From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V1 #84 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Friday, October 30 1998 Volume 01 : Number 084 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Edheads: Re: I'm new to all this ... [jreiser@ecoutez.com (Jason A. R] Edheads: Pickiness (was: Re: I'm new to all this ...) [Nicole the Wonder ] Re: Edheads: Re: I'm new to all this ... ["Jess." ] hair-raising edhead stories [Ofer Inbar ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 00:47:35 -0500 (EST) From: jreiser@ecoutez.com (Jason A. Reiser) Subject: Re: Edheads: Re: I'm new to all this ... ><solved it anyway, having never heard "29 Ways". > >--nicole twn>> > >Well, going by Troy's method {I still think you should count ALL 50 sisters >(states), Troy. : )}(and my memory of the song) only like 11 or 12 actual >methods are listed in the song, but one line does say, "a whole lotta ways I >don't want you to know" which could make up for the other 17 or 18 ways. : ) > >Just being my usual literal and picky self.... Well, of course there's also the "If I need ya bad, I'll find about 2 or 3 more" line... assuming, of course, that we are talking about the same song. ;) Hey, at least it didn't involve pi, e, -6.02x10^23 or -2i. - - Jason ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:32:01 -0800 From: Nicole the Wonder Nerd Subject: Edheads: Pickiness (was: Re: I'm new to all this ...) At 09:48 PM 10/28/98 EST, you wrote: >Just being my usual literal and picky self.... Well hey, if we're going to get into pickiness, I'm going to disagree with Troy's numbering of Omar's problems. In my Programming Languages course, we just spent no small amount of time and effort learning that has-a is *different* than is-a. (A bad analogy for the non-object-oriented people: a throw-pillow IS-A pillow; a bed HAS-A pillow.) Thus we must conclude that Omar only has *3* problems. And yes, I do know that "anal retentive" only takes a hyphen when used as an adjective. ;) - --nicole the "ahh, the joys of collegiate life... OH *(*&#, I HAVE A MIDTERM IN 12 HOURS! NO CARRIER ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:45:23 -0800 (PST) From: "Jess." Subject: Re: Edheads: Re: I'm new to all this ... Heylo !!! In response tothe question of how I got into EFO, I was attempting to avoid a party a couple of summers ago and asked Nicole for an excuse ... She told me that there was this band playing in Berkeley, and would that do? I went and it was amazing ... Since then I've traveled to Paramus, NJ to see them ( story unto itself. Driving may suck in NJ, no left turns :>, but taking public transit from Philidelphia is worse. And I'm from Ca.) Flunked Philosphy classes, and had my car decimated, all just to see these guys live. What's wih the riddle ... I'm terribly confuse ... Hi Carolyn!!!! Hope everything is going well with you ... I'm curious if anyone else has any hair raising stories (it's that time of the year) associated with EFO. Brown ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jessica Whiting Brown 127 Arroyo Dr. Irvine Ca. 92612 "What you think of me is none of my business." -Terry Cole-Whittaker What you say is another story altogether ... phone: 949.854.4370 e-mail: brownj@uci.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:50:08 -0500 (EST) From: Ofer Inbar Subject: hair-raising edhead stories "Jess." wrote: > Since then I've traveled to Paramus, NJ to see them ( story unto itself. > Driving may suck in NJ, no left turns :>, but taking public transit from > Philidelphia is worse. And I'm from Ca.) Flunked Philosphy classes, and I think I met you at the Henflings show, didn't I? That's even further from my home than Paramus is from yours! And the driving got mighty weird in places... :) > I'm curious if anyone else has any hair raising stories (it's that time of Well, EFO always seems to bring bad weather with them when they play on the left bank of the Charles: Cambridge, Somerville, Waltham, but not Boston itself, which is on the right bank. Curious. Anyway, in June, they really outdid themselves, bringing torrential rains and flooding that shut down the Pride parade, the Berkshire Mountain Music Festival, the subways, and a lot of other stuff. They had two shows at Club Passim on the evening of June 14th, one at 7pm and one at 10pm. They were planning to arrive around 4:30 or 5pm for setup and soundcheck, and I was going to help out with sound. Now, I actually only live a 10 minute walk away from Club Passim, but that Friday night I was actually staying with a friend in Savoy, MA, over at the far western end of the state (after helping a friend in Providence move to her new place on Friday day & evening - yes, this makes for a weird route back-and-forth across New England). So Saturday morning I headed back east, stopping on the way for a friend's party in Northampton, and left Northampton around 1:30. The rain was bad and the Mass Pike was slow, and I didn't get to the Cambridge exit until 3:45, but that's still plenty of time. Only about 10 minutes from the exit to Passim. But what's this, a line? Cars backed up at the inbound exit on a Saturday mid-afternoon??? Almost a half hour later, I reached the end of the ramp and across the bridge into Cambridge. There the road intersects with memorial drive going left or right along the river bank, or you can go straight ahead down River Street into Central Square, Cambridge. Almost everyone who takes that exit and crosses the bridge wants to take River Street to Central Square. Usually, River Street resembles the second half of its name more than the first, but not on this particular day. I made it to Passim by 5pm. EFO didn't get there until 6:30. We got them on and started the show by 7:10. That was a hair-raising blur of activity. Carolyn remembers it, I'm sure. ... The shows happened, and EFO went home. I picked up a bunch of friends who'd come to the second show and gave them rides home. After I'd dropped the last one off, I noticed that my "low fuel" indicator was lit. No problem, I know just where a pair of 24 hour gas stations in Cambridge are, only a few miles away. But wait - they're on the corner of River Street and Memorial Drive. And wasn't Alewife Brook Parkway partially flooded & closed too? I think this could make a good video game. You start out with a car and a limited amount of fuel. You're given a map of the town with the locations of all the 24 hour gas stations marked (I didn't need the map, but if it were a game...) Some random assortment of streets have been flooded and are closed, but you don't know where. Can you make it to a gas station before you run out? I won the game :) (And the prize was more than worth it, but I won't get into that here...) -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@polyamory.org cos@cs.brandeis.edu -- Producer, Free Live Music -- booking@wbrs.org http://www.wbrs.org/ This could only happen in the life of a cos. This stuff never happens to me! -- Tara Elizabeth Backman, 4 May 1998 ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V1 #84 ****************************