From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #47 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, February 13 2007 Volume 16 : Number 047 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: How do you *want* it? (Is that salacious enough for you, Rex?) ["Mark] Colin, Robyn, etc. [Christopher ] RE: Colin, Robyn, Martin etc. [matt sewell ] Six Degrees of Colbert ["vivien lyon" ] Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) ["vivien lyon" ] Re: Fellow Fegs ! ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Six Degrees of Colbert [Rex ] Pieces of Pi ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Sebastian sagte [Jill Brand ] piping in [Jill Brand ] piping in ["vivien lyon" ] Re: piping in [Rex ] Re: piping in [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) [2fs ] Re: Six Degrees of Colbert [2fs ] Re: Six Degrees of Colbert [Rex ] Re: Six Degrees of Colbert ["vivien lyon" ] Re: Six Degrees of Colbert [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: piping in [2fs ] Re: Six Degrees of Colbert [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:17:57 -0500 From: "Mark P" Subject: Re: How do you *want* it? (Is that salacious enough for you, Rex?) Vine, tree, bush, whatever, please. I'm on dial up here at home so far as I'm concerned torrenting is out of the question but I have a ton of un-used server space o'er my Mitch World hosting concern ...could care less about limits either way even if I had any as I don't intend to keep it much longer, anyway ...so ... my offer if anyone is willing to accept and upload the video files there ...I can give whomever the keys to Mitch World USA dot net, you can perform an FTP upload, do the dirties of alerting the troops as per wheres and hows, all that ...thus they being there for anyone wanting said files ...so anyone can download from there as well. Just an thought - offer. Email me off list concerning all. ...or anything. m ... youamwho@gmail.com Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:48:58 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: How do you *want* it? (Is that salacious enough for you, Rex?) well, I'd prefer a Vine, but that would (I think) nessecitate the discs being single layer (owing to comparative paucity of Dual Layer trading). just my 2c. c* On 12/02/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > all right, so many of you are probably aware that a friend of bayard's has > been sending me DVDs to seed over at dime. well, the latest batch was a > set of three DVDs of teevee appearances and videos. i took the liberty of > cutting out some duplicate material and rearranging the running order, and > making a few other structural changes. in so doing, i was able to get > everything onto two discs. now there're a few more issues to deal with. > > all-told, it's about two hours of material, but was encoded at a very high > bit-rate, and with LPCM rather than AC-3 audio. so, would you rather it > be > shared as-is, or re-encoded to fit onto a single single-layer disc? and > if > as-is, would you rather the menu be set up to burn as a single > double-layer > disc, or two single-layer discs? (obviously, if the former, it could > still > be burnt onto two discs for those without dual-layer burners -- but they'd > have to create their own menus, or go without menus.) > > secondly, it can't be shared at dime, for various reasons. two alternate > trackers -- viz., yeeshkul! and purelivegigs -- have been suggested to me. > my own preference would be either to upload it to usenet, or to vine it. > > lemme know what you think, and i'll see if i can figure out what to do > with > it. > > > at any rate, here's what's on the discs: > > -- the soft boys performing "Only The Stones", 1980. > > -- the egyptians (including roger!) performing "Lightbulb Head", > "Uncorrected Personality Traits", "Heaven", and "Brenda's Iron Sledge"; > from the *Old Grey Whistle Test*. presumably 1985 -- anybody know exactly > when roger got the sack? > > -- the egyptians performing "Uncorrected Personality Traits" and > "Vibrating", and robyn yukking it up with kevin seal; from *120 Minutes*, > 1988. > > -- robyn performing "Raymond Chandler" in an empty room; 1990. > > -- a *Week In Rock* *Eye* feature in which robyn strolls around NYC with > his geetar; 1990. > > -- the egyptians performing "Birds In Perspex" and "Oceanside"; from > canadian teevee show *Much Music*, 1992. > > -- the egyptians performing "Ultra-Unbelievable Love" and "Oceanside"; > from > the dennis miller show; 1992. > > -- robyn performing "I Something You"; from the conan o'brien show, 1995. > > -- robyn performing "Devil's Radio"; from the spud goodman show, 1996. > > -- robyn performing "NASA Clapping" and "Dark Princess"; from the > *Circuit* > DVD, 1999. > > -- robyn performing "Freeze"; from *Reverb*, 1999. > > -- robyn talking about syd barrett and performing "Dominoes" and "It Is > Obvious"; from the *Pink Floyd And Syd Barrett Story* DVD, 2003. > > -- robyn performing "Full Moon In My Soul"; on WFMU, 2004. > > -- videos for: "Balloon Man", "Driving Aloud", the circle jerks' "I Wanna > Destroy You" (as told to beavis and butthead), "Madonna Of The Wasps", > "One > Long Pair Of Eyes", "Raymond Chandler", and "So You Think You're In Love". > > > i'd never seen the vid for "So You Think You're In Love" -- it's actually > pretty funny/cool. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:20:48 -0500 From: Christopher Subject: Colin, Robyn, etc. Well, Robyn seems to like him... so that counts for something, haters. Srsly, tho, not everyone is required to like the same things, right? So, it's cool. I tried to like Anton and couldn't get into him. See? