From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #86 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 16 1997 Volume 02 : Number 086 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: spice girlz [MsSakamoto@aol.com] Alloy: Spiced Out ["Melissa R. Jordan" ] Alloy: T-shirts ["Melissa R. Jordan" ] Re: Alloy: T-shirts ["James E. Hartman" ] Re: Alloy: T-shirts [Eclipse ] Re: Alloy: T-shirts ["Melissa R. Jordan" ] Re: Alloy: Well now... [paul ] Re: Alloy: spice girlz [Elaine Linstruth ] Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers [bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via ap] Re: Alloy: Well now... [Brian Clayton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 14:55:19 -0400 (EDT) From: MsSakamoto@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: spice girlz In a message dated 97-05-14 20:57:06 EDT, elaine@QNET.COM (Elaine Linstruth) writes: > the Hanson brothers The only thing worse than the Spice Girls! Personally, I think that "MMMBop" is the root of all that is wrong with society. That, and the Hanson brothers look like girls. - --Suzanne-- (my mother and I went shopping for music one day. I got the Squirrel Nut Zippers, she got Spice Girls. She thinks *I'm* strange?) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:44:55 -0400 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Alloy: Spiced Out At 02:55 PM 5/15/97 -0400, Ms. Sakamoto wrote about those fabulous young freshfaced lads, the Brothers Hanson: >The only thing worse than the Spice Girls! Personally, I think that "MMMBop" >is the root of all that is wrong with society. That, and the Hanson brothers >look like girls. Oh, they all have that "young kid on "Third Rock From The Sun" hairdo. Very tidy grunge (if there is such a thing.) Comedy Central recently sliced and diced the squeaky clean Hanson Bros. on The Daily Show - it was wicked, but VERY, VERY funny. >(my mother and I went shopping for music one day. I got the Squirrel Nut >Zippers, she got Spice Girls. She thinks *I'm* strange?) Excellent choice! Love those Squirrel boys! I keep waiting to hear "Hell" at the end of an episode of "Homicide: Life on the Street." I think it would be an inspired choice for a dark, nasty Baltimore night... Now, on a totally non-sequitor note: I was listening to the Erasure "Two Ring Circus" today, and I swear that one of the songs on "Wonderland" ends with a riff identical to the opening of "She Blinded Me With Science." I'll check which song it is, and maybe someone else who has that disk can tell me if I'm nuts or not. (Random comments on the state of my mental health from the peanut gallery not necessary, thank you!) :-) Cheers, Melissa - who will be on the New Jersey turnpike tonight - hopefully (for my passenger's sake) containing all fruit juices as I go... - ------------------- Melissa R. Jordan - ------------------- Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858 (phone) (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 16:12:38 -0400 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Alloy: T-shirts As I'm humming "Weightless" at my desk right now (my own fault), I was thinking... We should get our own "secret society" t-shirts that have some sort of funky image on the front and just the words "Fruit juice everywhere" on the back. Only the initiated would get it. (Everyone else would probably think we were advertising Snapple.) Now that's a t-shirt I'd wear... Melissa, still waiting for her Golden Age of Wireless secret decoder ring... - ------------------- Melissa R. Jordan - ------------------- Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858 (phone) (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:26:34 -0500 (CDT) From: "James E. Hartman" Subject: Re: Alloy: T-shirts > As I'm humming "Weightless" at my desk right now (my own fault), I was > thinking... My old radio show (back in the days of my mis-spent youth in Houston) was called "Weightless." Dolby was frequently heard on the show. We thought about making up shirts to give away to listeners, but never got around to doing it. Ah well. I, too, would like to have a nifty Alloy shirt (I'd like a Flat Earth shirt too, but nobody seems to sell shirts in XXL or larger these days). - --James "And the feeling is gone again." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 23:00:07 -0700 From: Eclipse Subject: Re: Alloy: T-shirts Melissa R. Jordan wrote: > > We should get our own "secret society" t-shirts that have some sort of funky > image on the front and just the words "Fruit juice everywhere" on the back. > Only the initiated would get it. (Everyone else would probably think we > were advertising Snapple.) > > Now that's a t-shirt I'd wear... Me too! I always thought that "I too become a dissident" would make a nifty bumpersticker. We could have a whole line up of Dolby merchandise... -- E(lipse ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 16:44:51 -0400 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Re: Alloy: T-shirts At 11:00 PM 5/13/97 -0700, e(lipse wrote: >I always thought that "I too become a dissident" would make a nifty >bumpersticker. We could have a whole line up of Dolby merchandise... Ooooh, now that would have been great on my car in Moscow (would have guaranteed me some extra attention - and garnered the dismay of the Regional Security Officer!) How about one that just says "Ta republique!" Heh. So many ideas... so little capital... Cheers, Melissa (anxious to get out of the office...) - ------------------- Melissa R. Jordan - ------------------- Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858 (phone) (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 05:58:16 -0700 From: paul Subject: Re: Alloy: Well now... Paul Baily wrote: > > [Extract from the Mac Daily Journal ] > > * SegaSoft has released Obsidian, a highly-stylized alternate-reality > graphic adventure puzzle game, for Power Macintosh. Instead of > presenting individual puzzles out of the normal flow of a story, Obsidian > links all scenes and all puzzles in a coherent, 3D whole with a musical > soundtrack by Thomas Dolby. Everything is tied to everything else in this > game so rich it requires a 5 CD-ROM set to hold it all. The game is > available now in stores nationwide for approximately US$40, and is > getting rave reviews. > > --- > > Nice to see some developers with some taste! :-) > > cheers, > > Paul. > > __________________________________________________________________________ > Paul Baily paulb@thehub.com.au > Consulting SE/IT Mercenary http://www.thehub.com.au/~paulb > Brisbane, Australia There is a spirit here that won't be broken I downloaded the free sample of Obsidian. It was huge and took about 6 hours to download. I tried it and was not impressed. There were only a few random notes that sounded Dolbyish and a single puzzle that did not take long to solve. Did I miss something? Are there more puzzles in the free sample version that I missed, because I did not get a good enough feel for the game to buy the full version. Sphere ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 16:04:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Re: Alloy: spice girlz On Thu, 15 May 1997 MsSakamoto@aol.com wrote: > That, and the Hanson brothers look like girls. Evvvvverybody is saying that, and I agree. I'm starting to feel sorry for the middle one, in particular. He looks like Sabrina the Teenage Witch. - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA (USA) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 18:19:21 -0700 From: bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via apocalypse ) Subject: Re: Alloy: Urgent Burgers Thanks for the tip, Mary, but no dice there :( *B* > > Oh, and Barbara, I have no idea if they are reputable > or not but Siren Disc on the Web supposedly sells > Gothic (gotta get my copy one of these days). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 19:23:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Clayton Subject: Re: Alloy: Well now... On Thu, 15 May 1997, Paul Baily wrote: > * SegaSoft has released Obsidian, a highly-stylized alternate-reality > graphic adventure puzzle game, for Power Macintosh. Instead of > presenting individual puzzles out of the normal flow of a story, Obsidian > links all scenes and all puzzles in a coherent, 3D whole with a musical > soundtrack by Thomas Dolby. Everything is tied to everything else in this > game so rich it requires a 5 CD-ROM set to hold it all. The game is > available now in stores nationwide for approximately US$40, and is > getting rave reviews. > > Nice to see some developers with some taste! :-) My roommate has it. It's pretty cool. Haven't found the time to play it myself, though. :( BC - --- Brian Clayton "So Zathrus talk to dirt...and to walls...and stemish@kumr.lns.com to ceiling--but dirt is closer." -- Zathrus ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #86 **************************