[sdiy] Don't Touch

[John L Marshall]

Magnus,

The thread started out serious then went down hill from there. But, silly
sometimes leads to exciting new things.

Take Care,
John

----- Original Message -----
From: Magnus Danielson <cfmd at swipnet.se>
To: <CHoaglin at aol.com>
Cc: <dhughes at globalnet.co.uk>; <xyzzy at sysabend.org>;
<john.l.marshall at gte.net>; <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Don't Touch


> From: CHoaglin at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Don't Touch
> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 14:35:32 EST
>
> > In a message dated 3/1/02 4:12:58 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > dhughes at globalnet.co.uk writes:
> >
> >
> > > I've found shouting at the little beggars sometimes works - especially
when
> > > they
> > > won't do what I want them to do!
> >
> > Or screaming about how "I've got a screwdriver, and I'm not afraid to
use
> > it!!!"
> > That works on computers sometimes at least..
>
> That's scary man...
>
> Also, this means this thread have moved from a low level to scary
movies...
>
> Shouts and threats... hmm... still doesn't make a good don't touch
> control.
>
> The odd fellow Ralph Lundsten (local old scool out of the woods kind
> of fella) has a camera/TV-monitor setup which allows him to play his
> synthesizers without touching anything (except a few air molecules,
> but it is kind of hard to avoid doing that without boiling away).
>
> I think he has had this setup since the 70thies or something, so it
> isn't all that advanced.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus - who is stupid enougth to think there is a serious side to
> this thread