Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

I am one of the first adopters of MOTM. I was excited to get the damn
power supply! I am the first member of this mailing list. I started it
because I was tired of bugging Paul all of the time. I was looking for
someone to share my excitement / amazement over MOTM with.

I have met Paul Schreiber once. He even bought me lunch.

I am an E-6 submarine nuclear power plant electrician. That sounds a
million times cooler than it actually is. I currently work as a systems
administrator and network security officer for a shore based training
activity. I have a BSCS in Computer Science from Hawaii Pacific University
(just graduated!). I am also self employed as a consultant (dirty, nasty
word) specializing in database driven web design.

I am married (to another CS person) and we have a cat.

We live in Hawaii. It is not as great as everyone who doesn't live here
keeps telling me.

About the time I got my first MOTM module I went to the Navy's series of
"2M" courses. This is miniature and then micro electronic repair. I am now
certified as an inspector as well. What this means is I no longer do the
"bigger the blob, better the job". It also allows me to make some very
clean modifications to PCB's that are very hard to tell. (create your own
traces and lay them on the board, etc) However, I never said that was easy
or fun!

Music, I like .mp3's of all kinds of stuff. I drive to "dark" (whatever
that is) drum and bass. I also listen to the radio some. Musical
influences? Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoades, Steve Miller band, Eno, Vince
Clark and some other stuff. What do I make? Not much.

Gear. A HUGE PC with a few audio cards, DSP Factory, Event Layla, Creative
Labs something. Few little analog circuits I have hacked together.

I unfortunately sold my MOTM system early last year. At that point I had
the largest system. I had 19 modules before the VCO's ever came
out. Ultimately I will have enough time to start making modules again. I
will probably only use the MOTM and my PC based things to write my sort of
music (not sure how to describe that - sort of noisy / kid-606 sort of
stuff). I intend to have a very large motm system, someday - maybe soon.

Other interests. Helping people understand why ∗nix is a good
OS. Programming little audio apps that do weird things to
.wavs. Attempting to keep my big block Chevy powered Chevelle drive able
on the street vice the quarter mile.