[sdiy] Synth DIY UK 2003

[Gene Stopp]

In order to maintain the cosmic marriage ju-ju I feel I can be silent no
longer and must give thanks for my wife, who:

* was writing Token Ring drivers for the 80186 in assembly when I met her

* currently authors RFC's for the Internet Engineering Task Force

* didn't like the way her new 20 gig mp3/jpeg jukebox arranges files, so she
wrote a TCL script to re-organize the hard disk

* likes fusion, prog rock, and all my music

* once told me that I should get a "furniture quality" Hammond and Leslie
for the living room (which I did)

* bought me a minimoog voyager for my birthday

* is an attractive woman despite all of this

I could not make this up if I tried.

- Gene


-----Original Message-----
From: Glen [mailto:mclilith at charter.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 12:19 AM
To: tim102 at tstinchcombe.freeserve.co.uk; 'John L Marshall'; 'Magnus
Danielson'
Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Synth DIY UK 2003


At 03:02 PM 6/14/03 , Tim Stinchcombe wrote:
>So that they have some idea what they are letting themselves in for,
perhaps
>this should be required reading for all potential spouses:

You might have forgotten those basic and primal desires that every man on
this list probably feels from time to time. Here are a few examples of the
kind of girl I think the fellows on this list would want to meet:


A woman who codes assembly language with proficiency

A woman who believes household appliances, such as clothes irons, hot
plates, and microwave ovens are acceptable tools for electronics
fabrication.

A woman who considers large 19" steel rack cabinets to be some of the
finest furniture money can buy, and that suitcases can make excellent
synth-cases.

It's not the size of the instrument you posses, but the number of knobs
*it* possesses, that matters most.

'Was raised by her parents as a "Volts-per-Hz" girl, but might convert to
the "Volts-per-Octave" doctrine---if the right fellow came along.


I could go on, but I think you get the idea.  :)

Later,
Glen