From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #158 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, May 31 2004 Volume 13 : Number 158 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Geek Test ["Fortissimo" ] Re: e-bay question [Tom Clark ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #157 [grutness@surf4nix.com] geeks-a-poppin' ["Michael Wells" ] Re: geeks-a-poppin' [Dolph Chaney ] soccer moms [Jill Brand ] Re: geeks-a-poppin' ["Stewart C. Russell" ] RE: REAP [Scott Hunter McCleary ] Re: Saxophone help--OT [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Portland Fegs: Dan Jones & (occasionally) The Squids [0% RH] ["Stewart C.] Fwd: [Embrionic] New Largo show available for download! [steve ] Re: Geek Test ["Fortissimo" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 17:47:21 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Geek Test On Sun, 30 May 2004 11:30:12 -0700 (PDT), "Jeff Dwarf" said: > http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html > > I only scored 14.59566% - Geekish Tendencies. 22.2897% - Geek. Pretty good for someone who's essentially computer-ignorant... And the fucking millennium did *not* begin in 2001, except for pedants. Hmmph. - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Solipsism is its own reward :: :: --Crow T. Robot ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 15:53:49 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: e-bay question On May 30, 2004, at 4:44 AM, Jill Brand wrote: > Any suggestions on how I can tell e-bay that > this business is probably selling Chinese knock-offs of copywritten > movies? > http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/bootlegs.html - -tc - -- Tom Clark Developer Technical Support Apple Worldwide Developer Relations tc@apple.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 13:14:19 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #157 oh my ghu - 29.5714% geek. Serves me right for having a job that requires geekiness. That and the science fiction. I probably got scored down for watching virtually no TV. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 21:11:01 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: geeks-a-poppin' Yikes! If no one tops 30.96647% I'm going to feel like...wait for it...a Total Geek. Michael "I guess all that AD&D finally paid off" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 21:39:52 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: geeks-a-poppin' At 09:11 PM 5/30/2004, Michael Wells wrote: >Yikes! If no one tops 30.96647% I'm going to feel like...wait for it...a Total >Geek. Fear not - I was over 31%. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:58:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: soccer moms Natalie wrote (probably not trying to offend anyone on this list): "Seeing the soccer mom next to us FREAKING OUT to "It's the End of the World" was also rather entertaining...." There are leftists and centrists and somewhat rightists, there are straight people and gay people, there are metal fans and those with more Nick Drake sensibilities on this list. But there are also soccer moms. Or there is at least one. Me. My daughter was in a tournament this weekend and I went to four games. I also saw REM open for the English Beat somewhere around 1983. And I saw Hendrix (he's always a good name to pull out for shock value) right before he died at the Winter Festival for Peace at Madison Square Garden. I was backstage with U2 in Denver months after Boy was released because my friends were in the opening band. There are soccer moms who like Whitney Houston. There are also soccer moms whose kids can sing Uncorrected Personality Traits in harmony on the way to far-flung soccer games. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 23:38:08 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: geeks-a-poppin' Dolph Chaney wrote: > > Fear not - I was over 31%. 32.74% -- Total Geek. Stewart (just back from a qawwali concert, which entirely rocked.) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 01:37:51 -0400 From: Scott Hunter McCleary Subject: RE: REAP I still have my dad's consummate anti-Nixon bumpersticker around here someplace: "Impeach the Cox-Sacker." - -- Scott Hunter McCleary P.O. Box 6163 Arlington, VA 22206 www.prodigaldog.com www.1480khz.