估值780億 智利小島發現史上最大寶藏 | Robot reveals $10bn treasure haul

The greatest loss of Robinson is not his 4 years of captivation in the island, but his oversight of the world's greatest treasure just beneath his feet...

Today, I bought 2 shirts and a pair of pants out of necessity (I can’t go to work in nude, somehow).  Not quite sure since when, I’ve become very practical - I only buy what I need, not more, not less.

In the old days, gear was all that I care.  I used to buy the latest and greatest, even though it would only be used for a week (then another new toy popped up to the mind).  Needless to say, I was one of those nerds who help push the GDP up a few %, at the expense of one’s own pension.

(From The Archive, e-mail in 2005 Aug. Re-formatted for re-post.)

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Perhaps my own mourning only. Moog was the father of (analog) synthesizer. I started with digital sampling synthesizers in 1994 so it's well before my time. A bit before that, in 1985, I started with FM (Frequency Modulation) synthesizer which was a concept evolved from Moog's pure sine/triangle waves addition/subtraction method. FM was also a brilliant idea because it could produce waves that were so complex that you would literally need a few hundred oscillators to produce with the Moog's method. However, this complex wave forms were also its drawbacks - it was just too complicated to master and therefore creativity remained in the hands of a few top sound designers only. So, most musicians would only use the factory presets bundled with the Yamaha DX syns, and yes, DX was once so hot that every band would have one.