Monday 8 March 2021

"The origins of chain saws in surgery is debated."

  It's probably for the best you can't make out these faces, as I've no idea what's announceable yet, but he were are again – or aren't –  embarking on a new thing from the brain of Bottom Left. Monday has therefore been exciting. I don't remember how the conversation got onto chainsaws. It was Top Right, I think, who said she had recently discovered they were originally invented as an aid to childbirth, which I immediately looked up, and... Happy International Women's Day, everyone!
 

Before the invention of gasoline motors, osteotomes such as this were powered by Charades.

 The pop shield I was sent didn't reach from the stand though. I tried holding it over my face like a French fan. Could something perhaps be installed to stop me popping permanently – enquired Bottom Right – like a nose bag? 
 We wracked our brains for something that could be worn over the mouth.
 – Whathever man invents the machine that can make Simon quieter– began Bottom Left.
 – Or woman, I interrupted, in celebration of the day.
 – Whatever man invents the machine... or woman... that can make Simon quieter– Bottom Left corrected himself.
 Whatever we finish making should be available in a couple of months, which is exciting, until which time I think I get to keep the whole recording caboodle, which is also exciting. Maybe I'll make some rap. I've been relistening to Rob Hubbard's old Commodore 64 sountracks recently: they're stirring, and would make an excellent bed. Don't copy me.
 
 

4 comments:

  1. Ooh, new thing. Exciting.

    I had to look up what a pop shield was, but yeah, I also require the portable nose-bag version, at least if working-in-an-actual-office is a thing that I ever have to do again. This would hopefully temper the ongoing situation in which colleagues I don't know DO all know who I am, because I am the strange laughing noises.

    Still, at least I'm not Explosive Sneeze Woman, that's someone else.

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  2. If only someone made something we could just wear over our face!

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  3. I'm pretty sure I saw something online at the beginning of this recording-from-home thing that said you could make a good-as-professional pop shield from a wire coat hanger and some nylons (a nylon? does it exist in the singular?) ... though I suppose a thin sock could do, if you were short on pantyhose. The benefit of that version would be a length of extra hanger, which could be wired on to anything that might be convenient at an appropriate distance, or indeed fashioned into something like a shoulder-mounted harmonica stand so you could be popless everywhere you go! Or, yes, some sort of cloth thing you could just attach to your face. Someone could make a fortune off that. I bet it'd be handy for other things too, like robbing banks.

    I suspect I recognise the blurry peach blobs at bottom left and bottom centre, so colour me provisionally excited!

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  4. Ahhh, the memories. I've a lovely pop shield already, but yes I could probably make a harmonica stand for that, although as an actor who walks a lot I am never short of panty hose. And yes, we're still working on that cloth thing. It's maddening.

    "Blurry peach blobs" is pretty accurate.

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