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The LinkedIn Song

// to be sung like Yellow by Coldplay

Look at these stars
Look how they smile at you
In the LinkedIn school
Yeah, they are all shallow…

I came along
With a lot of stuff to brood,
And when I saw them, puked
For, it is all shallow…

When I felt heartburn
Saw through their projections
Oh it was so shallow…

Your bios
And oh your headlines
Trying to show oh your perfect lives,
Do you know
You know I know that sometimes…
You, too, do yearn to just cry…

I saw the loss
Could not be honest with you
For you are here to prove
That you are all shallow…

I gave a sigh,
This internal divide,
To show the world you’re fine
Oh you are so shallow!

Your bios
And oh your headlines
Trying to show oh your perfect lives,
Do you know
You know I know that sometimes…
You, too, do yearn to just cry..

With you, I’d rather sit and cry
Yes, I’d rather sit and cry…

It’s true
Look how they smile at you
Look how they smile at you
Look how they smile at
Look how they smile at you
Look how they smile at you
Look how they smile…

Look at these stars
Look how they laugh at you
And all the things that you do!

On the Fall of the Roman Empire – Three Versions

A friend of mine, some time back, expressed his keen interest in reading about the fall of the Roman Empire, but bemoaned the length of a few of the books that chronicled the fall.

Wringing his hands in despair, so to speak, he asked how could the author possibly fill up 1312 pages on this topic.

I honestly don’t know. If I knew, I would have written that book, isn’t it?

But here are my three cents, in a tongue-in-cheek manner.

Newton’s Classical version

  Page 1 – they started falling

  Page 50 – the acceleration due to gravity was x.yz

  Page 250 – value of g was z.xy at this time

  Page 1000 – they finally touched the ground in their trajectory

  Page 1100 – dust starts to rise due to conservation of momentum

  Page 1312 – dust settles down

Einstein’s Relativistic version

  Page 1 – they had already been falling, relatively, for the previous 200 years

  Page 50 – this was the time when the world could finally see them falling

  Page 250 – this was the time when the Romans themselves realised that others could finally see them falling

  Page 600 – the Romans were falling, relatively, to most other dynasties at the time. But they were rising, relatively, to a few others as whether you rise or fall is dependent on your frame of reference.

  Page 1000 – relatively speaking, the fallen empire was still more powerful than most other standing kingdoms

  Page 1312 – they had finally fallen, according to every frame of reference

Darwin’s Evolutionary Version

  Page 1 – the struggle of existence, for the Roman empire, had been technically going on since eternity

  Page 50 – they had finally realised that they hadn’t adapted as well as they had needed to

  Page 300 – there were plenty of competitors who had slowly come into the areas formerly occupied by the Roman empire

  Page 600 – the Roman empire was not the fittest one, so its survival was at stake

  Page 1000 – in its adamant stance to not change, it allowed other competitors to invade the political niche it had earlier occupied

  Page 1312 – the last surviving member of the Roman empire took his last breath, and the Roman empire was now extinct owing to its inability to adapt to its changing surroundings

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