Mike's visitations follow a pattern: He hears a noise that shouldn't be there — a scratching sound, a ringing bell, a sudden snatch of "Motherless Child" — and, without fail, stops what he's doing to track down its source.
"And then all of a sudden, I'm like scratching my head and I'm like, 'Oh, wait, that hurts.' " This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print.
I'm sitting on the edge of her bed, holding one of her arms and one of her legs, which is the only way, we've discovered, that she can manage to drop off, the only way to combat sudden bouts of auto-scratching.
Rather, it was the delivery -- the stumbling over words, the compulsive ear scratching, the mumbling and sudden laughter -- that left the devastating impression of a prep-school kid striving for a B in public speaking.
Is your animal all of a sudden rolling on her back and scratching herself?
Instead we are scratching our heads over the sudden departure of a legend in his own mind.
Considering its generative mechanism, scratch is a kind of anisotropic sudden interference, usually along an approximate vertical direction.
He's a divisive figure whose sudden surge in popularity has caused much head-scratching and hand-wringing from initially sceptical media that now cover his doings far more than those of his competitors.
If you're still scratching your head over Apple's sudden reversal of fortune, you're not alone.
To prevent such sudden large variations of the boundaries, we perform from-scratch domain decomposition only when there is a significant number of particles active for that time step.
