From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #213 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, May 23 2007 Volume 16 : Number 213 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: for the math people here (I know there are a few...) ["Lauren Elizabe] Re: more on this vital subject ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Noble Rot (Hitchcock Re-releases) [Rex ] Re: for the math people here (I know there are a few...) [Rex ] Re: more on this vital subject ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: for the math people here (I know there are a few...) ["Lauren Elizabe] Re: linkz u can use 3 ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Noble Rot (Hitchcock Re-releases) ["m swedene" ] Re: linkz u can use 3 ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: 101 uses for a dead cat topic [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: linkz u can use 3 [Rex ] Don't bogart that list [Tom Clark ] Re: linkz u can use 3 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: for the math people here (I know there are a few...) [2fs ] re: Don't bogart that list ["michael wells" ] flickrvision is cool ["michael wells" ] Re: linkz u can use 3 [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: linkz u can use 3 [2fs ] television talk ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: 101 uses for a dead cat topic ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 ["Melissa Higuchi" ] Re: for the math people here (I know there are a few...) [Christopher Gro] Re: linkz u can use 3 ["vivien lyon" ] Re: television talk [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Noble Rot (Hitchcock Re-releases) [kevin ] Re: Noble Rot (Hitchcock Re-releases) ["Sumiko Keay" ] Re: television talk [2fs ] Re: 101 uses for a dead cat topic [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 [Tom Clark ] Re: The fine art of "mocap" [Steve Talkowski ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:11:17 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: for the math people here (I know there are a few...) p.s. fun with pointer video: for c people: http://www.cs.stanford.edu/cslibrary/PointerFunC.avi for other languages: http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/104/ - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:48:14 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: more on this vital subject <<>> <> then, you are officially the coolest...parent...ever! hey, i've got an LCD question. do they take a while to get used to? just got one (last week), and it's stunning and beautiful; but it kinda makes my eyes uncomfortable. i've tried messing around with lighting, and contrast and brightness; and have increased font sizes. all of which have helped to a degree -- but it's still causing some problems... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:10:44 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Noble Rot (Hitchcock Re-releases) On 5/22/07, m swedene wrote: > > http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/22899/ > > The following reissues inaugurate the birth of Noble Rot: > Robyn Hitchcock - Jewels for Sophia: > Robyn Hitchcock - Storefront Hitchcock According to Collectors' Choice Music general manager Gordon Anderson, Weird-- had we heard anything about this before? Two of the WB records, but not ME (or ML)... wonder how the rights for thes ended up with Collector's Choice. Says they're digipacks, which means they've been redesigned a bit, but, unlike the GLB records, no new liner notes are promised. (Which is fine, since Collector's Choice is known to promise liner notes which don't materialize... but I've never heard of them doing digipacks, either). I'm sure there won't be any remastering or anything like that... Is "noble rot" a reference to something? Sounds vaguely punny or anagrammy... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:15:58 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: for the math people here (I know there are a few...) On 5/22/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 5/22/07, Tom Clark wrote: > > > > > > > pointers are funny. well, when they aren't busy ruining your life. > > > once at work we were debugging and found a pointer value of > > > 0xBADDF00D. it amused us for years. > > > > Isn't is 0xBAADF00D? > > > That's one of those grunge "dropped" guitar tunings, no? On one of those > fancy-ass ten-string guitars with the two lower heavy-gauge strings... The > 0 > and the x indicate, respectively, completely slackening the string, for > percussive effect, and omitting the string entirely. > > I'm working way too hard on this "joke," right? No, you brought me back into the thread after six or seven posts that were totally beyond me. Well, okay, I got the Godwin's Law one. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:18:42 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: more on this vital subject On 5/22/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > hey, > i've got an LCD question. do they take a while to get used to? just got > one (last week), and it's stunning and beautiful; but it kinda makes my > eyes uncomfortable. i've tried messing around with lighting, and contrast > and brightness; and have increased font sizes. all of which have helped > to > a degree -- but it's still causing some problems... Sometimes I feel as if they look three-dimensional... as if some colors float on a plane fractionally but observable closer to me than others. Then my eyes uncross. