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From:
lazlo
To:
Luckabaugh, Steve
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Date:
Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:00:26 -0600
Subject:
Re: (idm) Dude. Microsoft.
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"Luckabaugh, Steve" wrote:
quoted 5 lines But some companies (Microsoft) are> But some companies (Microsoft) are > trying to use music that they think *nobody* knows as a way to make > themselves look like they are on the forefront of technology. Either that > or the fact that d'nb, dance music, etc. sounds like what some of my friends > call *computer music* and being a computer company . . .
Or freaks like us rip the tracks and send them to our friends working for those companies in the hopes that our friends might like them. Some do, and happen to be in a position to make it go out on a large-scale advert. An architect friend of mine doing visualization liked the Speedy J I hooked him up with so much that he took a chance and used it in a presentation to his boss. His boss thought it fit, and the next thing you know, a few hundred people at a hotel groundbreaking 1000 miles away are going, "hmm...nice!" to Speedy J's "The FUN Equations." Six degrees of a butterfly farting in Manilla... laz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org