From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #647 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, July 3 2008 Volume 16 : Number 647 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Kunstler quotes "The Master" [Tom Clark ] Re: x-files movie trailer [Rex ] Re: x-files movie trailer [Rex ] Re: CVB25 [Rex ] Re: CVB25 [Rex ] Re: Uh, Dude... [Stacked Crooked ] Re: Uh, Dude... [Stacked Crooked ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #644 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Uno(cycle) [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Kunstler quotes "The Master" ["(0% rh)" ] Re: Jay-Z gives them Oarsis bois their props [craigie* ] Re: OT: Possible New Prisoner ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #645 [Steve Schiavo ] Re: OT: Possible New Prisoner [Rex ] luminous groove pre-order from yep roc [gaseous clay ] Hilarity ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Hilarity [2fs ] Re: Hilarity ["(0% rh)" ] Re: OT: Possible New Prisoner [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Kunstler quotes "The Master" [Tom Clark ] Re: Kunstler quotes "The Master" [2fs ] Fucking ghouls [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Rain [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #644 ["(0% rh)" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:08:13 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Kunstler quotes "The Master" On Jul 1, 2008, at 8:49 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > oh my, i had no idea that "X considered harmful" is considered to > dijkstra's feelings about the GOTO statement. > > personally, i totally agree with dijkstra (they are PURE EVIL) I was always taught that using a GOTO was a lazy way out, and it is if it's overused. These days you really can't get away from them if you're doing any kind of large scale software system. > the software engineering professor > recently told some anecdote about how a bunch of software engineers > were asked if they would fly in an aircraft for which they had written > the software. all but one said no. the one who said yes was asked > about his reply, and he said he wouldn't worry because he knew that > "his" aircraft would never even make it off the ground. Totally. Have you ever had pages of brand new source code compile correctly the first time through? That scares me so much I don't want to execute the program for fear it might trigger a nuclear war! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:17:37 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: x-files movie trailer On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:33 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > Rex says: > > I cannot get interested in the X-Files film or any of the new, > much-lauded > > Batmen. Both franchises hit a brick wall for me, and I'm not ready to be > > nostalgic yet... > > i'm wondering if you saw the most recent one, "batman begins" (this is > the christian bale one that kevin referred to.) No... it's one of those things that I know to probably be good, but I'm superheroed out... > IMO, it's the best of > the lot (i'm not a big tim burton fan.) if i'm remembering correctly, > the ones with uma thurman and alicia silverstone were the duds. The Joel Schumacher ones were abominable. It will take a while for me to get over 'em; luckily, the Nolan films will still exist when I do. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:26:36 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: x-files movie trailer On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:35 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 7/1/08, Rex wrote: > >> >> Today California's "no-hands-phones-only while driving" law went into >> effect, and, instantaneously, people who were previously totally low-tech >> and workaday (e.g. couriers, container drivers) > > > Don't think you can sneak a Fall reference past me! > Past you? That was aimed right between your eyes. But it was also what I meant to say, somehow. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:43:29 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: CVB25 On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > >> >> > Until about three songs in to Saturday's set I had totally forgotten that I > had seen them in Boston in '90 (at The Paradise - Jill???). This was the > Key Lime Pie tour with the lovely Morgan Fichter filling in for Jonathan. > She surprisingly showed up a few years later with Jane's Addiction at > Lollapalooza here in the Bay Area. I was hoping she was following me... No, she's just also avoiding Peter Buck, so she naturally ends up in the same place as you. