From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #228 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 Saturday, August 29 1998 Volume 03 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: I'm still a drag princess. ["Michael and Denise Luckey" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:40:29 -0700 From: "Michael and Denise Luckey" Subject: Re: Alloy: I'm still a drag princess. The first thing I had asked Mr. Dolby is where the Headspace booth was since I couldn' find it. He said that they currently did not employ enough people to man it for the show. His talk on Beatnik consisted of the use of just one computer along with an overhead projector. It was mainly a "how to" session in which he illustrated the ease at which Beatnik could bring audio to an otherwise mute site with minimal memory usage. Quite a bit of the technical jargon was past my understanding but he did go to several sites (such as 7-Up) to demonstrate what could be done with Beatnik software. The 7-Up page demo received a generous round of applause afterwards! In conclusion he brought up a local musician with her own website and quickly upgraded some Beatnik features to begin sonification of the site. She had only met TMDR earlier that day and knew him just as that Science! guy. I was impressed at how quickly he could make his points with Beatnik and how simple he made the whole process look. We all know nothing is as easy as it seems when you're on your own! The dealers room is where all the computers were but since Headspace lacked a booth Thomas spent very little time there. It seems that the future of internet audio rests in the very capable hands of Mr. Dolby and I'm sure we'll be hearing more from Beatnik in the years to come. M.L. By the way, for those that missed it earlier when asked what his personal favorite of all of his songs he answered Screen Kiss and Budapest By Blimp. Interesting choices! - -----Original Message----- From: RThurF@aol.com To: alloy@smoe.org Date: Thursday, August 27, 1998 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Alloy: I'm still a drag princess. > >In a message dated 8/27/98 6:17:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, crackers@hwcn.org >writes: > ><< You can call me "Mini Ledgerwood". > If it was the second pet I'd be "Tigger Ledgerwood", third I'd be > "The Masked Marvel Ledgerwood", fourth I'd be "Scruffy Ledgerwood" (now > there's a drag queen name that brings up a grousome mental picture... alas > it would most likely be the most accurate description of me in drag), > fifth would be "Chicago Ledgerwood", sixth would be "Slinky Ledgerwood" > (not a bad drag queen name), seventh and final would be "Saskatoon >Ledgerwood". >> > >Crackers, I've missed you :) !! dave's favorite is The Masked Marvel... while >mine is definitely Scruffy. Go with it, babe! > >This rumor of Thomas' drag performance... are we talking heels here? The mind >boggles! > >On the subject of photos of Thomas, I really love the ones Michael scanned in >from Plug.In. THANKS Michael! I have some questions about Thomas' >presentation... I see no computers around... & for some reason I pictured >there being many, many computers cramming the convention site. What really was >done or discussed? Did Thomas' talk just have to do with Headspace on the >whole, or was there a demo too? or was it something else entirely? > >Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 17:23:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: Goodbye Mr. Jurkan, I'm sick and tired of workin' In article <002b01bdd21d$7af05fe0$41aa9bcf@KeithStansell>, you wrote: >Wish me luck, and look for me as "Mack McBroom" if I decide to go into the >porno business. ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ Actually, that wouldn't be a bad porno star name at all. The alliteration let's it roll off the tongue nicely. CRACKERS (Shake that money maker 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 | Hozer Video Games *** Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 17:23:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: I'm still a drag princess. In article >, you wrote: >Crackers, I've missed you :) !! dave's favorite is The Masked Marvel... while >mine is definitely Scruffy. Go with it, babe! ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ Scruffy the drag queen.... there's a song in there I just know it. ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ >This rumor of Thomas' drag performance... are we talking heels here? The mind >boggles! ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ The details of the performance on on the FES webpage. Appearently performing in drag as a "bored blond beverly hills housewife" was a last minute idea. I would just love to have pictures of this though. CRACKERS (The Flat Dragqueen 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 | Hozer Video Games *** Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:57:30 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Plug.In In a message dated 8/28/98 3:42:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, LUCKEY7@prodigy.net writes: << The 7-Up page demo received a generous round of applause afterwards! In conclusion he brought up a local musician with her own website and quickly upgraded some Beatnik features to begin sonification of the site. She had only met TMDR earlier that day and knew him just as that Science! guy. I was impressed at how quickly he could make his points with Beatnik and how simple he made the whole process look.>> This is really cool, wish i could have seen it! Congratulations to Thomas on his success at the convention! <> I know this may sound weird... but before, every time I thought of a convention involving computers I'd always had an irrational brief mental image of rooms full of PCs sitting on top of white classical architectural columns (don't even tell me what this means, psychologists of Alloy!) Michael's photos are the first I've ever seen of the mysterious goings on within an actual computer oriented convention. Very comforting to see glasses of water, walls with things tacked to them, and sheets of real paper scattered about. <> The internet seems like a huge silent alienating monument without audio. Sound will make things better :) Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 23:00:06 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Good luck Keith In a message dated 8/27/98 8:53:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Stansell@usa.net writes: << I had an interview on Tuesday that if I end up getting an offer, and take the position will get Dennis Alexander a $1000 bonus. However, I also have an interview on Tuesday with EDS at IBM near Jean Benet' s America (Boulder). >> Jeez, what alternate reality do you live in? Nice to know some companies have $1000 to toss about! Good luck :) Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:45:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Re: Alloy: Goodbye Mr. Jurkan, I'm sick and tired of workin' On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Chris Cracknell wrote: > <002b01bdd21d$7af05fe0$41aa9bcf@KeithStansell> wrote: > > >Wish me luck, and look for me as "Mack McBroom" if I decide to go into the > >porno business. > ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ > > Actually, that wouldn't be a bad porno star name at all. The alliteration > let's it roll off the tongue nicely. > > CRACKERS > (Shake that money maker from hell!!!) Brings "Dirk Diggler" to mind doesn't it. Mack McBroom works on the same level. Mine would be Sugar Park! How's that for a really schmaltzy porn name. (My folks had two Siamese cats when I was a toddler-- Sugar & Spike. I suppose I could be Spike Park instead.) Elaine ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 21:55:47 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: Good luck Keith No kidding. My current employer has a $500 referral bonus, but the downside to that is that you also have to stay with the company to get it :) I guess the type of company that has that much money to throw around is the type that makes it's money by shifting people around to employers. It's they're only resource. Kind of a modern day slave trade (hey here's a good worker for you) without those messy shackles and whips. Oh, and Dennis will be buying me a very nice dinner if I get him this bonus. - -Keith - -----Original Message----- From: RThurF@aol.com >In a message dated 8/27/98 8:53:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Stansell@usa.net >writes: > ><< I had an interview on > Tuesday that if I end up getting an offer, and take the position will get > Dennis Alexander a $1000 bonus. However, I also have an interview on > Tuesday with EDS at IBM near Jean Benet' s America (Boulder). >> > >Jeez, what alternate reality do you live in? Nice to know some companies have >$1000 to toss about! Good luck :) > >Robin T > ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #228 ***************************