From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #149 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 Sunday, June 7 1998 Volume 03 : Number 149 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Awwwwww . . . [Robyn Moore ] Alloy: Doublechecking [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: Doublechecking [Michelle and Russell Milliner ] Alloy: Discover Awards article [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 02:26:07 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Awwwwww . . . At 09:50 PM 6/5/98 , you wrote: > >So.. Hi Robyn.. > >Thanks for explaining reality to me.. and please accept my apologies for >being confused. and .. happy birthday in advance.. !! Mine will be here >soon too. Oh, we confuse people all the time. :) When's your birthday? >I was all over the place. Went to Orlando to do 3 Chevy commercials.. (How (Much travel description snipped) Whoa. That certainly is a lot of getting around. I bet you're thrilled to bits to be able to relax. Just for curiosity's sake, what part of video production are you involved in? Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 02:37:33 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Alloy: Doublechecking Someone else has probably asked this, but I don't remember the answer...and I haven't had a basis for recognition until very recently. Is that Lene Lovich playing Caroline in the video for 'Radio Silence'? I think it is, but I want to make sure my eyes aren't playing tricks on me. This message powered by the Theme to The Banana Splits (la-la-la la-la-la-la) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 22:28:22 -0400 From: Michelle and Russell Milliner Subject: Re: Alloy: Doublechecking Yes it is. - -Russell Robyn Moore wrote: > > Someone else has probably asked this, but I don't remember the > answer...and I haven't had a basis for recognition until very recently. > > Is that Lene Lovich playing Caroline in the video for 'Radio Silence'? I > think it is, but I want to make sure my eyes aren't playing tricks on me. > > > This message powered by the Theme to The Banana Splits (la-la-la la-la-la-la) > > Robyn > > > > @ Robyn Moore > @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html > @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 18:30:04 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Binghamton! In a message dated 6/5/98 7:22:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Robyn writes: << I recognize the state as NY, but which part are you from? >> Binghamton NY, home of Rod Serling! also home of the guy who did the special effects for Drop Dead Fred! Robin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 18:35:52 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: the weather In a message dated 6/6/98 1:06:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Mark writes: << El Nino did an enormous amount of damage here in the States... and elsewhere too.. Hopefully he's moving on soon. >> He will be... but then (they say) his sister will get here & she's just as bad, only in the opposite way... hmmmm. Don't ask me, I don't come up with this stuff, I only hear it on the news! Anyway, La Nina is supposedly the second half of this destructive weather cycle. Robin! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 18:37:06 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Doublechecking In a message dated 6/6/98 5:38:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Robyn writes: << Is that Lene Lovich playing Caroline in the video for 'Radio Silence'? I think it is, but I want to make sure my eyes aren't playing tricks on me. >> Yes, pretty Lene is playing Caroline... and I still want her necklace!! Robin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 17:18:19 -0600 From: Erik Habbinga Subject: Alloy: Howard Jones and first album/single I've seen Howard Jones twice, both on "acoustic" tours. The first time was in 1992, one week before college graduation. He played outdoors at a real tiny outdoor ampitheatre on the CU-Boulder campus (where they do Shakespear during the summer). He had a real grand piano, and Carol Steele on percussion. The show was definitely one of my top five shows! He played all his hits, and a bunch of other good stuff. The crowd was forced to sing along, and everyone had a great time. Pick up his album "Live Acoustic America" to get a taste of this show (recorded soon before/after the Boulder 1992 show). He toured again in 1993 as a solo synthesizer guy, but I had to miss that show. In 1995 (or thereabouts) he came back with Carol Steele, except this time he had a digital piano (I forget the model). The show was very similar to the 1992/live album show, but was still excellent. My first single was Abba's "Take A Chance On Me". My first album was Styx "Cornerstone". I've still got the Styx album, don't know what happened to the Abba single. My first concert was TMDR himself, on the Flat Earth tour, when I was 13 or 14. Erik ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 19:58:22 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Awwwwww . . . Hey Robyn.. Thanks for graciously accepting my apology. I know.. I got a bit long winded with the travelogue there.. To answer your question, for the most part I work as a producer and assistant director for commercials and music vids. With the move to LA, I want to concentrate more on feature work though. However, the commercials and music vids help pay the bills. And meanwhile I've become a partner in a digital post production company here in Burbank, so I'm now getting more acquainted with that world. I'm not a digital technoid.. so I have to learn a lot.. but I do enjoy gaining the knowledge.. and I see it as a way to improve my directing abilities. Blah.. blah.. blah. Anyhow.. the birthday comes up June 27th.. and its a Saturday this year.. so I plan on having some fun!! Now.. if we could just figure out a way to turn the clock back.. Ahh well... Enjoy each day, for it could be the last! Ciao for now.. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 20:05:49 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: the weather La Nina??? Hmm.. never heard of her! Sounds terrible though.. and why is it they are all named in Spanish?? or how about... La Bamba instead? We can dance our way ... singing in the rain.. ahhh well.. okay.. I'll shut up. Ciao for now.. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 17:32:05 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Binghamton! At 03:30 PM 6/6/98 , you wrote: > >In a message dated 6/5/98 7:22:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Robyn writes: > ><< I recognize the state as NY, but which part are you from? > >> > >Binghamton NY, home of Rod Serling! also home of the guy who did the special >effects for Drop Dead Fred! ::grin:: I was born in NY, and have relatives all over the Buffalo/Rochester area. (Are you -sure- we weren't separated at birth? ;) ) Robyn @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 23:55:13 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Discover Awards article I just received this news item about Thomas' award ceremony & want to pass it on! Robin << ORLANDO, Fla., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 6th, 1998, forty-five of the best new technologies in the world were honored in the Ninth Annual Discover Magazine Awards for Technological Innovation. Ten winners were announced, for the first time, live on stage, during a ceremony at Epcot in Walt Disney World, Florida. The presentation was attended by celebrities, top scientists, and hundreds of technology lovers. "Every month, by making science and technology understandable, Discover gives its millions of readers an idea of how the world works," says Marc Zabludoff, editor-in-chief of Discover Magazine. "Once a year, with the Discover Awards for Technological Innovation, we give readers an idea of how the world might work tomorrow. These awards give us the opportunity to celebrate some of the scientists and engineers who are the unsung heroes of our time." This year's presenters included: Secretary of Energy Federico Pena, animal trainer and performer Jack Hanna, interactive musician Thomas Dolby, Good Morning America's Michael Guillen, astronaut Scott Carpenter, famed attorney Alan Dershowitz, critically acclaimed teenage actress Natalie Portman, (star of Broadway's The Diary of Anne Frank and the upcoming Star Wars prequel), and many other notable personalities. All winners and finalists will be featured in Discover Magazine's special July 1998 Awards. And the winners are: The recipient of the Christopher Columbus Foundation's, $100,000 prize went to Marek Elbaum, who has created a laser beam technology capable of detecting the potentially fatal Melanoma, with high accuracy, without using invasive biopsy. -- SIGHT: A device that takes us beyond virtual reality by directing three different colored laser beams onto a person's retina. The image is directed and retained by the eye, allowing surgeons, for example, to view X-rays while operating, or mechanics to have a hands-free view of a manual while working. -- COMPUTER SOFTWARE: A new software that allows new drugs to "evolve" on a computer. The program starts with a blueprint for a molecule, then randomly changes some of its atoms. HIV and Leukemia are among the illnesses that have been targeted by the software, with encouraging results. -- TRANSPORTATI0N: A chemical process that allows cells to wring hydrogen from ordinary gasoline. The cells could eventually replace internal combustion engines in some cars. -- COMPUTER HARDWARE & ELECTRONICS: Computer chips that can cheaply retain memories that don't forget everything when the power is turned off, as ordinary chips do. -- SOUND: To foil rogue copiers of CD's into bootleg versions, a new technique has been developed by which a code would be inserted into recorded music by subtly altering a sound signal in a way that people wouldn't notice, but a computer chip could. -- ROBOTICS: A new device to enable the blind more autonomous movement, GuideCane, utilizes a mounted sonar system on a device that resembles a vacuum cleaner. When the sonar detects an obstacle it gently steers the user around it. Future versions may have computerized destination directions, and work on spoken commands. -- ENVIRONMENT: A solution that allows for more efficient use of a nonpolluting solvent, lactate esters-from corn, employs a membrane that allows the smaller ammonia and water molecules to pass through, greatly reducing the price of the solvent. -- AVIATION & AEROSPACE: A blade made out of a material that twists when electrified, and has no moving parts, greatly reducing the need for frequent maintenance and inspection. -- EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: The production of a big chill enabled one innovator to master atoms forming in a continuous stream, marching in formation. Eventually, such atom lasers could make molecular machines and more compact electronic chips. -- EDITORS' CHOICE: Last year's Pathfinder, the spacecraft that landed on Mars last July 4th, and Sojourner, the robotic rover successfully landed on Mars and collected data from the Martian surface for three months. This exploration re-energized the public's interest in our galactic neighbors. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #149 ***************************