From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #190 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, June 30 2004 Volume 13 : Number 190 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: downloaded Maggot Brain ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Odd Googling: ["Fortissimo" ] Re: Odd Googling: [James Dignan ] One time, at band camp [Sebastian Hagedorn ] HELP!!! [tanter@tarleton.edu] Re: Odd Googling: [Ken Weingold ] Re: god is a sell-out [] Re: HELP!!! [] Re: Odd Googling: ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: HELP!!! [tanter@tarleton.edu] Re: god is a sell-out [Tom Clark ] Re: god is a sell-out [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: god is a sell-out [Jeff Dwarf ] Can (Bees Sold Separately) ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Odd Googling: ["Rex Broome" ] Re: Can (Bees Sold Separately) [Jon Lewis ] Feg art cont'd. ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Odd Googling: [James Dignan ] The greatest thing to happen to justice and liberty, since the Magna Carta. (NR) [steve Subject: Re: downloaded Maggot Brain Barbara Soutar wrote: > > Goodbye to health care I was thinking, but whew! Be thankful you're not in Ontariariario, with the $600/head health tax that's coming in. Stewart (very glad of the election result) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:50:18 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Odd Googling: On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:50:36 -0400, "FSThomas" said: > So I'm looking for a specific Cthulhu image, right? I'm happily image > Googling, and, what do I find? Fresh Quail. > > The search: > http://images.google.com/images?q=cthulhu&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=480&sa=N > > The find: > http://www.mwmw.com/doug/feg98/quail05.html You do know this is the site of a (former?) listmember, no? - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: "In two thousand years, they'll still be looking for Elvis - :: this is nothing new," said the priest. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:19:29 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Odd Googling: >On a completely different note: Another hobby/work avoidance technique >is to google a name (under the "image" search) and see what exact >matches come up. I get a lot of my ideas for paintings that way... I call it 'driftnetting', because I drift around the net, trawling for random pics. Another intriguing idea is just to type in random strings of alphanumerics. You often come up with strange results. 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: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:11:32 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: One time, at band camp - --On Dienstag, 29. Juni 2004 18:50 Uhr -0400 fingerpuppets wrote: > one time at band camp, FSThomas said: I just watched the first two movies for the first time. When they originally came out, I thought they were beneath me. All the German critics treated them like the downfall of Western civilization. I still consider them a guilty pleasure at best, but now that I have introduced myself to Buffy The Vampire Slayer (the first two seasons so far), I am on a mission to watch everything Alyson Hannigan has ever done ;-) I gather that's not the most original obsession ... I just checked my archives and noticed that Woj has been using this "quote introducer" previously, but then I had no idea what he was referring to. Cheers, Sebastian - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:54:45 -0500 (CDT) From: tanter@tarleton.edu Subject: HELP!!! Folks, my mouse has died--I can't figure out why, it's a Dell Logitech optical. I changed the batteries and it won't move. I've been pissing around with my computer for over an hour and I've got a boxc in the middle of my screen telling me I can't connect to exploreer while I'm offline and I can't get the box off so I can't seen te middle of the screen! I'm trying to find thephone # for Dell and can't find it on this f;ing computer! I hate Dell--we'e had nothing but trouble since we got this 3 yrs ago. Please...if anyone is out there, please tell me what to do (but keep your words on the left and right hand sides of the screen so I can read what you say...!( Thanks...anyone..... Marcy ARGH!!! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:16:22 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Odd Googling: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004, James Dignan wrote: > I get a lot of my ideas for paintings that way... I call it > 'driftnetting', because I drift around the net, trawling for random > pics. > > Another intriguing idea is just to type in random strings of > alphanumerics. You often come up with strange results. One tip is to take the weird number of a file from a digital camera and put it into the Google image search and see what weird stuff you come up with. