Google & Co; One Ring to Bind them All

GOOGLE'S CORE MISSION;  READ THE SMALL PRINT

 "Googlers (Google employees) solve complex problems everyday in the name of our core mission:

 to organize the WORLD'S information and make it UNIVERSALLY accessible*

*to our users

Thank you dear Google for allowing me to say this on my Google blog.

And indeed to access the aforementioned blog through your Search Engine

And indeed for owning my blog and everything in it.

Oh Great Google I thank you, you are the ground of my virtual being.  

And thank you for knowing all about me through the information I give you, from my shared photos and personal communications, my blogs,  from Google groups, gmail ... and for sending me creepy compilations of my own pictures from which your machines have gleaned information about where I was and what I was doing anywhere in the world.   I know that this is just a tiny foretaste of your true power, of the world power to come;  the power of influence is yours oh great One World Google.

Yes indeed I am thankful to the individual 'whole self' Googlers who are faithful to the Mission, who bring their individual differences, their freedom, their real concerns for real people to  

 'create and leverage technology for the greater good' 

through 'the power to impact'

Dear Google, I know that I am never out of your sight
thanks be to your Great Machines
Soon will come the time when
We shall all be your Users
In the Name of Your Core Mission
Ah WHAT???


PS could you arrange for this to go viral by any chance?
No?

Troll's Lament

Norty Norty Troll
Snuffled and truffled buttered toast
Heaps of soft brown sugar
and a packet of M&Ms
that R left carelessly on a chair
Troll is not sorry
No not I

Norty Norty Troll
Tomorrow Troll shall be punished
She calls it a Fast
I don't see what's fast about it
Time rolls slowly slowly by
on a day with
no FOOD

Violets; secret sweet delight

 

The wild violets have chosen to cluster prettily around the stone trio in front of my swingseat.  They have chosen to show themselves in their full range of colours,  lightening from deepest plum, to the intense inner-shining of purple to lilac-rose and white.
 

 

 

  I have to lie down and approach them at their level if I want to photograph them, they will have it no other way.  They turn their faces from me, turn their backs to me, strange angular backs and sides that make no sense, but sometimes one will accept to meet the lens face to face.

Funny little things, it makes me cry to see their familiar faces.

One day soon, their scent will come.  I will lie down again to  inhale it, and there are no words for such a sensation.

Fast Blasted

Alright I'm going to confess.  After ONE MONTH of fasting and eating in a moderate and balanced manner in between, and removing biscuits and cakes from the house, and gradually increasing  gentle exercise and keeping active, I have lost precisely nothing whatsoever except my patience.  All measurements remained identical, all clothes are just as tight and all rolls of fat firmly in place (well,  loosely in place I should say...).  Holding in my tummy and pulling the tape measure tight made no difference.  There was not one ounce of encouragement to be had.

Got very demoralised and fell of the wagon.  It felt good.  Especially the wine and sausages and the chocolate covered rice crackers.

YES THIS MADE ME FEEL VERY VERY HAPPY.  I joined in the family meal, I felt goodwill to all men. 

Sometimes you have to know when to let your inner troll gambol. 

Will I have the courage to start again?  Just what is the reward?

FASTS BAH!  I am resolved.  I will speak no more of them.

Project Harmonograph

Final Project to mark the End of School
B built a harmonograph and created a project on sound, harmony and waves, using maths, physics, music and the artistic creations of the harmonograph to illustrate his report, which he wrote using newly acquired desktop publishing skills.


Here is the project, the demonstration and some excerpts from the published report...
 

 

Harmonograph drawing a graphic representation of musical harmony

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 He spent all afternoon presenting to a continuous curious crowd...

R cruising by

End of day, pleased with self and life

The beautiful harmonograph

The proud presenter

Harmonograph in motion

Woodland Garden Spring

The return of the sun and old friends...

Willow ball made at West Dean on willow weaving course

 with my mum

Crocus at max

Crocus triangle

My bower (alias Swing Seat) currently reading...

View from my bower

Painted walnut logs evolve into ivy sculpture

Missed fast

Forgot to mention Saturday fast;    no breakfast went to market by foot and prepared lunch for all, feeling as good as I ever do,  I had a few strips of steamed turkey and lambs lettuce and a touch of grated carrot for lunch waited 2 hours before having one large tea with milk.

For supper (at 5pm) high protein health food bar and bowl of soup, kept away from others eating and took mind of it watching a film and going to bed before I could think about FOOOOD again.

Feel better if I avoid wheat products and starch of all kinds, strangely