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:46:47 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: CVB25 On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:42 PM, 2fs wrote: > I've sorta come to appreciate Cracker on its own merits, slightly at least, > over the years...but at first it was like, great - Lowery embraces his > inner > redneck and leaves everything else he was as a lyricist behind. > Particularly > disappointing because I really liked many of the lyrics on KLP - some great > yet open-ended storytelling there. > My feelings at the time, too. Cracker got good for me around "Golden Age"-- never as good as CVB, but still-- and then, even more frustratingly, sank back into not being all that interesting, even before CVB reappeared. I tried not to hold not being CVB against them-- fuck, I like fIREHOSE to this day-- but what can you do? Oh, and that Doctor Who nod did not escape me, either. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:33:38 -0700 From: Stacked Crooked Subject: Re: Uh, Dude... it was in curtis' wikipedia entry, yes. though that's where i *started* -- got lost by wanting to read cobain's entry next after curtis', and then on to the "death of kurt cobain" entry (which, apparently kim gordon believes that he was murdered). but, speaking of mt. st. helens; just finished watching the most mordoriffic thunder/lightning/wind/rain storm i've ever had the pleasure to've witnessed (i'm at my folks' place in a montana valley *almost* completely surrounded by rockies mountains). had never seen a lightning-strike progress either horizontally nor vertically until now (merging threads: guess i've lived a sheltered life). why, the balalaika, of course. huhn, interesting. i'd *thought* that mine was "You Know My Name" until i read or heard somewhere (the *Anthology* liner notes, perhaps?) that that's *mccartney's* favourite. so not wanting to look like a jumper-on-er, i might have to go with "Hide Your Love" (kinda shocking to me that robyn's never covered that one). ...but, damn, i *do* luvs me some mean mr. motherfucking mustard. the egyptians did it up real nice a time or two. not that they ever *released* it, if that's what you meant. but until/unless you've had eb's "fingering mechanism" all up inside yo' "field crapper", you hain't lived a day in this world. meanwhile, the first time i ever saw the egyptians, they were opening for the campers (bumbershoot -- and campers were a late insertion, devo having dropped out of the time-slot). KEN "Feelin' two-foot small" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:33:38 -0700 From: Stacked Crooked Subject: Re: Uh, Dude... it was in curtis' wikipedia entry, yes. though that's where i *started* -- got lost by wanting to read cobain's entry next after curtis', and then on to the "death of kurt cobain" entry (which, apparently kim gordon believes that he was murdered). but, speaking of mt. st. helens; just finished watching the most mordoriffic thunder/lightning/wind/rain storm i've ever had the pleasure to've witnessed (i'm at my folks' place in a montana valley *almost* completely surrounded by rockies mountains). had never seen a lightning-strike progress either horizontally nor vertically until now (merging threads: guess i've lived a sheltered life). why, the balalaika, of course. huhn, interesting. i'd *thought* that mine was "You Know My Name" until i read or heard somewhere (the *Anthology* liner notes, perhaps?) that that's *mccartney's* favourite. so not wanting to look like a jumper-on-er, i might have to go with "Hide Your Love" (kinda shocking to me that robyn's never covered that one). ...but, damn, i *do* luvs me some mean mr. motherfucking mustard. the egyptians did it up real nice a time or two. not that they ever *released* it, if that's what you meant. but until/unless you've had eb's "fingering mechanism" all up inside yo' "field crapper", you hain't lived a day in this world. meanwhile, the first time i ever saw the egyptians, they were opening for the campers (bumbershoot -- and campers were a late insertion, devo having dropped out of the time-slot). KEN "Feelin' two-foot small" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:12:32 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #644 > p.s. a few months ago, my logic teacher and i had a talk about > transfinite numbers, and i think it was then that i realized that i > don't even the *ability* to have clue as to how smart he is. I sometimes feel the same way about my SO Alice. Hell, I've got a high IQ, but I can't keep up when her conversation suddenly swings from string theory to invertebrate anatomy to Lester Bangs to comparative linguistics to geomorphology and backto string theory over the course of a minute or two of conversation. She leaves me bewildered and awe-struck. Though I'm a sucker for smart women, luckily, she also has other charms :) 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, 02 Jul 2008 01:10:48 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Uno(cycle) If you could get the balance right, you could always put on a shell that makes it look like you are riding to work on Cecil Sea-Serpent . Or whatever. