From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #109 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, June 9 1997 Volume 02 : Number 109 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: TaTa, Melissa ["Stephen M. Tilson" <71160.307@CompuServe.COM>] Alloy: Huh? Wha? [Paul Baily ] Alloy: Back in the (former) USSR [Melissa Jordan ] Alloy: Laser Disk Players [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 08 Jun 97 03:39:21 EDT From: "Stephen M. Tilson" <71160.307@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Alloy: TaTa, Melissa Dear Melissa, My very best wishes for your journey, and your eventual safe return from Ubekistan. If the t-shirt issue comes to a head while you are away and out of touch - I know what to do. Worry not, mi dolci spremuta energetica. Gran turisimo, /\/\iles ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 97 18:22:28 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Alloy: Huh? Wha? [As the Society drawing room goes quiet after Brian's question, only the gentle hiss and spit of the open fire is heard. That, and soft snoring emanating from under a newspaper that is half covering a figure sprawled out on a sofa near the back of the room. A cushion is thrown...] Hi y'all, Sorry for the silence of late and thanks for the touching noticing thereof (Europa you flatterer you! :-) After more than a little hibernating this weekend, the ol' energy levels are much closer to normal. Still not fighting fit, but fit enough to tackle a few things here that have waited too long. A list owner should be more on the ball than this. Anyway, enough about me. One of the good things about living in one of these monarch-worshipping colonial outposts is that we get an extra day off tomorrow for her official birthday. Why am I telling you this? Well, I've got some more really good shirt art contributed by you bods to put up here. I'll be finishing that off and, disk quota willing, will make them available tomorrow. If you're waiting on a reply to something, apologies, I'll do my best to get back to you tomorrow as well. Trust everyone's well! cheers, Paul. [...but tonight: party!] ________________________________________________________________________ Paul Baily paulb@thehub.com.au Consulting SE/IT Mercenary http://www.thehub.com.au/~paulb Brisbane Australia and you may ask yourself "Well, how did I get here?" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 18:17:10 -0400 From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Alloy: Back in the (former) USSR Hi, there, Alloy folks! Well, it looks like I will, indeed, be on-line during this journey - just tested out the connection and downloaded my incoming messages - of course, it is at the snail's pace of 14,400 (@$5.50/minute), but it's a connection, nonetheless. It's almost midnight, and I'm in my palatial room at the Hotel Astoria in St. Petersburg - it really is gorgeous. The hotel was opened in 1912, became notorious as the place where the poet/writer Yesenin offed himself (I got that room once - and didn't sleep very well, thinking about that), and then was promptly closed by the Soviets in 1920. It's really elegant, and it's one block from the Winter Palace/Hermitage. I have St. Isaac's Cathedral outside my window, and, in the pale sun of the White Nights, it feels like I'm receiving a benediction from the gesturing angels and saints that circle the cathedral's rotunda. As I'm typing, I'm waiting for room service to arrive with my tremendously overpriced dinner. They're backed up, and I probably won't get my meal until 1 am. Here's the system: in order to pay for room service, I have to use cash rubles. In order to exchange rubles, I have to walk out of the hotel's "corpus A," down the street to "corpus B" where the exchange bureau is. The rate is 4785 rubles to the dollar. Then, I come back, order my food - prices listed in US dollars, and pay in rubles - at the rate of 5777 rubles to the dollar. Ah, capitalism!!! The only items available right now are: smoked sturgeon @ $38, meat (???) in bacon and mushrooms @ $22, and mushrooms in sour cream (portion is about the size of a small cupcake) @ $11. Odd menu choices guaranteed to give the diner strange dreams later on... (By the way, I didn't just go down to one of the hotel restaurants, as it is not the done thing for a single woman to eat in a restaurant alone here - there are some cultural issues with that.) Okay, it's time to sign off - I'm hoping that dinner will arrive before another wave of sleep comes on (didn't sleep on the transatlantic flight - the man next to me had a pungent aroma, and was chewing tobacco the whole flight - occasionally spitting into a Snapple bottle he'd brought along. YUCK!!!!!!) Cheers - I'll drop a line from Moscow at the end of the week. - - Melissa Melissa R. Jordan Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858 (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 19:11:12 -0400 (EDT) From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Laser Disk Players James, thanks for offering to tape Golden Age of Video for me. . .I've saved your e-mail address & shall get in touch as soon as I have my laserdisk copy of it. All the electronics stores in Boston have disk players right around $1,000 (from $700 on up) and I thought it was absurd. maybe I should just look elsewhere, or give CRACKERS' advice a try - sounds like a fun and stress-relieving option, getting to tear apart a big piece of machinery. Whee! I'll be visiting the Tap Room too, asap. Thanks everyone for the info. Dave just brewed a new batch of beer, and the house smells great. It's happily fermenting away under the kitchen counter. In two weeks it'll be ready, so make your travel plans now! Robin :) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #109 ***************************