From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #26 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, January 30 1998 Volume 03 : Number 026 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: URGENT: Announcing... [Paul Baily ] Re: Alloy: URGENT: Announcing... [Lem Bingley ] Re: Alloy: URGENT: Announcing... [Beth Meyer ] Alloy: Tap Room on Ice [Lem Bingley ] Alloy: Barliman's keg is dry... ["Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: URGENT: Announcing... Hi y'all, After all too long winging it alone, Alloy has regained a very important sibling. It's my pleasure to announce that the all new (and yet staggeringly familiar) Tap Room is now open for business. Before I go on, I want to express a very big thank you to the gentleman who put in an outstanding effort creating the room. An Alloy member who we don't hear nearly enough from. Curtis C. Hovey , take a bow! Curtis will be looking after the Tap Room while it's running too so if you have any questions about it he's your man. Okay, enough preannounce banter, let me cut to the chase: You are cordially invited to the Official Tap Room Opening Ceremony. Thomas Dolby will be there (using a PowerBook in a hotel room!) to declare the new room officially open and chat with you live for a little while. The gentleman also has some news regarding a new (and timely!) product developed by a company here in Australia that utilises Headspace's excellent Beatnik plug-in. In fact, you'll be able to have a go with the critter before it goes live (talk about a world exclusive premier eh!?) So, make sure your web browser is packing a Beatnik plug-in and meet Thomas, yours truly, and some of your Alloy buddies live and direct! Venue: http://www.banshee.net/tdolby Time: 7:30pm California Time (SHARP!) *** THIS SATURDAY, 31 JAN 98 *** Dress: Only if you're so inclined. talk with you soon! Paul. ________________________________________________________________________ Paul Baily paulb@thehub.com.au JustSomeGuy http://www.thehub.com.au/~paulb Brisbane tel: +61-7-3857-8048/+61-411-875-009 Australia There is a spirit here that won't be broken. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:35:23 +0000 From: Lem Bingley Subject: Re: Alloy: URGENT: Announcing... >Venue: http://www.banshee.net/tdolby >Time: 7:30pm California Time (SHARP!) *** THIS SATURDAY, 31 JAN 98 *** AAAaaargh. Why oh why oh why do the times for these things always come out like this... Saturday is the first day of my very first ever skiing holiday! How am I supposed to manage a laptop, modem, cellphone, two ski poles and a silly hat on my first day on the slopes! It'll never fly. Frustrated Lem ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:51:28 -0500 From: Beth Meyer Subject: Re: Alloy: URGENT: Announcing... Hi, folks; >>Venue: http://www.banshee.net/tdolby >>Time: 7:30pm California Time (SHARP!) *** THIS SATURDAY, 31 JAN 98 *** > > >AAAaaargh. Why oh why oh why do the times for these things always come out >like this... Saturday is the first day of my very first ever skiing >holiday! How am I supposed to manage a laptop, modem, cellphone, two ski >poles and a silly hat on my first day on the slopes! It'll never fly. Ugh. However, since technically for you it will not be Saturday anymore, but 3:30 am on Sunday (or something like that), perhaps you can substitute some silk pyjamas for the ski poles & hat. Not that that's intended as a criticism of the time -- it's just the perennial problem that not even the most sophisticated groupware can touch. Namely, that at any one time the sun is in a different position in the sky at various points on the planet. Oh, well. Anyway, thanks to Paul, Curtis, et al for all the work on the new Tap Room, and hopefully I'll be seeing a lot of the rest of you on Saturday night! (or whatever time that is for you). Cheers, Beth P.S. Do please be careful, Lem! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beth Meyer School of Psychology Pager: +1-404-866-1362 Georgia Institute of Technology FAX: +1-404-894-8905 274 5th St. gt9020a@prism.gatech.edu -or- Atlanta, GA 30332-0170 bmeyer@psy.psych.gatech.edu http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt9020a/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:38:55 +0000 From: Lem Bingley Subject: Alloy: Tap Room on Ice Beth wrote >P.S. Do please be careful, Lem! I'll do my best. I haven't broken a bone in my body yet, and I don't particularly want to start. Thank you very much for your concern. On the subject of thanks, when I read my last mail back I realized I forgot to say a huge thanks to those people who've had a hand in re-animating the Tap Room. It's tremendous to see 'The Grim Looking Dude' (aka Barliman Butterburr IV) back behind his pumps where he belongs. Hope to share a sup and a tale with you all in the snug when I get back from sliding down mountainsides on my butt. Cheers, Lem ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:49:16 -0500 