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Still using VS 2008, see no reason at all to upgrade. If it ain't broke, Microsoft will try to fix it anyway.
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He is one of my favorite comedians, he and Harvey Korman were a riot together. HB Tim!
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A classic scene. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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That one and the pork chop one.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: the pork chop one
Link please if you can find it.
I tried but my Google searches and YouTube searches came up short.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Just about as great as the play of music with Tesla coils in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
clicky[^]
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COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Yeah, that was some fun, I'd forgotten all about those kinds of setups.  
Some songs have passages that are better suited to being played with a floppy drive, some floppy drives sound much better than others. I toyed with the idea a while ago but didn't really feel like trying to dig out a whole bunch of floppies nor like buying a whole bunch of stepper motor control boards. The arduino was under %5, but this project would have cost more than I was willing to spend.
Some Deadmau5 and Daft Punk tracks work really well with floppies like this, think I've also seen a Rolling Stones song or two, too.
To date, my favourite clip of a piece of machinery producing music would have to be a CNC machine playing Paranoid by Black Sabbath. It's only a 3-axis machine, so its only 3 channels.
Walter 2520 CNC machine plays Paranoid![^]
So many memories of early computer games in the sounds it makes. Mmmmmmmmmm.
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Daft Punk - Aerodynamic[^]. Same guy.
Some sounds weren't from the drives, but whatever.
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Bingo!
That was one of the good ones I was thinking of, nice 'find'. 
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Wifey just sent me a picture of her and Jasper[^]. He is in the museum where she works and was surprised that she knew who he was!
I went to a concert of his many years ago and was crying with laughter. Very funny guy.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I was sure Jasper had done a sketch (or two) with Bill Cosby - I have 'Rastus, what you doin to that custard' attributed to him, in my head, but cant find the evidence now .. oh well
('Rastus, what you doin to that custard' was used to illustrate an emotion, but since this is a kid-sister-friendly site, I wont proceed any further here)
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Years ago, my PM and I had to go a couple hundred miles to visit a customer, and we had Jasper on cassette in his car. We must have played Magic Roundabout as dozen times on that journey.
Got to the customer, went up in the lift and the door opened.
There in front of us was the customer Dillon.
I looked at Phil. Phil looked and me. "That's no way to talk to a lady" went through both our minds and we cracked up completely.
Dillon was not a happy bunny... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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mark merrens wrote: I went to a concert of his many years ago
Did you go on your funky moped?
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Why, yes I did! How did you know?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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A young man is released from prison on parole. A condition of his parole is that he wear a monitoring device that tracks his movement. Monitoring devices are frequently used to make sure that the parolee stays within the other conditions, such as house arrest. So what kind of an idiot is on parole, has a monitoring device locked on to his ankle, and still goes out on a robbery job?
This kind[^]. 
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It's nice to know that no matter what I do in my life, there will always be someone much dumber than me.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Man, you're on a roll! More sound logic!
Probably why you are a programmer.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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He wanted to go back and be with his buddies.
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This is just freaking awsome! Honest to goodness cyborg drummer.[^]
I wonder if I can talk my drummer into letting us hack one of his arms off.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Quote: I wonder if I can talk my drummer into letting us hack one of his arms off.
For something this cool? Why wait? When he awakes after the surgery and you show him the cool pictures he'll understand.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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