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:34:43 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Kunstler quotes "The Master" tc says: > On Jul 1, 2008, at 8:49 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > >> oh my, i had no idea that "X considered harmful" is considered to >> dijkstra's feelings about the GOTO statement. >> >> personally, i totally agree with dijkstra (they are PURE EVIL) > > I was always taught that using a GOTO was a lazy way out, and it is if it's > overused. i was taught that you get an F, or if you're in the real world, they will hunt you down. not to kill you, but, worse - to give you another F. (but, mind you, i learned on PASCAL.) (which was so long ago, i can't remember if PASCAL is all caps, or lead caps.) > These days you really can't get away from them if you're doing > any kind of large scale software system. i certainly haven't worked on any large scale systems. what language(s) do you use? i figure they're excusable if they're in the same function, but i think dijkstra was right as far as making the line of control difficult (if not impossible) to follow. although i guess control in code is OUT, and reaction is IN, so, in a weird way, it's like GOTO is the main control in code these days. like a tennis game. with a lot of people. and some of the people are playing golf, and some are playing volleyball, but it all works out and the ball stays in the air. until there's an unhandled exception, which i guess is when someone with a bowling ball tries to enter the game. i read once someone suggested a COME FROM should replace the GOTO. at least you'd know how you'd gotten wherever you were. >> the software engineering professor >> recently told some anecdote about how a bunch of software engineers >> were asked if they would fly in an aircraft for which they had written >> the software. all but one said no. the one who said yes was asked >> about his reply, and he said he wouldn't worry because he knew that >> "his" aircraft would never even make it off the ground. > > Totally. Have you ever had pages of brand new source code compile correctly > the first time through? god, no! maybe the second or third time, and, then, if the stars are aligned, i can get a laugh at whatever the code ends up doing (it's soooo unrelated to what i told it do!) but, generally, it's cryin' time. > That scares me so much I don't want to execute the > program for fear it might trigger a nuclear war! i hear you. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:46:42 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Jay-Z gives them Oarsis bois their props It was Noel. For once. c* On 30/06/2008, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Well, sort of. Which one bitched about Jay-Z being invited to Glastonbury > anyways? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXZsO16w9sw > > > > "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 > . > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:31:49 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #645 I seem to recall The Jam doing a splendid version of Rain (on Extras originally, but almost certainly on the 5cd box set as well...) but I'll check... Weller had that chiming guitar sound down pat for time... c* On 02/07/2008, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > onstage and sang "Rain" with us, the only song we were sure we all >>> knew. The next day we listened to the recording of Galaxie 500 with >>> >> Robyn Hitchcock. > >> We sounded dreadful, but his voice was great. This little >>> collaboration was mentioned on MTV - we were almost famous." page 56, >>> Black Postcards >>> >> >> > G500 doing "Rain" sounds like a no-brainer, but the live recording of >> > it I've heard (sans Robyn) really, > >> surprisingly, isn't very good. And Bongwater's is overrun by >> > irritating ghasty (but not mellow) sax. > >> That's probably my favorite Beatles song, but I don't know any good >> > covers of it. > > well, the original is so near perfection is why. ISTR I have a couple of > reasonable versions - a ponderous but otherwise OK Ed Harcourt one off a > UNCUT compilation giveaway, and a very poor tape copy by an obscure NZ band > called The Simpletons. The original still wins hands down. > > As tio Galaxie 500 performing this with RH, I think my degrees of > separation (performing music only) with RH just wen't down to five (me to > Jan (or Paul or David or Peter) to Martin to Justin to Dean to Robyn). > Shorter links welcomed :) (actually, I may have just thought of a shorter > one - me to Jan to Don (or Dave) to Neil to Robyn. Jan may even have worked > with Neil, which cuts things down considerably) > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:44:51 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: OT: Possible New Prisoner FSThomas wrote: > > Nothing on location. "Although Portmeirion will not be used as a location this time ..." - - If it ain't Portmeirion, it ain't The Prisoner. