From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #41 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, February 6 2002 Volume 11 : Number 041 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Let Me Roll It ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: Let Me Roll It [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Mr Fegg [Eleanore Adams ] hair, fat, rock [anansi ] My First Googlewhack, by Fisher-Price [] Re: Kurt Vonegutn, Jr. [gSs ] RE: My new hobby: Googlewhacking [hamish_simpson@agilent.com] Tsk. Tsk ["Redtailed Hawk" ] Re: Tsk. Tsk [Capuchin ] Finally, a Googlewhack! [glen uber ] Corduroy Pillows ["Mike Wells" ] Re: Let Me Roll It [Brian ] Re: Finally, a Googlewhack! [Aaron Mandel ] Happy Waitangi Day! ["Fric Chaud" ] april gigs update ["n'woj" ] RH 0% DVD ? [Brian ] RE: RH 0% DVD ? ["Poole, R. Edward" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:34:54 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Let Me Roll It > Does the original have that half off beat intro where the bass comes in > a half beat before the drums? Am I making any sense? You are, and it does! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:33:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Let Me Roll It On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Brian wrote: > I finally got the Paul McCartney Tribute disc, and I have to say > it was a worthy purchase (much better than the Marine Girls disc > which came on the same day). > The Soft Boys' Let Me Roll It is a pleasure to listen to. I must > say, I've never heard the original. Is this version true to it? Does > the original have that half off beat intro where the bass comes in > a half beat before the drums? Am I making any sense? You mean the bit in the riff where it unexpectedly goes Diddly-um do do do da-doyng da-doyng? That's on 'Band on the Run' all right. BotR is actually quite a good album - give it a listen! - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:54:01 -0800 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Mr Fegg My husband, Mr Python, who has a copy, says there is no explanation in the book about the name... eleanore On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 06:07 AM, Michael R Godwin wrote: > I note a letter in today's Grauniad from "Terry Jones, London". His > e-mail > address is given as feggfeat@macline.co.uk. > > Did anyone ever get a copy of Bert Fegg's Nasty Book? Was there an > explanation of the name? > > > - Mike Godwin > > PS Grump of the week was a news item stating that police were seeking a > man living under an "assumed alias". What other kind of alias is there? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:23:49 -0800 From: anansi Subject: hair, fat, rock > From: "Redtailed Hawk" > > On a whole I agree with this. However, I really did enjoy rocking out > to the > Soft Boys. Which makes for a delemma. On one hand --I want the SBs to > rock, > on the other hand, I agree that most middle-aged rockers need to change > gears. Why do I think Robyn & Co can do it while others can not? Could > I be > showing ... bias? Personally, I couldn't care less how old a musician is. It's what's on the record, baby. > I propose the hair to fat ratio as being the deciding factor for old > fart > rock. I assume "old" is key -- otherwise we are forced to conclude that Black Francis was and remains unable to rock. I would have to question that conclusion. It also allows for the skeletal Mick Jagger to be able to rock possibly after death, which would seem to contradict the conventional wisdom. > From: "ross taylor" [Vonnegut] > He could be very funny in > person, and his books were my introduction to > black humor, but now I tend to think his > charactors are kind of thin. I suspect, like > many 60s bohemians, he was just barely there > with womens lib. I tend to agree with you on these points. His books are unbearably depressing, but I still have enjoyed most of what I've read. > From: Capuchin > > Viv got me a great Office of Homeland Security T-shirt (when she first > saw > it, she thought OHS was a joke... then she learned there really IS an > OHS, > she made me wear the shirt all the time). To me, OHS means Oneida High School. I suppose only its lack of reach makes my institution the less evil one. Drew ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:49:35 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: My First Googlewhack, by Fisher-Price zanzithophone pot 80 x 3,820,000 = 305,600,000 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:10:04 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: Kurt Vonegutn, Jr. > Oh, yes, uh, HOW ABOUT THOSE FUCKING PATRIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought patriots were rats? gSs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:46:28 -0700 From: hamish_simpson@agilent.com Subject: RE: My new hobby: Googlewhacking oops, wrong score slurping (116,000) x fluvial (155,000) = 17,980,000,000 - -----Original Message----- From: SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Sonoma,ex1) Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:38 PM To: 'fegmaniax@smoe.org' Subject: RE: My new hobby: Googlewhacking slurping (82,000) x fluvial (155,000) = 12,710,000,000 And I checked this one! (H) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 19:48:19 +0000 From: "Redtailed Hawk" Subject: Tsk. Tsk Dolefully I must proclaim that I have noticed a deplorable tendency among Fegs to waste their minds away in the gutter. Tsk. tsk. I will not name names, so as not to embarass T*m, R*ss, Br**n, S*b*st**n or any of the other low-minded apes on this list. No, I will merely make a mild suggestion as to a possible pallative for their miserable, mishapen outlooks. This is from the New Yorker, which got it from the Lexington Belmont Citizen-Herald: "The Celibate Hilton in Louisville, Ky., is offering its winter "Celibate Experience" packages, with discounts. No hourly rates available." May I suggest you all consider a -long- vacation Kay, never a comidienne, but sometimes a comedy Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue and brain not; either both, or nothing, Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such As sense can not untie, Be what it is The action of my life is like it, which I'll keep, if but for sympathy Shakespeare, Cymbeline, V:4:145 _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:54:51 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Tsk. Tsk On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Redtailed Hawk wrote: > Dolefully I must proclaim that I have noticed a deplorable tendency among > Fegs to waste their minds away in the gutter. Tsk. tsk. I first read this to say, "a deplorable tendency among Fegs to waste their minds away on the guitar. Tsk. Tsk." Heh. I noticed that, too. