Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

This is two thirds of a journal entry by museinred:

As the parent of an autistic child, I keep hearing that my son perceives a different world than I do. The pathways in his brain run differently and there will be ordinary things that are almost impossible for him to get, but that he will also see things differently in a good way too, there will be patterns and perceptions that I will never understand. Tonight I was driving home from Ohio wearing prescription sunglasses. We stopped at a gas station and I was stunned at how beautiful the clouds above us were. It looked like they were lit with fire from the inside. A golden red glow just seemed to emanate from the overlap of cotton candy fluff. I grabbed Steven and Alex and tried to point it out to them and they just looked at me like I was crazy. After several minutes of frustration I took the glasses off and there were just grayish clouds with a few weak rays of sun playing off the edges. Dreary and uninspiring. How many times are Alex and I communicating across a similar gulf of perception? And which of us is wearing the glasses?

• Far more about clowns than I ever thought I wanted to know -- not that it's not more than I want to know, but it's more than I ever knew there was to know. Now I want to know more.
• "NEVER make someone who just had major CHEST surgery LAUGH!"
• Lord of the Rings portrayed as a role-playing campaign ("It's the last game before summer break. Boromir's player lives out of state and will be gone for the summer; the rest are taking classes and no more than three can make a game on the same night. The GM mulls the situation over for a bit, then pulls Boromir's player aside. 'Hey, remember that d20 roll a few weeks ago? How'd you like to go out memorably?'")
• Why Superman doesn't need a mask (thanks to theferrett for pointing it out). Some police officers did an experiment...
• Baby dragon photograph (thanks to thespian for this one).
• Gondor Accepted into United Nations: "Although it claims a history thousands of years old, this marks the first time it has been officially recognized as a sovereign nation." And, "They really want a more effective peacekeeping force [...] Gondor may be small, but one thing it does have is a crack military. Their equipment may not be as advanced as the Americans, but there's no denying they get the job done."
• Flowers that detect land mines: "Reuters reports that the Danish company Aresa Biodetection has developed genetically-modified flowers which change color when their roots come in contact with Nitrogen Dioxide in the soil. Explosives used in mines produce NO2 as the chemicals gradually decay."
• A bunch of American sheet music from 1780 to 1922, scanned and made available on the web: the Lester S. Levy Collection. (The collection extends to 1960, but only the tunes whose copyrights have expired are online.) Thanks to misia for pointing it out.
• A dramatic seasonal photo ... it's going to take forever to scrape those windshields.
• And finally, thanks to Fred, a belly-dancing robot: "The strange invention has also provided some lessons for biologists, revealing that the CPG of a fish can drive human-like movements."

A quick question for pianist friends: How does one finger this run on the right hand, assuming that the tempo is fairly brisk? I keep running out of fingers. I've got this notion that the answer should be obvious to anyone who has ever had lessons, but so far I'm not working out the trick on my own.