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 09:48:20 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Saxophone help--OT Hi Marcy, - -- Marcy Tanter is rumored to have mumbled on Sonntag, 30. Mai 2004 8:06 Uhr -0500 regarding Saxophone help--OT: > Our son Robyn is going to start learning the saxophone in the fall. which flavor? Alto, tenor, soprano? > He'll be 11, is tall and lanky (if that matters??). It does to some degree. I think you need to have a certain height to be able to properly hold a tenor or baritone sax. > We can rent him a > saxophone for about $30/month That sounds steep to me. When I started playing, my parents could rent one for 6 months from my community music school virtually for free ... that was 20 years ago, though. After 6 months I had to get my own. > but I'm looking on ebay and I see > saxophones for sale for less than $300. I know nothing about > instruments--would it be a waste to buy one online? I don't have any experience with that, but ... > If not, what are > good brands, what should I look for? I'm partial to Yamaha saxes. Old-schoolers prefer Selmer, but Yamaha saxes are much easier to play for beginners. > Any assistance would be really, really appreciated!! Here's a good buyer's guide: Cheers, Sebastian PS: I don't play anymore. When I started, I was into bands like Wham! and Spandau Ballet. Then I discovered R.E.M., Velvet Underground, The Smiths etc. and suddenly the saxophone didn't have a place in my life anymore. I still have it, but I just take it out to look at it sometimes ;-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 12:24:03 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Portland Fegs: Dan Jones & (occasionally) The Squids [0% RH] Any of the Oreganofegs heard (of) folky power-poppist Dan Jones? Just that: a) he's a very very old friend of Catherine's b) you might like his music. He has a vaguely helpful website: I'd buy his most recent CD, but his label wants an absurd amount for shipping to Canada -- more than the CD itself, mort bleu. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 14:59:01 -0500 From: steve Subject: Fwd: [Embrionic] New Largo show available for download! Here's another Jon Brion Largo show. No Robyn, but Eno. Begin forwarded message: > Hey, > > Sorry I took so long, but I was burning a little too much BW on my > server so I decided to wait a little bit before putting on the next > show. Anyway, if you go to: > > http://www.gregingber.com/embrionic.html > > You can download a "largo8-16-96.zip" a 63.8mb zip file that contains > songs such as: Almost Blue, Rags to Rags, If I was your Girlfriend, > Riding in My Car and many more. Now, since the last time I put one of > these up, my upload rate has been throttled. That means that the more > people that are downloading for me at any given time, the longer it > will take for you to complete. So, while many of you might be itching > to download the file right now, you might be less frustrated if you > wait a few days and try it then, when there might be less demand. > > Anyway, I hope you enjoy it, and MADD PROPS once again go out to the > anonymous benefactor who sent me these shows so I can make them > available you all! - - Steve __________ If the president fell flat on his face in the middle of the Rose Garden some of these characters would applaud his uncanny foresight in having arranged for the ground to be in just the right place to break his descent. Shades of the personality cult. - Josh Marshall, on the right wing echo chamber ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 12:59:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: geeks-a-poppin' On Sun, 30 May 2004, Dolph Chaney wrote: > At 09:11 PM 5/30/2004, Michael Wells wrote: > >Yikes! If no one tops 30.96647% I'm going to feel like...wait for > >it...a Total Geek. > > Fear not - I was over 31%. Yeah, I scored pretty high. I actually seem to recall that we took this test before. Just so's y'all know: 53.64891% - Super Geek Yay. I blame my childhood. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:12:58 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Geek Test On Mon, 31 May 2004 10:15:54 +0200, "Sebastian Hagedorn" said: > -- Fortissimo is rumored to have mumbled on > Sonntag, 30. Mai 2004 17:47 Uhr -0500 regarding Re: Geek Test: > > > And the fucking millennium did *not* begin in 2001, except for pedants. > > Well, being a geek entails being pedantic, doesn't it? I got 25%, Total > Geek ;-) > > And yes, the millennium *did* begin in 2001. And the 1990s began in 1991, right? Same logic. The "millennium" exists only as the time-based equivalent to an odometer rolling over: it's all the zeroes that's significant to people, insofar as it's significant at all. That it was 2000 years since the beginning of this calendar (which, of course, it wasn't) isn't relevant to most people. In other words, what was being commemorated *was* those three zeroes in the year - not a round-numbered anniversary of some non-existent year. I think I just get at least another 10.53678% just for arguing this. ;) Oh - and for not misspelling "millennium" with only one "n." - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: crumple zones:: :: harmful or fatal if swallowed :: :: small-craft warning :: ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #158 ********************************