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 13:46:56 -0800 From: glen uber Subject: Finally, a Googlewhack! I got a single hit and my first legitimate Googlewhack on the following: microsoftless macintosh 6 X 5,790,000 = 34,740,000 Is 'microsoftless' really a word? - -- Cheers! - -g- - ------------------ Glen Uber -+- uberg (at) sonic dot net ------------------ "Don't ever walk into a Scottish pub and order an American beer because they will bend you over the bar and rape you out of respect." - --Jay Mohr ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:02:30 -0600 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Corduroy Pillows Headline of the week: Bush Pushes Budget for Bioterrorism in Pittsburgh That's OK, I never really liked Pittsburgh that much anyway. Good riddance. Michael "let's do Gary, IN next" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:03:47 -0500 From: Brian Subject: Re: Let Me Roll It At Tuesday, 5 February 2002, Michael R Godwin wrote: >On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Brian wrote: >> I finally got the Paul McCartney Tribute disc, and I have to say >> it was a worthy purchase (much better than the Marine Girls disc >> which came on the same day). >> The Soft Boys' Let Me Roll It is a pleasure to listen to. I must >> say, I've never heard the original. Is this version true to it? Does >> the original have that half off beat intro where the bass comes in >> a half beat before the drums? Am I making any sense? > >You mean the bit in the riff where it unexpectedly goes >Diddly-um do do do da-doyng da-doyng? That's on 'Band on the Run' all >right. > >BotR is actually quite a good album - give it a listen! > >- Mike Godwin This song is on 'Band on the Run?' Come to think of it I have this on vinyl. Hmm? I'll have to break that out and give it a listen! Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:46:45 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Finally, a Googlewhack! On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, glen uber wrote: > Is 'microsoftless' really a word? In the google topbar where it says 'searched the web for microsoftless macintosh', it underlines words that are in the dictionary. Serious googlewhackers (not itself a googlewhack but certainly a phrase that would make any reasonable person wonder what the hell they were doing in this conversation) only accept dictionary words. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 07:36:07 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Happy Waitangi Day! ... or is it? - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:01:25 -0500 From: "n'woj" Subject: april gigs update per the museum: April 8: Atlanta, Smith's Old Barn April 12: New York City, the Bottom Line April 16: Chicago, Park West April 21: Seattle, The Crocodile April 23: San Francisco, Great American Music Hall April 27: West Hollywood, Cafe Largo note the change from april 10 to april 12 for the new york show and the no-longer tba cafe largo date. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:17:07 -0500 From: Brian Subject: RH 0% DVD ? Yep. It's time for me to enter the world of DVD. Does anyone know if the Pioneer DV 343 is a good buy? Will it play my Gotta Let This Hen Out DVD? Will it play bootleg VCDs? Yikes. I know nothing of this stuff. Does it play European DVDs. Should I care? Any advice, I'm thankful for. Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:22:38 -0500 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: RE: RH 0% DVD ? Nupper-Mon: >Yep. It's time for me to enter the world of DVD. OK. I won't tell you what to buy, but I will give you some features to think about. 1. Multi-Media Support. Every machine is going to play commercial DVDs, many are going to play CD-R and CD-RW, but what about DVD-R & DVD-RAM (two writable-DVD formats)? Right now the industry is at a beta/VHS type juncture, where there is no industry "standard" for writable DVD. In the future, some form of DVD recording technology will be standard on home players/recorders (which now is much more common in the home computer environment, rather than the home entertainment market), so it would be nice to have a player that will be compatible with that next generation of media. At the risk of irritating some folks, I'll mention that a certain home computer company that was named after a fruit currently markets a DVD-R recorder/player with its high-end machines. To show how useful this format is, they maintain a list of DVD players that can read DVD-R media. See: http://www.apple.com/dvd/compatibility/ (it looks like your Pioneer machine is on the list). 2. Multi-Standard Support. I'm probably naming this incorrectly, but the idea is to get a unit that can play a host of different types of shiny discs: CD-Audio (most if not all these days will play commercial CDs), MP3 (many support CD-R or CD-RW discs of MP3 files), and MPEG-1 / VCD (many support VCD format) being the most common (on top of MPEG-2/DVD, of course). 3. Audio output If you are now, or ever plan to be, a home theater owner, you'll want, at a minimum, a unit that has digital audio output, DTS-compatible for the serious audiophiles. For me, analog audio is just fine, especially when I route it through my stereo. 4. Video output Whether this matters to you depends largely on your TV. Do you have a high-end, flat screen HDTV with component video input (i.e., where the video signal is broken down into separate color signals)? Or are you hooking your machine up to an old TV through the coaxial cable? I have a relatively newish TV (3 years or so), and though it is nothing fancy, it has component video input -- and I will testify that the video quality is much higher than using the coax out from the DVD player. So, get a unit with component video if you can. If your TV can handle S-Video, that would be the second choice. 5. Audio and video converters Here, the techies will have to help you out. Suffice to say that different units have different digital-to-analog converters, which take the DVD data and convert it into a signal your TV can read. My box ($250 3 1/2 years ago) is, I'm sure, on the low-end on this score, but I think it looks great. I'm sure a true geek about this stuff could show you how deficient my set-up is, but this is really for the high-end snobs to worry about. That's pretty much the main features to consider. You should be able to find enough info out there to make valid comparisons along these lines. Although I wouldn't advise making your purchase there, Amazon is a good place to do research -- under "technical specs" you should find data on all of the features listed above, and a lot more I didn't mention. See, e.g. http://shorterlink.com/?XZ3N33 Hope this is helpful -- and not more confusing. For further study, I recommend Jim Taylor's excellent DVD FAQ, which you can find here: http://dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html - -ed ============================================================================This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. This communication may contain material protected by attorney-client, work product, or other privileges. 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