Monday, August 23, 2010

Idle early-Monday-morning thoughts

It would be so much easier if I could just randomly speak thoughts aloud and have them recorded. So many things running through my head & I get a lot of ideas when I'm driving, but can't write 'em down. Very inconvenient.

I wonder if other species' tongues are also just for taste or for other purposes? Like, frogs use theirs to catch prey, right? And snakes use theirs to pick up scents so they know whether a prey or potential mate is nearby.

Also, how do we know tissue is clean? We take for granted that it is, but what guarantee do we have, really?

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

There used to be a credit-card sized voice recorder on the market called VXI Voice-it (about US$30)... it was great for recording random thoughts. They don't sell it anymore because most hand phones now have a voice notes features.

If you could program a shortcut button for the voice notes feature on your handphone, you could record voice notes.

Sunflower said...

I really wish you'd leave a name so I knew who you were, LOL. I know I could record using my cellphone... hmmm I should look into this. Thanks for giving me the idea!

Transcribing is a pain, though. When I was a journalist I used to try to get everything down in my scribbles so as not to have to transcribe the recording of the interview -_-"

Caedmon said...

I used a voice recorder for a while. Instead of the one on my phone, I bought one that would upload to the computer and came with software that transcribed for me.

It worked okay for short notes, but the transcribing wasn't good enough for anything lengthy.

I got tired of carrying it around and if I left it in my car - where I used it the most - it didn't get to my computer.

We need people. People to ride around and follow us everywhere with notepads. :D

Sunflower said...

I might get a teensy bit irritated with someone who followed me around everywhere and hung on my every word, though :p I can practically see myself yelling at him (for some reason I'm seeing a him) to leave me alone!

Caedmon said...

What if he also brings you coffee?

Sunflower said...

I'd glare daggers at him. I don't, as a general rule, drink coffee... except at staff meetings :p

Caedmon said...

Er... Fruit smoothies or Long Island Iced Teas, or whatever the metropolitan Malaysian woman drinks these days...

**hides from glare of doom**

Sunflower said...

He can bring me fresh milk for breakfast in the mornings and bring fruit smoothies the rest of the day, that sounds like a great deal :D