From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #638 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, June 23 2008 Volume 16 : Number 638 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: from the wang dang pig dept [0% RH] ["(0% rh)" ] Re: from the wang dang pig dept [0% RH] ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: from the wang dang pig dept [0% RH] ["(0% rh)" ] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] REAP... [Michael Sweeney ] Re: REAP... [Tom Clark ] Re: Ray ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: from the wang dang pig dept [0% RH] ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Reap ["kevin studyvin" ] And now a message from the National Apple Council: [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: News [Steve Schiavo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:10:19 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: from the wang dang pig dept [0% RH] Stewart says: > there really is a Korean pencil called the Dong-a Hongdangmoo. > oh, that's a great site. i have a *bit* of a pencil fetish. i'm inclined towards mechanical pencils, but i still love the regular pencils as well. btw, i can never find my favourite lead these day - "F" (i think it's a 2-1/2 on the other scale?) i settle for "HB" but it's a bit soft for a leftie. i like those bible highlighters on the pencil website. i've been in search of the perfect highlighter, which is probably something a bit close to a non-photo blue marker (suggestions welcome.) regular highlighters are way too in-your-face. i mean, the seeming importance of highlighted material to non-highlighted material is WAY off with one of those florescent yellow markers. i like to underline with coloured pencils, but that has the drawback that i spend too much time sharpening them when i use them as highlighters. also, i like coloured pencils with pretty soft leads, so sharpening entails losing like two inches of pencil while trying to find a place where the tip stops breaking off (pencil sharpening tips welcome.) yes, these are the things i get to think about until BSG comes back on air in 2009(!) and makes my life worthwhile again (i exaggerate only slightly, and thank the gods that math never goes on holiday.) xo lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:26:04 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: from the wang dang pig dept [0% RH] On 6/22/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > > i like those bible highlighters on the pencil website. i've been in > search of the perfect highlighter, which is probably something a bit > close to a non-photo blue marker (suggestions welcome.) regular > highlighters are way too in-your-face. i mean, the seeming importance > of highlighted material to non-highlighted material is WAY off with > one of those florescent yellow markers. i like to underline with > coloured pencils, but that has the drawback that i spend too much time > sharpening them when i use them as highlighters. also, i like > coloured pencils with pretty soft leads, so sharpening entails losing > like two inches of pencil while trying to find a place where the tip > stops breaking off (pencil sharpening tips welcome.) I think the best highlighter would be a very tightly controlled low-intensity torch...so that you could lightly brown the paper of the text you're highlighting. Or maybe I'm just insane. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:28:04 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: from the wang dang pig dept [0% RH] > btw, i can never find my favourite lead these day - "F" (i think it's > a 2-1/2 on the other scale?) i settle for "HB" but it's a bit soft > for a leftie. When I'm using a pencil I prefer the HB since I tend to press very lightly so the softer lead makes for a closer approximation of legible writing (and if you'd ever seen mt handwriting, you'd know...) > > yes, these are the things i get to think about until BSG comes back on > air in 2009(!) and makes my life worthwhile again (i exaggerate only > slightly, and thank the gods that math never goes on holiday.) > > Not that familiar with the BSG. I thought it was all over & done with...? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:36:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Ray Given that our mystery man/woman ('cause s/he also has no name on the Kinks list) is a Kinks fan and wrote this.... Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:51:12 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: June 21, 1948 -Happy Birthday June 21, 1948 -Happy Birthday ....I assumed he was wishing Ray Davies a happy birthday, but the year was wrong. God, Ray is 64. And while I'm at it, happy birthday, Stewart (2 days early). Jill ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:10:53 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: from the wang dang pig dept [0% RH] kevin says: >> btw, i can never find my favourite lead these day - "F" (i think it's >> a 2-1/2 on the other scale?) i settle for "HB" but it's a bit soft >> for a leftie. > > > When I'm using a pencil I prefer the HB since I tend to press very lightly > so the softer lead makes for a closer approximation of legible writing (and > if you'd ever seen mt handwriting, you'd know...) do you mean your pre-accident handwriting or your new "sinister" handwriting? or both? btw, i was