Lucky CDC. IBM, as is well known, stood for I've Been Moved. Their people somtimes got moved to places they liked but knew it was only temporary.

Gray Rooseter, I think that since we stopped fighting the MUDCATTER'S have gotten bored with us. Got any ideas for a new one? Make it too subtle for me.

This physicist has started to think about when does a chord become a non chord. For simple major CEG we have 264, 330, and 396 Hz for the frequencies. Play it short and all the notes become a distribution of frequencies as dictated by reciprocal spreading. [EE's derive it one way, but much more dirct and extremely simple is getting it from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle] How short a time do we have to cut it to in order to make it unrecognizable as a chord?

Fortunately the ear hears on a logarithmic rather than a linear scale or all of our high notes would make muddy chords. I wonder whether Adam and Eve originally had linear ears, and evolution changed that as music developed. The Bible does't say that the serpent sang or played tunes to charm Eve. Just think, if he did that and Eve had a linear ear, we'd still be in the Garden of Eden, and as long as we didn't eat the apples we could stay there. I can't guess whether we'd have songs or music, though. We wouldn't have to worry about the universe disappearing, the devil take it, cause we wouldn't be in it.