I hope Linus is aware that guitar pedals are gateway electronics, and that he is at risk of bieng swallowed whole building analog synthesisers. It is a strange phenominon that appears to operate outside of most other real world activities and considerations,leaving it's main contributors changed into creatures somehow seperate , detached, and impossibly cool to all of the common human mental states, there synths standing as objects of fierce scruteny, the focus of intense debates centered on truely arcane details of theory, construction, and operation.