As you may have noticed, my entries have become less able to categorize by my current Blog Categories. This one covers around five topics in two of the categories, those being "Other" and "Bionicle." Anyway, on to the other subjects of this entry.

First comes a small question/observation about the English language that's bugged me for a while. The difference between our words "my" and "mine." At first I had thought one was a noun and one was an adjective, but it's not the case. You can say "The pen is green" and "That is a pen." But you can only say "The pen is mine." "The pen is my" isn't an accepted use. I still don't know what's with these words and why there isn't just one. I'm sure ToM, Wind, Smeag or the Rachirae could clear it up, though.

Hey. This one isn't about a flaw in measurement or language. Actually, it's about pain. I was in the basement and about to go upstairs (the light was even off), when I realized I had to go and get a book or something. I left the light off because it was light enough to navigate and identify the book. On my way back to the door however, I discovered that a toothpick had managed to position itself upright in the matted carpet. I felt the sort of pain right behind my toe that made me shift all wait to my heel within seconds. It didn't even break all my skin. I had thought it didn't break any at first, but later inspection revealed that it had. So now I have a bump on my foot that looks like nothing but feels terrible when weight is set on it.

I was finally able to look up the frequency of musical notes. I examined these for a while and found no set interval between the semitones. The only observation I made was the inconsistency and that the frequencies doubled from one octave to the next. Then I was able to look up the method. I never realized that was how they determined them. Very interesting. For those curious the frequency of a musical note is 2^n/12 x 440 hertz, where n is the number of half steps above A4 (the A above middle C).

That also reminds me, are there English names for the quarter-tones? As an example, what would we call the note half-way between A4 and A#4 (the note being ~452.89 hertz)?

The above formula raised a question which has been bugging me ever since I discovered this computer's calculator could do it. How do we define fractional powers such as 2^1/12. I have come to be able to understand how to multiply by fractions (years ago of course), but fractional powers make no sense to me at all right now. Again, probably explainable by the community's brains.

Somehow, even though all my sets are built (save no more than 10 pieces that are missing) I have several extra pieces that I shouldn't have extras of. Metru blue hands? Four Bohrok eye pieces (and I'm missing two in different colors)? Very odd. I still can't figure out where these types of pieces came from. No set has come with the Metru blue hands as extras and I don't believe the UCAS did.