Mellotronists

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Andy Thompson wrote:

>   Light? I'm awed by those who manipulate electricity. Sorcery, I call
>   it. The work of Beelzebub. I mean, WHY, exactly, do a bunch of
>   particles too small to see zooming along a wire make things work? And
>   why can they kill you? I've had the water analogy explained to me a
>   million times, but I still don't get it. I'm going to go and live in a
>   cave.


i hear ya.

my father [an engineer of many sorts] used to try and explain things to
me. he finally gave up after spending 2 hours trying to explain his
slide rule to me. he wore it in a pouch on his belt the way people
wear a cell phone today.

he was better at doing than he was at teaching.

i inherited the slide rule.
still have it.
still have no idea how he used it.

[yet, i can read stereo instructions and badly translated synth manuals,
and my VCRs only blink "12:00" after a power outage]


...jeff


>   Andy T.
>   M400 #1145: Wondering if steam power might work.
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