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:12:18 +0000 From: matt sewell Subject: RE: Colin, Robyn, Martin etc. Aaaaah o'course you're right Rev... Horses for courses, meats and poisons, strokes, folks and smokes &c. And really I'm surprised you couldn't get into Anton... did you try osmosis? Also, would anyone like to give me some musical guidance..? Look at these Incredible String Band albums - lovely. And Pentangle... oooh lala... I have the first Fairport and wouldn't want to be without it. Richard Thompson? Of course I do. Wavy Davey Graham? Not yet but I'm planning to... In the light of the above, would anyone like to give me a pointer in the direction of Martin Carthy? Thanking y'all ta... Matt > From: revcph@bright.net> Subject: Colin, Robyn, etc.> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:20:48 -0500> To: fegmaniax@smoe.org> > Well, Robyn seems to like him...> so that counts for something, haters.> > Srsly, tho, not everyone is required to like the same things, right?> > So, it's cool.> > I tried to like Anton and couldn't get into him. See? _________________________________________________________________ Get the new Windows Live Messenger! http://get.live.com/messenger/overview ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:37:52 -0800 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Six Degrees of Colbert On 2/12/07, 2fs wrote: > > FWIW, Wikipedia has "0" as > identity. That makes sense to me - clearly, identity ought to be included, > and unless you resort to a negative number (why?), "0" is the best option. > "1" for "you know the person directly" is intuitive also: "1" is steps > away > from the person, "2" is 2 steps away, etc. I totally disagree, but I'm not in a fightin' mood. If the closest I can get to someone without actually knowing them is 2 degrees, that sort of takes the fun away, is all I'm saying. > See, I think that should be 2 degrees: if you knew Colbert or Sedaris, > that > would be 1 degree of separation. (If you *were* Stephen Colbert or Amy > Sedaris - and you know, most of us don't actually know that that's not > true > - that'd be 0.) So many of my fantasies revolve around me being Stephen Colbert. <-- not really kidding. And, actually, I share a startling number of qualities with Jeri Blank. <-- also not really kidding. > Anyway, I'm 2 degrees from Colbert also: a friend of mine went to college > with him (and a few other famous folks I can't recall - at Northwestern in > the early-mid '80s). Okay, but did your friend that went to college with him _know_ him? I don't think it counts if they were merely in physical proximity to him. Here's another question. I found out recently that my friend Kevin was at Second City at the same time as both Colbert and Sedaris, and knew them both. So that gives me two routes. Can one compile and/or pyramid degrees? V. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:41:59 -0800 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) On 2/12/07, ken ostrander wrote: > > > ok, so zero degrees for our peeps and one degree for people we know > impersonally? Well, that's what I'm saying, but it seems there's a bit of disagreement. To those who argue that zero degrees is "identity", I say- "degree" stands for social separation. Obviously we are all physically separate from each other (except at certain special moments). V. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:05:14 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Fellow Fegs ! i've got "Deck Of Cards" on a *flexi* -- but have been turntableless for a few years now. (i keep meaning to get a new one, but have never gotten around to it.) but i've got the other two on tape somewhere, and would be happy to upload to the so-called "world-wide web". remind me in a week or so if i've not gotten around to it before then. yes, it'll be very easy to do something like that with this collection. not to my knowledge -- 'cause the menus are written into the vobs. somebody chime in if i'm wrong, though. well, the bird is *composed* of jelly (i.e., it's a mythical creature). at least, that's been my interpretation. but then, i don't even fucking *like* jelly-bird eggs...which is why i'm perfectly content to let the *Alien* movies suck on them. i was talking about compressing the *video*, for what it's worth. but bayard's contact (damn, i oughta come up with a "lawndart"-style nickname) has since nixed that idea. if it comes down to it, does that include the porn trackers? no reason we can't do both, now that i think about it... okay, well, since i've broken bread with you on occasion, i think that makes me two steps from having seen the *Wall* tour. but what about somebody who looks at your pictures without actually meeting you? two-and-a-half steps? upload it to usenet, and we'll all be thanking *you*. it's all about sharing the tunes. man. now, off to go listen to "Shankill Butchers" for the ninety-hundredth time this week... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:06:24 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Six Degrees of Colbert On 2/13/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > > Okay, but did your friend that went to college with him _know_ him? I > don't > think it counts if they were merely in physical proximity to him. Maybe I assume too much, but I thought that a degree was basically constituted by a quantifiable connection, ideally a credited collaboration but perhaps descending to the level of "took a class with", or... erm... carnal knowledge, or perhaps best-friendship of an "I was in his wedding party" level. "Was once at a party with" or "lived in the same apartment building at the same time but didn't find out about that until years after we'd both moved out" wouldn't cut it. Okay, I guess it turns out that, without really expending any conscious effort on it, I've piled up a lot of imaginary "givens" about degree-hood. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:31:04 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Pieces of Pi Hi Fegs, Okay, that's a completely dopey thread title. But I needed a name for this thrilling thread which will have exciting moments in the life of times of pi. Today's pi-related trivia is from an article on searching algorithms. "Exaustive search is truly a creation of the computer era. Although the history of mathematics records amazing feats of paper-and-pencil computation, as a human activity, exhaustive search is boring, error-prone, exhausting, and never gets very far anyway. As a cautionary note, if any is needed, Ludolph van Ceulen died of exhaustion in 1610 after using regular polygons of 2^62 sides to obtain 35 decimal digits of pi - they are engraved on his tombstone." That's kind of heroic. And kind of pathetic as well. Well, it will help me better appreciate the trail of the dead leading to those billions of digits we now know. xo Lauren, dork - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:12:15 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: Sebastian sagte Sebastian wrote: "Im Lauf des Konzerts bin ich immer mehr reingekommen, was auch damit zusammenhing, dass Colin Meloy, der Saenger, ein sehr charismatischer Frontmann ist, der (in vielerlei Hinsicht) den Kontakt zum Publikum gesucht hat." You bet your ass. Nice review, Sebastian. Write me off-digest. I have about a zillion things for you. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:59:45 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: piping in Jon wrote: "Here's my tally: Barbeau's "Waterbugs and Beetles" -- about 3 listenings then sold. 12thmontherists "Picaresque" --lost count I will eventually get around to picking up "The Crane Wife" from what I've heard of the Decemberists. No such plans for Anton. No accounting for personal taste. I can certainly see how the Dec. hype is annoying and can drive people away." It is, indeed, true that there is no accounting for personal taste, which is why I might like Colin's voice when others hate it but why I detest Joanna Newsom's when others think it is wonderful (but I still think it's guys who think she's hot who like it). What surprises me is this new vitriole towards the Decemberists. In the past, people have said that they don't like them (and that's fine), but there seems to be an animosity there that I don't understand. I mean, gosh and golly, they are pretty nice people. As for picking up The Crane Wife, Jon, I would go backwards before going forwards (unless you already have). I think that Castaways and Cutouts, Her Majesty, and the EP 5 songs (which has six songs on it) are all better. However, if you are a proggy type, then TCW is a good choice, I guess. I am off to a sidebar with Rev. Chris. Jill, who likes Fairport and Steeleye Span, but thinks that the Decemberists bring something else to the table as well ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:02:13 -0800 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: piping in On 2/13/07, Jill Brand wrote: > > > It is, indeed, true that there is no accounting for personal taste, which > is why I might like Colin's voice when others hate it but why I detest > Joanna Newsom's when others think it is wonderful (but I still think it's > guys who think she's hot who like it). Huh. I love her voice, and I'm a girl who thinks she's pretty (angelic, even) but doesn't want to bone her. Even if I could. And I used to think Colin was downright fuckable, but I've always hated his voice. I don't think someone's voice becomes more pleasant or bearable the hotter you find them. Although, someone with a great voice and an average appearance often seems more attractive than they otherwise would. Looks can't save the soul, but the soul can save the looks. V. What surprises me is this new vitriole towards the Decemberists. In the > past, people have said that they don't like them (and that's fine), but > there seems to be an animosity there that I don't understand. I mean, > gosh and golly, they are pretty nice people. > > As for picking up The Crane Wife, Jon, I would go backwards before going > forwards (unless you already have). I think that Castaways and Cutouts, > Her Majesty, and the EP 5 songs (which has six songs on it) are all > better. However, if you are a proggy type, then TCW is a good choice, I > guess. > > I am off to a sidebar with Rev. Chris. > > Jill, who likes Fairport and Steeleye Span, but thinks that the > Decemberists bring something else to the table as well ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:12:03 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: piping in On 2/13/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > On 2/13/07, Jill Brand wrote: > > > > > > It is, indeed, true that there is no accounting for personal taste, > which > > is why I might like Colin's voice when others hate it but why I detest > > Joanna Newsom's when others think it is wonderful (but I still think > it's > > guys who think she's hot who like