From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #78 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, April 9 2006 Volume 15 : Number 078 Today's Subjects: ----------------- it only remains for me to thank... ["michael wells" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 11:50:29 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: it only remains for me to thank... .Gene and his lovely wife for a) accompanying us to dinner last weekend in San Antonio, and no less importantly b) initiating us into the fraternity of Salt Lick*. It's been said before but bears repeating: fegs are the nicest people. Michael * I used to cook for a living, and I even cooked in the South for a living, so I've had me some BBQ in my time.but good Lord, this was unreal. One of the best foods of any kind I have ever eaten. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 02:12:21 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #76 Hi gang I'm back from a literally cosmic time on the beach at Side, plus gorgeous sightseeing in Antalya, Ephesus, Aphrodisias (stunning!) and Ankara, where the Angora House hotel near the top of the citadel is highly recommended. The proprietor, Ahmed, plays the saz and took my to a music shop to buy one. However, I realised that I hadn't put enough effort into buying sazes in the past, so I bought two for 200 YTL: one acoustic and new, one electric and very secondhand. Totally blissed out - - Mike Godwin PS My mate Rich has a bouzouki and we are planning to do saz-bouzouki duets. Tentative title of the band "The Green Line" (get it? - we'are talking Nicosia here...) PPS Anybody (this means you, Brian) up for staring through Box Tunnel at dawn on Sunday to check out the rumours? It is the 200th anniversary after all! If poss, bring Jenny Agutter and some red petticoats... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:53:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: the astronomer slayer? On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, michael wells wrote: > I thought Chris Gross would appreaciate this. > > Inexplicable path > > On Dec. 13, another group said they'd found an object half the mass of Pluto > orbiting twice as far from the Sun as Neptune. The object's path has them > puzzled. > > The faraway world is catalogued as 2004 XR 190 and known temporarily as > Buffy. It was discovered as part of the Legacy Survey on the Canada France > Hawaii Telescope. Yeah, I saw that. I hope they haven't stressed out too much about trying to explain Buffy's orbit. Slayers are just exceptional, Buffy most of all. Hopefully this will start a trend of naming astronomical objects after my favorite TV females. They could start with Willow, Tara, Anya, Faith of course, then maybe Darla and Drusilla, Cordelia, Winifred, Illyria, oh and certainly Lilah, River, Zoe, Kaylee, Inara, and YoSaphBridge. Then, let's see: Kara Thrace, Veronica Mars, Claire Fisher, Dana Scully, Lindsay Weir, Emma Peel, Lisa Simpson, Leela, Gaz.... So the discoverer gets to pick the name, right? I'm definitely buying a block of time on the Hubble space telescope. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #78 *******************************