Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I thought "one of my haversacks is missing" and gave myself a Dolby earworm. Then I found the haversack.

My antihistamine has worn off as well. Definitely in a sub-optimal biological state.

There's that sub again.

Before the wedding, I used my wax-tablet book ("medieval PDA"[*]) to write down a tune that had accidentally been omitted from the sheet music we had on hand (my fingers know the tune but I wasn't going to be the one playing melody, hence the need to write it down). Fortunately the sun was ideally placed relative to the music stand[**] to make scratches in green wax pretty cleanly visible. There was much "that is so cool" expressed. I am, of course, disgustingly amused by the whole thing, as well as being quite glad that I had the wax tablets with me.

But as writing music with a ball-point is slower that writing it with a pencil which is in turn slower than writing music with a fountain pen, writing music in wax with a stylus is the slowest of the lot[***]. I barely managed to finish in time. Still: hey, more data regarding music-transcribing-speed in various media, so it counts as my having learned something.

Er ... my iPod appears to be haunted. I think I'm going to postpone pondering that until after I've slept.

[*] Yes, I know it's a PAA. The TLA 'PDA' just triggers the right associations faster. Though I do hold the stylus in my digits when I write in it -- does that count?

[**] Or vice-versa, of course, it being, after all, relative.

[***] Note that I am only claiming that it is the slowest of the methods that I have tried so far; I have not gotten around to conducting speed-trials engraving music in stone with a chisel, nor literally engraving it in sheet-metal with a Dremmel. Though I should grit my teeth and try mousing music into a computer again, because I am not certain that I've correctly remembered whether doing so was faster or slower than today's exercise with the wax tablet. (I prefer to type music into a computer in ABC rather than stroking it into a GUI, mostly because I can do so much more quickly.)

[****] And as long as I've already ventured into absurd-footnote-land, a sure sign of of a mistaken detour when attempting to navigate to the land of Nod, I'll throw in a not-as-random-as-it-seems-though-it-might-as-well-be question that made me want the Bat-computer: Is there any significant convection within a grilled-cheese sandwich (while it is cooking)? My guess is "no", but I'm acutely aware that I don't know. And designing an experiment to detect such inside a mostly-opaque substance, using just the laboratory equipment native to an ordinary kitchen, feels like just a little too much of a challenge right now.