Re: 3rd Hand + DL-4(was: Boss RC-2 Shipping Now...Just Recieved Mine)

[Larry Stites <ncnet@sbcglobal.net>]

Glad you liked it - how'd you know about the calendar?

L

on 11/15/06 6:07 AM, mech wrote:

> At 12:15 AM -0800 11/15/06, Larry Stites wrote:
>> Gives me a hard on just reading it! (cylindrical socket, shaft, 
>side-screw,
>> 20 minute job, firmly hold the half-shaft in the socket, 3rd Hand, 
>Tweek,
>> Tweeze, and Mix, might get into trouble, Algorithm knob, detented knob,
>> enormous pain, use your foot and zero in on the "notch"??!!
>> 
>> Whachusay?!
> 
> ROTF LMAO!
> 
> Why am I thinking you probably have a Snap-On Tools calendar on the
> wall above your mixing board.
> 
> And mebbe even an old Rosie the Riveter poster too....  ;)
> 
>> ... And so is detented - what ever that means.
> 
> Detented, from "detent".  According to Wikipedia:
> 
> "A detent is a method of dividing a smooth range of movement into one
> or more discrete "steps". The most common example would be that of a
> balance control on a piece of stereo equipment which seems to "click"
> or "snap" into the center position of its rotation, indicating the
> point where the volumes of the left and right channels are equal or
> "balanced" (hence the name )...."
> 
> (okay, so I made an adjective up out of a noun/verb -- shoot me.)
> 
> I had nothing to do with "Recieved", though, since that typo was in
> the subject line before I got to it.  After 12 years in a podunk
> public school with no budget for anything except drilling us over and
> over in the 'three R's', I can almost always remember the "i before e
> except after c" rule.  :)
> 
> --m.