From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #304 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, August 26 2007 Volume 16 : Number 304 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Ironical Ludditism [gaseous clay ] news of the void ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Ironical Ludditism [2fs ] Re: news of the void [2fs ] Re: Ironical Ludditism [Tom Clark ] Re: news of the void [Tom Clark ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #303 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: news of the void [Rex ] Re: I was walking.. ["vivien lyon" ] Re: I was walking.. [Rex ] Re: I was walking.. [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: I was walking.. ["vivien lyon" ] More Fegmusic!!!! [blatzman@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:02:32 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: Re: Ironical Ludditism one time at band camp, Sebastian Hagedorn (Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de) said: >-- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on >24. August 2007 23:21:46 -0400 regarding Re: Ironical Ludditism: >>(since tc is probably the only one that may have possibly made it >>through that "finger" bit, >No way, I've used "finger" as well! yeah, feg's been kicking since 1991-or-so, so a lot of the old-timers (get off my porch!) certainly know of the finger. >hm, my finger.plan still exists! mine too: Plan: this is not a plan +w ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:29:44 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: news of the void i probably shouldn't laugh, but: http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2329057520070824 as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:17:17 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Ironical Ludditism On 8/25/07, gaseous clay wrote: > > one time at band camp, Sebastian Hagedorn (Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de) > said: > > >hm, my finger.plan still exists! > > mine too: > > Plan: > this is not a plan Yep - at my university account (where I've been a student or employee since the early '90s): Again wit' da finga! (That's an MST3K reference, to throw down more old-school...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:32:49 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: news of the void On 8/25/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > i probably shouldn't laugh, but: > http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2329057520070824 Second only to Paris Hilton's brain... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:10:50 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Ironical Ludditism On Aug 24, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > (which reminds me of a one of favourite quotes that used to be in my > "finger.plan" file at school (i imagine only old-time geeks will know > what that is** - oh, the old DEC-10 days...): > >>> I've had the same "plan" since 1988: "Listen to The Pixies." - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:15:41 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: news of the void On Aug 25, 2007, at 7:29 AM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > i probably shouldn't laugh, but: > http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2329057520070824 Cosmic goatse!! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:51:18 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #303 >james says: >> FWIW, this is a college town (17000 student university, city's >> population 120000), and I doubt you'd ever find one more "out of the >> way"... > >and how do you like it? do you live there because you want to or >because you're already there? I like it. Not any compulsion thing. It's very quiet at times, but - well, I've heard it described as like crossing Edinburgh with San Francisco and dumping it in coastal Vermont, if that's any guide. 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: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:18:54 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: news of the void On 8/25/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > i probably shouldn't laugh, but: > http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2329057520070824 Huh. The only instance I can think of to something like this in SF is from the Old School BSG-- the one with the killer-midriff-less, thankfully non-Baltar-fucking Starbuck. And the daggit... can't forget the daggit. I think the lost planet of Kobol was found in the void, and it looked like Egypt. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:08:22 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: I was walking.. I was walking down the street to my house and Peter Buck was standing in my way. No lie. V. On 8/20/07, m swedene wrote: > > towards 6th Ave (on 23rd street) heading in to work this morning and > spotted a Soft Boys Crab t-shirt on a passer-by. The day can't be all > that bad? can it? > > Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:35:32 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: I was walking.. On 8/25/07, vivien lyon wrote: > I was walking down the street to my house and Peter Buck was standing in my > way. No lie. Was he very drunk and trying to buy a cat? - -Rex (Or should that be "sell a cat"? Can't remember. Something Robyn once said about how he met PB, perhaps on a 120 Minutes interview?) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:49:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: I was walking.. Rex wrote: > On 8/25/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > I was walking down the street to my house and Peter Buck was > > standing in my way. No lie. > > Was he very drunk and trying to buy a cat? > > -Rex > > (Or should that be "sell a cat"? Can't remember. Something Robyn > once said about how he met PB, perhaps on a 120 Minutes interview?) I'm pretty sure it was sell; I think I remember something about Buck's then-wife having saved it but then it needed a home or something. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:06:19 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: I was walking.. No no no, he was with Scott McCaughey (sp?) and they had clearly been buying upscale Portland moderne food. At the Savoy. And I almost walked into him, but at the last second diverted my course and avoided his rockstar bulk. blushing and panicking all the while. V. On 8/26/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Rex wrote: > > On 8/25/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > > I was walking down the street to my house and Peter Buck was > > > standing in my way. No lie. > > > > Was he very drunk and trying to buy a cat? > > > > -Rex > > > > (Or should that be "sell a cat"? Can't remember. Something Robyn > > once said about how he met PB, perhaps on a 120 Minutes interview?) > > I'm pretty sure it was sell; I think I remember something about > Buck's then-wife having saved it but then it needed a home or > something. > > > "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to > watch many of them." -- John Waters > > . > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. > Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. > http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:09:41 -0400 From: blatzman@aol.com Subject: More Fegmusic!!!! Greetings Fegs! If you are so inclined, please lend me your ears again! I've just posted a new track to my myspace page... It's called Held and will perhaps someday be included on a CD, if I can ever get around to finishing it! Hope you like it! Dave www.myspace.com/davesantosmusic PS- You guys are the best! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #304 ********************************