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Hey, Doc!

Thanks for taking in my penchant for analogy - I do lose it when we
start to discuss "the arts" - people act as if some faction of the
human race are arbiters of good taste and the balance of good and evil
in the universe....

Then we find out that the entire media industry is waiting to see if
the porno industry can actually defeat piracy on the internet! 

You see, people tend to forget their differences when there is a
common foe to combat.  

So, as time goes on, people will starts to look at us as
pornographers, too.... 8o)


gc




--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "drmabuce" <drmabuce@...> wrote:
>
> !Hola Senor Chang!
> 
> Fish Pockets! Fish Pockets!! Fish Pockets!!!
> 
> At last! The secret of Fish Pockets is out!
> 
> take it away Brak!...
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA6mewk5TFY
> 
> "Brak:    Fish Pockets?!
> 
>     [singing] Alla the wonders of the sea
>     Will be served up hot to me
>     Baked or broiled or lightly breaded
>     Just the thought makes me lightheaded
>     Can there be a smarter thought
>     'N a bowl of tartar sauce
>     Fish Pockets, here I come! "
> -The Brak Show: "time machine"- first aired 2 Sept 2002
> 
> (quick exchange of the Loyal Order of the Wogglebug handshake with
> Zorak & Thundercleese...)
> 
> Now that the formalities are out of the way-
> 
> i enjoyed your analogy a LOT. In my gut i know that for all the years
> of etudes, exercises, and the practicing and putting up with
> outrageously bigoted and small-minded teachers (with a few sublime
> exceptions interspersed) that the only ACTUAL qualification i have is
> my apparent disinclination to quit wading out there* constantly. The
> academics and the suits in 'the industry' shout constantly from the
> banks with all kinds of 'sure-fire' recommendations for hauling in the
> big one but none of them have ever gotten wet!
> 
> One of the things i do, and, hell, i don't even know why anymore...i
> just do it.... is wire-up a 'random' voltage source in my workshop -
> just experimenting with some design or another- and i CV it to a
> simple Triangle VCO (or a two-pole state variable filtering White
> noise) and then just listen ...my rule of thumb is to listen for at
> least 20 minutes, 40 is better.... and then i 'decide' if the design
> is 'musical'. This is , of course, intended as a prototyping or
> qualifying activity and done with the expectation that i will frame
> the 'good' designs into full-fledged modules and use them in my main
> rig upstairs...but in the last few years a funny thing has started to
> happen....
> i just stay in the basement, listening ... for a LONG time!
> and i feel less and less like 'developing' the designs beyond the
> little tri-VCO or 2P-VCF test-jig.
> OF COURSE this is creeping senility!!!! Absolutely - no question!
>  ....but i'm enjoying the 'music' more and more! ...more than my CD's!
> 
> two comments about this:
> 
> 1) Could your 'fish->pocket' analogy possibly be more apt to this
> phenomenon?!!
> 
> 2) It's exactly THIS kind of grotesquely inefficient 'R&D' that prof.
> Richter is trying so desperately to carve out of his production
schedule.
> 
> 
> All irish folks have a fetish for good analogies, Senor Chang... are
> you sure your name isn't O'Chang?
> ;'>
> 
> -doc 
> 
> "Go ahead and post anything"
> -G. Richter onthe Wiard User Forum
> 
> * despite a considerable level of discomfort, expense and
> time-consumption
>