or if not a gestalt... how's about a ZEITGEIST! wherein a phenomenon may be seen to be a manifestation of a context too subtle to be readily apparent... like... uh.... St Patrick's patronage of engineers and excluded people is symbolic of the market censure that Grant's maverick design parameters (ie those that inspire him to refrain from designing ladder filters ADSRs and big black panels) impose on him. And the Vatican is involved because their flirtation with the removal of his feast day is a form of meta-censure vis-a-vis the exclusion of the patron saint of excluded engineers.... uh.... OK! how 'bout this!!!???? in months where we haven't hit 20 posts by the 15th... we get to natter out wildy extraneous nonsense until the average is back up to 40 posts a month? ;'> (ok..... slow day waiting for the backups to complete....signing off now) -doc --- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Grant Richter" <grichter@...> wrote: > > Have you priced Wellbutrin XL? > > Nobody is that wealthy... > > > --- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Chang" <gchang@> wrote: > > > > "Grant Richter" <grichter@> wrote: > > > > > > See > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_entity > > > > > > I think composing electronic music on synthesizers probably > > qualifies pretty well as a gestalt > > > entity. As such it is hard to say what is really off topic. > > > > > > If I say "Eddie Vedder's girlfriend had a spacerock band called > > Hovercraft". > > > > > > > Another rock personality, David Lee Roth once said, "I used to have a > > drug problem, but now I'm wealthy!" > > > > Is this off topic? 8o) > > > > gc > > >
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Re: Off Topic about a Gestalt Entity
2006-03-22 by drmabuce
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