perils of online sale

Today I found ceiling decorations at half off on the store site. I ran to the store and asked for their clearance section. Not finding what I needed, I thought the good stuff gone to the early birds. I went to he regular section. There was a yellow clearance tag with a total of 6c difference. Does that even cover the printing of the tag? When I asked an associate he said the online is corporate and the store is franchise.I thought it might be  a different story at another store. After wasting 70 min I thought the best idea would be to order online. When it came to quantity, all the best discounted items would be marked as unavailable.Then why not take them off the damn 'clearance' list. In the 70 min I found 'party America' as another place to look for decorations. Same story there.
DIY seems to be the way to go. I will try making the pom poms with colour tissue paper.

Essays from 'Discovery book'

'The Will'  by Anne C Blackford is a very short essay with a single scene of a lady dictating her will to a boy who has words COCA COLA ringing in his head.
This is from Discovery.

Guava

This books prologue is How to eat a Guava is often cited as good literature. The narrator in When I was a Puerto Rican wants to be a Jibaro.

As a child of four, she is exposed to many different smells. Fresh oregano, annatto, lemongrass bushes that she went under, when she needed comforting. Extracted smells of rosemary oil.

She writes about how the city world is different from the village from the viewpoint of a child who is used to picking fruits from the tree directly where now she has to see those fruits for sale. While earlier she listened for 'coqui tree frog to sing me(her) to sleep but instead heard cars backfiring, people fighting, music blaring..'

Washington Square Issue 11

James Tate

Ur

I came across Ur-insect in Sex on six legs. I came across Ur-ancestor in A long line of cells. I got curious about Ur.
You dont know what you dont know until you meet it some times and then begin to ask.

Submission theme

For Post road 25 theme, Jan reymond's 2005 sculpture is being used.
In NYer and at
Book patrol and at BBB

The call called it a sculpture.

My questions and thoughts:
It is a stacked, installation, non-mobile (stabile from wiki) art. Why the did the author chose 3D. He could have painted the scene. His material - stones of architecture, open to the influence of air and water will disintegrate over time. Imagine how they will be over time. Half of the passageway fallen, books thrown on to the ground far and away some with pages flipped open, others rotting into the ground. If the books are all here whats in the library? Where are the intended readers? It is a real sculpture not a copy of the original like how people statues are. But it is not unique. It is reproducible. The scale of the sculpture might give something about the sculpture.

Paper wasp

All beings floral

Looking at the purple fruit of Decaisnea, I wanted to thumb through Encyclopaedia of Plants and flowers.
Clerodendrum Trichotomum has shiny flowers and fuits like a slug.
Prunus Serrulus has a shiny science fantasy, graphics look.
Lupinus has flowers of two different colours on the same plant.

In Luck

In luck, there is a duty to talk about the lessons – Kevin Holdsworth

In both good and bad times
There are lessons good and bad
Its not that we don’t learn
We learn the wrong things
Your miracles are your curses

Getting lucky at something
And worrying if you have
Used up luck is like Arthur Savile
Knowing that he will kill someone

How not to tie a saree

In the now widespread Nivi style, the sari is draped from right to left, passing over the lower body twice- the second time in a cluster of fan-shaped pleats – and the upper body once. – Daniel Miller, Stuff.

The first morning at my in-laws house, I came down the stairs in a saree. In a traditional household, it is not enough to be in a saree, care must be taken to as not show even the hem of the petticoat. With the transparent fabrics that some sarees tend to be, petticoat matching is a must.

My sister-in-law gave out a guffaw when she saw not just the hem but a lot more of the petticoat, as I had skipped the first wrap around. While wearing the saree in the bedroom, my first estimation of the pallu length fell short, in trying to adjust it, I had meddled with the drape at the lower end.

She was relieved when I joined her in the outburst.

Literature and you

Haikus were written by Japanese internees to survive the disaster. If reading literature is one way of reaping the benefits of the great minds who have lived before us, writing literature is your contribution to the coming generation.

The street that you take to learn from the stories already published is two way. Add your stories to the human wealth.

Literature lets you appreciate language. The eternal spring well of wonder and joy. When I heard of trapezius, I wondered if it was related to trapeze or trapezium. Even the recalling of these words has a rhythm to it. Theres poetry in the way the memory highlights the related words. You realize that the network of words is a reflection of a time. The origin of words maps a history. For a curious person, the whole world is one.

From the cover

Looking at the house of author Marisa Mills, where the windows of the second floor match the sky, I wonder:
If you enter the world knowing everything about it, that you are here for a certain amount of time like waiting at a bus or train station for a known departure. The actions that we do then, like buying a magazine for that time that you can take with you even after the journey, but the ticket, set number allotment are like the names and details of this life that will have little significance another day.

