Oct 3 2024 - Work Rules

 

If I had been a business owner, I could have made the work rules.  What kind of work rules would you have insisted on?  Or did you insist on?  For example, one of mine would be no visible tattoos, another no sweat pants or leotard pants. I seem to be in the majority.  There are dozens of entries of the worst company rules on the internet.   So here are some of the common rules: Banning water breaks and cooling measures. Banning high heels for women at work. Bearded ban.  No long looks or unwanted advances. Banning headphones to avoid distractions. The following rules make me think they are jokes and fabrications:  Do not mop up the floor of the walk-in freezer. Do not climb into the rubbish compactor. If you have sex in the parking lot, please take off your vest and name tag first. ... And there were more like the last one. Then the specific companies named: At Walt Disneyworld, there is rule against pointing with one finger.  Its is considered offensive in a number of cultures. There is also a rule that employees are not allowed to say "I don't know".  And some anecdotes from the complaint type articles: "I had a restaurant manager make a rule that servers were not allowed to wear makeup unless they wore makeup every day. If you rarely wore or never wore makeup, you were not allowed to wear it because it would 'disturb' the regulars.  No employees could use a red pen because the deceased company founder had forbidden it. He was the only one who could wield a red pen. Even after his death, this rule persisted." Here's one of the watercolours from our Monday morning class.  A splish splash sort of style.

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Nov 19 2020 - A Rose in Mathematics

 

Here we are with the Christmas flower - the Poinsettia.  This one is a rose form.  It is petite and delicate.  Roses are so beloved that many flower hybridizers try to create 'rose form' flowers.  Begonias and Camellias have forms that are especially like roses. There is a rose (mathematics) entry in Wikipedia.  The link is HERE.   I expect the picture below is an excellent overview of rose flower petals, although the first few look more like daisies to me than roses.  And the references say see also:  daisy and shows a picture of "a figure resembling a daisy or sunflower which has circles placed along a spiral. The definition of rose in mathematics is: A curve which has the shape of a petalled flower. This curve was named rhodonea by the Italian mathematician Guido Grandi between 1723 and 1728 because it resembles a rose (MacTutor Archive). I encourage you to look at the animated examples of roses created using gears with different ratios.   Today's picture comes from a few years ago, but I can tell you the Poinsettias are blooming at Sunshine Express.  I was there a month ago and they had replaced the Chrysanthemums in the greenhouse.

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April 20 2020 - Silly String Alive

I have to tell you about the silly string creature in the ocean off Australia.  It showed up on the Weather network a few weeks ago.  It is a giant siphonophore Apolemia, that looks like silly string.  It is 150 feet long.  New Zealand's common name for it is long stringy stingy thingy.  It is many thousands of individuals which form an entity on a higher level.  It is a string jellyfish.  You can see the video HERE. I don't remember having silly string as a child.  It is a mixture that is dispersed from an aerosol can.  It comes out as a a string.  It was invented in 1972. What Leonard Fish and Robert Cox were trying to invent was an instant cast.  When the string shot across the room about 30 feet, they turned it into a toy. Who owns it today? The Car-Freshner Corporation, the maker of Little Trees owns the Silly String trademark. We have a pretty rose arbour from Filoli Gardens, south of San Francisco near Half Moon Bay.

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North Up

I have a bias that North is up and even that there is an up for world.  This has to do with the magnetic north pole and all the pictures of the world with the north pole at the top - real pictures and pictures we create - maps.  Somehow, intellectually, I realize this might not be the case - that this is our Western World view that continues to be bubblesome. Did you know that the Blue Marble photograph - the famous photograph of the Earth taken from on board Apollo 17 had the south pole at the top - and got turned around to match our familiar view? The Greek astronomer Ptolemy (90-168AD) set this in motion - that north is up.  In between much happened.  It got cemented by the European navigators using the North Star and the magnetic compass. Before that, the top of the map was to the East. It has never been to the West.  The West is traditionally a representation of death, where the sun sets.  Poor Australia, always represented at the bottom.  There are maps with Australia at the top - McArthur's Universal Corrective Map of the World is the great example.  There is a person named the Wizard of New Zealand who has made an imperial British upsidedown map. In the Ancient world, Arabia, put south at the top.  The explanation is that if you wake up and face the sun, south is on the right.  With the sea to the south of them, there was nothing "on top" of the country, so they predominated the map visually. (This is what maps are for - to show 'our position').  By definition, they are political, politicized. Buckminster Fuller created the Dymaxion Map - no compass direction consistently facing the same way - it is an unfolded icosahedron.  Didn't he reveal the global village - look how connected we are in this version! Then there is the Peters Projection:  "one of the most stimulating and controversial images of the world".  It is HERE.  It addresses the challenge:  which is bigger, Greenland or China?  It is described as an 'equal area' map. "When this map was first introduced by historian and cartographer Dr. Arno Peters at a Press Conference in Germany in 1974 it generated a firestorm of debate. The first English-version of the map was published in 1983, and it continues to have passionate fans as well as staunch detractors. " This map is used for world aid by charity organizations such as Oxfam.   The International Society for Global Inversion believes that flipping iconic world maps everywhere would be a symbolic ceremony to help mankind break its old thought patterns, and act in a more ecological way.  We conclude with the Guide to Unusual Maps on the Web HERE.  Flowers and Floyd Elzinga's metal sculpture are our images today.

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Seeking Raindrops on Roses

Our photo theme today is "Raindrops on Roses."  The song "My Favourite Things" was written in 1959 for the musical The Sound of Music.  Mary Martin starred on Broadway, and Julie Andrews performed the song on the Christmas special for the Garry Moore Show in 1961, and was the star of the film in 1965.  After Julie Andrews, the person most associated with this song is John Coltrane, who did an extended fourteen minute version in his 1961 album with the same name.   Raindrops on Roses has taken on many uses over the year: 21443 Paint - Benjamin Moore A Paper Collection Free flower delivery Heartfelt creations Topsail Island Rental Nature News Etsy items The Raindrops on Roses Necklace Pecksniffs Fine Fragrances Mother Earth - aromatherapy and natural healers Hydrating tonic Felting Weekly photo challenge