can’t be evesdropped on as easily) keyboard and a connected-by-wire (in addition to the wireless connection) mouse.

Oh, but all these things will be hanging in space, dangling like fruit on a tree…

Okay, then have a base, mount the keyboard on it, have an inbuilt mouse, and in built hard-disk.  There – now everything is secured.

Oh, but the screen will be top-heavy since the electronics is in the screen.  It might topple over.

Hmmm… Okay, then put the electronics in the base, and just have a monitor screen sitting upright.

Ya, you might as well connect the screen to the base, so it is one unit.  Like an L-shape…  Oh, but how can I carry an L-shape around, dear Liza, dear Liza,

But how to carry an L-shape, dear Liza, but how?

Oh, then fold it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry

Then fold it, dear Henry, dear Henry, fold it.

But how shall I fold it, dear Liza, dear Liza

But how shall I fold it, dear Liza, but how?

Like a door or a window, dear Henry, dear Henry

Like a door or a window, dear Henry, like that.

But what do you meeean, dear Liza, dear Liza

But what do you mean, dear Liza, but what?

Oh, put hinges, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry

Oh, put hinger, dear Henry, dear Henry, hinges?

Oh, I see that, dear Liza, dear Liza, dear Liza

Oh, I see that, dear Liza, dear Liza, I see.

Oh, good, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry

Oh, good, dear Henry, dear Henry, Oh Good!

..

So now we have a foldable iMac sitting on the desk (in my head), and I’ve told you the specifications too… All you have to do, is do….!

But how shall I carry it, dear Liza, dear Liza,

But how shall I carry it, dear Liza, but how?

With a handle, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry

With a handle, dear Henry, dear Henry, handle.

Good idea, dear Liza, dear Liza, dear Liza

A good idea, dear Liza, dear Liza, oh good.

Anything more, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry

Anything more..? dear Henry, dear Henry, anything…?

..

Well, we have the foldable with a handle sitting on the desk (in my head).  And I pick it up and start walking… And it starts raining…

Oh, it’s raining, dear Liza, dear Liza, dear Liza

Oh, it’s raining, dear Liza, dear Liza, raining.

Oh, let’s play, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry

Oh, let’s play, dear Henry, dear Henry, let’s play.

Okay, dear Liza, dear Liza, dear Liza

Oh okay, dear Liza, dear Liza, okay.

What shall I do with the foldable, dear Liza, dear Liza,

What shall I do with the foldable, dear Liza, but what?

Cover it with plastic, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry

Cover it with plastic, dear Henry, dear Henry, plastic.

But I have not any plastic, dear Liza, dear Liza, dear Liza

But I have not any plastic, dear Liza, plastic.

..

Okay, so I’m out on the road, and it rains and my foldable is getting all wet.  Can’t have that happening to electronics.  So I look for plastic to keep the rain off, but there’s none around.  Oh, I should have carried some with me… Well, that is bulky, and inconvenient.  Okay, we’ll make it into a case and slip it on the foldable.  That way, I don’t have to carry it separately.

Oops.  I dropped it.  Someone must have startled me.  It’s broken!!!!  Oh no, it’s broken.

So I have to put it in a thermacol case so that even if I drop it, it stays in one piece.

Oh, my!  It looks like a suitcase.

But to carry it on long runs, I’ll need to strap it on my back.  SO a back strap also please, in addition to a suitcase handle, and a shoulder strap.

Oh my!  It looks like an office bag.

Yes, you can take it to the office also.

Oh my!  Why not just pack the whole iMac as is, and carry it along.

Good idea.  Dear Apple, I need a carry-suitcase for a full-size iMac.

And also a mouse-pad please, so that the mouse is comfortable, and can glide easily on the mouse-pad instead of clunking on the table top.  Or at least another smoother moving 2-black-strips on the base, so that there is a lubricated feel to the mouse, not having to pick and drop, to achieve movement of the mouse.  Yes, that would be better than the mouse pad.  That way, the current beautiful packaging can stay the way it is (the package in which the iMac is delivered to the doorstep, or room, actually).  Just the mouse base gets an upgrade.  Maybe felt will do.  Or just any cloth.  Probably denim, so it stays on for a longer time.  If it is felt or velvet, it might wear out.  So a rugged cloth, like denim.

Okay, so now we have different sized iMacs, and carry suitcases for each of them.  Oh yay!  I am set to go.

Oh my, I should have kept the original packaging…. That would have done…

Yes, I should have.  The thermacol in it is perfectly crafted to cradle the iMac.  But the cardboard box is not durable.  Okay.  Dear Apple, everything as is, and please ship the iMac in a suitcase type container, instead of cardboard.  You can put the labeling on the suitcase-type-container (stc), so it looks just the same.  Yes, the cardboard case in suitcase-material please.

That’s all for now…

Oh dear… somebody wants to stop us just as we are getting warmed up….

Anything else..?

Yes please.  I have had problems trying to get a fast upload speed on the iMac.  It has a wireless modem in-built, apparently, but I need an Apple account to log into to activate that wireless connection.  Currently available technology is 3G, which is okay for regular video (I’m on YouTube too – L. E. A. Anndrea), but the iMac is on high-resolution recording, with lovely sound,… so it should have at least 4G… Okay, Airtel is rolling that out…

Seems to me, having a wireless inbuilt-modem and the Apple culture of providing everything for the iMac, there should be an Apple provider of high-speed bandwidth.  So that I don’t even need to plug-and-play, … I can just click-and-connect to the Apple internet and then I am ready to play and upload and work and game.

Oh yay!  Satellite connections, coming my way…

I think they already have that.  That iMac locator locates the iMac anywhere in the world.  So obviously the algorithms, and the capability is there… Just need more bandwidth on it…. Ooh…replicate…!

Anything else…?

Yes, I noticed with glee the fact that the Word 1997 “File-Edit-View…” on the top of the iMac screen, and was so relieved to find that.  However, the keyboard keys for each of those options is somewhat different.  Dear Apple and Microsoft, could you please have the same keyboard keys as for the original Word 1997 – you know, the (Alt-F-S) for “Save”, the (Alt-E-C) for copy etc….  also those (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, which apparently are in effect, though they are called (Command-C and Command-V).  Okay, I can live with that… But I still need the original Word 1997 File-Edit-View… Okay, that might not be the original, but that’s what I learnt on… once-upon-a-time…  For me, please, please…?

I was really pleased to find that the “File-Edit-View” actually did still exist, and would have the measure of that pleasure, if it still looked the same as in Word 1997.  Also, just bring back all the options, especially that Tools-Customise options, to customize the ribbon – For nice features like the “Format-painter” to be on the ribbon, easily accessible, … and other features required … After all, there are so many features, and we need the option of picking and dropping those features on the tool-bar so that we can customize the toolbar for our optimal performance and ease.

Ms. Ann Abraham. 

2014-01-10-06-05