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Message #10883
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Laura Malinowski Laura/Rob Malinowski malstudios@tradenet.net
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:08:17 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Eloquence
This sounds zen like, or the minimalist approach in art. Is this sort of,
almost, kinda, might be what you are describing.
R.M.
Timothy Flytch wrote:
> I'd like to introduce a new term... An old friend and I developed it's
> definition long ago so we could quantify ideas... The term is eloquent...
> simply put there in NO true eloquent thing... but some approach it more than
> others...
> Eloquence is: utter simplicity... least material to do the job... free...
> has a unique beauty... pure in form and function... has no added non
> functioning parts...
> I liken it to going to a piano recital... I can't tell if a part was played
> perfectly but I can definitely tell when it was not...
> some of Mark T. bots have it... but most don't...
> webster says it's as...
> Main Entry: el.o.quent
> Pronunciation: -kw&nt
> Function: adjective
> Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin eloquent-,
> eloquens, from present participle of eloqui to speak out, from e- + loqui to
> speak
> Date: 14th century
> '&&
> 1 : marked by forceful and fluent expression
> 2 : vividly or movingly expressive or revealing
> - el.o.quent.ly adverb
>
> ______________________________________________________
>
10884 Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:06:09 -0800 [alt-beam] Re: The Almost Complete Walker "Dennison Bertram" you'll need to increase the resistor values. Or increase the capacitor
values. Or both.
experiment.
dennison
> As you might have been following, i have been making a walker with the
> almost complete walker circuit. I got rid of those infernal MPJA worm gear
> motors and got some really really really nice display motors to do the
job.
> the only problem is that the really really really nice display motors have
a
> really really really high gear ratio. the walker does do anything except
> slightly wiggle. how can i lengthen the timing of the bicore to
compensate?
> Thanks a ton!!!
>
> -"Sad cause my #$%&!! walker won't work in Illinois" or just Spencer
>
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