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:34:50 -0500 From: Subject: Re: god is a sell-out [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:09 , Christopher Hintz sent: >If I were God, and the world treated me as it treated Him, I would kick >the wretched thing to pieces. >--Martin Luther god is a liar, a coward and a thief and he only deserves what we give him. he reminds me of a lazy gardener. gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:30:19 -0500 From: Subject: Re: HELP!!! [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:54 , tanter@tarleton.edu sent: >Folks, my mouse has died--I can't figure out why, it's a Dell Logitech >optical. switch the port where the mouse plugs in and reset the computer. i assume it's usb, right? you should have at least one, maybe three more. if something else is plugged into the other usb port, remove it and plug in the mouse. the ide controllers on pc's sometimes drop off and then you have to use the slave on the primary controller or the master or slave on the secondary controller. this doen't happend often but it is normally followed by more failures. this might not be what has happened with the usb controller, but it won't hurt to try. gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:54:48 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Odd Googling: Ken sed: > > One tip is to take the weird number of a file from a digital camera > and put it into the Google image search and see what weird stuff you > come up with. whoh! This is so cool! TIP: it helps to choose a low number, well under 100. The higher numbers are rarer. You might want to enable 'Safe Search' too, just in case, since digital is the new polaroid ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:26:16 -0500 (CDT) From: tanter@tarleton.edu Subject: Re: HELP!!! Well, it took me an hour last night but I finally found a number for Dell. It turns out that I needed to reset the mouse. A 2 minute phone call for an hour's frustration....I still hate Dell. We've had so many problems with this computer from a noisy fan to keyboards freezing (we're on our 4th wireless keyboard, not due to our dropping or something) to the computer freezing..........and Dell's first response is they want you to use their web site before you call but hte web site doesn't always cover the problem or they expect you to know how to mess with things. Thanks to all who tried to help! (Greg, Ken, etc.) Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:42:09 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: god is a sell-out On Jun 30, 2004, at 6:34 AM, gshell@americangroupisp.com wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:09 , Christopher Hintz sent: >> If I were God, and the world treated me as it treated Him, I would >> kick >> the wretched thing to pieces. >> --Martin Luther > > god is a liar, a coward and a thief and he only deserves what we give > him. > he reminds me of a lazy gardener. > It's not even worth discussing; there is no such thing as "God". - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:18:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: god is a sell-out Tom Clark wrote: > It's not even worth discussing; there is no such thing as > "God". That's not true. Everybody knows it's track 10 on _Plastic Ono Band._ ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin "I'm going to keep playing music until somebody shoots me." -- Scott McCaughey "It would not now surprise me in the least if, one night on TV, right there during The Memo, [Bill] O'Reilly declared himself to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia." -- Charles Pierce on MSNBC.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:30:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: god is a sell-out Tom Clark wrote: > It's not even worth discussing; there is no such thing as > "God". That's not true. Everybody knows it's track 10 on _Plastic Ono Band._ ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin "I'm going to keep playing music until somebody shoots me." -- Scott McCaughey "It would not now surprise me in the least if, one night on TV, right there during The Memo, [Bill] O'Reilly declared himself to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia." -- Charles Pierce on MSNBC.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:36:52 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Can (Bees Sold Separately) Jon Lewis: >>All the Can discs have been readily available domestically for several >>years, at domestic price. Yeah, the print/layout on the back does look >>kind of cheap, but they all sound great. And you have to own the >>individual albums to have the astounding full-length original versions >>of "Mother Sky" and "Halleluwah" (from Soundtracks and Tago Mago >>respectively) Unfortunately "domestic price", at least at the only place where I regularly see Can's albums available (that being the Virgin Mehhhgastore) has come to mean "damn near $18". I see Amazon has them for less, but there's that whole shipping thing. I've looked at their catalog as a "catch as catch can*" thing for years, but never actually caught any. - -Rex *pun unintended and unnoticed until just now... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:57:47 -0700 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: Odd Googling: James: >I get a lot of my ideas for paintings that way... I call it >'driftnetting', because I drift around the net, trawling for random >pics. Having just perused your updated site, I can say that I like the results quite a bit. It brings to mind another weird idea, seeing as how I've been painting like mad myself recently: the visual equivalent of Tinfoil Thoths, original visual art by fegs... who else does this kind of thing? Ideally if TT had been professionally packaged it would've had that kind of thing incorprated into its packaging... seeing as how at least James and I were already on the disc musically and Nat's 3D work provided the title. - -Rex Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:08:46 -0400 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: Can (Bees Sold Separately) On Wednesday, June 