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 21:06:40 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: more on this vital subject Stacked Crooked says: > i've got an LCD question. do they take a while to get used to? just got > one (last week), and it's stunning and beautiful; but it kinda makes my > eyes uncomfortable. i've tried messing around with lighting, and contrast > and brightness; and have increased font sizes. all of which have helped to > a degree -- but it's still causing some problems... maybe you're just getting old. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 18:06:43 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: 101 uses for a dead cat topic On 5/22/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Sweeney says: > > ...But, last summer, three real-life people referenced in Robyn's songs > died > > within about five weeks of each other: One very notable, one fairly > > obscure, and one somewhat in-between (although probably known to nearly > > everyone out here). Just checked. Princess Ann's still alive, too. Surely someone can get #3? It's not a former member of Slade, is it? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 21:14:44 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: for the math people here (I know there are a few...) Rex says: > No, you brought me back into the thread after six or seven posts that were > totally beyond me. > > Well, okay, I got the Godwin's Law one. here's one to "bridge the gap*": http://www.xkcd.com/c37.html * i.e. more appeal for you liberal-arts** folks. ** not meant to be derogatory. some of my best friends studied liberal arts. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 21:35:56 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: linkz u can use 3 michael wells says: > Create your own random cipher alphabet: > http://tinyurl.com/ypel8n i'm going to be taking a math class in cryptography this summer so hopefully i will be able to make a very secret cipher by the end. btw, does anyone here do the cryptogram or any other puzzles? i love the cryptogram in the paper and consider myself pretty good at it, but i'm shit at both crossword puzzles and the word jumble. now the crossword puzzle problem i can deal with because i haven't exactly practiced to try to get good at them, but my ineptitude at the word jumble is embarrassing. it seems like the difficulty should be on par with the seek-a-word (or whatever that thing is called when you try to find words in a matrix of letters.) i think i am missing a neuron cluster or something. out of the four words that are in the jumble, i'll usually get one or maybe two. usually one of the answers is word i didn't even know existed, so that i can forgive (whether i should know more words is another can of worms altogether.) and of course this leaves me at a major disadvantage in trying to formulate the punch line to the word jumble cartoon (which is always very silly so maybe i shouldn't be bothered that i don't figure it out, but, still, folks, it's the principal.) if by fat chance i get the four words, i can almost always get the punch line, so it's the shorter words that baffle my poor brain (which i guess actually makes sense because there aren't really patterns to be found in only five or so letters.) there must be some crossword folks on the list as an aside, i saw the documentary "wordplay" on dvd fairly recently (i forget if i movie-talked about it) and i found very engaging. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 21:39:59 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: Re: Noble Rot (Hitchcock Re-releases) I was speaking with Robyn after night 2 at the knitting factory. We were talking about record collecting. I mentioned that all of my albums and cds are in storage at my parents, including my soft boys and his solo stuff. He said not to worry, I can have yet another chance to buy his albums as they were going to be re-released. he said he had more control over them this time and that he dug deep to find extra tracks to make the new purchases worth it. so now all I need to do is sit back and wait for them to be rereleased or go home (400+ miles and a weekend) to rip the cds. sigh ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 21:40:57 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: linkz u can use 3 i say: > folks, it's the principal.) if by fat chance i get the four words, i apologies for the p.s., but that's yucky: s/pricipal/principle xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:46:41 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: 101 uses for a dead cat topic > >Syd and Arthur Lee must be 2 out of three. Harrison Ford, Nick Lowe, >and Condoleeza Rice all still live; Nick Drake, Eazy E and HG Wells >remain dead, so I'm not sure who #3 is. >...And, of course, Gene Hackman, Andie McDowell, and David Byrne (or >somebody) also still survive. As does David Crosby. Perhaps the Reaper figured that, since Raymond Chandler was already gone, he'd take Mickey Spillane instead. His death fell in that same four week period. 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: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:03:39 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: linkz u can use 3 On 5/22/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > there must be some crossword folks on the list (raises hand) Still can't get excited about Soduko, though. My aunt actually had a crossword published. That's a pretty bad ass-achievement in my book. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:08:35 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Don't bogart that list Top 25 songs to get high to: http://tinyurl.com/2ffvpk I totally agree with some, never heard of some others. I'd add "Bridge of Sighs" by Robin Trower - that song just makes its own sauce. