OT: Brainboost again...

[Fairlight]

Hmmm.  You know, this Brainboost search engine isn't actually bad.  I threw
a couple weird things at it:

     Why did Christine Mcvie retire?

This actually led me to a fact I hadn't known--that the last tour she was
on ended early because she did.  But one of the articles said "retired, pro
tem," and I just drew a blank, as my Latin is uhm...next to
non-existant--that's a dying-to-dead art, I'm afraid.  So I tossed it:

     What does pro tem mean?

*laugh*  It actually gave me the answer.  :)

Oh, this is PRICELESS!

     What keyboards does Nick Rhodes use?

The -first- link it gave me was a 1994 article detailing his setup at that
time, which would have been for the tour for the Wedding Album.  Hah!  He
had a K2000...first time I've seen him credited with using a Kurzweil.
Cool, mine's better than his was--of course, mine came out two years after
he was using that one.  :)  (For anyone that reads the article--he
-can- program them, and even likes to--he just doesn't have the time to do
all of it.  He used to beta Roland's units.)

That was too cool, though.  I've never seen information from the post '85
time frame actually documented--everything I know about what he used after
'85 was just what I could see in magazine photos, and live in concert (and
it is -hard- to get model numbers depending on the equipment, even from 5th
row!).  I knew some of it, but this is from a time when I (unfortunately)
got tickets at the last minute and couldn't even tell what manufacturers he
was using, let alone the models.

Too slick.  But back to the search engine...

Asking it:
     
     What model fairlight does Nick Rhodes own?

...Yielded no results.  That's okay, because I know it was a IIcx.  I was
just seeing how far it would go in stretching it to answer, or if the info
was really out there after all.  Apparently not anymore (used to be).

It's cool to get really relevant matches and not 250 links, about five of
which are worth a damn (Google nowadays, basically).  If there's nothing
terribly relevant, it just doesn't give you anything.  I find that more
appealing and less frustrating in many ways.

I'm not about to suddenly -switch- from Google to Brainboost, but I can see
taking some of the more obscure questions not suited to keyword searches to
this thing.  It seems to deliver the goods, especially on esoteric things.

Not a bad find, folks.  (Who came up with that one, Tony?  John?  Someone
else entirely?)  

mark->
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