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Hi Grant, happy birthday!!! (I think) If Doc had mentioned it before I would have done an all Wiard "Happy Birthday". 

I don't know whether I shared the samples with this group when my system first arrived, if not they are here http://share.ovi.com/channel/ChamomileShark.public Others who have yet to dip into the deep blue pool of the Series 300 may be interested.

Since then the new controller has arrived and that really does add several new dimensions.

I was suprised at the "general public" reaction to the dream based "I thought I had lost my friend" which I shared a few months back. People really connected to the claustrophobic wheezings, clickings that accompanied the vocoded words (also using the Wiard as the carrier). Strangely a few months later I visited an exhibition which included a poorly lit dusty room which as you walk through speakers activitate to deliver strange exchanges or monologues.  http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/  It felt like a low tech take on the same idea, like a photograph of my dream world.

I suspect the reason why people post less, apart from the fact there are possbibly less people in this group than some of the others is that people maybe unclear about what is on topic and what is not. I see the standard announcements about new products and questions about usage, which seem to make up the bulk of postings here. (The Serge group incidentally was very quiet until the new modules came out. That and the new Serge tape venture.) If that is what the group is for I sometimes ask for help, but it isn't that often. If it is to discuss the technology, while it's interesting, it's not something I can contribute to much. But that relative silence shouldn't be taken as a lack of care or regard. 

Anyway, a very happy birthday, Grant!

warm regards, Mark

 




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From: Grant Richter <grichter@asapnet.net>
To: wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2008 8:33:33 PM
Subject: [wiardgroup] Go ahead and post anything


I wish people would post something here.

Every time I check the list and there is no traffic, I think to myself:

"If they don't care, why should I?"

I am still debating ending Wiard after the current orders are complete.

What is the point of killing myself, if the user's can't even make the effort to post a comment 
or some music.

And as far as the stupid money goes, to quote Bob Dylan "Money can't buy back your youth 
when your old, a friend when your lonesome, or a heart that's grown cold".

If you don't understand that, I pray you never have to learn what it means.