Let's start another Randal thread!

[blue hell]

Randal on, randal on

[EdisonRex]

He sent me a PM today, he was curious what it was I was looking for on the picture of his built QFG. Rather than tell him I just wanted to see if he'd actually built one (he did, and it's not that pretty), I told him that I just wanted to see how to mount it in a case. That got a tome of helpful hints. I won't pollute the airwaves here. He says he's really busy, but if he wasn't exercising his mad typing skillz he'd have a chance of having something for NAMM. He seems to want us to respect him now he's got a board out.

I told him people who post audio samples get credit.

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[EdisonRex]

yeah, here's what I wrote him (he was making some excuse about having a full plate so he wouldn't be able to use Audacity for a while:

[fonik]

concerning this randal typing avalanche: i am so sorry about his short comment on my question about his unique uniqueness. i really hoped he would publish a new novel, giving me the chance to tell him in public that i don't have the time and/or the will to read all this, mentioning the possibility of unredundant information transfer... i mean, noone has told him yet how exhausting this can be.

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[EdisonRex]

he's actually been getting the hint, some nuances of some of our replies seem to have hit home.

[Scott Stites]

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[Scott Stites]

You obviously have been there and done that.

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[Thomas Henry]

I ran across an interesting quote in our local newspaper today. It's from John Ray, who was an English naturalist in the 1600's.

"He that useth many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle fish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink."

My mind went to you-know-who at once.

Thomas Henry

[EdisonRex]

[elektro80]

[Scott Stites]

Usually, if I have a hankerin' for a good formant, I'll pulse modulate the center frequency of a resonant filter, or I'll use my triple res.

Anyway, for all of you fans of Randalology, here's a post that demonstrates a curious lack of Googigular aptitude, his second to the Wiard list:

[Scott Stites]

Oh, come on, Randal would have never missed this:

http://emusician.com/elecinstruments/emusic_wiard_series_modular/

You know he read it, just look at how the second paragraph ends.

The weirder things get, the more they stay the same.

[Scott Stites]

[EdisonRex]

yeah, that's his usual trick. Out of the blue, he's working on some massive and unique project for a friend (never any name dropping when it's on his side, but drops names like pennies when it's sales side) - and we'll never see pictures of this alleged Wiard project. For chrissakes, can't he see the modules he's going to build into a case? Oh, yeah. That's because they're currently residing in an alternate reality.

[elektro80]

Did anyone actually receive any QFG boards? Shouldn´t these be in the hands of his customers by now?

[EdisonRex]

I paid him over a week ago. He claimed at the time that my boards were already packed and waiting for my money. Then, mystically, after my little exchange in his thread, he claimed that "all remaining boards would be shipped this weekend" (which was last weekend now). I note that nobody has publicly acknowledged any receipt of the boards.

Now, it isn't like they go by steamship across the pond. Ian's T/G/T/S/H board took 4 days to make its way from Albequerque to my door. So if it had shipped reasonably promptly (whatever that means in Randal's reality), I'd at least be hearing from Customs (because I am dead certain he's managed to fuck that up and it's overvalued and needs duty paid anyway). But I have not. I'm willing to give it another couple of days before I mention that fact in his thread.

You can bet your posterior that I shall never have anything to do with GeomUSA, Randall Lee or Citrus Springs CA ever again. $45 for a couple of boards and chips would have been better spent on Klee front panel parts, which I have to spend more than that anyway. How hard is it to stick a PCB in an envelope? They don't break that easily.

[elektro80]

BTW.. I got a package from you just now. Now I really gotta remember to bring those chips to the post office.
It´s like.. oh damned.. should I go back and fethch the envelope.. nah.. not now.. I will have to buy some more beer later this evening.. I can do it then.. In Norway the good old post office is gone. Instead there is a post office thingie inside your local beer outlet that handle shit like that.

[elektro80]

And the geom site is still Lorem Ipsum. And Randal is still announcing new products here all the time.

[v-un-v]

Do you remember that thread which Stein discovered GeomUSA as a company selling vapourware. I think it was a drill which was going at some amazingly cheap price, which everybody ordered and weeks later nothing arrived. BUT Randal also paid that guy back in full- so there wasn't a problem.

It's almost as if this is a game about attention seeking but nothing else. Randal's trick is to let the attention go on as far as is possible, but then he keeps the power by paying back (although we've yet to see that here), thus keeping the power, so he can repeat it over and over again.

I think we actually did him a favour, because kicking him up the arse, for once actually made Randal deliver- and that's why he's so happy at the moment.

I think maybe, if we had given in to him and for eg Scott had said yes to letting him do the mini-klee, and we hadn't of kicked him up the arse, we would all still be waiting, he would pay everybody back, so everybody would forgive him, then the whole cycle would repeat again.

I really feel like saying- that we should nuture him, but then again why the heck should we? Randal is a grown up just like the rest of us!

Energy vampire!

[v-un-v]