I like MyZus and the team at MyZus quite a lot. There is nothing specifically that I want to point to. Above see Roshan, Fuzzy and Sandy (L to R) on our first birthday. Fuzzy sings ethereally, Roshan is the cute (now!!! now!!!) roly poly CEO, and Sandy is of course the best chef when it comes to cooking up abuses. The snap says more than the eye can see. Often I am questioned why I like MyZus. In response I am reminded of a passage I read long ago. I have reproduced it below. Read on.


"After you've been to college for a while, you start to expect yourself to like or dislike a poem for certain stock specific reasons, because whenever you're in a poetry class and it's discussion time and you raise your hand to say that you like a poem, the professor will ask you What You Like About It and you have to have some kind of definitive answer, in order to get a class discussion going, otherwise you're going to look really dumb in front of a lot of other literary-type people. If you say, 'I don't know really, I just like it a lot,' then there'll be some awkward silence while the other students all think snickeringly in tandem, 'Man, that dude just doesn't get it.' What's the 'It,' though? I used to kind of be really nervous about establishing what 'It' was about a lot of poems that I liked, and then I'd get frustrated because I also always thought that it sounded really stupid to spout off the same specific reasons for liking poems -- because believe me, in class, you hear the same things over and over again, like 'I like the imagery' (that's #1) or 'the poem really flows,' or it's the metaphors or the symbolism or the sounds or the way that x plays off y, etc., etc. Whatever. Stock answers. It's in the same genus of stock response as the ones you hear out of bourgeois-types at art galleries: 'I love his use of color.' (That one makes me laugh endlessly -- Leo even says it in 'Titanic.') 'Wow, I really like the composition of this one.' 'Look at the play of light and shadow.' Uh-huh. Even on the off-chance that I DO like a painting because of its color or its contrasts, I'd at least try to find another way to say it than what they say on every museum tour and in every Introduction To Art. Or do I even NEED to say it? Or anything? One thing I've learned from college (and I probably didn't need to get the parents to shell out all the exorbitant amounts of tuition to get this particular nugget of wisdom) is that verbal appreciation can only go so far. At some point, you start liking a poem or a painting for reasons that you yourself just don't understand. You're just not supposed to be able to articulate exactly WHY you like certain things in art or literature or whatever. It just makes you feel a certain way, and if you try to put that feeling into what few and feeble words we have at our disposal, you sort of cheapen the whole thing."-Scott "Scotch" Herman