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toxx · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject:

... he posted that he might one day go away, his interests having moved on to something else - which is totally all right! Interests change ... yet, knowing that his health is not of the best, it would be great to have some kind of message from him. Just, that he's okay and toying with something else, a Ford Model T, or learning how to make Fabergé Easter Eggs or doing Sudoku blind-folded.
Anything.

We miss you, Reid. And we won't give up until we've learned that you're perfectly fine and are now in to baking French Pastry or creating more fine poetry, as you've done before.
And then we'll leave you alone.

Reid!
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kusuchi · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:34 am Post subject:

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johnreid · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:52 am Post subject:

A Theremin is an unusual musical instrument, most famous for its use in Good Vibrations and in many 50s science fiction movies.
Reid seems to have known one of the greats, Clara Rockmore.
Here is Lydia Kavina, Leon Theremins Grand Neice, playing the Theremin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn4TgYkqdi8

IT works from the presence of the player to the antennas, an instrument that the player doesnt touch!
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Mister Occlusion · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 2:41 am Post subject:

Geez.. I remember seeing one of those things in a cartoon once. Didn't know it was real.

I'm on the concerned list. I've known people who announce it when they leave, who have a fight and leave, or slowly fade away until they're gone, but I've never known someone to simply up and disappear from a place where they had friends, without even a passing mention in courtesy, because of a sudden and catastrophic change in interests.

So I'm concerned, because I've also had a few OL friends who've vanished, only to find out much later that they had passed on abruptly.
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mogogear · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 3:16 am Post subject:

I always have the weird sensations when I am referring to one of you to my wife or neighbor..I say something like,"I was talking with a friend in England ..." and i my wife gives me that look like--"Who do you KNOW in England.?. you mean an online forum member you have never met??

t is odd to refer to people - most of whom you have never met face to face, as friends. .. But then I feel uneasy about people whom you write back and forth to, as not being friends. I propose they / you all are, and as legitimate in the term as a neighbor is ... I mean how many persons many years ago had "pen pal" friends whom they never met except through words-- we get words , and pictures!!

In my espresso machine forum that I am a member of - I have had the great fortune to have gotten to meet almost 20 people over the course of 2 years and it made the on line conversations improved- but in my head mostly.

So - I have only been here a short while - but personalities are sprouting among you and I resolve to at least acknowledge when my enthusiasm wanes. I enjoy the interaction greatly and since so many are in the UK or the Midwest, face to face is a low percentage shot... so words it is!!

I for one am not apt to disappear suddenly unless a car wreck or sudden illness betakes me.

What say you Musketeers?

You are stuck with me
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IndianaRog · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 3:31 am Post subject:

The lot of you are not such bad bedfellows..."we" are a bunch of friends that circle the globe. Who could have imagined such a thing 20 years ago. The internet has indeed made the world a smaller, more easily navigated place and that's a good thing.
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toxx · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:20 pm Post subject:

What say you Musketeers?

You are stuck with me

... and with me, mates!

Cheers, Mo!

Have sent Reid a letter ...
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Mister Occlusion · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:26 pm Post subject:

I can echo the sentiment, Mo. One of my (very few) best friends lives a 2 day drive away. Known them for 10 years, and haven't seen them in 8, but that really doesn't matter so long as I've got email and a phone.
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MooseMan · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:28 pm Post subject:

Ditto here - I count several of the forum members among my best friends, and several of those I have never met in person.
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johnreid · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject:

I have a friend that lives about 400 miles from me, we meet about twice a year, but contact each other several times a week via email.

I consider several of the forum members here to be friends and feel that they have proven to be worthy of the honor of being considered a good friend. Plus, I am by religion a Friend, Religious Society of Friends.

I think that if Reid decides to come back, he will, but if he doesnt want to, that is his right.

I hope he is in good health, but just following another interest, he seems to be the type that gets really involved in what he is up to and thus probably just moves on to whatever he is now doing. Maybe the Wilesco has been taken as far as he wanted to go with it.
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alan2525 · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject:

A Theramin is a type of electronic musical instrument. It put the good vibrations into the Beach Boy's song "Good Vibrations".

It's the bit that goes...Oooooohweeeee....after they harmonise the "good...good good goood vibrations...." part!

Some kind of osciloscope frequency manipulation device...

MooseMan · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject:

I was half tempted to launch into a lecture on heterodyning, but shall I just bring a Theremin to STiA next year?

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alan2525 · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject:

MooseMan · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 3:37 pm Post subject:

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Stands the glass half empty,
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