[GreenKeys] not many of us left

[gil smith]

At 11:25 AM 8/14/2008, Tom Dawson wrote:
>49 for a couple more months?  Shoot, I've been 49 for five years...........


Ahh, thanks for making me laugh this morning!  Maybe I'll try that five 
year thing too.

Joe Satriani is coming to town a few days after my birthday -- that might 
be a fun way to turn 50.  Man that guy can play guitar.  Last year I 
snagged Bill Buzbee's idea for his "Laser Spirograph" for to give my (then 
2nd-grade) cub scouts a laser light show on the wall, using a laser pointer 
and two motors with slightly-angled mirrors and speed controls:
http://www.homebrewcpu.com/projects.htm
Cool patterns with the motors/mirrors, but I swapped out one motor and put 
a speaker with a mirror on it instead -- the one motor spins the laser into 
a circle on the wall, and the speaker modulates it with audio and turns the 
whole thing into a circular oscilloscope display.  Pretty frickin' 
awesome.  Why did I mention this?  I forget.  I must be tuning 50.  Oh yeah 
-- Joe Satriani's "Cool #9" was the song with the perfect bass modulation 
(and great guitar licks) to really give a great display with the 
laser.  But I digress.  Must be turning 50.

You guys remember Bill Buzbee, of HeavyMetal fame.  And Magic-1.  And all 
the other stuff he manages to find time to crank out -- sheesh, Bill can 
actually finish projects faster than I could sketch them on paper.

Bill -- you're turning 50 this year too, aren't you?  Poor bastard.

What was the original question?  I forget.

gil






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