George Gallop grew up on a dairy farm in Jefferson County, Iowa and went to the University of Iowa, so that was wrong. The "comprehensive fee" for going to school there is $42,422 for FY 2007-2008, pretty expensive for a school with 1,500 students from every state and fifty foreign countries. And it is terribly selective, only 40 some per cent of the students who applied were admitted so it is prestigious as all get out. It has an endowment of 1.4 billion dollars. Folks like Robert Noyce, the guy who invented the intergrated curcuit went to school here, so there is money floating around this school. Hence, there are a few Iowan's here, but damned few.
And I still say my automatic punch press I used to run could do as good a job as what I mostly heard! If you ever get a chance to listen to a punch press running on M-2 when the clutch free wheels and the machine runs like a sewing machine, you will see what I mean. Then switch to nibble mode and make large holes and ovals with a much smaller punch and die set up and you will have at least as much contrast in sound as you had at Grinnell. I can see an indie band called "Finn Power" just like the company that makes the last punch I worked on!"
I'm sure we'll see what he means about the M-2 when the "In Rainbows" box set arrives.
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Tim Hanken said on November 21, 2007:
From my Dad:
George Gallop grew up on a dairy farm in Jefferson County, Iowa and went to the University of Iowa, so that was wrong. The "comprehensive fee" for going to school there is $42,422 for FY 2007-2008, pretty expensive for a school with 1,500 students from every state and fifty foreign countries. And it is terribly selective, only 40 some per cent of the students who applied were admitted so it is prestigious as all get out. It has an endowment of 1.4 billion dollars. Folks like Robert Noyce, the guy who invented the intergrated curcuit went to school here, so there is money floating around this school. Hence, there are a few Iowan's here, but damned few.
And I still say my automatic punch press I used to run could do as good a job as what I mostly heard! If you ever get a chance to listen to a punch press running on M-2 when the clutch free wheels and the machine runs like a sewing machine, you will see what I mean. Then switch to nibble mode and make large holes and ovals with a much smaller punch and die set up and you will have at least as much contrast in sound as you had at Grinnell. I can see an indie band called "Finn Power" just like the company that makes the last punch I worked on!"
I'm sure we'll see what he means about the M-2 when the "In Rainbows" box set arrives.