From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #256 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, July 5 2007 Volume 16 : Number 256 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: iPhone and NPs and stuff [kevin ] more fun than fireworks ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: New On Dime: Robyn Hitchcock and the English Band ["Michael Sweeney" ] 4th of July [Barbara Soutar ] Re: iPhone and NPs and stuff [Rex ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #255 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] in synesthesia news to-day ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: 4th of July [Benjamin Lukoff ] RE: Victim of the mailing list wars ["Michael Wells" ] Reap ["Stewart Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:33:20 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: iPhone and NPs and stuff >James, your grandma looks like quite the heroic figure on the New >Zealand coat of arms. And Tom, I know you are not personally responsible >for being Eleanor Roosevelt's distant cousin, but it adds a certain je >ne sais quoi to the feglist. For what it's worth my mom's a fanatical genealogist and says we're descended in some arcane manner from George Washington's doctor. (Not to mention being related to the quasi-mythical Davy Crockett, but since everybody in the South ultimately turns out to be related to everybody else I don't feel there's any special distinction there...) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:13:17 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: more fun than fireworks optical illusions, yay: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html a lot of them have interactive feature which are very cool. and found via some link therein: http://www.worth1000.com/galleries.asp photoshop galleries for those already a bit bored of their iphone: http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=13700&display=photoshop and http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=15788&display=photoshop xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:57:01 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: New On Dime: Robyn Hitchcock and the English Band Or, (Re: below), I'd be glad to wait for whatever version is judged better by Those of You Who Know...but would certainly love a copy of the show eventually (and double donation offer stands)... Thanx... MS - ----------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:41:36 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: New On Dime: Robyn Hitchcock and the English Band with the Magnetic Horns SGT PEPPERS SHOW On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:15 PM, m swedene wrote: >http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=152985 > >Robyn Hitchcock and the English Band with the Magnetic Horns >MSF Benefit >3 Kings Pub, Clerkenwell, UK >Sunday 1st July 2007 Just a word of caution. This recording is pretty subpar compared to the one's we've been used to from Matthias. He said he will be seeding his version soon, so I'm waiting for that. - - -tc Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:03:42 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: New On Dime: Robyn Hitchcock and the English Band with the Magnetic Since I remain Dime-less (but -- thankfully! -- not dimeless), I would ask that any Feg with access, some disks to burn, and the goodwill towards me (I know -- a narrowing list as it progressed!) contact me towards the goal of a) ripping and mailing me a set of the sets, and b) my making a donation to Medecin sans Frontiers in _both_ our names... I remain, yr humble servant (and a general nuisance), Michael "No Joke This Time" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=hmtextlinkjuly07 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:08:42 -0700 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: 4th of July To all the American Fegs: Have a happy day. I'll be watching the fireworks in Port Angeles from a park across the Juan De Fuca Strait - my husband brings his telescope! Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 19:04:40 -0400 From: Rex Subject: Re: iPhone and NPs and stuff On 7/2/07, Steve Schiavo wrote: > Always happy to help out an old feg. Go here store.thenewpornographers.com/archives/8> and lick on the buy early > get now link. "Lick on?" Typo or heretofore unknown-to-me lolspeak/1337? Good 'un anyhow. - -Rex, in WV, at the very ass-end of teh Series of Tubs (sic) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 13:41:21 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #255 >Bats? Housemartins? This really is a list for 80s jangle-pop. Mutton >Birds are next! > >Dolph >who is starting to get... the... chills... Not to rain on your parade, but I had a sneaky feeling you were going to say that. 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, 4 Jul 2007 21:51:52 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: in synesthesia news to-day i'm serious - there really is synesthesia news: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/07/synesthesia_more_prevalent_tha.php#more different subject: technical help: small annoyance but whenever i print an article from wikipedia, e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Bottle the inset pictures often print with a black background instead of a white one. for example, the inset version of this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Klein_bottle.svg prints black where the white and grey checkers are. the bottle itself (green and white grid) looks the same. this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KleinBottle-02.png prints just as it looks (with white/"transparent" background.) hmm, it does seem to be correlated to the checker pattern because this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KleinBottle-Figure8-01.png prints out a black background. (note: i'm talking about printing the original article itself, not the larger versions of the images. i just put the links to the larger images to show which images i meant instead of saying "the first one", "the second one". not that you can't count. it's a little tick have - - i tend to overestimate how precise i should be. well, maybe it's more of a "tendency" than a calculated estimation...you know what i mean...or not...) at any rate, re: the printing: does anyone know what i'm talking about? if so, is there a way to print without using up HP56 cartridge? (don't ask me to go to wikipedia - they will probably want me to "improve the stub" about colour imaging in *.swg and *.png file formats.) xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:25:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: 4th of July On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Barbara Soutar wrote: > To all the American Fegs: Have a happy day. I'll be watching the > fireworks in Port Angeles from a park across the Juan De Fuca Strait - > my husband brings his telescope! So you can really see Port Angeles from Victoria? I know they're close and there's ferry service, but try as I might I could never quite see the island from our side. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:05:22 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: Victim of the mailing list wars > I never believed I'd say this but -synchronicity! Both the Fegmaniax and Flag lists are talking about Blue Oyster Cult! Good taste knows no bounds! I ended up missing the BOC show due to a family issue, but did catch the big Alarm/Fixx/Furs triple bill the next night, review coming separately. > (and to assuage your curiosity - "It's the alchemical symbol for lead, and is the band's logo. On the cover of the album "On your feet or on your knees" its shown on a car flag in red on a white background") Alchemy being a metaphor for self-improvement through transformation, which is what Sting is all about, who is playing here in town with The Police, I wonder if they'll play anything from...wait for it...SYNCHRONICITY. I won't be going to that show either, not because of the band but as it's being held at Wrigley Field (aka 'The World's Largest Gay Bar'). The national league is OK if you like watching pitchers bunt . Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:23:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: Victim of the mailing list wars Michael Wells wrote: > Alchemy being a metaphor for self-improvement through > transformation, which is what Sting is all about, who is playing > here in town with The Police, I wonder if they'll play anything > from...wait for it...SYNCHRONICITY. Isn't it really more of a question of if they'll fail to play everything from _Synchronicity,_ including "Mother"? > I won't be going to that show > either, not because of the band but as it's being held at Wrigley > Field (aka 'The World's Largest Gay Bar'). > > The national league is OK if you like watching pitchers bunt > . Hey, don't forget the overrated so-called genius of when to make the double-switch. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:08:18 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Reap George Melly, 80 - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #256 ********************************