In a world so closed in on itself the Zynthian community shows that a different way is possible
thank you, users and developers, and peace
Merry Christmas
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Happy holidays to all! Take this time to enjoy with your loved ones.
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A nice and overly shareable thought @piattica 
. The way of freewill collaboration, for a greater common good, is something that we humans, as a species, should value as the only feasible dimension for progress, in a worrying time when nationalism and division seem to have taken the lead again. Let us not forget that these mistakes nearly got us to global annihilation, eighty five years ago.
That you all @zynthianers may enjoy these deserved restful days. Happy Xmas and an amazing New Year! 
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Merry Christmas everyone. This is a post-dinner play with some of the gifts from family and friends. Expect some zynthian development to integrate these two new toys!
Enjoy today, and tomorrow and tomorrow. Love to you all at a time that we have an excuse to be even nicer to our friends and to others. 
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Thanks for all the excitement about the new creative possibilities opened up by our Zynthian world!
Best wishes for all of you!!
Cheers,
Maarten
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You are allowed to take devices into the kitchen ?!?!??!!!?
And with wine!!!
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Oohh! Led rings rock, jingle bells fashion.
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The Seaboard disappointed me…like many masterkeyboards, it doesn’t allow me to use the thing I love most about keyboard instruments: dynamics. I love playing piano/pianissimo and having the power at my fingertips. With the Roli, I just can’t take advantage of this. Best wishes to everyone from me and Tesla (my great love).
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She looks really lovely: what a rewarding companion must be. All best wishes to you both @Lanfranco
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Tesla is a 9 and a half year old male… at that time Musk and his cars did not exist… His name is Tesla in honor of the great Nikola Tesla, inventor, wonderful visionary, genius and… first inventor of the Zynthian (…or not.. forgive me @riban @jofemodo and the others). 
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Yes, of course @Lanfranco I know who Tesla was 
, but I thought that you might have chosen his Serbian surname as a feminine first name, which the two of us know well bearing a final “a” in most European languages.
As for Nikola T himself, he was in his time and still is a rather controversial figure, hardly consistent in his undoubtedly forward-thinking ideas, and constantly eager of achieving fame and recognition. He went as far as self-crediting the first systematic studies on rotating magnets (the basic principle of electromagnetic induction at the basis of electric motors), while a previous 1888 essay registered at the Sweden’s Royal Academy by the Italian scientist Galileo Ferraris incontrovertibly set the record, for the ownership of the underlying theory in physics.
So, despite his objective technological genius, Tesla - a never graduated engineer - always struggled for personal affirmation in the US and Europe, suffering from clear traits of narcissistic and megalomaniac personality. While a significant part of current electrical engineering owes much to the visionary insight of his experiments, much of his nowadays’ cult depends on the cinematic self-made-man profile of his character, always prone to challenge and confrontation.
Therefore…
Tesla is dead, long live Tesla! (the lovely dog) 
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Well @Aethermind , Nikola “only” invented alternating current (or at least made it usable) and the radio… with all due respect to OUR Marconi (who made it usable), the studies on Wi-Fi remote controls came from the head of this genius… Probably, for Tesla, the radio and alternating current were just the basis for something much bigger that he didn’t have time to create because he was boycotted by those who made huge profits from energy. His idea was that we are surrounded by infinite and free energy… Was he right? Was he wrong? I like to believe it’s true, after all the solar system is an atom on a larger scale… unfortunately, we won’t know until another Tesla is born. For me, he was and will always remain a Great Man. That’s why I named my canine friend after him… and Andrea and Nicola also ends with an “a”, but it’s masculine (Even though a long time ago I met a beautiful Slovenian girl named Andrea…If I’m not mistaken, it’s a female name in Austria and Germany too.) .
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The choice of heroes and their ebbing and flowing in the public consciousness can frequently tell us as much about our age as it does about the age we remember.
Perhaps we need a better patent process? The idea that such intellectual insights can be bought, sold and controlled like the publishing rights of a Christmas No 1 is proving more of the block than an aid in our current world.
The ideas are key, the individual merely human.
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I very much agree @wyleu !
The Danish priest/poet NFS Grundtvig put it like this:
“A simple, cheerful, and active life on earth, I would not trade for that of kings.”
And Lao Tse said:
”A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving”*
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I don’t know about this hero stuff.
Happy winter solstice too all of you!
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It’s good to know the days are getting longer.
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Personally, I didn’t talk about heroes, but only about human beings with better-functioning brains. Probably because I’ve had a very poor memory since birth, and I’ve had it for 64 years, limiting my studies and even my work a little… and therefore, my life. When I’m reborn, all I ask is a good memory so I can study. Dear Santa, bring me this for Christmas…
“Be excellent to each other”
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