more than a squawk

Surely by now you heard about that audio that was made before Thomas Edison took the world by storm when he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil? (If so, but not seen the photo I have on this entry, skip everything else and look at it.) It’s news that’s a few days old. I recently wrote about an old synthesizer on the 27th, but didn’t see the story about that recording which was made 17 years before Edison’s recording until today. I was busy, but now that I have seen it…

I liked the description, “It’s like a ghost singing to you.” The phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, of “visually recorded sound waves” was “made playable” by the scientists of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Hats off to ya’all. I love when discoveries such as these are made. Had you even heard of that machine before the story? Amazing the things “found”, isn’t it? A little revelation goes a long way these days.

I couldn’t help but notice the signage in the room in this photo. Call it a Godwink. Did anyone else happen to notice?

I hear on the TV, “My God what a beautiful shot!” (Discovery channel/Mythbusters 9:58 PM) Love that synchronicity, don’t you?

You can hear the recording and others made by phonautograph here.

a prentice

Our pastor was out so we had a stand-in whose sermon was on one of my favorite verses, Hebrews 11:1 which is “NOW faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” It wasn’t only me who noticed…church was very quiet today. Not so much amen-ing or praising as usual. Even the pastor noticed and mentioned it a few times. He kept asking if everyone was awake, or if they had ever heard what he was preaching before. It was weird. Really weird. No church tonight.

Today’s anagrams (2) come from the text,

“Is there any place left where things are just exactly as they appear?”

1.)  “Angels reject experts; they are playful, that is way He has a prentice.”

2.)  “A perfect exercise…they’re happy at last; just learn the healing ways.”

I’m tryin’ Lord.

PRENTICE is not a word one normally hears; it’s usually apprentice. Just something I noticed. What turns up in my anagrams is not always my regular speech pattern.

Since I seem to be having some difficulty in getting the formatting to work on the blog today I will come back later. The font seems to be stuck in center mode even though the code says it is aligned otherwise. 

Things are NOT always as they appear, are they?