From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #255 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, September 25 1998 Volume 03 : Number 255 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Humming Can Be Dangerous To Your Health [TBlagg@aol.com] Alloy: Secret Agent Thomas Dolby Dies In Freak Rocket Launcher Accident [] Re: Alloy: My new bike ["D'Arcy Salzmann" ] Alloy: Pants? [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Thinking of Slarvi... [RThurF@aol.com] Alloy: Alloy Networking ["Keith Stansell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:05:54 EDT From: TBlagg@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Humming Can Be Dangerous To Your Health Guys what is this EUROPA item? I've missed the odd mail or two as my hard drive had to be reformated. Glad to be back, Trev... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:47:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Alloy: Secret Agent Thomas Dolby Dies In Freak Rocket Launcher Accident How's that for a subject line, eh? I was over at my friend's house last night. We were going to play some Shogii and 4-player chess but instead we played the multi-player slaughter fest in the Nintendo N-64 game "Golden Eye". I had selected this blonde scientist in a lab coat as my character and we all dubbed him (although I think the character was actually supposed to be a girl but who can tell) Thomas Dolby. So Thomas was duking it out last night into the wee hours fighting against assorted terrorists and bad guys (one of whom was dubbed "Micheal Jackson" after he performed this really freaky dance routine that included the "Moon Walk" while I was trying to get a bead on him with the sniper rifle). Alas though, in a freak accident Thomas Dolby accidently shot himself in the foot with a rocket launcher but not before he had many bad guys saying "He blinded me with bullets". CRACKERS (What a fun game from hell!!!!) - -- Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * * http://www.angelfire.com/ma/hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:27:36 -0400 From: "D'Arcy Salzmann" Subject: Re: Alloy: My new bike Slarv, I am in the process of getting my road bike (what you call a racer) rebuilt, and can sympathize with your frustration. I have what now must be a 10 year old Bianchi and have decided to invest another $400 into it (new drops, new stem, new titianium seat, full overhaul incl. repacking the bottom bracket) rather than invest in a new rig. In Canada the market for racers has dried up and the only road bikes you can find begin in the $1800 range and to replace what I had would cost close to $3k, which is _not_ in my budget. The point of this is that there is a class of bike worth looking into if you don't find satisfaction with your current setup on the Trek (and those extra 6" of top-tube length make a world of difference. The ride position on a hybrid is far more upright than on a racer, too). Investigate whether you can find cyclecross bikes in the UK. Cyclecross are like a hybrid between racers and long-distance touring bikes, so they have the frame and drop-bars of a road-bike, but tires (or tyres) suited to trailriding. The difference between this type of bike and a monuntain hybrid is that the latter is a dumbed-down version of an ATB (all terrain bike) suited for city riding, while a cyclecross is a racer jacked up for a little off-roading. I am a great fan of Treks, btw. I have a six year old 7000 with a nice Manitu front shock. Couldn't be happier there. otto ---------------------------------------- D'Arcy J. Salzmann Toronto, Ontario, Canada darcy@salzmann.com “If you gave me a pound for all the moments missed, and I got dancing lessons for all the lips I shoulda kissed: I’d be a millionaire, I’d be a Fred Astaire” -ABC >> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:17:11 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Pants? Okay Trev, which is the better Brit replacement word for American 'pants'? Is is trousers, or "kecks"? What is the difference between the two terms? (I've been researching!) Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 20:30:06 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Thinking of Slarvi... Yes, slarvi, I thought of you with your paint cans today... The windows in our building are being replaced, and we were chosen unexpectedly as the 'test unit' to have one installed in our front room before the whole project begins. We were told this would take only four hours (from 8am to noon). Dave stayed home to keep an eye on things because our last apartment which had this procedure done ended up being trashed by the workers, and some of our things were damaged (however our building manager assured us this would not happen with these guys) The work went on till late in the afternoon. Then Dave called me at three pm asking me to please come home from work early, because I had to wait for the *electrician*. All the vibration from the window installment had caused something to go haywire and our electricity was gone (fortunately it happened AFTER they had finished their power-tool-oriented work of filling the gaping hole in our wall with an actual window). Also, he warned me that there were glass shards everywhere in our apartment (the only way to get out the old windows was by smashing the glass to bits... there are also huge jagged broken panes of it in the yard behind our building, where people usually walk their dogs...) Also, the indow installers broke one of our chairs!! (one of them is a furniture maker and took it away with him sheepishly, promising to repair it) If this happened from just having one window installed, what will it be like when they do the other four?? Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:14:22 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Alloy: Alloy Networking Hi everyone, Well as you may recall, I've been looking for a better position than the one that I have. Today I got an offer that I have accepted. I will be working on a contract to hire basis with the modis company on contract to USA Global Link. The reason I bring this up here is that I got the position thanks to our own Dennis Alexander who also works through modis. He referred me to them, and after some interviews I got the position. So if I and Dennis are still working for modis in three months time, he gets a nice $1000 referral bonus, and treats me to dinner. I treated Dennis to a free Colorado Avalanche (hockey) game tonight courtesy of tickets from my current employer (I got the tickets at random). This may be a first - a job that was obtained through Alloy networking. - -Keith (no longer the Polk inhabitant) Stansell ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #255 ***************************