Cuyler Page wrote: > Microfiche readers are great microscopes for looking at hair. I had > a bank of them set up in a History-Herstory-Hairstory exhibit at the > museum, where you could compare your own hair with dog, beaver, deer, > horse, nose, cat, gopher, beard, etc. It was a hoot to see people > lined up looking while tearing their hair out. > > cp in bc Cuyler, I leave it to you to think up such a dynamic exhibit. ;-) Finally after something like 3 years of lurking I sent an e-mail to the hurdy gurdy list, as Gabriel Orgrease. I expressed that though I am a complete musical idiot I have very much enjoyed the discussions like the one that is still going on about the use of tampon stuffing yada yada. That I was rebuilding my music collection with their recommendations. That I am enjoying all the YouTube videos of hurdy gurdies... and bagpipes too! I told them that I was preparing myself to build the $20 hurdy gurdy that is available on the internet but wondered if there was some way for me to come across an hurdy gurdy for less than a grand... the real ones go from $1500 and up. So the next morning back channel I was sent an e-mail with a very nice set of plans and a plea to not build that $20 piece of junk.Oh, I also told them that I wanted to build the piece of junk hurdy gurdy so that I could go around and bother my histo presto friends. I got another back channel from a woman whose significant other is a wood turner in DE and was offering services. Makes me wonder how many bracket spindles Brad Pitt is going to need in NoLA. ][<en -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>