Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Catching up, minus stuff I haven't gotten around to uploading to post backdated yet:

Not enough sleep Saturday morning; long drive; arrived achy; good gig anyhow (when the first person you see dancing is in the second measure of the very first tune of the first set, that's a pretty good omen -- it got better from there); was able to move on stage despite not doing so well at walking foreward normally, but did have to be careful about moving my back + hips certain directions.

Not enough sleep Sunday morning (my ride needed to get back early) but did get some photos while waiting for someone else; arrived home very, very achy; crashed; woke early evening; fell asleep again before programming VCRs and DTV tuners; woke in wee hours with Queen's "Love of My Life" stuck in my brain.

Crashed again later Monday morning; spent all day barely able to move, with a headache, and with "Skye Boat Song" playing in my head. By late afternoon it was clear I wasn't getting out of the house any time that night. Did manage to catch Lie To Me (an episode I'd seen but hadn't remembered from the description) and Castle (an episode I'd previously missed); was kept awake far longer than I would've liked, by leg cramps; started looking for a panorama stitcher for OS X; finally managed to fall asleep.

Woke a few hours later, grumpy but less headachy than yesterday, and promptly wedged the Mac by running out of disk space. Seem to have gotten it unwedged, though I never did find out where all the temp files were that were filling it up.

And here I am. "Skye Boat Song" stuck in my head again; female vocalist accompanied by harp most of the time, but other arrangements displace that one every so often.

Random observations and two questions:

It looks like sometime in the last three code updates to DW, they made layout tags like <small> render correctly in the comment-preview screen. Yay. Before, the tags would show up correctly in the end result, but weren't rendered in preview, so I kept thinking I'd screwed something up until I remembered that.

Drat, there was something else I was going to mention here, but it's slipped my mind.

The glucometer is much, much more effective when you're awake enough to remember that the step in between "prick finger" and "read result" is "transfer blood to test strip".

What cheap/free/OSS app do y'all recommend for (aligning and) stitching together photos to make a panorama, under Mac OS X? Or Linux, since I'll do most such processing at home within LAN reach of a Linux machine (though I think the Mac is currently the fastest computer in the house). At the moment, I'm looking at Hugin.

Finally, when driving through mountains, and going through a section where they blasted a cut through a hill to make the highway, if I see strata in the exposed rock that look like this (image at right), I think, correctly or incorrectly, "anticline" ...

... and when I see strata like this (image at left), I think "eroded by a glacier" (again, correctly or incorrectly).

But when I see this:

... wtf is that? Ancient earthquake, or something else? (FWIW, this would be on I-79 in western Pennsylvania or West Virginia. No photo, alas.) And while I'm at it, am I on the right track with the other two? 8th-grade Earth Science was, uh, quite a while ago.