30, 2004, at 02:36 PM, Rex.Broome wrote: >>> > > Unfortunately "domestic price", at least at the only place where I > regularly see Can's albums available (that being the Virgin > Mehhhgastore) has come to mean "damn near $18". I see Amazon has them > for less, but there's that whole shipping thing. I've looked at their > catalog as a "catch as catch can*" thing for years, but never actually > caught any. > Fair enough. Says I, pay full price for Tago Mago. It was a double LP, so you get mucho kraut for your buck; plus it's the most important one to have in its intended form. Also, it and Ege Bamyasi are the ones that NEVER turn up used. With Tago Mago and the two Cannibalisms you've already got, you'd have a damn good slab of their most essential schtuff. But if you see them used, all of the records up to and including 1975 are well worth owning in full. (Most hilarious error on the Pitchfork Top 100 70's list: in the write-up for Tago Mago, fella states that they after Malcolm Mooney's sudden departure, they found Damo Suzuki "bussing in a Munich restaurant". BUSKing, my friend, busking. Not bussing. Busking on a Munich sidewalk. I know it'd be a better story if Czukay picked their new vocalist on the basis of his TABLE SERVICE, but no, he was actually singing.) On a related note, Amon Duul II's double-LP Yeti is also no ripoff on CD timewise, and happens to be a towering punk-prog masterpiece with an unbeatable cover image. Rex continues to James: >Having just perused your updated site, I can say that I like the results quite a bit. It >brings to mind another weird idea, seeing as how I've been painting like mad myself >recently: the visual equivalent of Tinfoil Thoths, original visual art by fegs... who else >does this kind of thing? My several comics series (True Swamp, Ghost Ship, and Spectacles) kind of count and kind of don't. Obviously, there's several hundred pages of visual art there, but it's all driven by story. Halfway between visual, er, "pieces" and the sheets of a novel manuscript. There's the whole matter, too of their being only meant to be seen in mass-reproduced form and not directly in person. Certainly I'm not one of those cartoonists who get asked to hang their original pages in gallery shows. Jon Lewis (np: disc 2 of T. Buckley's Dream Letter Live... breaking my heart yet again) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:23:25 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Feg art cont'd. Jon L: >>Fair enough. Says I, pay full price for Tago Mago. It was a double >>LP, so you get mucho kraut for your buck; plus it's the most important >>one to have in its intended form. Also, it and Ege Bamyasi are the >>ones that NEVER turn up used. I know I've never seen a single Can studio album used or I would have some of them. If anyone's ever unfortunate enough to stumble across my highly embarrassing Amazon wishlist, they might note that the full Can catalog constitutes just about the earliest musical offerings I put on there, which is really an indication that I should start ponying up already! >>My several comics series (True Swamp, Ghost Ship, and Spectacles) kind >>of count and kind of don't. Obviously, there's several hundred pages >>of visual art there, but it's all driven by story. Halfway between >>visual, er, "pieces" and the sheets of a novel manuscript. There's the >>whole matter, too of their being only meant to be seen in >>mass-reproduced form and not directly in person. Certainly I'm not >>one of those cartoonists who get asked to hang their original pages in >>gallery shows. Oh, duh, I totally spaced out on our resident comics professional! Terrance Marks warrants a mention as well, if he's still around, although ISTR him being primarily if not exclusively a script guy. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:26:54 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Odd Googling: >James: >>I get a lot of my ideas for paintings that way... I call it >>'driftnetting', because I drift around the net, trawling for random >>pics. > >Having just perused your updated site, I can say that I like the >results quite a bit. thanks for that (and good to hear that someone has been looking at my site!) >It brings to mind another weird idea, seeing as how I've been >painting like mad myself recently: the visual equivalent of Tinfoil >Thoths, original visual art by fegs... who else does this kind of >thing? Ideally if TT had been professionally packaged it would've >had that kind of thing incorprated into its packaging... seeing as >how at least James and I were already on the disc musically and >Nat's 3D work provided the title. Although no longer on this list (AFAIK), the name lj Lindhurst should definitely be mentioned. 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: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:37:30 -0500 From: steve Subject: The greatest thing to happen to justice and liberty, since the Magna Carta. (NR) Another strange thing that made its way into my inbox, the deepest living voice on earth. - - Steve __________ Shortly after becoming Attorney General, John Ashcroft was headed abroad. An advance team showed up at the American embassy in the Hague to check out the digs, saw cats in residence, and got nervous. They were worried there might be a calico cat. No, they were told, no calicos. Visible relief. Their boss, they explained, believes calico cats are signs of the devil. - Andrew Tobias, 11/20/01 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #190 ********************************