hirez | Brain made of BC108s / It's all gone a bit Rod Brooks.

Because I learned analogue first and probably due to early exposure to biorhythm programs written in CBM BASIC, I have always pictured my mood as a sine wave. The positive and negative bits are more or less equal in amplitude and duration and follow along, one after the other in the way that one expects buses. And indeed for the past yea-long, some bugger has been applying some DC offset to the waveform, resulting in a deal of time in the negative state and occasional head-above-0V when one can suck in a lungful of light and life before sliding back towards the bottom of the 'scope trace.

Actually, it's probably nothing like a sine wave at all. Or if it is, there's some stray capacitance somewhere making the circuit ring like a bastard and the output waveform look more like something from the hard-sums end of the DX7 Programmer's Manual.

Perhaps life would be better if one's personal waveforms were generated by some cosmic TB-303, or a deeply skronky Oberheim OB8 or Prophet-V. Who can say?

Which is a rambly start to mentioning that I've been going out and having a bit more of a laugh of late, and this is self-evidently a good thing. With the help of a Nice Man, I've found the sod with the DC and have given him a talking-to. (Actually, it's not like that at all, but it's good enough for jazz.)

For instance a book launch this very even. (Gareth L. Powell's The Recollection) The minor downside is that I can't usefully explain any of this to the splendid types at the Bristol Skiffy Group.