Antique Magazines

Telephone Magazine

Congressional Serial Set referred to paper sleeves for telephone splices along with erasers in their detailed statement of expenditures. That led me to this Telephone Magazine.

Euphony poem

Form to Use

A turtle's shell evokes guardedness. What better place to hide your keys?

Another unlikely place to hide your valuables. A salt box

Erasers

When I was a school kid, there were three main erasers, one pink , one green and a white one. And the ones at the end of a pencil.

Turtle erasers

Nature to Decor items

Somehow I started looking for a peacock bowl, I was amazed to find the varieties of adaptations of a peacock's shape, color to a utile bowl.

Wildflowers to Motif

The Environmental Education Center store had a  Wildflowers of the Desert poster.
A look at American Cloak and Suit Review, will show you how the company logos were floral intensive.

Flowers have been a source of inspiration for many motifs. See The Handbook of Decorative Motifs for how a thing of nature can be transformed into a captivating design on paper with picking the right motif.

Have you greeted any turtles lately?

Our usual haunt - a pond didnt turn up any turtles. A Turtle Splash deserted.

An Education center near by had some turtles on viewing. Once there, it was a tiny turtle in the warm tank. Beneath the display were garden turtles.

After playing with finger puppets, trying to view snakes as innocent creatures, the assistant broke the secret. The bigger tortoise is hibernating. 

From the Turtles & Tortoises book I learnt that there's a reason why the small one didnt hibernate. It wasnt let to. Baby turtles are not allowed to hibernate for  a year or two so they can grow well and then handle the winter on their own. Hmm. Now why didnt I ask this question at the center?

Teach yourself VISUALLY Salesforce.com

The book has a how to for all the options available in the tool. Each spread of the page shows step by step of accomplishing a task. There are tips to explain some of the tasks and any enhancements available with extensions to the tool. If you already know that Salesforce is the way to go for your organisation then this book is the way to go about learning the tricks and keeping them at your finger-tips.

Generate Leads
Lead tracking newsletter

DSDM

Dynamic systems development method

Put your Time traveling shoes on

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England Part 1

And other Episodes

Why Trivia

DIY and Content Marketing

When I read of Black & Decker brand switch in 2nd edition of Griffin Management, I was curious about it and took time to understand that more than one corporation uses the brand.
Black & Decker has many DIY books like the above guide to Ceramic Tiles, when it comes to Home Improvement.
Home Depot too has successfully used DIY for content marketing.

In Epic marketing you can see The Furrow magazine which was Deere's foot into Content Marketing in 1895.

Management

The Middle Manager as Innovator

The matrix data makes you stop and evaluate.

Growth share matrix

Engraver first

Looking at the pictures in Selected Poetry and Prose of William Blake and reading that Blake was an engraver first, poet next one can see why the Tiger is so alive in the reader's head.

Processing negative sentences

Noam Chomsky by John Lyons has chapters on Transformational grammar and Generative grammar. The most impressive line in the book is the difficulty in understanding john's friend's wife's father'sgardener's daughter's cat and rephrasing it.

Left branching languages

SOV language

Looking at the mathematical linguistics, I wonder if we can answer a question of mine. Why do we read the negative of a sentence sometimes, even if it is not written so. 

Sentence polarity and processing.

When poems collide

Having had enough reading for the day, I went into a thought sleep of what if poems collided. Pick two poems and use the words of the two and see what happens

What if writing mimics life?

In 'Two Wild Animals, Seven Crazies' Annie Dillard is aghast that its 'grotesque modernist characters' that are the narrators of stories and no humans.
In The Edge of precipice, author Paul Socken, refers to Frye's thoughts that As civilisation develops, we become more preoccupied with human life. Frye was more worried for the loss of myths, heroes and ghosts of past. But I do not know if he would welcome 'the cows, mental defectives, toddlers, dinosaurs, paranoid schizophrenics, dying cripples, breasts, axolotls, Neanderthals or goats' that Dillard refers to in her essay.

Skinny legs and All is the first book where I read of inanimate things as narrators.

The List of Untalkables from Dillard seems more like characters from Children's Literature.
The Mountain and the Squirrel

If the spoon ran away with the dish, there must have been some shared words among them.