[sdiy] East Coast SDIY meet

[Magnus Danielson]

From: harrybissell <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] East Coast SDIY meet
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:38:30 -0400
Message-ID: <42548F15.B7F55C04 at prodigy.net>

> Oh yeah... I can see taking my DIY stuff to Canada again.  They stopped me
> for about ten minutes at the border wondering why I was bringing musical
> instruments in if I was not going to 'play' (ie work!).
> 
> I was just about to show the officer the list of all the synth-diy people by way
> of explaining the hobby, when they asked me the final question...
> 
> "what do you do for a living ?"
> 
> I said "engineer" and they laughed and said "go right ahead"
> 
> So... are engineers incapable of playing music.

No, they are just incapable of making sense to normal people. Finding an
engineer mumbling strange words, three letter acronyms, traveling around with
insane amounts of strange gear (junk) at all the wrong hours of the day (nigth)
and being odly dressed is not at all strange. They are strange. Wonder what
planet they come from, since they don't mix very well with the inhabitants of
this planet. But they are mostly harmless, so better let them go.

Oh, what storries I could tell... ;O)

> I was thinking they would take out my wife's Theremin and marvel at the
> antennas.  She said she would tell them she was going to Toronnto
> to "catch a plane"...   If they asked "what plane?" she'd reply...
> 
> "Oh... you know... a BIG plane"    :^P

You can get them more locally you know.

Cheers,
Magnus