it). > > > Huh. I love her voice, and I'm a girl who thinks she's pretty (angelic, > even) but doesn't want to bone her. Even if I could. I'm pretty sure I heard her before I saw her-- usually the case with musical artists these days-- so I should probably recuse myself on this one, but I don't find her all that attractive. I do not loathe her voice, but nor do I like it that much (but I have a long history or being neutral on so-called "love it or hate it" voices). I don't think someone's voice becomes more pleasant or bearable the hotter > you find them. Although, someone with a great voice and an average > appearance often seems more attractive than they otherwise would. Looks > can't save the soul, but the soul can save the looks. Assuming we're talking about desireability along one's preferred gender lines, I have noticed that I rarely, rarely find my favorite female artists "hot" (there are, of course, exceptions). Maybe it's more to do with their writing than their voices, though, as I find that identifying strongly with their lyrics makes them seem more like "family" than an object of desire. Or it could be that I sort of automatically (doubtless incorrectly) associate sex appeal with awful, awful music. Just me, or does the feg list seem rather more female-friendly just now, for some elusive reason? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:32:30 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: piping in Rex wrote: > Just me, or does the feg list seem rather more female-friendly just > now, for some elusive reason? You mean we've gone hos before bros? "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have any." -- Keith Olbermann . ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:48:59 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) On 2/13/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > On 2/12/07, ken ostrander wrote: > > > > > > ok, so zero degrees for our peeps and one degree for people we know > > impersonally? > > > > Well, that's what I'm saying, but it seems there's a bit of disagreement. > To > those who argue that zero degrees is "identity", I say- "degree" stands > for > social separation. Obviously we are all physically separate from each > other > (except at certain special moments). "Zero" degrees implies inseparability. You cannot be separated from yourself (except that, you know, you're never alone with a schizophrenic). One degree of *separation* means you and that person know one another - but you're not the same person. To speak of zero "degrees of separation" regarding another person implies inseparability - but that isn't true. No matter how close you are to someone, you're still separate people: thus, one degree of separation. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:53:56 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Six Degrees of Colbert On 2/13/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > > > On 2/12/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > > FWIW, Wikipedia has "0" as > > identity. That makes sense to me - clearly, identity ought to be > > included, > > and unless you resort to a negative number (why?), "0" is the best > > option. > > "1" for "you know the person directly" is intuitive also: "1" is steps > > away > > from the person, "2" is 2 steps away, etc. > > > > I totally disagree, but I'm not in a fightin' mood. If the closest I can > get to someone without actually knowing them is 2 degrees, that sort of > takes the fun away, is all I'm saying. > Yes, but it does give a new, interesting meaning to the notion of subtraction. with him (and a few other famous folks I can't recall - at Northwestern in > > the early-mid '80s). > > Anyway, I'm 2 degrees from Colbert also: a friend of mine went to college > > Okay, but did your friend that went to college with him _know_ him? I > don't think it counts if they were merely in physical proximity to him. > I think she did know him, somewhat: she has a photograph of him and some other folks. I think they both worked at Northwestern's campus radio station. Oh - does stalking count? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:06:24 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Six Degrees of Colbert On 2/13/07, 2fs wrote: > > > I think she did know him, somewhat: she has a photograph of him and some > other folks. I think they both worked at Northwestern's campus radio > station. > > Oh - does stalking count? Only if well done-- professional stalkers do end up indelibly linked to their targets/victims in the public mind, right? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:15:32 -0800 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: Six Degrees of Colbert AHHH!!! Why am I so upset by your view??? I guess I just needed something trivial to be upset about. "Degree" means an intervenor, ie: another person. Let's make this particular to the feglist- I am one degree (one person) away from Mike Godwin, Jim Davies being that person/degree. If I knew Mike personally, I'd be zero intervening persons away from him, hence zero degrees. And I'm sticking to that, because I just love the notion that I am one degree away from Stephen Colbert (in two different ways!) and I can't give it up. V. On 2/13/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 2/13/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > > > > > > > On 2/12/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > > > > > FWIW, Wikipedia has "0" > as > > > identity. That makes sense to me - clearly, identity ought to be > > > included, > > > and unless you resort to a negative number (why?), "0" is the best > > > option. > > > "1" for "you know the person directly" is intuitive also: "1" is steps > > > away > > > from the person, "2" is 2 steps away, etc. > > > > > > > > I totally disagree, but I'm not in a fightin' mood. If the closest I can > > get to someone without actually knowing them is 2 degrees, that sort of > > takes the fun away, is all I'm saying. > > > > > Yes, but it does give a new, interesting meaning to the notion of > subtraction. > > with him (and a few other famous folks I can't recall - at Northwestern in > > > the early-mid '80s). > > > > Anyway, I'm 2 degrees from Colbert also: a friend of mine went to > college > > > > Okay, but did your friend that went to college with him _know_ him? I > > don't think it counts if they were merely in physical proximity to him. > > > > I think she did know him, somewhat: she has a photograph of him and some > other folks. I think they both worked at Northwestern's campus radio > station. > > Oh - does stalking count? > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:24:44 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Six Degrees of Colbert vivien lyon wrote: > AHHH!!! Why am I so upset by your view??? You're turning into, nevermind. Too soon, too soon. > I guess I just needed something trivial to be upset about. > > "Degree" means an intervenor, ie: another person. Let's make this > particular > to the feglist- I am one degree (one person) away from Mike Godwin, > Jim > Davies being that person/degree. If I knew Mike personally, I'd be > zero > intervening persons away from him, hence zero degrees. > > And I'm sticking to that, because I just love the notion that I am > one > degree away from Stephen Colbert (in two different ways!) and I > can't give > it up. > > V. > > > > On 2/13/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > On 2/13/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2/12/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > FWIW, Wikipedia > has "0" > > as > > > > identity. That makes sense to me - clearly, identity ought to > be > > > > included, > > > > and unless you resort to a negative number (why?), "0" is the > best > > > > option. > > > > "1" for "you know the person directly" is intuitive also: "1" > is steps > > > > away > > > > from the person, "2" is 2 steps away, etc. > > > > > > > > > > > > I totally disagree, but I'm not in a fightin' mood. If the > closest I can > > > get to someone without actually knowing them is 2 degrees, that > sort of > > > takes the fun away, is all I'm saying. > > > > > > > > > Yes, but it does give a new, interesting meaning to the notion of > > subtraction. > > > > with him (and a few other famous folks I can't recall - at > Northwestern in > > > > the early-mid '80s). > > > > > > Anyway, I'm 2 degrees from Colbert also: a friend of mine went > to > > college > > > > > > Okay, but did your friend that went to college with him _know_ > him? I > > > don't think it counts if they were merely in physical proximity > to him. > > > > > > > I think she did know him, somewhat: she has a photograph of him > and some > > other folks. I think they both worked at Northwestern's campus > radio > > station. > > > > Oh - does stalking count? > > > > > > -- > > > > ...Jeff Norman > > > > The Architectural Dance Society > > http://spanghew.blogspot.com > "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have any." -- Keith Olbermann . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:20:53 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: piping in On 2/13/07, Rex wrote: > > On 2/13/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > > > On 2/13/07, Jill Brand wrote: > > > > > > > > > It is, indeed, true that there is no accounting for personal taste, > > which > > > is why I might like Colin's voice when others hate it but why I detest > > > Joanna Newsom's when others think it is wonderful (but I still think > > it's > > > guys who think she's hot who like it). I'm not sure whether Jill or Vivien said that - but... I like her music more than her voice, which I'm sorta fascinated by, simply that it's so odd. She does manipulate it skillfully, however. I find her neither particularly attractive nor particularly unattractive. There are some cute things about her, and some things that sort of detract from that cuteness - overall kinda eh. > > > Just me, or does the feg list seem rather more female-friendly just now, > for > some elusive reason? I think that part of it is simply that Lauren, Vivien, and Jill have been doing a lot of posting lately. All to the good. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:25:45 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Six Degrees of Colbert On 2/13/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > AHHH!!! Why am I so upset by your view??? I guess I just needed something > trivial to be upset about. > > "Degree" means an intervenor, ie: another person. Let's make this > particular to the feglist- I am one degree (one person) away from Mike > Godwin, Jim Davies being that person/degree. If I knew Mike personally, I'd > be zero intervening persons away from him, hence zero degrees. > > And I'm sticking to that, because I just love the notion that I am one > degree away from Stephen Colbert (in two different ways!) and I can't give > it up. > Oh sigh. Now I'll have to start randomly insulting you for no good reason. Damn. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #47 *******************************