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fegmaniax-digest         Monday, July 14 2008         Volume 16 : Number 657



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: last night in ridgewood            ["Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>]
  "The Constipated Gosling" (The Dramatic and Moving New Work of Short Fiction by Eric Broome)  ["Stacked Croo]
  "The Constipated Gosling" (The Dramatic and Moving New Work of Short Fiction by Eric Broome)  ["Stacked Croo]
  Tech Q                                 ["Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>]
  Tech Q                                 ["Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>]
  p.s.                                   ["Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>]
  Re: p.s.                                                [HwyCDRrev@aol.com]
  Re: p.s.                               [FSThomas <fsthomas@ochremedia.com>]
  Re: Tech Q                              ["m swedene" <m.swedene@gmail.com>]
  RE: p.s.           ["Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com>]
  Re: p.s.                                  [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>]
  Re: Tech Q                                [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>]
  Re: Tech Q                                  [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: Tech Q                                  [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: p.s.                          ["Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>]
  Re: Tech Q                      [Carrie Galbraith <meketone@ix.netcom.com>]

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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:02:15 -0700
From: "Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: Re: last night in ridgewood

<among the assortment of cds for sale are a series of illustrated green
cones.>

what are the cassettes he mentioned during the northampton show?  *Thoth
Boys* and *Prawns*?

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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:34:06 -0700
From: "Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: "The Constipated Gosling" (The Dramatic and Moving New Work of Short Fiction by Eric Broome)

<They're "shade balls", actually-- supposed to absorb all the sunlight
before it hits the water.  Nobody really knows what the hell's going on
with the whole thing as it's never been done before.  A lot of people are
even more pissed than we are (although we probably have the most direct
view of Blackball Lake of anyone in the neighborhood)... seems like a lot
of pseudoscience on both sides.>


<Don't even start on summer lightening storms! My brother is defending his
home from the fire that threatens to jump the break right now (he's lost
one to a wildfire already in this life) and my friend Winston was forced to
evacuate from the home he built himself 30 years ago and waits to hear if
it is still standing. It's making for some real interesting sunsets through
the smoke and all.>


i find california to be just endlessly, inscrutably, fascinating.

you've got your mega-disasters: raging wildfires, massive earthquakes,
george lucas' oeuvre.

you've got your mega-triumphs: gay marriage, the *Anderson Valley
Advertiser*, bowie's *Santa Monica '72*.  (huhn, just looking at the
latter's wikipedia entry: apparently it's set for "official" release this
month.)

you've got your leper messiahs: jim jones, jerry brown, soupy sales.

you've got your almost unparallelled natural beauty, and your almost
unparallelled traffic woes.

you've got your the carpenters and your jack nicholson.  and you've got
your TOOL.

you've got the world's seventh-largest (or what) economy, and your
seemingly intractable budget crisis.

most of all, you've got kirk gibson's home run.


what's it all *mean*, man?  what *can* it all mean?

while i've come to the realisation that von trier's *Kingdom* is a metaphor
for california; this point does nothing to help solve the riddle (hell, it
may even in some way *prevent* us doing so).

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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:34:06 -0700
From: "Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: "The Constipated Gosling" (The Dramatic and Moving New Work of Short Fiction by Eric Broome)

<They're "shade balls", actually-- supposed to absorb all the sunlight
before it hits the water.  Nobody really knows what the hell's going on
with the whole thing as it's never been done before.  A lot of people are
even more pissed than we are (although we probably have the most direct
view of Blackball Lake of anyone in the neighborhood)... seems like a lot
of pseudoscience on both sides.>


<Don't even start on summer lightening storms! My brother is defending his
home from the fire that threatens to jump the break right now (he's lost
one to a wildfire already in this life) and my friend Winston was forced to
evacuate from the home he built himself 30 years ago and waits to hear if
it is still standing. It's making for some real interesting sunsets through
the smoke and all.>


i find california to be just endlessly, inscrutably, fascinating.

you've got your mega-disasters: raging wildfires, massive earthquakes,
george lucas' oeuvre.

you've got your mega-triumphs: gay marriage, the *Anderson Valley
Advertiser*, bowie's *Santa Monica '72*.  (huhn, just looking at the
latter's wikipedia entry: apparently it's set for "official" release this
month.)

you've got your leper messiahs: jim jones, jerry brown, soupy sales.

you've got your almost unparallelled natural beauty, and your almost
unparallelled traffic woes.

you've got your the carpenters and your jack nicholson.  and you've got
your TOOL.

you've got the world's seventh-largest (or what) economy, and your
seemingly intractable budget crisis.

most of all, you've got kirk gibson's home run.


what's it all *mean*, man?  what *can* it all mean?

while i've come to the realisation that von trier's *Kingdom* is a metaphor
for california; this point does nothing to help solve the riddle (hell, it
may even in some way *prevent* us doing so).

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:55:03 -0700
From: "Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: Tech Q

hey,
so, back from vacation, and i notice my hard drive is acting a bit
strangely: it hangs for about three-quarters of a second every five minutes
or so.  is this thing beginning the crashing phase of its life-span?  i've
been using it for about five-and-a-half years.  (for what it's worth, i
left it on and torrenting -- as opposed to on and cooking bacon -- the
whole time i was away.)