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 22:44:39 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: linkz u can use 3 Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > michael wells says: >> Create your own random cipher alphabet: >> http://tinyurl.com/ypel8n > > i'm going to be taking a math class in cryptography this summer so > hopefully i will be able to make a very secret cipher by the end. I think it was Schneier who said, "If you think you have, you probably haven't." I've been semi-obsessed with codes and ciphers ever since reading a Falcon Travis kid's book on the subject at age 7 ... oh, and learning all of the Eye Spy Club's codes ... I thought I had the bee's knee's of a system in a one-time pad that used the compressed audio streams from MP3s -- then I remembered the huge disadvantage of one-time pads. Read "Between Silk & Cyanide" if you want to learn how codes sometimes don't work. It'll break your heart. And that random cipher alphabet is trivial to crack if the message is long enough and you have an inkling of the language ... > there must be some crossword folks on the list I'm good at other people's crosswords. Got not time for them on my own. Stewart PS; Four across is 'zeugma'. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 22:07:24 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: for the math people here (I know there are a few...) On 5/22/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > ** not meant to be derogatory. some of my best friends studied liberal > arts. As opposed to conservative arts: cave-painting... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 22:21:16 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Don't bogart that list On 5/22/07, Tom Clark wrote: > > Top 25 songs to get high to: > http://tinyurl.com/2ffvpk > > I totally agree with some, never heard of some others. I'd add > "Bridge of Sighs" by Robin Trower - that song just makes its own sauce. I'd say so. Apparently, though, RS's website is edited by poorly trained baboons: that's "took its toll" rather than "it's," of course - and the song is called "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" (singular). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 22:25:17 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: re: Don't bogart that list Wow, that's a bad list.even by Rolling Stone standards. Sounds like somebody was told what would be good stoner songs, and not a list based on actual experience. Speaking of actual experience, I have in fact listened to years and years of music while stoned to the absolute *bejeezus*. I've probably made this list about a hundred times, but since I was high I either never finished or quickly misplaced them. If you're of the mind, try these instead. You'll thank me for it later. Michael "purple-haired, north slope trip weed" Wells Autobahn - Kraftwerk Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun - Pink Floyd 2112 - Rush Kashmir - Zep Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower (right on, Tom!) Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy Blue Sky - Allman Bros. Side 1 of American Beauty - Grateful Dead The Places You Find Love - Quincy Jones Willin' - Little Feat Riviera Paradise - Stevie Ray Vaughan Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction Ziggy Stardust - Bowie Bad Motor Scooter - Montrose Sympathy for the Devil - Stones Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John The Thrill is Gone - B.B. King Winchester - RH Champagne Supernova - Oasis E.T.I. - Blue Oyster Cult Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull Melt With You - Modern English My Sharona - The Knack ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 22:44:43 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: flickrvision is cool http://flickrvision.com/ (see also http://twittervision.com/ ) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 22:04:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: linkz u can use 3 On Tue, 22 May 2007, Rex wrote: > On 5/22/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > there must be some crossword folks on the list > > (raises hand) > Still can't get excited about Soduko, though. > My aunt actually had a crossword published. That's a pretty bad > ass-achievement in my book. I like that hyphenation! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 00:15:58 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: linkz u can use 3 On 5/23/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2007, Rex wrote: > > > On 5/22/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > > > there must be some crossword folks on the list > > > > (raises hand) > > Still can't get excited about Soduko, though. > > My aunt actually had a crossword published. That's a pretty bad > > ass-achievement in my book. > > I like that hyphenation! Is that what kids are calling "ass-achievement" these days... Anyway: the phrase, of course, comes from Chrissie Hynde - that Pretenders track, "Mystery Ass-Achievement." (Either that, or one of the cartoons Lauren linked to...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 01:23:56 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: television talk hi fegs, i just saw a lovely woman named erica wagner on charlie rose. she's literary critic for the times (london), but was on the show to promote a new novel called "seizure". at any rate, related to a recent discussion of the fate of physical objects in the internet age, i liked what she said is her test for the replacement of the book: "i have to be able to drop it in the bath." take that, laptop. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 05:32:45 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: 101 uses for a dead cat topic Lauren sez: >Sweeney says: >>...But, last summer, three real-life people referenced in Robyn's songs >>died >>within about five weeks of each other: One very notable, one fairly >>obscure, and one somewhat in-between (although probably known to nearly >>everyone out here). > >not exactly a person, but whatever: >http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060824-pluto-planet.html > >i'm not sure what the official reap date was, but it looks around the >right time. ...Nope -- it's an "actual person" person. Latest hint: The unguessed person was in a similar business to the two previously guessed ones... Michael Sweeney ...Next hint: The album (sorry -- archaic; the electronic collection of songs) including the song mentioning the third dead person... _________________________________________________________________ Like the way Microsoft Office Outlook works? Youll love Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_outlook_0507 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:37:51 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: linkz u can use 3 And if you get *really* stuck, there's always www3.oneacross.com Helps me out and I've been doing cryptic crosswords for 30 years... c* ... who also doesn't get excited about Sudoku, after all, no one actually checks your working... On 23/05/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 5/23/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > > > On Tue, 22 May 2007, Rex wrote: > > > > > On 5/22/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > > > > > there must be some crossword folks on the list > > > > > > (raises hand) > > > Still can't get excited about Soduko, though. > > > My aunt actually had a crossword published. That's a pretty bad > > > ass-achievement in my book. > > > > I like that hyphenation! > > > Is that what kids are calling "ass-achievement" these days... > > Anyway: the phrase, of course, comes from Chrissie Hynde - that Pretenders > track, "Mystery Ass-Achievement." > > (Either that, or one of the cartoons Lauren linked to...) > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:18:23 -0000 (GMT) From: "Melissa Higuchi" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 I work for a kick ass NPO that works on glbtq rights. We have an annual gala which the San Francisco Chronicle referred to as lesbian prom. Basically it's a formal event and is like planning a wedding reception for 2500. video is here http://www.hillgirlz.com/pages/NCLR_30th_Anniversary25.php?project_id=25 Sadly i missed most of the dancers and trapeze folks as I was freezing out side working registration. thanks to all for tv recomendations. i will check them out as i can find / torrent them. Anyone seen the garth marenghi shows? Spent Sunday at Maker Fair in San Mateo working with a friend at her craft booth. It was an interesting mix of folks burners, nerds, crafters and tons and tons of kids. There were all kinds of fun projects like making a bug with led eyes that blinks when you shake him or put him in wind. You could also make an air brushed t shirt via computer design to lazer cut stencil. There were also giant tesla coils and the crucible's truck with flame effects. I should really have gone both days but was too lazy to get up. higly recommend the austin fair to anyone nearby. melissa >>> i have to ask: "Work is slower now that we're done with lesbian prom" >>> ??? >>> >> >>Especially since I initially misread it "lesbian porn." >> >>Wait - did I say that out loud? >> > It's all that talk about molly bolts, or should that be Molly Bolts? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:05:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: for the math people here (I know there are a few...) On Tue, 22 May 2007, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > here's one to "bridge the gap*": > http://www.xkcd.com/c37.html I swear, on my word of honor, that I thought up this hobby independently, years ago. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:51:12 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: linkz u can use 3 On 5/22/07, Rex wrote: > > On 5/22/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > My aunt actually had a crossword published. That's a pretty bad > ass-achievement in my book. Every time I get to thinking I might be smart, I remember that I have never written a crossword puzzle. It keeps me nice and humble. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:34:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: television talk On Wed, 23 May 2007, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > hi fegs, > > i just saw a lovely woman named erica wagner on charlie rose. she's > literary critic for the times (london), but was on the show to promote > a new novel called "seizure". > > at any rate, related to a recent discussion of the fate of physical > objects in the internet age, i liked what she said is her test for the > replacement of the book: > > "i have to be able to drop it in the bath." > > take that, laptop. Didn't you hear? Baths are going digital, too. Bill Gates said so. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:06:46 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Noble Rot (Hitchcock Re-releases) >Is "noble rot" a reference to something? Sounds vaguely punny or >anagrammy... > I know it has something to do with wine, so there's some degree of built-in Hitchcockery. Also the name of a project John Belushi was talking up a lot, right before he died. np Miles Davis: Jazz At the Plaza ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:08:13 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: television talk >> take that, laptop. > >Didn't you hear? Baths are going digital, too. Bill Gates said so. Does this mean we're finally getting those ultrasonic showers they used to have in old science fiction novels from the 50s? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:17:22 -0500 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: Noble Rot (Hitchcock Re-releases) I just saw a show on "Create" called "Diary of a Foodie that did en episode about mold and bacteria in food: - "Noble rot" is a mold that will grow on grapes in certain conditions (humid in the morning, dry in the afternoon) which they use to make a particular sort of wine the name of which I have forgotten. (sauturne?) sumi On 5/23/07, kevin wrote: > >Is "noble rot" a reference to something? Sounds vaguely punny or > >anagrammy... > > > I know it has something to do with wine, so there's some degree of built-in Hitchcockery. Also the name of a project John Belushi was talking up a lot, right before he died. > > np Miles Davis: Jazz At the Plaza ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:24:42 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Noble Rot (Hitchcock Re-releases) On 5/23/07, Sumiko Keay wrote: > > I just saw a show on "Create" called "Diary of a Foodie that did en > episode about mold and bacteria in food: - "Noble rot" is a mold that > will grow on grapes in certain conditions (humid in the morning, dry > in the afternoon) which they use to make a particular sort of wine the > name of which I have forgotten. (sauturne?) > > sumi > > On 5/23/07, kevin wrote: > > >Is "noble rot" a reference to something? Sounds vaguely punny or > > >anagrammy... > > > > > I know it has something to do with wine, so there's some degree of > built-in Hitchcockery. Also the name of a project John Belushi was talking > up a lot, right before he died. Wikipedia is your friend: - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:29:49 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: television talk On 5/23/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > On Wed, 23 May 2007, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > hi fegs, > > > > i just saw a lovely woman named erica wagner on charlie rose. she's > > literary critic for the times (london), but was on the show to promote > > a new novel called "seizure". > > > > at any rate, related to a recent discussion of the fate of physical > > objects in the internet age, i liked what she said is her test for the > > replacement of the book: > > > > "i have to be able to drop it in the bath." > > > > take that, laptop. > > Didn't you hear? Baths are going digital, too. Bill Gates said so. > Yes - merely by donning a special fiberoptic body membrane (US$30000), standing perfectly motionless, and mumbling the appropriate chant, you can experience the complete sensation of taking a bath, without all that messy wetness and risk of electrocution! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:38:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: 101 uses for a dead cat topic Michael Sweeney wrote: > ...Nope -- it's an "actual person" person. Latest hint: The > unguessed person was in a similar business to the two previously > guessed ones... The head of the Welsh Police Choir? "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:05:15 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #201 On May 21, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Melissa Higuchi wrote: > Spent Sunday at Maker Fair in San Mateo working with a friend at > her craft > booth. It was an interesting mix of folks burners, nerds, crafters and > tons and tons of kids. There were all kinds of fun projects like > making a > bug with led eyes that blinks when you shake him or put him in > wind. You > could also make an air brushed t shirt via computer design to lazer > cut > stencil. There were also giant tesla coils and the crucible's truck > with > flame effects. I should really have gone both days but was too lazy > to get > up. higly recommend the austin fair to anyone nearby. Ugh - I really wanted to go to this, but alas we had to spend the whole of Saturday baking cakes for my daughter's preschool carnival, and Sunday attending. A coworker of mine sent me a photo of his wife and daughter at the fair where they got to pop a balloon in front of a high speed camera. Very cool. Sounds like the entire event was a huge success. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 16:38:02 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: The fine art of "mocap" Heh - this one's been making the rounds in the CG animation community the past week. It's fun seeing legendary traditional animator, Glen Keane, taking part in the spoof. I've only had the (mis)fortune to work with mocap once, many years ago when it was still in its infancy. (Magnetic-based system tethered within an 8 foot diameter, precursor to the ping-pong balls and video tracking method) As a pure animator, I'd never want to be forced to use mocap, however, for large crowd scenes and specific shot requirements, mocap is indispensable (I don't know anyone who wants to animate hundreds of mundane walk, run, or fight cycles!) ILM's proprietary mobile mo- cap solution developed for Pirates of the Caribbean is truly ground- breaking, and allows actors to "author" their performance while on location, and then details are greatly enhanced and/or added to back at the studio by the animation dept. (for example, Davy Jones' tentacles and the rest of his crew...) Some informative links here: http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3889 http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3680 - -Steve On May 19, 2007, at 1:35 AM, Barbara Soutar wrote: > I am now addicted to www.cartoonbrew.com. Always lots of good video > clips, this one is hilarious. > > http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-culture/calarts-teaches-the-fine- > art-of-mocap > > Barbara Soutar > Victoria, BC ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #213 ********************************