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:34:07 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #645 On Jul 2, 2008, at 4:31 AM, craigie* wrote: > I seem to recall The Jam doing a splendid version of Rain (on Extras > originally, but almost certainly on the 5cd box set as well...) but > I'll > check... How about the version on the second Polyrock album? - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 07:47:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: OT: Possible New Prisoner On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > FSThomas wrote: > >> >> Nothing on location. >> > > "Although Portmeirion will not be used as a location this time ..." > - > > If it ain't Portmeirion, it ain't The Prisoner. > Yahr. That's why they're kind of screwed. Shoot there and it'd be too much of a carbon copy, inviting unkind comparisons. Shoot elsewhere and it's a different show. One could argue that if they really really try, they could find an equally singular location. Good luck. Building it or making it all CGI would be totally fail... the Village has to be real. Weird and eerie, but real. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:51:26 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: luminous groove pre-order from yep roc - ----- Forwarded message from Yep Roc Records ----- To: woj@smoe.org Subject: [Robyn Hitchcock] box set of Egyptions material, Luminous Groove, now available for pre-order Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:53:54 -0400 From: Yep Roc Records Robyn Hitchcock second retrospective box set now available for pre-order! The second in a series of Robyn Hitchcock retrospective box sets from Yep Roc - the five-disc Luminous Groove which shines a light on Robyn's rock & roll renaissance with the Egyptians - is now available for pre-order in the Yep Roc Web Shop! "It's still odd for me to think of the 1980s as being in the past," Robyn Hitchcock says of the latest set. "Back then, they were a baleful future that we refugees from the 1960s were marooned in. I never thought I'd get out alive, from Reagan, Thatcher and shoulder pads. But time wins again." Studio albums Fegmania! and Element of Light, along with the live album Gotta Let This Hen Out!, document Robyn's post Soft Boys period and largely, his introduction to American audiences. All three albums contain new bonus tracks exclusive to Luminous Groove. In addition to these three seminal albums, the set also includes two exclusive bonus discs entitled Bad Case of History which features previously unreleased studio recordings, including the final 1994 sessions, and a CD of unheard live material. Just as with Yep Roc's first box set collection I Wanna Go Backwards, the curation of Fegmania!, Element of Light and Gotta Let This Hen Out! into one box set encapsulates a critical portion of the creative life of Britain's Mad Hatter of pop and further illuminates Hitchcock's gloriously mysterious Luminous Groove. Luminous Groove will also be available as an eight-LP vinyl set! - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:43:45 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Hilarity While looking for info on Lauren's recent "snowclone" reference I came across the following, which has now infested my mind like a hilarious parasite: There once was an X from place B, That satisfied predicate P, He or she did thing A, In an adjective way, Resulting in circumstance C. http://snowclones.org/ np: Marion Brown, Sweet Earth Flying ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:26:39 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Hilarity On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:43 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > While looking for info on Lauren's recent "snowclone" reference I came > across the following, which has now infested my mind like a hilarious > parasite: > > There once was an X from place B, > That satisfied predicate P, > He or she did thing A, > In an adjective way, > Resulting in circumstance C. > > http://snowclones.org/ > I think Rock Band does that on their new CD, _More Songs About X and Y_. > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman, trying not to be bugged by the scansion of lines 3 and 4: > at least they're parallel to one another though > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 16:36:20 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Hilarity 2fs says: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:43 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > >> While looking for info on Lauren's recent "snowclone" reference I came >> across the following, which has now infested my mind like a hilarious >> parasite: >> >> There once was an X from place B, >> That satisfied predicate P, >> He or she did thing A, >> In an adjective way, >> Resulting in circumstance C. >> >> http://snowclones.org/ >> > > I think Rock Band does that on their new CD, _More Songs About X and Y_. i don't know about that: something X never said was "Y." xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:06:08 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: OT: Possible New Prisoner On Jul 2, 2008, at 4:44 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > If it ain't Portmeirion, it ain't The