The Grogglemeds

Another riddle. What are the grogglemeds?

into greens and reds
tumbled two small grogglemeds
they groggled and groogled
and did what grogglemeds usually do
then there were three more
that came after the two

and soon five and seven, eleven and thirteen,
from every hill in the land were grogglemeds seen

a great din arose, for the grogglemed is a noisy thing
as each and every grogglemed began to sing

“we are the grogglemeds,
tumbling into greens and reds
together we stand, divided by none
except, of course, ourselves, and one”

Frog Soup

Here’s a riddle. Can you figure it out? (Hint: find the pattern referenced).

(WordPress has some frustrating formatting.. the indentations that i originally had were lost and i can’t seem to make them show up here. All well)

Einmal gab es keinen Frosch
then hopped the frog into life.
Next Elin—the daughter of spring,
—med körsbär och en gyllene ring,
gathered the frog and the unfrog,
mashed them together—
and they became one.

So then there was one,
and before that none,
and mashed together—
well that makes one!

More and more frogs would come,
—the amount equal to the first and second’s sum.

And Elin kept on gathering
the newest and the one therebefore,
and mashing and smashing,
until her hands grew sore.

So after none, and one, and two and three,
came five and six—no! eight and thirteen.

There was a whole mess of them,
precisely equal to zweihundertundzehn,
but drop that last zero, i just had to rhyme,
that very last line.

She scooped up the mushy mess,
the guts of twenty one frogs—no less,
and plopped the gooey, blue and black squish,
into a black cauldron, to cook an oh so delicious dish.

Along came a man dressed entirely in black.
He approached the madness, tapped Elin on the back
“Could i have a taste? It smells quite nice”
“Well of course you can, go right ahead!”
Elin, with a mischievous grin, said.

And so the man bent over towards the soup,
so to ladle a gigantic spoonful of the gloop.
But just as he did so, Elin pushed him into the pot,
she giggled and laughed
—but the man dressed entirely in black did not.

“Finally, it’s done, let there be a feast!”
“No, no, no, how horrible, you beast!”
was the call of a another man with a plain brown hat
“You can’t eat another human being, i won’t tolerate that!”
“But he was italian”, Elin pleaded,
“surely a worthless piece of meat!”
With a change of mind the man took a seat,
“Ah, italian, i see! Let us eat!”

Color coded organization

This is sort of a retake of my previous post about color organization.

A great technique for organizing that i have been implementing for about a year now is color codes. The colors allow one to quickly identify what something is.

The way i first started using it was in school with my classes. I used a colored folder and spiral bound notebook for each of my classes. The cover of the notebook matched the color of the folder. Each color corresponded to a class, such as green for calculus, and yellow for english. For even faster identification, i colored with a highlighter the top parts of the notebooks, so when held vertically and looking down thereupon, i could identify which it was for, without seeing the cover.

The idea is pretty simple, and can be extended to many different things.

Divide the work and the play

Here is how i plan to better organize my paper filled day. Now, i am an aspiring writer, and yoga mat linguist, and i like to work with paper (the aesthetics are nice).

The problem is that when i quickly scan over the desktop’s surface in front of me, it is not easy to tell what is there—work or play. If these two things were separated, my mind might be more at ease, taking the burden of determining the data before me away, allowing me to actually focus on the moment.

is it redundant to say organization nazi?

On my desk i see two different types of papers that i have written on. There is a spiral bound notebook with swedish words defined in english and german—a list i have been building from watching swedish films (notice how it is influencing my orthography—also my syntax, see: swedish syntax, and compare to modern english and german constructions in relation to older english forms); and there are pages with sundry ways with words: thoughts on life, what type of shoes i should get for my trip to sweden, that i need to ask Robert something—and so on.

The first type is what i call work—or maybe the yield of productivity.

The other i would say is play, for the papers caught my thoughts as i entertained myself watching movies or whatever i did in the day.

The work came from following through with a plan scribbled on the papers from play.

Now just make them distinct.

A while ago when i used spiral notebooks and folders for my classes, i color coded. Math had a green folder, and i used a green hilighter to make the edges of the pages of the green-covered spiral bound notebook also green, also used for math. So in this way i looked into my backpack at giant colors. Math, as stated, was green, english was usually blue, and german, yellow. Then i had some floating papers, which were idea papers, like the play mentioned above, and some papers for classes that really didn’t give out many, like yoga—i did not feel the need to have an entire folder for my 3 yoga papers.

So there i had distinction between the categories of my papers–exemplified in my organization for classes, such as between german, calculus, english, and yoga. But i did not have a distinction between a paper created as work, like a word hoard (but still fun to make), or random musings of the day.

But i feel now that even my idea papers should be categorized and made distinct from the work. No more floating papers, and sub-folder organization must also change to make distinctions therefor.

So i will be talking later in coming days and weeks how this is working out.