4.21.11

Eat Crow
Landmark trees

Ultralight backpacking tips

Colour after colour

Today I saw a passport being printed.
It does it colour after colour.
First it printed yellow. The photo came forawrd a little and went for Magenta and then for some Cyan. I am wondering in printing a white dress with pink and grey polka dots on a white background why did it use yellow? So that is how colours are printed on paper using CMY method.

Anapest - metre in poems

Andiron
Angus
answering machine

(anopheles - means useless)

antibiotics - a baby was given two antibiotics to see which works. A friend became lactose intolerant after a dose of antibiotics.
anticoagulant - while thinning blood could lead to other dangers.
antihistamine

(Antinovel)

Apache tribe

Apricot - I knew of them before but learnt of Khubani ka meeta from Hyderabadi friends here.

Arboretum - Where I started first birdwatching session.

Argyle - All those beautiful patterns on shirts.

Arrowroot - In a recipe for mango cupcake

Arroyo - Arizona's trademark.

Artichoke

Artisan bread

Asparagus - sauteed in butter, curry

Athenaeum

autism

auk
avocado - guacamole
Avocet
backpack
badger
badland
baguette

America in dictionary

My experiences in US alphabetically:

Aardvark: I have a new found interest in all things animal and plants. I read of it in an encyclopaedia of nature. UCI has an anteater as their mascot. Their teeth seem to be similar to some aquatic animals, regenerated very quickly. Armadillo.

Aborning: Arrival of the baby

Acacia: A plant that connects my childhood and present. Few decades ago, my mom and others used to grind the seeds, add water to it and use it as bindhi. summers. Others : Nerum, Agave.

Acappella: A term I learnt of from a musical friend.

Acorn: We saw a big acorn in a little park in raleigh downtown.

Acorn squash: I should try a recipe sometime.

Acrobatics: Our college took us to an acrobatic show in China.


Acrostic
A -
C
R
O
S
T
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Adobe : My favorite place in the world would be a terrace from where I could watch everything around.
Adobe chicken

Afrikaans : My colleague from S Africa speaks it.

African American: I took a snap with the wax model of Jesse Owens.

Africanized bee: My mom got stung by a dead bee. All those honey bee trucks that get rolled over while travelling to pollinate almond orchards.

Afterbirth: I saw placenta. I learnt from my mom that the word for it in telugu is Maaya.

Aftertaste of Jello and Instant pistachio pudding are bad.

Agave: I see them on walks at the lake. I saw them in India, while walking from my village to the bus stop.

Aged cheese

Ahoy - I am indebted to Chips Ahoy for motivating me during masters study.

Aigrette - While birdwatching, there's always a caveat thrown around if seen picking feathers from the ground.

Aileron - Once my neighbour Paul was explainin about this going on for a long time about a single topic which amazed me. Boys and their toys.

Airbag

Air-port: Only after looking at the split in the dictionary, does the air stand out in the word.

Airsick: After a 3 day, 2 night spent travelling to US, an act in the plane - using the white bag.

A la mode - In a pizzeria menu.

Alarm - The times we set off fire alarm while making paranthas. Then we race to the alarm to wade away the smoke with a cloth.

Albatross - I had read of it in 'The rime of the ancient Mariner' but didnt realise that it had such a wide wing span until the bird books.

Alien - (Sing it!) we are all alines here in Eagles tune sof 'Hotel California'. While at it, I wanted to know what a song ' in the city' was reeling in my head. Its 'California Love' by Tupac.

All American city

Allen wrench - It came with a bicycle and didnt know what it was for a long time.

Allspice

Altimeter - Not the device itself, but being cognizant of heights, while hiking mountains, travelling to and fro from valley, air pockets (air pocket) in ear. Once in California on PCH, why was I surprised that we were at 0 ft with the sea next to us.

Eminent domain

There was a mom in news who killed her 4 month old baby by beating her against the floor for crying for milk. Wish we could take that moment back. Did she do it in postpartum depression? No wonder as soon as you enter the recovery room, the nurses ask you to promise that you wont shake the baby. But I guess not all people are in the know that the only way kids communicate is through crying or are not in their sane minds. we always wonder why theres always bad news in the papers and TV. While some may be disturbing, some might alert others. This can reduce some crimes. A scientist proposed that maintenace of order is better to reduce crime sthan aggressively going after the wrongdoers. Like Prevention better than cure? But what leads to the symptoms itself in the first place? I know a family with two children, where one turned out really good and the other got wasted. How did that work out differently? The elder was good at all things. Was the praise on him to the detriment of the younger's?

How is a chemical illegal in one juice and permissible in others?

sumptuary law