Prisoner. Here! Here! Isn't it being filmed in the UK? I've been to Portmerion, it's not THAT hard to get to! - - c ************************************** Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself. ************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:20:18 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Kunstler quotes "The Master" On Jul 1, 2008, at 11:34 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > tc says: >> >> I was always taught that using a GOTO was a lazy way out, and it is >> if it's >> overused. > > i was taught that you get an F, or if you're in the real world, they > will hunt you down. not to kill you, but, worse - to give you another > F. I agree that in teaching CS it's important to discourage its use in order to emphasize more elegant program flow. > >> These days you really can't get away from them if you're doing >> any kind of large scale software system. > > i certainly haven't worked on any large scale systems. what > language(s) do you use? Objective-C, C, C++ > i figure they're excusable if they're in the > same function, but i think dijkstra was right as far as making the > line of control difficult (if not impossible) to follow. In a high level language you really can't GOTO anyplace other than a label in the same function; otherwise it's out of scope. As far as readability, they're mostly wrapped up in a well defined escape macro anyway, so it actually has the effect of making the flow easier to follow. Take for example: #define require_non_null(result, label) \ do \ { \ if( result == NULL) \ { \ goto label; \ } \ } while ( 0 ) \ Using this macro is actually more verbose than just dropping in the raw error check. > although i > guess control in code is OUT, and reaction is IN, so, in a weird way, > it's like GOTO is the main control in code these days. like a tennis > game. with a lot of people. and some of the people are playing golf, > and some are playing volleyball, but it all works out and the ball > stays in the air. until there's an unhandled exception, which i guess > is when someone with a bowling ball tries to enter the game. Can't say I ever really thought about it that way... ;) >>> the software engineering professor >>> recently told some anecdote about how a bunch of software engineers >>> were asked if they would fly in an aircraft for which they had >>> written >>> the software. all but one said no. the one who said yes was asked >>> about his reply, and he said he wouldn't worry because he knew that >>> "his" aircraft would never even make it off the ground. My manager flies his own plane so I asked him the question. His answer was an immediate "I have!". Apparently in the 80's he wrote the firmware for the computerized braking system on 757's and 767's. - -tc p.s. Continuing this thread is my way of returning the favor to all you Buffy-ites! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 16:27:20 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Kunstler quotes "The Master" On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > > p.s. Continuing this thread is my way of returning the favor to all you > Buffy-ites! > Snake you Tom Clark! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:59:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Fucking ghouls http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7486280.stm "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: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:18:43 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Rain >well, the original is so near perfection is why. ISTR I have a couple >of reasonable versions - a ponderous but otherwise OK Ed Harcourt one >off a UNCUT compilation giveaway, and a very poor tape copy by an >obscure NZ band called The Simpletons. The original still wins hands >down. Just realised that was a bit ambiguous. The tape copy is poor and muffled, but the rendition of the song is pretty good. 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: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:48:43 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #644 james says: >> p.s. a few months ago, my logic teacher and i had a talk about >> transfinite numbers, and i think it was then that i realized that i >> don't even the *ability* to have clue as to how smart he is. > > I sometimes feel the same way about my SO Alice. Hell, I've got a high IQ, > but I can't keep up when her conversation suddenly swings from string theory > to invertebrate anatomy to Lester Bangs to comparative linguistics to > geomorphology and backto string theory over the course of a minute or two of > conversation. She leaves me bewildered and awe-struck. Though I'm a sucker > for smart women, luckily, she also has other charms :) okay, i already adore this woman. she is not on feglist...why? (for some reason, i don't find it a stretch that she's an RH fan ;) ) you could double the new zealand feg forces!!! as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #647 ********************************