Map Literacy

If you looked at this map, for a minute ignore the text, what would you make of the routes like tributaries reaching different places. You do not have the advantage of reading the title of the book, that I saw the map in.
Imaginary traveler, that I was already in Spain, so all I could make of the map was take the return routes of the pilgrim walk. Only when the author of the book started in France to get to this place, did I realise that all those roads have to be taken to the left to reach the talked of destination - Santiago de Compostela. It could be the reading from the left to right that we practise or taking in the simpler details first.

Brush with architecture

While playing pictionary, I had to depict shingles. Now that without knowing what it means but misunderstanding that it is aural. In this book I came across stoughton house with shingles. In a while, I havent walked to the next door grocery store, blaming it on winter. Last weekend, when I was walking to the store, to get some ingredients for sour cream banana coffee cake, I realised that circle K has three rows of shingles running on the top along its facade. What a circuitous way of finding it!

then

Today I tried the peppermint altoids and was reminded of the candy we had as kids.. pipperment.
Hygiene hypothesis. pinworms in kids.

Life has flavor. Life has risk

Cupcakes. People love them. Not a surprise. Bacon can go into it. I am prepared for more surprises. You can spend hours searching for recipes. If not for the limited mixes, it would be the case of a donkey in a hay circle. I cut the process short by walking to the store and found white cupcakes as the morning chicks. Berry Poke, the suggested recipe with strawberry fill, quite appealing did not ooze natural,fresh feel. In the fruit section, yellow mangoes beckoned as well as brown-green kiwis. The next morning, as I peeled the fruits, the chill taste in the morning mouth had me wary of the fruit add-ons. I added half of what I could or should have. When I tasted the baked mango, it was soft. Would a bitter or sour one taste different? The ones who got kiwis kept looking for it, may be it almost melted.

In a day long course meant for project management, the lesson I learnt was to win that day, I should have taken risk as it was a dummy project. But even in the board game, where I try to invoke the lesson, I find myself sticking to the safe route.

In 'Going Away to think' Scott Slovic pits flavor against risk in the choices that we have of leading life. It has happened a couple of times that I read the book in a gender's persona and am then surprised when they break the congruity.

My roomate was looking for pomegranates. She had a recipe for it. I had not found it in the fruit section mentioned earlier. She kept trying store after store, I kept running my not seasonal spin, not even knowing its season. In the northern hemisphere it is from September to February.

I am on my way to break two misconceptions. In one case it is lame. I shied from trying a recipe with king oyster mushrooms as I didnt like the 'oyster' name in it. I have always hated the papaya seeds, and hence the fruit. Now I have a shredded papaya. There is a little cheating here. This is whitish green, so not totally taming the orange/yellow papaya but atleast some kind of papaya.

Buildings

I came across a huge framed photo of a pair of buildings in the office hallway. I asked for their name and I was told of the building I was in. The buildings were not known but I was pointed to the photographer who was out in a meeting. I couldnt find the email address in the company directory.
How on earth is it possible that my today's section of the skyscrapers book should have the first page with these two buildings which remind me of Buddha with their petal appearances. Marina city. Chicago.


Paradox of skyscrapers:
Few storeys seems huge. Too many, the point is lost because we get too small to catch whole of it and we were to balloon up like a monster then we will feel like we are in a model city.

vision follows the line till it ends.

I like this German law 'that no employee can be more than 25ft from a window'. When at that make it in the line of sight.