From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #60 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, February 20 1998 Volume 04 : Number 060 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] RE: #ecto ["Bridges, Martin (Exchange)" ] Re: #ecto [Bill ] Re: #ecto ["Chris Beckwith" ] Joy Eden Harrison Update [ABershaw@aol.com] From today's headlines ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] #ecto [dave ] Re: #ecto [roo@brown.edu (Kay Cleaves)] Ecto Appreciation 101 [Richard ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:00:13 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Joel Siegfried (joels@sd.cts.com) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joel Siegfried February 19 Penguin Crossing Linda Saboe Tue February 20 1951 aimless Teresa Ross Wed February 23 1977 pisces Michael Curry Fri February 24 1967 Pisces Paula Shanks Mon February 25 1952 Pisces Brni Mojzes Fri February 26 1965 the vanishing boy Pamela Pociluk Fri February 28 1964 Pisces Tim Steele Fri March 08 1963 Pisces Matt Bittner Thu March 12 1964 Pisces kIrI Hargie Fri March 13 1970 Pisces Bob Dreano Thu March 13 1958 Pisces Randall K. Smith Sat March 15 1969 Pisces Jessica Skolnik March 16 Pisces Alan Sodoma Thu March 18 1965 LuckyLurker Barry Wong Thu March 19 1970 Merlin Graham Dombkins Fri March 19 1965 Pisces Ian Young Wed March 19 1969 Squiggol Jeff Wasilko Wed March 19 1969 Pisces - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:03:56 -0000 From: "Bridges, Martin (Exchange)" Subject: RE: #ecto Neil wrote: > At 7:02 PM -0800 2/18/98, Bill wrote: > > > ... but, has anyone thought of having an #ecto channel on IRC??? > > Yup. Around, oh, 4 years or so ago there was a bustling #ecto community > on > IRC. Then, a couple years back, it inexplicably died. And that's where > it's > been since. Last I checked, anyway. I think the channel's time came and > went. Oh, well. It was fun while it lasted. > As one of the semi-regulars around that time, I can confirm that it was indeed fun while it lasted. My lack of IRC access sort of came towards the end. A few times over the last couple of years I've looked in when I was in a Cybercafe, but no-one there. Hi to everyone who was around then! Martin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:20:08 -0800 From: Bill Subject: Re: #ecto Okay, here's an idea: I run and administer a unix host. I have established an IRC server on that host, and created the channel #ecto on it. The server name is irc.wagill.com, listening on port 6667. Feel free to connect to the IRC server, join the #ecto channel, and chat at will; I will keep the channel permanently open. However, this server is NOT on any network of IRC servers, such as EFnet or DALnet; this means that everyone wishing to join the #ecto channel needs to connect to this same server. There are a few basic rules: 1. Read and abide by the rules posted on the server's MOTD (the text you see upon connecting). 2. #ecto will be an "ops-free" channel; no op wars, no kick fests. 3. You piss me off, I ban you. Please understand that this is not a public IRC server, but rather a "nice thing" that I am doing for my ecto friends. Please play nice, and have fun. Of course, if this scenario does not fit the majority of the group, then there's always the public IRC networks (EFnet, DALnet, etc.), where #ecto could exist. If this idea does catch on, then we should all have a "grand opening" party, when many of us meet at about the same time, so we all have someone with whom to chat. Any suggestions as to when and what time? Jill :D-style *hugs* and *kisses* - - Bill. :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:17:11 -0500 From: "Chris Beckwith" Subject: Re: #ecto Bill wrote: > I have established an IRC server...and created the channel #ecto This is sort of how the #eleanor channel operates on IRC, except that we use a commercial server (chatsystems, to be precise); it's not on any of the IRC networks, which keeps the shenanigans to a minimum. I really hope this takes off! Hopefully we can agree on a set time each week so that most of us can participate. Of course, we could modify the time occasionally to give a chance to ectofolk who live in outlying time zones. Take care, Chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 13:58:27 EST From: ABershaw@aol.com Subject: Joy Eden Harrison Update Hi all, Joy Eden Harrison, who many of you know & love took some time to write & say hello today. I asked her what's up since moving to Chicago & here's some (edited) updates for those interested. Alan As for whats up? Hmmmmm.... "The Love Beneath Your Lies" is now in a film entitled "Curtain Call". Its an Independent film by a well known director, Peter Yates. It stars Michael Kane, Maggie Smith, Sam Shepard, and James Spader. Its aready got European distribution but its currently in negotiations for an American release. I'm pretty happy about that. This weekend I'm going into the studio to record a soundtrack for a film short that was written and directed by a new director, here in Chicago. Its film festival bound this summer. He saw me sing