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- From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
- Subject: Re: Bad Places to have Good Ideas
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.212451.13446@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: elle@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Jul23.171106.17913@ee.ubc.ca> <BrwpKF.y7@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:24:51 GMT
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- v148rb5b@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (COLLIN MCCULLEY) writes:
- >>I couldn't get out yet, I was still all soapy, and there were a few
- >>parts which I hadn't done yet. I rushed through the shower as fast as
- >>I could, then jumped out and dried myself quickly. I was able to get
- >>to a pen and my notebook in time to write down all the ideas I had had
- >>while in the shower, but it was a close thing.
- >
- >Have you considered purchasing for yourself a waterproof tape
- >recorder, or at least one that's moisture resistant so you can leave
- >it on the bathroom countertop? ... When I get a musical idea while
- >tooling away at the keyboard, as often as not I forget it by the next
- >time if it isn't recorded. Its the same with my writing ideas,
- >although until now I haven't thought about the solution.
-
- Okay, this gives me the opening to ask something I've been wondering
- for years: *is* there such a thing as a "waterproof tape recorder" for
- use in such situations, with minimal risk of electrocution? (I'd prefer
- one useable _in_ the shower, rather than next to it.)
-
- I'd planned to buy one years ago as a graduation gift for my SO, a
- songwriter, but audio shops assured me that there was no such beast --
- and if there were, it would be really expensive and not in their
- inventories. True? False?
-
- I'd like to follow up on this, as my SO and I could _both_ use one.
- (Note that I'm crossposting between misc.writing and rec.music.makers.)
-
- --
- Ellen Keyne Seebacher elle@midway.uchicago.edu
- "It's not what you meant that counts. It's what you wrote."
- --Donn Pedro, paraphrasing Clay Bond
-