[sdiy] HP 202C Low Frequency Oscillator

[elmacaco]

Well the Millimeter has been used in American poetry since about 89'

as in "Got a 9mm in my jeep, when I roll, I gotsta roll deep"  Ice Cube ;)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Tillman" <don at till.com>
To: "Magnus Danielson" <cfmd at bredband.net>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] HP 202C Low Frequency Oscillator


>    > Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:14:37 +0200 (CEST)
>    > From: Magnus Danielson <cfmd at bredband.net>
>    > 
>    > Even US is going metric. More and more components is metric and
>    > IPC make their standards with metric unit. Time to learn about mm
>    > and the mili and nano- prefixes.
> 
> Hey Magnus,
> 
> I'll claim that the US will never go metric for a very good reason --
> metric units just do not work in poetry or song lyrics.
> 
> The rhythms of the syllables are generally useless, rhyming is
> severely limited, visualization and metaphor don't really work, and
> there are no traditional cultural references.
> 
> It's very difficult to find any good poetry or song lyrics with
> metric units.
> 
>   -- Don
> 
> -- 
> Don Tillman
> Palo Alto, California
> don at till.com
> http://www.till.com
> 


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