Errors-To: owner-ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #276 ecto, Number 276 Friday, 26 June 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: Sadness and Happyness Champagne Jams Personal to Dick Locke (with apologies) poem: time Dies & das HAPPY Katemas!! RE: ecto #275 HBP, etc. various Metaquantumfootahdynamics ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 20:54:55 EDT From: Vickie Mapes Subject: Re: Sadness and Happyness :-( :-( :-( John, I'm so sorry to hear about your stolen CDs and player. I wonder what on earth the thief will do with the CDs. Sell them to a used record store I imagine. The 1st 4 are so unique that you should call around to the used stores in your area and ask them to keep a lookout for them coming in. The police would be interested because they might be able to get a description of the goon if the clerk is sharp-eyed enough. Btw, did you get the HGP tapes? Vickie ps, speaking of HGP-I still owe Alan, Perttu and David Lukin copies. I know. ======================================================================== Date: 26-JUN-1992 01:21:07.22 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Champagne Jams Hi! Mitch concludes: }My conclusion yesterday, as embellished further by today's }observations, was/is that between Meredith, k.d., and maybe }WHPK, our side may stand a fighting chance after all of }recapturing the nexus between champagne and music. That was always the idea, Mitch. I wonder what k.d. would think if I somehow informed her of my part in all this? ;) ======================================================================= |Meredith A. Tarr "Feel the yearning for peace and| |mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu happiness..." -Happy Rhodes| ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Date: 26-JUN-1992 01:30:17.21 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Personal to Dick Locke (with apologies) I tried to send this personally, but it bounced BIG-time. Apologies for wasting list bandwidth with thisk, but it is relevant. :) Received: from relay2.UU.NET by EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU (PMDF #12650) id <01GLNHVTKVHS8Y5BIA@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU>; Fri, 26 Jun 1992 01:24 EDT Received: from EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA26221; Fri, 26 Jun 92 01:24:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 01:24:15 -0400 From: MAILER-DAEMON@uunet.uu.net (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown To: MTARR@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU Message-id: <9206260524.AA26221@relay2.UU.NET> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 920626012418.0571 uux: error -- Bad system name: wtg58 920626012418.0581 uux: ERROR -- code 68 550 ... Host unknown ----- Recipients of this delivery ----- ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: from EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA26194; Fri, 26 Jun 92 01:24:15 -0400 Received: from EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU by EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU (PMDF #12650) id <01GLNHUWI9TG8Y5B2M@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU>; Fri, 26 Jun 1992 01:23 EDT Date: 26-JUN-1992 01:23:36.31 From: MTARR@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU Subject: Happy Happy! Joy joy! To: wtg58!dlocke@uunet.uu.net Message-Id: <01GLNHUWI9TG8Y5B2M@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU> Hi! Okay, I believe you. :) I just wanted to make sure, for obvious reasons. Now I'm going to offer you an option. You can get the live shows from me, or you can go to Doug, who has been handling all the ecto-taping for the past few months. He's got quite a list, ranging from the live stuff to the Happy Gift Project (our Christmas present to her last year) to Vickie's mix tapes to my last radio show (featuring special requests from Ectophiles). I have the list around here somewhere, but it'd be easier if you asked Doug yourself- he also has info on how to get these things for yourself. His e-dress is: dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu. If you don't want to go that route for these things and would like to trade instead, I'm always open to that! :) The quality is going to be the same, since both Doug and I have copies woj and Greg made for us... actually, Doug's copy of the Albany show might be a bit better, because his equipment can boost levels, and mine can't. Your choice. Don't feel you need to rush to get back to me, if you're getting ready to go on vacation I know things are hectic. (Besides, I got myself into a mess offering to tape the Tori show for hordes of people. :}) Have a good trip!!! ======================================================================= |Meredith A. Tarr "Feel the yearning for peace and| |mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu happiness..." -Happy Rhodes| ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Date: 26 Jun 92 10:34:00 From: Alan.Ezust@f1.n721.z5.fidonet.org Subject: poem: time To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu, ezust@cmpsci.suffolk.edu Date: Fri Jun 26 10:34:50 1992 GMT+2 Well, my brain is here, if my mind isn't... My body will shortly follow, as I spend my last 33 hours in Zimbabwe. As I was counting the hours, I mind started to wander, so here are the results: Time, by SAE June 26, 1992 as the audience, we all sat down and saw the show forty thousand marching bands took their turns around the corner, the intersection of union and divorce And some of us were wandering - others just wondering why we fell out of step we lost our timing, and ran out of time and all this time, our watches ran down so we ran down the clock just like the mouse in hickory-dickory-dock. but while all this was happening, we took our time in finding out what went wrong and in the meantime, time lost its meaning so we had no more time to take but it's amazing how much time there is, and when you run out of your own, you end up taking the time of someone else And that's the way it goes. our life truly stops not when our time runs out but when we stop taking the time of others. