Monday, October 30, 2006

Too Young or Too Old

While updating my profile I learned that you can't use Blogger unless you're at least 13 but no more than 103. I just made it.

Larry Hammond's Music Machine


The Laurens Hammond story needs to be told. Over a hundred patents. A tickless clock, automatic transmission, the Hammond organ. The pipe organ people got so sore because the Hammond was killing their business that they got the Federal Trade Commision involved. His greatest idea may have been the Novachord, an astounding synthesizer decades ahead of its time. What a tale. What a guy.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

All messed up

The microwave calls me a child and the computer says my java and cookies are messed up. Plus that, I had to ask my wife what an error is in baseball and I still don't get it. Etaoin says I need dunkers. That's probably what's wrong. My java is full of crumbs from dunking too many cookies.