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: Barliman's keg is dry... Alloids, I am sorry to report that I have been unable to log into the Tap Room aft= er = multiple attempts over the last eight hours. Ultimately I get a message:= = "Errors @ www.banshee.net" when trying to submit a handle and password. Close, but 404 OBJECT NOT FOUND. Where's Gandalf when you need him? /\/\iles Fade ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 22:19:49 GMT From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Alloy: New Tap Room Curtis, I don't believe we've ever communicated before, but I want to personally send my thanks to you for getting the Tap Room dusted, fumigated, painted and papered, bar revarnished and spitoons emptied. If you can just get that jammed Buick out of the doorway everything will be hunky dory. Hope to be able to stand you a pint in the near future. Slarvibarglhee ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 22:09:36 GMT From: IT Admin - Govt Office North West Subject: Re: Alloy: URGENT: Announcing... At 22:12 29/01/98 +1000, you wrote: >Hi y'all, > >After all too long winging it alone, Alloy has regained a very important >sibling. It's my pleasure to announce that the all new (and yet >staggeringly familiar) Tap Room is now open for business. > Is it open now? Is it ... IS IT????? Only I've tried to register my account three times and it just hangs on me, and I'm DESPERATE to get int there. I NEED a pint of Barliman's Special Slops and a bag of scratchings NOW, if not sooner, and the suspence is killing me. Slarv. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:53:53 -0600 From: ljackson@nstar.net (Lee Jackson) Subject: Alloy: For the benefit In case there are some new folks here who didn't see it way back when, here's where the "Close But 404 OBJECT NOT FOUND" reference came from. = For those who did see it, feel free to skip onward. -Lee Jackson =3D=3D=3D cut here =3D=3D=3D On Thu, 07 Aug 1997 12:41:16 GMT, ljackson@intex.net (Lee Jackson) wrote: On Thu, 07 Aug 1997 12:38:07 +0100, you wrote: >Here's some more flame-bait names from Lem's Sieve-Brain.... >Alloyists Ate My Judgement >The Gate to the Alloyed Eye >Alloyists and Hell-addicts >The Golden Age of Fan-Boy Cover Versions >The Flat Notes I think you struck one of my nerves here - at least, you forced a cascade synapse misfire event. Here's some TMDR/Internet/Song title brain spew. HyperActiveX Mailing List by Blimp AirWAVs One Of Our Subdomains is Missing Linkzig WWWeightless Cloudburst at SHTML Street I Love URL Goodbye Eastern
I Spam Myself The Key to Her FerrAlloy Push Culture My Frame is Like a Sieve Hot Cookie Close But 404 OBJECT NOT FOUND Silk Pyjavas I Live in a Shockwave Get Out of My Text Big Bang Back-Button Valley of the Mind's IRC Planet of Lost Sites N.E.O.com The Ability to Stream Screen Ping ...and a couple of non-Internet ones, including a remix of one above... Europa and the Software Pirate Twins May The NExT Cube Be With You N.E.OS/2. She Blinded Me With SGI-lence Mulunix The Rain Forest I'm feeling *much* better now. // Lee Jackson (ljackson@intex.net) // Music and Sound Director // Apogee Software, Ltd. & 3D Realms Entertainment ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:52:39 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: URGENT???? In a message dated 98-01-29 07:30:40 EST, Paul wrote: << You are cordially invited to the Official Tap Room Opening Ceremony. Thomas Dolby will be there (using a PowerBook in a hotel room!) to declare the new room officially open and chat with you live for a little while. The gentleman also has some news regarding a new (and timely!) product developed by a company here in Australia that utilises Headspace's excellent Beatnik plug-in. In fact, you'll be able to have a go with the critter before it goes live (talk about a world exclusive premier eh!?) So, make sure your web browser is packing a Beatnik plug-in and meet Thomas, yours truly, and some of your Alloy buddies live and direct! Venue: http://www.banshee.net/tdolby Time: 7:30pm California Time (SHARP!) *** THIS SATURDAY, 31 JAN 98 *** Dress: Only if you're so inclined. >> Do we have to have the Beatnik plug-in to go to the opening? It's all so convoluted! I don't want to miss out on this like I missed out on Keith's party back in October... HELP!! Robin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:49:23 -0600 From: ljackson@nstar.net (Lee Jackson) Subject: Re: Alloy: Barliman's keg is dry... On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:49:16 -0500, you wrote: >I am sorry to report that I have been unable to log into the Tap Room = after=20 >multiple attempts over the last eight hours. Ultimately I get a = message:=20 >"Errors @ www.banshee.net" when trying to submit a handle and password. > >Close, but 404 OBJECT NOT FOUND. Where's Gandalf when you need him? So, "My Frame is Like a Sieve"??? // Lee Jackson (ljackson@nstar.net) // http://bounce.to/ljackson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:11:25 -0500 From: "Curtis C. Hovey" Subject: Alloy: Re: New Tap Room (it's back up) >I don't believe we've ever communicated before, but I want to personally >send my thanks to you for getting the Tap Room dusted, fumigated, painted >and papered, bar revarnished and spitoons emptied. If you can just get that >jammed Buick out of the doorway everything will be hunky dory. Hope to be >able to stand you a pint in the near future. I doubt saying "oops" will restore everyone's excitement. All my fault from two nights ago when I cleaned of my trash and stupidly left the Buick. Everything is working now and I want to assure everyone that I've take measures to ensure that even when I accidentially steal ownership of the user database the system will steal it back within 30 minutes (what a tease to invite everyone to come to the Tap Room and not let anyone in, meanwhile everyone who is in has no idea that the door are locked). cch. _______C u r t i s C. H o v e y______________________________________ mailto:chovey@access.digex.net mailto:chovey@nationalgeographic.com No matter where you go... http://www.access.digex.net/~chovey ...there you are ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:44:42 -0500 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: URGENT???? --- not! Robin wrote: > Do we have to have the Beatnik plug-in to go to the opening? It's = > all so convoluted! > I don't want to miss out on this like I missed out on Keith's = > party back in October... > = > HELP!! Don't worry about it. All you need is a browser to visit the Tap Room. = Beatnik would be nice, but not necessary. Wait a minute . . . !You Don't Have Beatnik?!? Whatcha waiting for? You= = know, it's like soooo easy. Go to www.headspace.com today! Just curious --- are you using Netscape, or are you in the clutches of th= e = Evil One (MS Internet Explorer)? You need Netscape 3.01 or higher for fu= ll = Beatnik functionality. Mary and I use Netscape 4.04 . . . Luck, /\/\iles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:58:22 -0500 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: New Tap Room up and runn This is to confirm Tap Room functionality, from my plebian viewpoint. Thanks for the quick response, Curtis! See you Saturday? Best regards, /\/\iles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 22:32:20 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: URGENT???? --- not! In a message dated 98-01-29 20:55:19 EST, Miles wrote: << Wait a minute . . . !You Don't Have Beatnik?!? Whatcha waiting for? You know, it's like soooo easy. Go to www.headspace.com today! Just curious --- are you using Netscape, or are you in the clutches of the Evil One (MS Internet Explorer)? You need Netscape 3.01 or higher for full Beatnik functionality. Mary and I use Netscape 4.04 . . . >> I don't know what the hell I have. I haven't had more than ten minutes at a time to sign on, scan my mail, and then scurry off again, ever since we got the new system. We used to have Netscape. This thing is so huge I'm sure it could handle Beatnik just fine. I'll ask the webwizard what's going on. Robin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:10:54 -0500 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: Tap Room - I am confused Ok chat-heads, help me out here . . . I am having difficulty envisioning how we will be able to carry on a = real-time conversation in the Tap Room. It seems the site is designed fo= r = threaded messages, not chat. Confused, /\/\iles and /\/\ary P.S. We did not get a chance to ship the shirts today due to time = limitations. Please forgive. Most, if not all of them, will ship tomorr= ow. = For those of us stateside the shirts will arrive via insured USPS "Priori= ty = Mail." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:53:56 -0500 From: "Curtis C. Hovey" Subject: Re: Alloy: Tap Room - I am confused >Ok chat-heads, help me out here . . . > >I am having difficulty envisioning how we will be able to carry on a >real-time conversation in the Tap Room. It seems the site is designed for >threaded messages, not chat. > >Confused, >/\/\iles and /\/\ary I think you've mistaken your insight for confusion. It is all that you see, and unless everyone is posting furiously without taking an injury to their hands due to excessive speed typing, this isn't going to be a chat. But it can be a pleasant time reading and responding to messages. You can do a few tricks in this Tap Room (like use HTML to fancy up your posts). One topic we could have is do we want chat software? I remember Thomas posted the query some months ago and nothing came of it. cch. _______C u r t i s C. H o v e y______________________________________ mailto:chovey@access.digex.net mailto:chovey@nationalgeographic.com No matter where you go... http://www.access.digex.net/~chovey ...there you are ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #26 **************************