Ok, let's have all the quiet ones come out of the woodwork...(off topic, I suppose)

[Alan Podjursky]

<delurk>

>>I think there are some of us on this list that remain pretty silent (like
>>myself.)  I've only been on the list for a couple of months (spawned by the
>>hunger of to learn about modular synths, and hopefully someday build my
>>own.)  
>I've been on and off(usually not by my choice) the list several times since
>the summer of 1998, and I don't post very often at all.  This is mostly
>because unlike the talkative people on list who have a lot of electronics
>experience, I don't know anything.  This is something I can really only
>learn as much as I can in the time I have free from other activities, so
>most often I'm listening to everyone else.

I don't post 'cause I'm still saving up the $300-400 needed to buy the d*rn
components, and so don't have anything to contribute :-/ (I'm also saving
up for university)

>>I probably couldn't draw a VCO off the top of my head, in fact, I
>>know I couldn't, but I could draw a very simple oscillator. I don't have
>>enough knowledge to start getting into bigger designs yet.  I have learned
>>quite a bit from following different threads, and find this list to be quite
>>fun.
>Exactly. And I tend to take it personally when someone else
>(*cough*Doepfer*cough*) does poach a design (yes, one that doesn't even
>belong to me), because a)it takes away from what people have contributed
>here and b)it pisses off the people who worked on it and will eventually
>chase them away, too--and we're seen multiple complaints. Which leaves the
>rest of us standing in a slightly emptier room. Argh! Stop it, vultures!
>Don't make me get out the shotgun! ;)

Just out of curiosity, what kind of constant oscillator could you make with
a capacitor  somehow?

>-Jonathan Lippard

-AlanP