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Ezust on Mehta's Point, Harare, Zimbabwe reply-to: sae@cmpsci.suffolk.edu 7 ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 13:51:25 MEZ From: Dirk Kastens Subject: Dies & das Hi everybody, > foo! + tah! = footah!! Hah! I guess it must be foo!tah! ;-) But what the hell, Greg, means footah????? Sigh! The stuff in this group seems to extend from day to day. Some of you are writing whole novels. Not, that I don't like it - I love it. But I hardly find the time to read all of this, and rdt + gaffa, too. After my return from Italy I had to work through 20 digests what took three days!! Originally I tried to improve my English and write out all the words and expressions I was not aware of, but it seems to be impossible now. Reading the messages, I try to imagine what you folks look like and how old you are. Now that I've read Klaus' birthday list I found some amazing mismatches between my assumption and the real age of some of you. There were differences of ten years... (grin) No, I don't tell you who it was. ;-) I'm 28 but people say I look like 24 (mmmh, better than 34!) BTW, my birthday is the 17. December 1963 (Hi, Laura). And my shoe size is 43 or 9 1/2. (Whatever it's good for) We should found an archive with GIFs of all members (the faces and the feet). That would be very nice. If someone has access to a scanner we could send him our photos to scan in and then store them into the archive. Re: electronic sounds I don't like drum machines if they are used to imitate acoustic drums. If they are programmed without what is called 'human touch' they will sound static and cold. A human drummer never plays a drum with exactly the same velocity. He has 'natural' dynamic and tempo deviations. And drums or cymbals produce an infinite variety of different sounds depen- ding on where and how they are beaten. A drum machine is not capable to reproduce these things. But I like the Phil Collins drum sound because it sounds very electronic and unnatural as a matter of style. Greetings -- Dirk --------------------------------------------------------------- + Children laugh, children cry + They're the ones who will survive + Will they know what we've sold + Nature's gift we've turned for gold -- Toni Childs --------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 09:41:31 CDT From: vishal@ra.csc.ti.com (Vishal Markandey) Subject: HAPPY Katemas!! Thanks for all the welcomes!! I was quite touched!! :-) :-) And no Jeffy, I refuse to mend my ways! You should know by now what a bitch I am! I still have not decided on my selection for the Happy gift project. Got to think of something wicked. Anybody having Katemas parties? I am afraid I won't be able to host one this year as I will be travelling for the next couple weeks. HAPPY Katemas everyone!! - Vish ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 11:06:48 EDT From: Chris Sampson Subject: RE: ecto #275 Angelos recently pointed out my dense usage of greek or greek-rooted words. I don't know if there is a statistical significance to this frequency of hellenic based words, but if there is, it might have something to do with the fact that I am of Greek descent. Ti Kaneis, Angelos? Don't know why I didn't think to mention it before....I guess I'M related to Happy as well :) By the way, lest you wonder if you should try to start a transliterated greek conversation with me, I should warn you that, despite a few years of Conversational Greek, Ti Kaneis is about the extent of my idiomatic vocabulary :( Well, I gotta get back to work. See Y'all around. Xpistoforos Sakellarides (family name pre-immigration) ======================================================================== Date: 26 Jun 92 11:36:23 EDT From: Subject: HBP, etc. Hello fellow ectopians. Mike Mendelson here reporting from my spanking new compuserve account. (The Charlotte Stern account at NWU is still around, but this comes directly to where I work.) I don't know whether to direct this to Doug, or Klaus, or whoever, but I will be sending someone (who?) a tape of the song "Dixie" by Harmonium, along with a spoken message. The song is 3 minutes, 26 seconds; I'd expect the spoken message to be under a minute. I'll also send along an additional selection (probably around the same time) by the BOBs, in case you have some extra space on the tape. I plan to mail this out on Monday, June 29, so I hope it arrives (where is it going?) on time. Welcome back, Vickie. I have been remisce in keeping in touch with you and Chris, but I'll try to be better at it. Are you guys throwing a Katemas party this year? (I'm a bit behind in my ectoreading, so sorry if I missed any talk of this.) I too received the first four on CD a bit ago, and they are truly marvelous. I've been listening to Ecto a lot, in particular. I too talked to WBEZ and the station in PA, but it looks like Mitch got the info I was unable to extract. Thanks