There is an old joke where you ask some one the time after handing them a drink , they twist their arm to look at their watch and spill their drink , ha , ha , ha , or something .
I’ve got some sort of skin infection , a virus whose name I have forgotten , something monstrum or giganticum . It makes an irregular lump on the back of my wrist , you can see where this is going . Warts are caused by viruses , so I thought I would try a wart remedy , salicylic acid . It comes in a little bottle with a dabber .
So I held the bottle of salicylic acid , then dabbed it onto the thing . And yes I poured the whole bottle of salicylic acid out , all over my , Tascam DR05 . It is very to be wise after the event .
Now we all know that Newton’s law of viscosity is not a fundamental law of nature, but rather a constitutive equation , but this stuff has the viscosity of a super fluid . the little sound recorder seemed to suck it up like a traveller lost tin the desert . the following day it stopped working , it was coated in a white powdery substance , which cleaned off easily enough , so I disassembled the thing . Its insides were caked with it , and it didn’t clean off easily , it didn’t spring back into life , and it steadfastly refused to speak to me .
So thats another fine mess , an £80 mess , ha , ha , ha .