From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #270 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, July 23 2007 Volume 16 : Number 270 Today's Subjects: ----------------- is everyone reading? [Jill Brand ] Re: is everyone reading? [Tom Clark ] Re: is everyone reading? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: is everyone reading? ["m swedene" ] Re: is everyone reading? ["vivien lyon" ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod [Steve Schiavo ] Syd feature on Radio 2 [craigie* ] Grinderman on Letterman Tonight [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: Grinderman on Letterman Tonight ["Bachman, Michael" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:15:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: is everyone reading? I haven't gotten a feg digest since Friday. I'm assuming that many people are buried in the same book. My son finished it at 1 a.m. this morning. My daughter is probably finished by now. I have 200 pages left but am starting classes tomorrow so I'm trying to get my week prepared. Harvard Square was INSANE on Friday night, and I'm glad that I was there. Jill P.S. A new digest just arrived ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:42:03 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: is everyone reading? On Jul 22, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > I haven't gotten a feg digest since Friday. I'm assuming that many > people are buried in the same book. My son finished it at 1 a.m. > this morning. My daughter is probably finished by now. I have 200 > pages left but am starting classes tomorrow so I'm trying to get my > week prepared. Harvard Square was INSANE on Friday night, and I'm > glad that I was there. I've got two chapters to go. I love the part where Hitchens exposes Mother Teresa. Oh, and the retelling of Joseph Smith when he came up with that preposterous "lost tribe" story! Classic!! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:56:53 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: is everyone reading? - --On 22. Juli 2007 16:15:10 -0400 Jill Brand wrote: > I haven't gotten a feg digest since Friday. I'm assuming that many > people are buried in the same book. My son finished it at 1 a.m. this > morning. My daughter is probably finished by now. I have 200 pages left > but am starting classes tomorrow so I'm trying to get my week prepared. I finished about an hour ago. It took it leisurely, i.e. in two days. > Harvard Square was INSANE on Friday night, and I'm glad that I was there. I was lame and pre-ordered the book from Amazon. It was delivered 10 am yesterday. That was actually the first volume of the series that I bought. The others I had borrowed from friends and family after they had finished, but this time I was too curious about the end. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:33:37 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: is everyone reading? Jill Brand wrote: > I haven't gotten a feg digest since Friday. I'm assuming that many > people are buried in the same book. Nope. Read the first one, found it meh; J K Rowling's no J P Martin. Mostly playing music (Doane style ukes rock), listening to music (if Randi were here, she'd be seconding my recommendation for "Traffic & Weather" - the Fountains of Wayne still got it), seeing movies (Sicko; ha! ha! those funny Americans!), seeing bands (you wouldn't like The Lollipop People as much as I do), *not* seeing bands (this is probably the first TMBG tour in a duodecade I've missed), editing Wikipedia against hordes of morons (just 'cos you don't know who George Morrow was is no reason to delete the article as "not notable"), and kinda avoiding gardening and studying for my PPE. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:37:49 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: Re: is everyone reading? The wife and I finished our copies on Saturday. We went to the midnight thingie at Scholastic (here in NYC) and ended up getting the books at the B&N on 23rd. One girl there said "It looks like no men here are gonna get laid tonight" Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:33:59 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: is everyone reading? DONE! On 7/22/07, Jill Brand wrote: > > I haven't gotten a feg digest since Friday. I'm assuming that many people > are buried in the same book. My son finished it at 1 a.m. this morning. > My daughter is probably finished by now. I have 200 pages left but am > starting classes tomorrow so I'm trying to get my week prepared. Harvard > Square was INSANE on Friday night, and I'm glad that I was there. > > Jill > > P.S. A new digest just arrived ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:44:05 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod On Jul 22, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Jul 22, 2007, at 1:41 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > >> --On 21. Juli 2007 21:34:46 -0700 Tom Clark wrote: >> >>> P.S. I've decided that life is too short to listen to mp3 files. >>> My goal >>> is to replace my entire digital music collection with lossless >>> copies >>> within one year. >> >> So you know something about an upcoming 1 TB iPod that we don't? > > ;^) Didn't I just read a couple of months ago that someone had just come up with the technology to eventually get 1.8-inch hard disk drives up to 500GB? I'm for it, cause Apple Lossless gives me just over 2200 songs on my 60GB iPod. So that 250GB iPod looks good. Hope I'm wrong, but the future is probably flash memory instead. > I've come to the conclusion that while there are times when it's > handy to have most of my music collection available outside the > house, for day-to-day usage the 8GB in my iPhone is plenty. I mean > how often are you commuting to work when you just *need* to hear > that Bix Beiderbecke track? > > -tc Maybe not on commute, but it wouldn't be bad for a long solo weekend at work. Blasting away on my Audioengine 5s, of course. - - Steve _______________ Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influence by Penrose noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:15:42 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Syd feature on Radio 2 I recorded this to HDD, and there was no RH input. It was primarily about what it was like to work *with* Syd during his time with the Floyd and just after. Not Something Robyn experienced first hand... c* On 21/07/07, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > > > 06:00 Mo Dutta > 08:05 Brian Matthew > 10:00 Jonathan Ross > 13:00 The Day the Music Died > 13:30 Does the Team Think? > 14:00 Stuart Maconie > 16:30 Dermot O'Leary > 18:30 Paul Gambaccini > 20:00 The Thing about Syd > Mark Radcliffe explores the life, music and myth of Syd Barrett a year > on from his death. Barrett was not widely known, but the praise > lavished on his recorded output reveals he is regarded as unique. > > Former Pink Floyd band members talk about Barrett's working methods, > and the programme also explores his strange solo output and discovers > why Syd's stare beamed down from articles, magazines and news reports > as the media went about romanticising a reclusive music figure. > Part of Radio 2's 60s Season. > David Gilmour, Rick Wright, Nick Mason, sister Rosemary Barrett, > manager Peter Jenner and others reveal 'The Thing About Syd. > > * Wot no RH? Or will he be amongst the 'others'? > > - Mike Godwin > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:34:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Grinderman on Letterman Tonight Eh, that's pretty much it.... "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:11:37 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Grinderman on Letterman Tonight "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters I enjoyed watching the Criterion edition DVD of Sam Fuller's 1953 film noir classic "Pickup On South Street". Just released from jail three time pickpocket loser Richard Widmark picks the pocket the wrong person, a red moll, and quickly is up to his elbows in detectives, commies, etc. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:59:33 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Grinderman on Letterman Tonight On 7/23/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > I enjoyed watching the Criterion edition DVD of Sam Fuller's 1953 film > noir classic "Pickup On South Street". > Just released from jail three time pickpocket loser Richard Widmark > picks the pocket the wrong person, a red moll, and quickly is up to his > elbows in detectives, commies, etc. Errr...this has what to do with "Grinderman on Letterman Tonight"? Not that I'm frightened of a little non-sequitur... Speaking of which, my rabbit is on fire. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #270 ********************************