From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #298 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, December 25 2005 Volume 14 : Number 298 Today's Subjects: ----------------- 12.05 a.m. [James Dignan ] Re: Merry Christmas! [James Dignan ] Re: Merry Christmas ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Ripping 0th tracks [2fs ] Re: Merry Christmas [Eb ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #297 [M R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:06:23 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: 12.05 a.m. It's Christmas! Happies everyone! 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, 25 Dec 2005 00:09:14 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Merry Christmas! oops - seems you got the long "Mery Christmas message" rather than the short one. Ah well, at least you know what I did in the last few months. 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: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:04:08 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: Merry Christmas Right back at you James. Hope it's a great one for you. Christmas will be nearly over for you by the time mine has begun. It should be a weird one--I'm full of some strong painkillers from a serious traffic accident I was in this week. It's really given me a chance to learn that my neighbors are great people. Things should work out. Fortunately the year has been more full of travels than trials. I took a 2 week Mediterranean cruise with my mom, went to music festivals in Coachella, CA and Austin, TX, and visited my brother's family in Kona, Hawaii twice (just got back on the 15th)--his wife, Wendy, works for the Kona Brewery, so we had gallons of tasty beers over the week. My favorite was the Kona Buzz Stout (the batch was made with 10 Lbs of Kona coffee added in), weighing in at 8.5%, which I guess technically makes it a malt liquor. Life is great over there, and I'd consider a move there, but the music scene in extremely weak. Maybe I'll have to set it up as a part of the year thing to avoid the Arizona winters, which are too cold for my taste--at least we're supposed to hit the 80's during the daytime this weekend, but we've had a stretch of night time lows in the 30's and low 40's that I could do without. I haven't missed the cold since I moved from Baltimore. Sounds like a successful year for you, James, which is great to hear. You really have worked hard for it. Wish I could stop by for your art exhibition, but for now I'll have to settle for your on-line display (when are you going to post the 2005 works?). What flags are you flying lately? I don't recall that as being part of your recent posts. Hope to meet again someday. Maybe you'll make it this way at some point. You could do a whole US Feg home tour, basically on the cost of airfare alone. I'd be more than willing to give a you a place to stay here in Tempe, whenever you like, and drive you to/from the next Feg on your itinerary (if you're brave enough to ride with me, after hearing about this week's car adventures). There would be cats, a large music library, I'd show you the local sights, and I won't try to serve you any food with tomatoes in it. Consider it okay? I'm sure that together this group could arrange a pretty amazing American expedition. I'm pretty sure that this makes a bit of sense and it's not just the medication talking. If you're interested, I'll offer the first contribution to your airfare fund. Of course, we'd want to coordinate it with a Robyn show or two... Any thoughts on this? Happiest of holidays and best wishes for everyone in 2006. Mele Kalekemaka, Marc "I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves." Emo Philips ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:23:12 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Ripping 0th tracks On 12/24/05, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Anyone have any ideas on how one could pull it off? Are you talking about CD tracks that appear before the first track, which you have to rewind to get to? If so, any ripper that supports extracting a range of the recording (rather than solely tracks) should work. The standard is Exact Audio Copy . - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:44:55 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Merry Christmas Marc Holden wrote: > I'm full of some strong painkillers from a serious traffic accident > I was in this week. It's really given me a chance to learn that my > neighbors are great people. Things should work out. I'd say this saga requires more details! Or did you not mean to send this note to the list? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 04:06:38 +0000 From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #297 Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > fegmaniax-digest Saturday, December 24 2005 Volume 14 : Number 297 > Re: Beckinsalemaniax [James Dignan ] > Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #296 [James Dignan ] > Merry Christmas! [James Dignan ] > > > >- - Mike Godwin > >PS You're wrong, Stewart, about those Ronnie Barker and Leonard > >Rossiter classics! Luckily no-one else knows what we are arguing > >about... > Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:30:34 +1300 > From: James Dignan > Subject: Re: Beckinsalemaniax > you're wrong there... Ronnie worked best when he had either a good > foil (Beckinsale, Jason, Corbett) or was in monologue direct to > camera. Rossiter could hold his own very well without or as the > stand-out in a surrounding support cast (as with Reggie Perrin). > Beckinsale was excellent, mind you, as series like "The Lovers" > proved. Whatever happened to Paula Wilcox, arouser of teenage > hormones all those years ago? > James * James, old mate, I was forgetting that UK culture was not confined to the N Hemisphere. Totally agree re RonnieB's solo to-camera work, Beckinsale, and Corbett, but I have a blind spot about OAH. I preferred DJ as Captain Fantastic or Insp Frost - I don't even like the show with the Reliant Robin, which gets massive ratings. * V interesting how Barker 'adopted' Jason in the way that the illustrious Alastair Sim adopted George Cole. > >Actually, with the BBC America and Canada channels, all the old classics > >can be seen here from time to time. Can you believe they reran /On The > >Buses/? a rather anachronistic friend of mine still occasionally uses the > line "I'll get you for that, Butler!" * Since the demise of the Routemasters, all channels have been scraping the barrel for bus-related items such as On the buses and of course Summer Holiday. As a former bus spotter(?) can you enlighten me about which bus Flanders and Swann were referring to as "a big 6-wheeler, scarlet painted, 97 hp omnibus"? I think they must have had a trolleybus in mind. - - Mike Godwin n.p. The Burl Ives Songbook PS I spotted Pauline Collins in Bleak House last week but have no info on PW ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #298 ********************************