From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #546 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, September 12 2012 Volume 16 : Number 546 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Rhodeways/Terra Incognita fanzine issues [Sharon Runly Nichols Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** Sharon Nichols (factory22@gmail.com) ******************* **************** Heather Russell (hrussell@bellsouth.net) ***************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Sharon Nichols Wed September 11 1963 Sic Luceat Lux Heather Russell September 11 Total Virgosity Karron Lynn Lane Tue September 14 1751 Ophelia Virgo Troy Wollenslegel Mon September 18 1972 Virgo Mark Frabotta Sun September 19 1965 Don't even THINK about parking here Joe Zitt Sat September 20 1958 Will Hack for CDs Ani DiFranco Wed September 23 1970 Virgo Lord Tyr Mon September 24 1979 Libran Paul Kim Sat October 01 1977 fetal position JoAnn Whetsell Fri October 01 1976 Pendulum Ella McCrystle Tue October 03 1967 Libra William Gill Wed October 05 1960 A wide-eyed wanderer Birdie Breeze Mon October 05 1959 OooOoooWheeee Dan Riley Sun October 08 1961 Libra Neile Graham Wed October 08 1958 pen Quenby M. Chunco Tue October 08 1968 Crunchy Frog Mike Garland Wed October 08 1952 Creature_of_the_Night Irvin Lin Tue October 09 1973 Libra Michael C. Berch Wed October 10 1956 No parking Chris Gagnon Sat October 10 1970 Libra - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:23:18 -0400 From: Sharon Runly Nichols Subject: Rhodeways/Terra Incognita fanzine issues If anyone else would like copies of the Happy Rhodes fanzine, please email me. I am the publisher, and I have hundreds of copies left!! Sharon - -- *Every passing hour brings the Solar System 43,000 miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules, and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.*-- Kurt Vonnegut ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:11:50 -0700 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: Latest pet peeve: Media players without volume controls that bothers me :) I try to remember to make sure my volume is set pretty low before i click on anything that might have sound. this is something that keeps me from clicking a lot of links, for sure. - -jessica On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Paul Blair wrote: > Lately it seems more and more embedded media in web pages have players in > which it's impossible to control the volume. What this means in practice is > that I'm at home at 11pm, I click on the player, and am immediately blasted > out of my chair by the volume (and no doubt my neighbors are annoyed as > well). There is no "standard" volume for media on the Internet, which > means, e.g., that sometimes when I'm watching videos I can't hear anything > unless I turn both the video player and my computer up to maximum volume. > Then the next video that comes along of course raises the roof. I like to > be able to set the volume control low on the media player before I start > playing, and then adjust it after the clip starts playing. > > Does this bother anyone else? ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #546 ***************************