[sdiy] ASM Capacitors/Bench Power Supplies

[Glen]

At 01:16 AM 8/3/03 , Magnus Danielson wrote:

>Don't be overpicky about languague, even as a joke. You may loose out on it.
>Luckilly you caught me on a good morning (it is a good morning - Good Morning
>BTW) after a good picknick!

Good morning, Magnus.

So you came home from a "picknick", only to find a "nitpick" waiting in
your email?  (There's just something funny about the sound of that.)   :)

Yes, I was joking around with you a little bit--except for the part about
living near the sightings of the "Mothman" creature. I really do live near
that region of the world--not that I've ever seen anything like Mothman
personally. 

I did, however, have a VERY bad feeling once, while crossing a bridge over
the Kanawha river (in the same area where the sightings took place.) For
some reason, I kept having feelings of what it would be like to have the
bridge collapse underneath me, and be tossed into the cold, deep water
below. Would I drown? Quite possibly. It gave me shudders, and I tried to
put it out of my head. 

I should mention that I've never felt that way before or since, when
crossing any bridge over water. Crossing the bridge that day felt uniquely
strange and very ominous.

Later that night, I heard on the radio that a barge hit one of the supports
underneath that bridge. It had to be immediately closed for repairs. I had
my very bad feeling probably an hour or two before the barge accident. One
of the fellows at the radio station joked and blamed it on "Mothman". 

At the time, I didn't know the story of Mothman, so I looked it up. It
turns out he was, among other things, associated with a tragic bridge
failure in that very same area around 1960,  or sometime near that. The
bridge that had fallen back then would have been probably a few hundred
yards from the one I crossed.

Some years later, the Richard Gere movie "Mothman Prophecies" was made. In
the movie, people were getting these creepy premonitions about impending
disasters. I couldn't help but think of my own creepy premonition about a
bridge failure, in that very same place.

So I've never seen Mothman, but I did have a Mothman-like experience.

Now to bring this back into the synthesizer world again, does anyone know
what sort of synths were used in that Richard Gere movie?  :)


later,
Glen Berry