Mitch! If I'm in town July 5, I will be certain to tape it. If I'm not in town, I'll probably set some timers and hope that they work. I used to have a tape deck that could start recording automatically, but alas it broke and my new one doesn't have that feature. I saw My Bloody Valentine this past week. We left after the fourth or fifth song because it was just too damn loud. I've never done this before. There were two opening bands, Yo La Tengo (who could use some work) and Buffalo Tom, who were really on. Their song writing is quite strong, and I was satisfied in having heard them and a bit of MBV (they played a couple of songs from Loveless that I particularly wanted to hear before we left). Looking forward to the Happy Midwest Tour. Till then, -mjm P.S. my new address is mjm@zylab.mhs.compuserve.com ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 12:07:49 -0400 From: gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert) Subject: Re: HBP, etc. congrats to mjm on account of his account :) HBP tapes go to: Ecto PO Box 11291 New Brunswick, NJ 08906 the MBV show i saw in boston was *loud* -- i survived, but it is not something i would do on a regular basis (like, more than once a decade... if ever!) hat? foo! -greg -- gb10@gte.com -- "this is where life begins" -- HR ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 12:43:58 -0400 From: gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert) Subject: Re: Dies & das Dirk hypothosizes: >> foo! + tah! = footah!! >Hah! I guess it must be foo!tah! ;-) >But what the hell, Greg, means footah????? ah, understanding the proof of my equation requires a solid knowledge of metaquantumfootahdynamics... understanding the term "footah" itself requires an understanding of my brain :) good luck... ;) footahs on the move! (going to new jersey tonight :) -greg -- gb10@gte.com -- "this is where life begins" -- HR ======================================================================== From: kyrlidis@athena.mit.edu Subject: Re: Dies & das Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 14:16:56 EDT >Dirk hypothosizes: >>> foo! + tah! = footah!! >>Hah! I guess it must be foo!tah! ;-) >>But what the hell, Greg, means footah????? >ah, understanding the proof of my equation requires a solid knowledge >of metaquantumfootahdynamics... A quick scan through the library archives gave the following info. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 084 MIT LIBRARIES - GEAC LIBRARY SYSTEM - *AUTHOR SEARCH AUTHOR: Bossert, Greg TITLE: Introductory and Advanced Metaquantumfootahdynamics for Ectophiles IMPRINT: Ecto International Publishing Co. [1992] PHYSICAL FEATURES: 5,932 p., illus., 22 cm. NOTES: Includes bibliographies. OTHER AUTHORS, ETC: None KEY WORDS: Footah, hatoof, ecto ISBN: xxxxxxxxx (not yet established) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Being a Physics-loving chemical engineer, I was impressed to see that MIT is up-to-date with rapidly emerging new fields in science. Too bad the only copy they had is missing! :) Angelos ======================================================================== Subject: various Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 17:19:04 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Finally got my new copy of _Wisteria_ today. Wheeee. Still not as good as _Under Towers_. I sent off my tapes for the HBP today. My selection was Fish's "Shadowplay" from his most recent album, _Internal Exile_. Those of you who are into Gabriel and early Genesis and other 70's art rock who aren't familiar with Marillion/Fish should be. I was thinking the other day whilst listening to "Point and Pull" that it's sort of like a politicized "Words Weren't Made for Cowards." Especially ear-catching to me is the line "Strong is human who does battle with speech/But language is not what our fathers teach." Since someone's already posted a similar request, Greg, if there's room, would it be possible to throw the song "Under Towers" on the HBP? Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Show what you are / Be strong, be true | | | Time for you to / Be who you are." | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | --Happy Rhodes | ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 19:07:11 EDT From: shane@sbcs.sunysb.edu Subject: Metaquantumfootahdynamics Angelos writes: > A quick scan through the library archives gave the following info. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 084 MIT LIBRARIES - GEAC LIBRARY SYSTEM - *AUTHOR SEARCH > AUTHOR: Bossert, Greg > TITLE: Introductory and Advanced Metaquantumfootahdynamics > for Ectophiles > IMPRINT: Ecto International Publishing Co. [1992] > PHYSICAL FEATURES: 5,932 p., illus., 22 cm. > NOTES: Includes bibliographies. > OTHER AUTHORS, ETC: None > KEY WORDS: Footah, hatoof, ecto > ISBN: xxxxxxxxx (not yet established) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not many people are familiar with this branch of science. For example, the fundamental particle of Metaquantumfootahdynamics is the 'footahn'. If (heaven forbid) a footahn and an anti-footahn come in contact, the result is the instantaneous annihilation of all guitars in the universe. One product of this science is the ever popular 'footahn torpedo' as seen in any episode of "Star Trek : The ". -Shane ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is a README file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me (or leave in the incoming directory, just let me know) things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)