at my old job for 17 years, and *some* people were even there before me (it's true), and it never failed to amaze when someone wouldn't know who (hand-) wrote something. since the tech staff (for many of the 17 years) was like 12 boys and one girl, i figured maybe recognizing handwriting is kind of a girl thing or something?. >> yes, these are the things i get to think about until BSG comes back on >> air in 2009(!) and makes my life worthwhile again (i exaggerate only >> slightly, and thank the gods that math never goes on holiday.) >> > Not that familiar with the BSG. I thought it was all over & done with...? i thought you started watching it? or am i confused? season 4 got delayed and also broken in half, presumably because of the writer's strike. it just finished the 10th episode of season 4 last week (oh, i just loved how that episode ended!) and supposedly the second batch of 10 episodes will air in 2009. those will be last of the series, since season 4 is the last. but, rumour has it, there's a series called "caprica" in the works that will go back to the first cylon war. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:12:30 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: from the wang dang pig dept [0% RH] jeff 2fs says: > I think the best highlighter would be a very tightly controlled > low-intensity torch...so that you could lightly brown the paper of the text > you're highlighting. > > Or maybe I'm just insane. no, that sounds perfect. and it would put some extra fun into reading in bed. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:10:49 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: from the wang dang pig dept [0% RH] > > When I'm using a pencil I prefer the HB since I tend to press very > lightly > > so the softer lead makes for a closer approximation of legible writing > (and > > if you'd ever seen mt handwriting, you'd know...) > > do you mean your pre-accident handwriting or your new "sinister" > handwriting? or both? Nahh, I haven't gone over to the sinister side; just my regular scrawl, which never recovered from the couple years I spent working on a loading dock many years ago - when you sign freight bills all day long for truck drivers who just want to get their stuff offloaded and get out of there, you develop writing even a doctor couldn't read...but it's back to whatever normal is for me, already. > > > > Not that familiar with the BSG. I thought it was all over & done > with...? > > i thought you started watching it? or am i confused? > Yeah, but "started watching it" so far consists only of the season one mini-series premiere. We have a long way to travel yet down the road of Galactica. Which BTW I saw one of the recent eps last week sometime and I really had the classic problem with stepping into a soap opera out of sequence, mainly frakkin' nothing made any sense. When the only thing that works in a dramatic scenario is Lucy Lawless running around in nothing but a towel (always a plus in any event) I have to say somebody needs to provide a little continuity. I figure maybe a year or two down the pike I'll catch up to it again and have a clue what's going on, maybe it'll be more fun and less baffling. Just came in from seeing Shamalamadingdong's The Happening. Liked it a lot. John Leguizamo was great as always - when will he get the recognition he deserves, what I wanna know. Was struck by the film's similarity in tone to your various natural-disaster or eco-catastrophe novels by Johns Christopher and Wyndham from the 1950s, particularly No Blade Of Grass. (Relatedly, where is the filmmaker with the instincts necessary to turn J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World into the visionary global-warming horror story it has the potential to be?) > rumour has it, there's a series called "caprica" in the works & As en example of how my mind works every time I see that word I read it as "capsicum," because that's how deeply a particular ex was imprinted on my mind (she had an idea that she was a poet, when what she mostly was in real life was drop-dead gorgeous and crazy as six kinds of hell) - it's a word she liked to throw at people, but sadly her mind wasn't the attribute that impressed them the most... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:01:14 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: News On Jun 22, 2008, at 1:38 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > Just stumbled across this: > > http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/47479-staff-list-the-20-worst-album-covers-of-2007 Apparently Bobbie Fleckman is not an executive at Ted Nugent's label. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:53:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap George Carlin. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/06/22/state/n224616D93.DTL Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:56:17 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: REAP... ...Aw, shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits... RIP -- George Carlin... Michael "Guess that list is already down to 5 these days...and 'shit' is wavering, too..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Earn cashback on your purchases with Live Search - the search that pays you back! http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=earncashbac k ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:06:45 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: REAP... On Jun 22, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > ...Aw, shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits... > > RIP -- George Carlin... Fuck. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:31:56 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Ray Jill Brand wrote: > > And while I'm at it, happy birthday, Stewart (2 days early). And Happy Birthday, Jill ... Stewart - -- np: Otis Taylor - Recapturing the Banjo ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:39:14 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: from the wang dang pig dept [0% RH] (0% rh) wrote: > > btw, i can never find my favourite lead these day - "F" (i think it's > a 2-1/2 on the other scale?) i settle for "HB" but it's a bit soft > for a leftie. Fun fact - there's no standard to each manufacturer's grade (read Petrosky's "The Pencil" for details). Faber-Castell seems harder for their grade to me, and most American pencils too soft. I think that Staedtler get it right for me. What diameter of F do you need? Between Aboveground and Midoco, Toronto has all your pencil needs. > i like those bible highlighters on the pencil website. I just use a plain red marking pencil for highlighting. Less is more. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:26:12 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: DIME/LMA: Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - 1993-05-19 - The Ritz, New York City, NY (CS AUD master) FLACs via bittorrent at dimeadozen: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=202283&hit=1 FLACs/mp3s/oggs via direct download from the live music archive: http://www.archive.org/details/RobynHitchcock1993-05-19.cm-s20.flac16 enjoy! woj - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians May 19, 1993 The Ritz, New York City, NY The final Egyptians tour, supporting the final Egyptians album, Respect. A rollicking show with inventive instrumentation, covering mostly new material with some older tunes thrown in as well. Sound quality is pretty decent, courtesy of the impeccable sound at The Ritz. There's a tape flip during "Globe of Frogs" (thought I was using a c100 not a c90 -- oops!) and the recorder was paused at the end the tracks before encore breaks. Taped by that woj guy Source: Aiwa CM-S20 > Aiwa HS-J800 (mic in, autogain) > cassette master Transfer: CS(0) > JVC TD-W805 > Sony MDS-JE530 (A/D) > optical > Delta Dio 2496 > CD Wave (recording) > Cool Edit 2000 (normalization) > CD Wave (tracking) > flac 1.1.1 (level 6) > .flac 01. intro 02. Driving Aloud (Radio Storm) 03. Railway Shoes 04. banter - what we really look like 05. The Yip Song 06. Queen Elvis 07. Arms of Love 08. Airscape 09. banter - the happy miller and the knuckle of bone 10. When I Was Dead 11. Vegetation & Dimes 12. Oceanside 13. One Long Pair of Eyes 14. A Globe of Frogs 15. Clean Steve 16. Only the Stones Remain 17. The Moon Inside First Encore: 18. Glass 19. City of Shame Second Encore: 20. Wafflehead 21. The Wreck of the Arthur Lee 22. Egyptian Cream Third Encore: 23. Kung Fu Fighting - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:01:43 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: News - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Tom Clark Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:01 AM To: whatever Subject: Re: News On Jun 22, 2008, at 1:38 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > >Just stumbled across this: > > > http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/47479-staff-list-the-20- > worst-album-covers-of-2007 >Apparently Bobbie Fleckman is not an executive at Ted Nugent's label. I suppose hoping for lightning strikes to hit Crawford, Texas next year and take out Dubya and Ted would be stretch? Crawford might to too southwesterly to be tornado territory. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:38:31 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Reap ...no more toledo window box... On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > George Carlin. > > > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/06/22/state/n224616D93.DTL > > Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits > > > "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure > out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to > satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom > Lehrer > > "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute > . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:25:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: And now a message from the National Apple Council: Fuck pears. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:41:22 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Flash Yet again I'm led to wonder what the superlative form of "so what?" might be: http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/news/article/0,,4703772,00.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:34:14 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: News On Jun 23, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Bachman, Michael wrote: > Crawford might to too southwesterly to be tornado territory. There's hope - best I can tell, Crawford is in the dark orange area south of Ft. Worth. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #638 ********************************