Does anyone else here bleed for no apparent reason?
Hold on...perhaps this needs a little explanation. That question may appear odd without the appropriate context.
Basically over the last 2 months of my job and the week of freedom so far, I have often been surprised at finding superficial injuries that draw blood all over my body, sometimes in locations that defy memory and logic.
The latest minor mishap to inspire this a nice flap of skin on my 2nd little toe on the right foot. This one was a real bleeder and was one that left footnotes all over the floor of my apartment which I attributed to a leaky red marker. Really healthy oxygen-rich blood has an almost neon-magenta glow to it and this was the bright color smudged at random around the floor of my room.
In a rare mood to make my room fresh and ordered I set about removing some choice objects like chair and wastebasket to the hall outside and plugging in the ancient dubiously effective vacuum cleaner. I believe in the Zen Bhuddist axiom that 'An Ordered Living Space Reflects An Ordered Mind'. It's really true. Eventually the disaster that is my room reaches such proportions of entropy without actually degenerating to a primordial pre-Big Bang particle soup, that I MUST cleanse it of it's vapidity. Else I reduce to a primordial pre-Big Bang particular idiot.
When bending over to retrieve the clever spring-wound power cable I noticed a congealed lump of deep red covering a comfortable half of my 2nd little toe. I was shocked that I hadn't noticed or felt anything. Thinking that perhaps one's 2nd little toe is much like one's forehead, little nicks bleeding like the Niagara Falls, I washed it up a bit, to find that far beyond being a 'nick', a nice thumbtack sized circular flap of skin was sitting upon a comfortable cowpat of dried blood. I don't remember hitting or kicking anything. I don't remember any pain and only when I washed it, did my toe think that maybe now was a good time to inform Central Command. It must have been disappointed to find that a courier from the Joint Optics and Logic 'Should-We-Be-Worried-About-This?' Committee had gotten there already.
During the my last 2 months working in the kitchen of the restaurant I was employed by, I would regularly be suprised to find nicks and cuts in very obvious places like knuckles and above the fingernails, and not so obvious, highly puzzling locations like my knee, inner thigh and belly. All never registered any pain. Most continued to refuse to acknowledge anything was wrong like Iraq's Information Minister despite my eyes seeing the obvious.
...because I enjoy jerking your stream of thought like an Air India Airline Captain likes to land his 747, I really hate to admit I like Justin Timberlake's song 'Rock Your Body'. Arguably the best pop music drivel I've heard this year.
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Quick connection to some good ambient, dub and ethnotronic music. A little on the feel-good-crystal-collecting-sage-burning-sari-wearing-God-is-a-Woman-New-Ager tip but occasionally a darker tune comes through and most of the time it's such good music to post to.
http://www.starstreams.com
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BTW if any of you are in any way interested in trying your hand at making music on your PC or Mac, then head down quickly to your news vendor and look for this month's issue of Computer Music Special.
It should be silver and white and have a CD in a jewel case stuck smack dab in the middle of the cover with big red letters that say: Beginners Start Here.
It contains one fully functioning music program designed by the people at Computer Music. It comes with 4 VST plug ins: 2 drum machines, a beat generator and a synth generator.
Included as well are demo versions of 5 commercial music products including Reason v2.5 and Cakewalk Project.
What's good about this issue is that within it it carries explanations of most of the basic terms in computer music, it has in depth explanations of the most common parts of music software like 'What is a Sequencer' and 'What is a Synthesizer'. The middle section of the issue is a step-by-step guide on making a track with the bundled software. It's a little on the simplistic side though. The final and largest section is reviews and evaluations of all the software and hardware a beginner might worry about.
Don't take my word for it. If you see it on the shelf, look through it first to see if you think what it offers muight be useful to you and would be worth the cover price.
Have fun!
Hold on...perhaps this needs a little explanation. That question may appear odd without the appropriate context.