somewhere and asked me if I would be interested in writing the theme song. Its been a fun project. I even got to play a cameo role as a bartender. As for performing, I'm going back to San Diego in March. I'll do a show at Claire De Lune while I'm there. That will be on the 28th of March, and a show is pending in LA on Sunday the 22nd of March. As for the next album, no official news yet. Kris Kane, my humble cyberbodhisattva, and I are just about ready to get the site up in the engines... we will put in the finishing touches very soon. love, Joy Note from Alan: JEH's site can be visited in its current form at: http://www.ojo.com/kk/joy/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 18:30:54 -0600 (CST) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: From today's headlines Today's Chicago _Sun-Times_ has a story on Liz Phair, which notes that her third album is expected out soon. You may be able to get at it at www.suntimes.com. The sports section of the same edition has a piece on the likely elimination of Nicole Bobek from medal contention in Olympic figure skating. It made much of her emotional devastation after repeated falls, and quotes her as saying that for all practical purposes, her years of training have been for a single, four-minute skate. Makes you wonder about the gold-or-bust mentality, that all but negates whatever else she has accomplished in the sport, and the gratifications it has brought her. I have long believed that while it is fully legitimate to take points off for errors in sports like skating and gymnastics, the quality of a competitor's recovery from such glitches should also be considered, and some of the lost score given back. It would be interesting to speculate on how the final results under such a system would compare with those under current procedures. On this, the day both Chicago papers led off with Harry Caray's obituary, the _Tribune_'s sports section carried a story on Tara Lipinski's exuberance in yesterday's competition, compared with Michelle Kwan's far more subdued behavior. It seems to me that it's an appropriate coincidence that the same edition of the same paper portrayed the eightyish _bon vivant_ of sportscasters and the teenaged medal contender in skating in a not to dissimilar vein--to wit, as people who genuinely loved what they were doing. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:26:24 -0500 From: dave Subject: Re: ecto-digest V4 #57 Paul Blair wrote: > > Dave wrote: > > >Just in case anyone might be even vaguely interested, I found a > >real audio site with a song from one of my favorite singers, > >Kasia Kowalska. Okay, so it's in Polish, I don't understand a word > >of it, and most of you won't either... but here it is anyway. > > > >http://ituner.com/530AM/ram/kasia.ram > > Sounds great--what else can you tell us about Ms. Kowalska? > > --Paul As far as I know: She has out 3 albums on Polygram Polska, I've been able to find one so far, Gemini, from an an importer in Florida, Polart. It has 8 songs in Polish, 5 in English including a cover of Led Zep's No Quarter. Style varies from pop ballads to blues rock to almost Euro-Metal. She's also done a Polish movie, won what appears to be Poland's version of a Grammy, placed 15th in the '96 Eurovision Song Contest and covered Billy Joel's New York State of Mind although I haven't heard that one yet. dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:42:26 -0500 From: dave Subject: #ecto Yes, #ecto on IRC is still alive and currently on DALnet (which is a pretty tame place, no takeovers and crap like that..) stop in, there's usually a few of us on every night, I'd say 9-11 eastern time is best time to try. Hope to see some you there. dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:15:10 -0500 From: roo@brown.edu (Kay Cleaves) Subject: Re: #ecto How is it done, for those of us with little experience? (I can't download any new applications--my computer barely chokes its way through emails.) - --K >Yes, #ecto on IRC is still alive and currently on DALnet (which is a >pretty tame place, no takeovers and crap like that..) stop in, there's >usually a few of us on every night, I'd say 9-11 eastern time is best >time to try. Hope to see some you there. > >dave > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 01:21:15 -0500 From: Richard Subject: Ecto Appreciation 101 I've felt the powerful pull of the current threads which are dragging SO many lurkers out of their lairs :), but family health concerns have monopolized my time lately... I guess the REAL reason I'm writing this is to say that I'm driving an inter-generational group down to Salem, Mass. Saturday night to see Dar & Stephanie at the Universal Coffehouse and we are all just supremely revved for it. I had never heard of Dar before subscribing to Ecto, and she has since become a commonality between us forty and fifty-somethings and our kids... Thank you, Ecto. - -- n.p. Tom Rush: The Circle Game I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. - -- A. Whitney Brown ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #60 *************************