From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #123 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 Friday, May 8 1998 Volume 03 : Number 123 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Dolby info [DAbbitt32 ] Alloy: Yet another loss . . . ["Stephen M. Tilson" ] Alloy: Attention K-Mart Shoppers [Robyn Moore ] Alloy: Croydon catching up [Lem Bingley ] Alloy: Howdy Strangers [Elaine Linstruth ] Alloy: Lem's Keyboard woes ["Stephen M. Tilson" ] Alloy: Live Wireless ["Denise D Luckey" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 04:09:51 EDT From: DAbbitt32 Subject: Re: Alloy: Dolby info Holy cow, welcome to Alloy, Mike.... I can't imagine why your wife would think you're deranged. :) - -Dabbitt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 04:19:40 -0400 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: Yet another loss . . . Sadly, Robin tells us: > Plus, one of my ferrets died last Thursday & I really miss him > (we only have two left now!) ... Mary and I are saddened to hear of yet another loss of one of your beloved companions, dear Robin. Here's big hugs and wishing we could be there with you to ease your burden and swap stories of all the creatures we've loved and lost; each one special in their own endearing way. So sorry, S&M P.S. Wine and TANG? As if you aren't in enough misery already! ;-) ********************************************************************* If the best part of waking up is Folger's in my cup, no wonder I don't want to get out of bed. ---Mary A. Brown ********************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 08:32:00 +0000 From: Tim_Dunn@jba.co.uk Subject: Alloy: Birthday Project!!! Good news - I shouted at the bank until they agreed my loan, so now I'm completely cashed up and ready for action. I don't know how long it'll be until I get my PC rigged up, but I'll get onto it straight away and then start on Submarines. Then of course I have to work out how to use my keyboard, which is going to be very complicated indeed! However I probably won't have to do any of this as on Monday I'm picking up my first car and driving it across Birmingham at rush hour - the first time I've driven since passing my test in early February. I would advise that all the cyclists on this list stay at home that night as once I'm behind the wheel anything can happen! the_copse ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 01:42:52 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Sweet dreams! At 08:05 PM 5/4/98 -0400, you wrote: >What other dreams have Alloy members had, featuring Thomas? I've had a couple, but they tend to feature discovering unknown tunes. The oddest one was when I dreamt I was in a bookstore, and discovered Thomas had done the music for one of those little Fisher-Price toy transistor radios. There was a whole display of them, and some were double-packaged with the kid-size cameras F-P makes. Unfortunately, it slipped away from me somehow while I was scouring the store for other Dolby merchandise, and I never made it out of the store with the item. Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 02:03:51 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Alloy: Attention K-Mart Shoppers Sorry for the subject, I couldn't resist. ;) Recent Dolby sightings - Our Hero was mentioned in one of the VH1 promos for the celebrity episodes of My Generation running on Saturday. :) And in a tie-in to recent discussions, over at Reel.com, the online video store, they claim to have a used copy of Live Wireless for $12.99 + S&H. (About $20 overall.) I'd buy it myself, but I don't have plastic currently, and I suspect it would be gone by the time I got a money order together and sent to them. So I figured I'd send up the alert here, giving someone else the chance to snag it. :) ( That's http://www.reel.com ) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 09:59:02 +0100 From: Lem Bingley Subject: Alloy: Croydon catching up Hi all, been catching up on about two weeks worth of posts - it's odd to see it all compressed into half an hour's reading. Work has gone bananas, and I've been pulling 15-hour days and all sorts. We're launching a new weekly IT newspaper here in the UK (IT Week, hitting your doormat Mondays from May 18th! -- well, probably not your doormat, but 55,000 other doormats). We're currently trying to sort out who does what in a team of about 30 editorial staff while compiling dummy issues in the run up to launch day. It's a bit of a shock after working on a monthly with a staff of two! But I did manage to fit in a short trip to New Orleans last week, reporting from Computer Associates' user conference for ZDNet. I looked hard for a bowling alley, with no success, but wasn't actually there on a Friday morning anyway. But I managed to see some local blues/zydeco bands and can see why Thomas was so inspired by the sound for AAMB. And then I was in Putney, London SW6 yesterday and found myself walking down Dolby Road... Anyway, here's a couple of comments on stuff discussed way back when... copse - why not call your new album 'Lonely'? Beth - congratulations on the new job. If you're into making user-interfaces more intuitive, you could do a lot worse than read a fantastic book on user interface design by Alan Cooper, called 'About Face'. Details are available via his web site at http://www.cooper.com - follow the 'design resources' link. Tell him I sent you! Robin - I still have full intentions of sending a page for the B-day book. I never did learn the dimensions. And don't ride a push-bike, ride a motor-bike, they're much safer. Honest. Crackers/Miles - I have worked out how to fit Valley of the Mind's Eye into 333 notes on my neanderthal Ensoniq DSK-1, which is the largest number of key-strokes that will fit into its sequencer (I am still too hopeless at keyboards to rely on my real-time skill for recording). All I need now is a tape deck... Lem ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 06:57:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Alloy: Howdy Strangers Just checking in from the fair, humid, and fantastically green state of Virginia. I got off the plane and said, "*snifff* Smell that east coast time zone!" It's so nice to feel at home again. I think I'll catch-up a la Lem: Congratulations, Beth!! So sorry about the ferret, I missed Melissa by a couple days in DC (she's now in Thailand I think), glad you're all doing well, and I'm not sure but was told that the fabbo bowling alley in New Orleans is called (something like) the Rock & Bowl. Supposedly they have live bands play there. Just wanted to say hi.. Hi! Boy, does voice-line dialup suck when you're used to ISDN. I'd better go -- this takes at least 3 times as much time. - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA (USA) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:07:25 -0400 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: Lem's Keyboard woes Dear Lem, > sequencer has a 333 note capacity . . . Ummm, I think that will be insufficient to the task. In fact I distinctly heard the sound of Pepsi exiting nostrils in a violent fashion from Thomas' general direction when he read that. As I am not very knowledgable in these matters I suggest you question the McGyver of Canada --- our very own Crackers. I'll bet he could build you an outboard sequencer using only matchsticks, aluminum foil, coconut shells (oops, sorry, wrong series), bubble gum, and panty hose. And if you've got those elusive jpegs of TMDR in drag, he'll do it for free... Seriously, Chris?, can you help out here? /\/\iles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 21:01:39 -0600 From: Keith Stansell Subject: Re: Alloy: Birthday Project!!! the_copse wrote: > > However I probably won't have to do any of this as on Monday I'm picking up > my first car and driving it across Birmingham at rush hour - the first time > I've driven since passing my test in early February. I would advise that > all the cyclists on this list stay at home that night as once I'm behind > the wheel anything can happen! > > the_copse Well I'm a cyclist on this list, and I think I'll chance riding home Monday night. If you hit me...you are a REALLY BAD driver. Congratulations on your first car. Whatcha get? Keith Stansell Denver, CO __________________________________________________ http://www.concentric.net/~kasman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 23:29:44 -0000 From: "Denise D Luckey" Subject: Alloy: Live Wireless Seeing the mentioning of Live Wireless for sale reminded me of a funny story. I had just purchased a copy of the tape while in high school in 1984 but had no way of viewing it as my VCR was on the fritz. My friend and I took the tape into the library and convinced the librarian that we needed to view it for a research project on electronics. She watched the first few minutes with TD in the projection booth and deduced it was a documentary and subsequently signed us out a VCR much to our enjoyment! I wonder if she had let it play for a few minutes longer what she would have made of "Europa"? We would have had a hard time explaining that one! Michael L. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #123 ***************************