Basically over the last 2 months of my job and the week of freedom so far, I have often been surprised at finding superficial injuries that draw blood all over my body, sometimes in locations that defy memory and logic.
The latest minor mishap to inspire this a nice flap of skin on my 2nd little toe on the right foot. This one was a real bleeder and was one that left footnotes all over the floor of my apartment which I attributed to a leaky red marker. Really healthy oxygen-rich blood has an almost neon-magenta glow to it and this was the bright color smudged at random around the floor of my room.
In a rare mood to make my room fresh and ordered I set about removing some choice objects like chair and wastebasket to the hall outside and plugging in the ancient dubiously effective vacuum cleaner. I believe in the Zen Bhuddist axiom that 'An Ordered Living Space Reflects An Ordered Mind'. It's really true. Eventually the disaster that is my room reaches such proportions of entropy without actually degenerating to a primordial pre-Big Bang particle soup, that I MUST cleanse it of it's vapidity. Else I reduce to a primordial pre-Big Bang particular idiot.
When bending over to retrieve the clever spring-wound power cable I noticed a congealed lump of deep red covering a comfortable half of my 2nd little toe. I was shocked that I hadn't noticed or felt anything. Thinking that perhaps one's 2nd little toe is much like one's forehead, little nicks bleeding like the Niagara Falls, I washed it up a bit, to find that far beyond being a 'nick', a nice thumbtack sized circular flap of skin was sitting upon a comfortable cowpat of dried blood. I don't remember hitting or kicking anything. I don't remember any pain and only when I washed it, did my toe think that maybe now was a good time to inform Central Command. It must have been disappointed to find that a courier from the Joint Optics and Logic 'Should-We-Be-Worried-About-This?' Committee had gotten there already.
During the my last 2 months working in the kitchen of the restaurant I was employed by, I would regularly be suprised to find nicks and cuts in very obvious places like knuckles and above the fingernails, and not so obvious, highly puzzling locations like my knee, inner thigh and belly. All never registered any pain. Most continued to refuse to acknowledge anything was wrong like Iraq's Information Minister despite my eyes seeing the obvious.
...because I enjoy jerking your stream of thought like an Air India Airline Captain likes to land his 747, I really hate to admit I like Justin Timberlake's song 'Rock Your Body'. Arguably the best pop music drivel I've heard this year.
***
Quick connection to some good ambient, dub and ethnotronic music. A little on the feel-good-crystal-collecting-sage-burning-sari-wearing-God-is-a-Woman-New-Ager tip but occasionally a darker tune comes through and most of the time it's such good music to post to.
http://www.starstreams.com
***
BTW if any of you are in any way interested in trying your hand at making music on your PC or Mac, then head down quickly to your news vendor and look for this month's issue of Computer Music Special.
It should be silver and white and have a CD in a jewel case stuck smack dab in the middle of the cover with big red letters that say: Beginners Start Here.
It contains one fully functioning music program designed by the people at Computer Music. It comes with 4 VST plug ins: 2 drum machines, a beat generator and a synth generator.
Included as well are demo versions of 5 commercial music products including Reason v2.5 and Cakewalk Project.
What's good about this issue is that within it it carries explanations of most of the basic terms in computer music, it has in depth explanations of the most common parts of music software like 'What is a Sequencer' and 'What is a Synthesizer'. The middle section of the issue is a step-by-step guide on making a track with the bundled software. It's a little on the simplistic side though. The final and largest section is reviews and evaluations of all the software and hardware a beginner might worry about.
Don't take my word for it. If you see it on the shelf, look through it first to see if you think what it offers muight be useful to you and would be worth the cover price.
Have fun!
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There's plenty of varied bars and clubs for yhe music here. So finding either electronic or rock won't be a problem. Secrets of London eh? Can be arranged no problem. Pity that Gropecunte Lane in the East End no longer exists
Amazing how the little cuts tend to bleed more. Suprising that you never felt it though. Papercuts are the worst. Little blood, tiny wound and stings like hell.