[sdiy] And the Soddy goes to...

[harrybissell]

Congratulations to all the Soddy nominees as well. Especially the winners.  ;^P

Jim, I not that if we had worked together we'd have been in second place...
so lets pool our decoupling caps... and assasinate Ray Wilson (that ought to do
it !)

I am happy to see that the list went for Ray's project... more of a hobby focus
than
commercial product... and also built by MANY people in (shall we say) unusual
configurations.

I hope we learned from this experience.

1)  Build your projects for yourself...and from the heart.  Its not about the
money.
Its about camradarie and recognition. Remember how lonely you all were before
you
discovered your brothers and sisters who had an "L" tatooed on their foreheads
just like you.  Well actually its an "italic L" but you get the point :^P

2) Bribe people early.

3) Assume predatory voting practices. First... vote for yourself and then for
the
projects LEAST likely to place.

Last I'd like to thank John Mahoney for making this all possible. Its been a lot
of fun
and the humor on the list (including THIS post :^) was the best part of it for
me.

Well... I'm going to go downstairs and paint an old soldering iron gold, and
tell
all my co-workers and grandkids that I won.  LOL. Aside from this list, who
would ever
know.  I'm happy to have found such good friends (and my twin-separated-at-birth
Jim
Patchell :^)

H^) harry

john mahoney wrote:

> ... the person at the top of this page:
>     http://www.bitshifted.com/SDIY2004/results.asp
>
> Congratulations to *all* the nominees. Every project received multiple
> votes, which is awesome. Every nominee can feel good knowing that their work
> was appreciated by others on the list.
>
> Except for first place, this was a very close race in some places. There was
> a clear winner, though, so we won't be needing a run-off election. Whew! ;-)
>
> The results surely say something about the interests of the SDIY group. Do
> we value weirdness, mass appeal, construction quality, value, innovation,
> what...? I'll save those discussions for other posts.
>
> The final preparation of the trophy will now commence. Be patient, dear
> winner, as the trophy is an SDIY effort involving me and another list member
> (who's on the other side of the country from me).
>
> My appeals for a small gift certificate were ignored -- not just turned
> down, but completely ignored -- by two vendors who shall remain nameless
> (Jameco and Mouser ;-P ), so there's no prize of monetary value. That's
> probably just as well, as it keeps things more friendly, and it doesn't
> Americanize the prize.
> --
> john
>
> Bcc: The winner