EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 55, Issue 17 This issue's topics: De gustibus non est disputandum (4 messages) idealord - the sticky truth stuff ;-) (3 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 09:40:27 EDT From: Bill Fox Subject: Joe McMahon said: >Uh-huh. I might quibble with that opinion, but it would be pointless - de >gustibus non est disputandum. Please forgive my ignorance, but I never studied Latin. Please translate. Bill Fox Cogito ergo synthesis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 09:45:57 -0400 From: idealord Subject: Re: De gustibus non est disputandum > > Literally, "One must not argue about tastes" -- it's the same > imperative participial construction as "Carthago delenda est" > (Carthage must be destroyed). Colloquially, "There's no accounting > for tastes". Artifacts found strewn on my mental plane from > ninth grade Latin. > > Incidentally, Jeff, how did you program the synth? Did you discover > that the user interface was the hardest part? You talkin' that thing I made in high school? It had 16 pots for each harmonic and an electric organ keyboard for its controller. Volume and overall tuning was about it... Saved up for it working at Baskin&Robbins - got a cool 10 speed by working there too... synth cost about $300.00 for they keyboard (3 octaves) and the chips... My dad helped me make a stained wood cover for it... Jeff Harrington idealord@dorsai.dorsai.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 08:51:09 CDT From: Bob Crispen Subject: De gustibus non est disputandum Literally, "One must not argue about tastes" -- it's the same imperative participial construction as "Carthago delenda est" (Carthage must be destroyed). Colloquially, "There's no accounting for tastes". Artifacts found strewn on my mental plane from ninth grade Latin. Incidentally, Jeff, how did you program the synth? Did you discover that the user interface was the hardest part? +-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen | Music should not be held responsible | | crispen@foxy.boeing.com | for the people who listen to it. | +-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 16:41:19 -0400 From: Joe McMahon Subject: >de gustibus non est disputandum. Sorry, Bill. Loosely, it's "taste isn't a valid subject to argue about". --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 16:01:27 -0400 From: idealord Subject: idealord - the sticky truth stuff ;-) > > "He calls himself 'idealord'? Oh, please." --Mrs. Metlay, looking over my > shoulder the other night. ;-> > > Hey, I have a hard enough time explaining to people what a "metlay" is.... > When she's done wiping that sticky stuff off her hands ;-) she might wanna check out our archive - quartz.rutgers.edu /pub/subgenius/Ideal-Order for our story... Naming conventions wouldn't "net" us have IdEAL ORDER ;-(.... > -- > mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Wow, now my hand's all sticky! Yum." (metlay's wife) > Jeff Harrington idealord@dorsai.dorsai.org I guess I'll start using my sig... (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) (*) IdEAL ORDER Psychic TV (*) Zappin' CBS Evening News (*) (*) idealord@dorsai.dorsai.org (*) Since 1983! (*) (*)(*)For more info ftp quartz.rutgers.edu /pub/subgenius/Ideal-Order(*)(*) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 17:53:23 EDT From: ronin Subject: Re: idealord - the sticky truth stuff ;-) i still say that yang the nauseating farts in airlocks. -----------< Cognitive Dissonance is a 20th Century Art Form >----------- Eric Harnden (Ronin) or The American University Physics Dept. 4400 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016-8058 (202) 885-2748 (with Voice Mail) ---------------------< Join the Cognitive Dissidents >------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 09:14:07 PDT From: metlay Subject: Re: idealord - the sticky truth stuff ;-) >When she's done wiping that sticky stuff off her hands ;-) she might wanna >check out our archive - quartz.rutgers.edu /pub/subgenius/Ideal-Order for our >story... > >Naming conventions wouldn't "net" us have IdEAL ORDER ;-(.... Oh! Ideal Order as opposed to Idea Lord? Well, THAT'S a relief. BTW, it was ice cream, you pre-vert. ;-> >I guess I'll start using my sig... Three or four lines never hurt anyone. It's the twelve-liners that I hate. -- mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Wow, now my hand's all sticky! Yum." (metlay's wife) ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************