Brian descends from Sinai

> So - who will volunteer to let Brian know that there isn't
> a Design Police we can call and that *we* didn't write the
> search engines? And while we're at it, perhaps we could get
> the boy to telecommute to our day jobs so that we've got time
> to implement his directives.

Gosh, once you work your way past Brian's indiginously over-colorful language
tendencies, I think you'll find that all he's saying is that there's room for
improvement in the situation, and offering suggestions for the nature of that
improvement.

And it was pretty obvious to me at least that he didn't expect any of us to
rewrite any of the search engines he tried.


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> I may have misread your description, but if this is what you're talking
> about, let me propose that "wandering tonics" may be a better choice of
> terminology, since "dynamic" is already reserved for volume changes in music.

Semantics..one of my favorite topics! How about using the words "free
JI", which refer to Lou Harrison's unrestricted "free style" as opposed to
the "strict style" of a small, non-modulatory scale.

-Adam


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