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:55:03 -0700
From: "Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: Tech Q

hey,
so, back from vacation, and i notice my hard drive is acting a bit
strangely: it hangs for about three-quarters of a second every five minutes
or so.  is this thing beginning the crashing phase of its life-span?  i've
been using it for about five-and-a-half years.  (for what it's worth, i
left it on and torrenting -- as opposed to on and cooking bacon -- the
whole time i was away.)

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:58:24 -0700
From: "Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: p.s.

new beck SUCKS, new mellencamp is AWESOME.

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:00:19 EDT
From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com
Subject: Re: p.s.

i find this hard to believe 
 
 
In a message dated 7/14/2008 12:58:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
etews@inwa.net writes:

new beck  SUCKS, new mellencamp is AWESOME.




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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:36:13 -0400
From: FSThomas <fsthomas@ochremedia.com>
Subject: Re: p.s.

Stacked Crooked wrote:
> new beck SUCKS, new mellencamp is AWESOME.

I think you've got something bass ackwards, there.

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:46:11 -0400
From: "m swedene" <m.swedene@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tech Q

BACK IT UP ASAP.
It is not a question of IF a drive will die, more like when it will.
DATA RECO is pricey, my company does a LOT of it.

so PLEASE back up before you lose something (more than sanity & money).

Mike



On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Stacked Crooked <etews@inwa.net> wrote:

> hey,
> so, back from vacation, and i notice my hard drive is acting a bit
> strangely: it hangs for about three-quarters of a second every five minutes
> or so.  is this thing beginning the crashing phase of its life-span?  i've
> been using it for about five-and-a-half years.  (for what it's worth, i
> left it on and torrenting -- as opposed to on and cooking bacon -- the
> whole time i was away.)

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:01:43 -0400
From: "Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com>
Subject: RE: p.s.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On
Behalf Of FSThomas
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:36 PM
To: fegmaniax@smoe.org
Subject: Re: p.s.

Stacked Crooked wrote:
>> new beck SUCKS, new mellencamp is AWESOME.
>I think you've got something bass ackwards, there.

The last time you might have been able to say that was probably 1985
when mellencamp released Scarecrow, and (jeff)beck released Flash.
Although to be honest it's been a long time since I heard anything from
Flash.

Michael B.

NP The Triffids - In The Pines

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:42:05 -0700
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: p.s.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Stacked Crooked <etews@inwa.net> wrote:

> new beck SUCKS, new mellencamp is AWESOME.


All my interest in Beck has drained away over the last few years.  I hope
it's not just because of the whole Scientology thing, but I suspect that
does play into it.  I think I would've independently become bored with his
last few records anyway, but who knows.  I found something about the hat,
hairstyle and guitar that he used in every last piece of promotion
(including his puppet incarnation) on the last album very off-putting... it
felt like something that can only have resulted from some seres of odious
meetings at which the term "branding" was used frequently and in earnest.

It's a shame... he definitely had the spook for a good long while there.

Hain't heard no Mellencamp for a while, but I ain't agin 'im.

- -Rex

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:42:58 -0700
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tech Q

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:46 AM, m swedene <m.swedene@gmail.com> wrote:

> BACK IT UP ASAP.
> It is not a question of IF a drive will die, more like when it will.
> DATA RECO is pricey, my company does a LOT of it.
>
> so PLEASE back up before you lose something (more than sanity & money).
>

Worrrrrrrrrrd.

- -Rex

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:13:33 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tech Q

On 7/14/08, Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:46 AM, m swedene <m.swedene@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > BACK IT UP ASAP.
> > It is not a question of IF a drive will die, more like when it will.
> > DATA RECO is pricey, my company does a LOT of it.
> >
> > so PLEASE back up before you lose something (more than sanity & money).
> >
>
>
> Worrrrrrrrrrd.


I have hired a telekinetic glove salesman from Bend, Oregon to inscribe all
my data psychically on a series of tortillas.

I will then freeze the tortillas - and at such point as my drive crashes, he
promises to psychically restore the data by eating the tortillas and
squatting mystically atop my computer.

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:14:10 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tech Q

On 7/14/08, 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> I have hired a telekinetic glove salesman
>

To clarify: the salesman is telekinetic - not the gloves.


- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:44:54 -0400
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: p.s.

Stacked Crooked wrote:
> new beck SUCKS, new mellencamp is AWESOME.

That's as maybe, but the new one from The Music Tapes brings more 
awesome than you can imagine. Final, "Freeing Song For Reindeer" on CD!

  Stewart

PPS: Tix for the Of Montreal fall tour are out, but are expensive. That 
boy's gone all rockstarrrrr.

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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:55:02 -0700
From: Carrie Galbraith <meketone@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Tech Q

On Jul 14, 2008, at 7:13 PM, 2fs wrote:
>>
> I have hired a telekinetic glove salesman from Bend, Oregon to  
> inscribe all
> my data psychically on a series of tortillas.
>
> I will then freeze the tortillas - and at such point as my drive  
> crashes, he
> promises to psychically restore the data by eating the tortillas and
> squatting mystically atop my computer.
>

Uh-oh, I did that last fall when my HD started to go whacky. That  
squatting - it's not a pretty sight.
- - c



"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good  
conscience to remain silent. "
- - Thomas Jefferson

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