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  • The presence of a massive field-effect emitting hurricane (Erin) off the coast of Manhattan all day on 9/11.

    Propaganda vs. Projection: What is really the truth? 2009

  • The theremin field-effect footplate is sensitive to cable interference or encroachment on its territory 2, and the floor of my performance setup usually has a snarl of cables everywhere.

    gearshopping, darkness, and deathjazz badger 2005

  • I joked with someone that I'm undoubtedly one of the only folks on my campus ever to have taken both "Management Issues in High Tech Companies" in which our exam last night included questions on boundary-spanning activities as a manager, elements of six sigma in quality processes AND p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors and "The Victorian Age", in which we have already made it through Bleak House and half of Middlemarch.

    10/04 2004

  • I joked with someone that I'm undoubtedly one of the only folks on my campus ever to have taken both "Management Issues in High Tech Companies" in which our exam last night included questions on boundary-spanning activities as a manager, elements of six sigma in quality processes AND p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors and "The Victorian Age", in which we have already made it through Bleak House and half of Middlemarch.

    10/04 2004

  • A couple of years ago I thought of doing a field-effect performance, using only objects that I don't touch in order to make music.

    [theremin] look ma, no hands! badger 2004

  • I joked with someone that I'm undoubtedly one of the only folks on my campus ever to have taken both "Management Issues in High Tech Companies" in which our exam last night included questions on boundary-spanning activities as a manager, elements of six sigma in quality processes AND p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors and "The Victorian Age", in which we have already made it through Bleak House and half of Middlemarch.

    10/04 2004

  • I joked with someone that I'm undoubtedly one of the only folks on my campus ever to have taken both "Management Issues in High Tech Companies" in which our exam last night included questions on boundary-spanning activities as a manager, elements of six sigma in quality processes AND p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors and "The Victorian Age", in which we have already made it through Bleak House and half of Middlemarch.

    which world is mine? 2004

  • I joked with someone that I'm undoubtedly one of the only folks on my campus ever to have taken both "Management Issues in High Tech Companies" in which our exam last night included questions on boundary-spanning activities as a manager, elements of six sigma in quality processes AND p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors and "The Victorian Age", in which we have already made it through Bleak House and half of Middlemarch.

    Archive 2004-10-01 2004

  • I also knew how the experiment worked, in particular that the gate voltage on a field-effect transistor fixes the density and not the chemical potential, so that a gap in the density of states as proposed by Ando could not be the right answer.

    Robert B. Laughlin - Autobiography 1999

  • Neither field-effect suits nor breathing masks would be effective.

    INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000

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