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The World According to Sroyon: Dying Factory Owners
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Thursday, July 30, 2015. An Indian Supreme Court case involving water pollution caused by dyeing. Factories is often (mistakenly) cited in other judgments as "Tirupur Dying Factory Owners Association". For me the typo always conjures up images of aged factory-owners, some on saline drips or life support systems, gathering weekly to talk about succession plans, business prospects, and their own approaching mortality. Which in turn reminds me of a scene from the movie Whatever Works. No, not now! Who is no...
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The World According to Sroyon: July 2014
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Friday, July 18, 2014. Survival of the Fittest Onion. Onions are biennial plants. This is how they work:. Life Cycle of an Onion Plant. Year 1, Spring:. Seeds germinate and start to grow. Year 1, Summer:. First the leaves sprout, then the bulb at the base of the plant begins to swell. Year 1, Autumn:. The bulb, where the plant stores food reserves for the winter, reaches maturity, but the foliage dries up and dies. This is when the onion bulb is usually harvested. Year 1, Winter:. Year 2, Spring:. The pl...
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The World According to Sroyon: Courgette-Flower Timelapse
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Monday, July 13, 2015. Encouraged by the overwhelming response I received when I posted a photo. Of a courgette flower (0 comments), I now bring you a timelapse video (effective speed 720x) of courgette flowers blooming. The video, like the photo, is of male flowers, but I'm pleased to note that our courgette plants are now also producing female flowers and, more excitingly, baby courgettes. And played the video backwards, which to me looks more dramatic. You should stuff them and eat them! Millwall Fire...
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The World According to Sroyon: Jupiter–Venus Conjunction
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest objects in the night sky (excluding of course the Moon), were very close tonight – just a third of a degree apart (for reference, the full Moon is about half a degree in diameter). We will not see a closer Jupiter–Venus conjunction until 2039. I positioned myself at a spot whence, I calculated, I would see the two planets set over the Shard. Whenever I see Venus in the evening sky, I think of these lines from. By the Grateful Dead:. Confession...
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The World According to Sroyon: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014. My Hobby - 12. Monday, December 15, 2014. The first verse of. A song by Kris Kristofferson, describes silent crowds walking down subway stairs. I see this as a metaphor for a life without love or purpose – minding the arrows and trudging inexorably towards the clicking of the turnstiles. Wednesday, December 3, 2014. Seasons 3: Isle of Dogs, London. Move your cursor over the image below, and it should change to another image of the same scene in a different season. Who is confu...
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The World According to Sroyon: February 2015
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Friday, February 27, 2015. Seasons 4: Canary Wharf, London. Move your cursor over the image below, and it should change to another image of the same scene in a different season. If it doesn't work, check that your browser has JavaScript enabled.). 5150°N, 0.02°W. The trees in the foreground are dawn redwoods. The dawn redwood is also one of a very few conifers which shed their leaves in autumn. If it were evergreen, as most conifers are, the two photos above would have looked very similar. I get my surgi...
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The World According to Sroyon: May 2015
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Saturday, May 16, 2015. Sometime back Priyanka asked me to send her "something with impeccable lettering". By rights, such a request coming from a professional illustrator, wont to taking artsy portraits. And painting fancy murals. Should have rendered me paralysed with performance anxiety. But I reminded myself that I know her since when she was doodling about high school exams. And her own artistic output was all too peccable. Friday, May 8, 2015. 8212; Reasons and Persons. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The World According to Sroyon: January 2015
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Friday, January 30, 2015. A notice at the Student Services desk at the London School of Economics:. Whom do you entrust your form to: Sen or Mundell? The sort of dilemma that can reduce an economics undergrad to a state of paralysed indecision. Sunday, January 18, 2015. From a store at Treviso airport:. Gosh, some people's idea of 'essentials' must be very different from mine! Thursday, January 8, 2015. To See a Branch in a Drop of Dew. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). They don’t symbolise anything. 8220;My H...
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The World According to Sroyon: Courgette Flower
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Sunday, June 21, 2015. Lately I have been remiss about posting because of my exams (which end in four days), but I couldn't let summer solstice pass by without comment. So here is a photo of our courgette flower, opening up to the midsummer sun. We only planted the seeds in late spring, but the plants are already producing male flowers. Hopefully we will soon have female flowers, with fruits to follow. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I never let the truth stand in the way of a good story. Photos of c...
