Because he liked to breathe the dust produced when he hand-filed them to 0.1% tolerance?
So here's a guy with sufficient scientific insight to make a device that the rest of us (a bunch of guys well enough versed in general science to conduct a moderately erudite debate on virtually any topic in that category) regard as defying some fairly widely accepted precepts, and he makes his money in real estate.
Real estate.
Pardon me while I take the time to spit.
Did Einstein sell real estate? Or Tesla or Edison or Clerk Maxwell or Watson-Watt? What is this guy supposed to be? Tony Stark? Green Lantern? Mr Mxyzptlk?
You're not talking to people you can impress with the mention of a lawsuit here, john. Don't you realise it actually puts you in further danger of becoming a laughingstock when it doesn't materialize? For the first, it's no more credible than a Marvel Comic. For the second, in the extremely unlikely event (but not impossible given that one of the few things inferior to a realtor is a lawyer) that such a perverse suit should succeed, we'd all just go somewhere else.
w
Did Feynman play the bongos?
Real estate.
Pardon me while I take the time to spit.
Did Einstein sell real estate? Or Tesla or Edison or Clerk Maxwell or Watson-Watt? What is this guy supposed to be? Tony Stark? Green Lantern? Mr Mxyzptlk?
You're not talking to people you can impress with the mention of a lawsuit here, john. Don't you realise it actually puts you in further danger of becoming a laughingstock when it doesn't materialize? For the first, it's no more credible than a Marvel Comic. For the second, in the extremely unlikely event (but not impossible given that one of the few things inferior to a realtor is a lawyer) that such a perverse suit should succeed, we'd all just go somewhere else.
w
Did Feynman play the bongos?
I'm with ya, but Feynman may well have played the bongos. He was that type of guy...
It was a fortunate accident that Jack Bybee made money on real estate, years ago. He doesn't sell real estate as a rule. He has owned an auto chip company that he sold to another major chip supplier, perhaps 20 years ago. He worked very high up at SEGA for a length of time, and made big bucks, comparatively. Before that, he was a superconductor consultant at Cal Tech for Richard Feynman. In the '60's, I would think the military industrial complex, including Watkins Johnson in the SF bay Area.
As he told me, again today, there is no money in audio.
As he told me, again today, there is no money in audio.
He was certainly interested in some diverse things. He was involved in organising some kind of Western contact with the Tuva throat singers at a time when they were being suppressed by the Soviet Union and when they were virtually unheard of in the West. He's sometimes called 'the patron saint of Tuva'
See Ralph Leighton's Tuva or Bust
YouTube - Tuva Throat Singers - weirder than bybee quantum purifiers
I believe he played the bongos, it could be a vagrant memory.
w
See Ralph Leighton's Tuva or Bust
YouTube - Tuva Throat Singers - weirder than bybee quantum purifiers
I believe he played the bongos, it could be a vagrant memory.
w
He was always drumming his fingers... don't know if he ever put a bongo under them.
dave
He was actually quite accomplished. Won awards in Brazil.
I seriously doubt that Bybee's claim is factual- Feynman was famously a loner, scientifically. Very few students, no "superconductor consultants." Not that he'd need one, either.
He's shown doing that in "The Feynman Lectures," one of (IMO) the greatest books (three of them, actually) in the English language.
I think maybe one should put a picture of one's dream system in one's freezer and reap the benefits.
Hi,
I do not find that to work.
What works well though is the following:
1) Take a fine tip permanent marker in Red
2) Take a roll of sticky "Rainbow Foil" kind:
3) Cut a "banner" of suitable size, cut neatly, make the banners 2.618 X 1 in format (this is important).
4) Write:
"These are very good sounding Speakers."
"This is a very good sounding Amplifier"
and so on, in either your own mother-tongue or (preferably) in Latin or Sanskrit.
While the above holds true for most nations audiophiles, Americans MUST however write "These speakers are the best speakers in the world" for this tweak to be effective.
The writing must be done by the systems owner in handwriting (not block letters) and the writing must be neat, try several times on paper if your handwriting is bad (like mine). Make sure spelling and grammar are correct.
4) Apply these banners EXACTLY CENTERED to the bottom of each device, apply the correct label to the correct device (or it will not work).
Listen to your system again. This tweak is of a huge magnitude. Try it.
Ciao T
PS, this was not posted on the first of april, however MAYBE from my viewpoint it is the first april today. Maybe I am serious. I am not telling
I do not find that to work.
What works well though is the following:
1) Take a fine tip permanent marker in Red
2) Take a roll of sticky "Rainbow Foil" kind:
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3) Cut a "banner" of suitable size, cut neatly, make the banners 2.618 X 1 in format (this is important).
4) Write:
"These are very good sounding Speakers."
"This is a very good sounding Amplifier"
and so on, in either your own mother-tongue or (preferably) in Latin or Sanskrit.
While the above holds true for most nations audiophiles, Americans MUST however write "These speakers are the best speakers in the world" for this tweak to be effective.
The writing must be done by the systems owner in handwriting (not block letters) and the writing must be neat, try several times on paper if your handwriting is bad (like mine). Make sure spelling and grammar are correct.
4) Apply these banners EXACTLY CENTERED to the bottom of each device, apply the correct label to the correct device (or it will not work).
Listen to your system again. This tweak is of a huge magnitude. Try it.
Ciao T
PS, this was not posted on the first of april, however MAYBE from my viewpoint it is the first april today. Maybe I am serious. I am not telling
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