From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #664 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, July 23 2008 Volume 16 : Number 664 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? [Rex ] Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? [Rex ] Re: Lots of fish! [Rex ] Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? ["Jason Brown" ] Re: Tech Q [Rex ] Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? [HSatterfld@aol.com] Jug band music ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Jug band music [craigie* ] Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? [2fs ] Re: Jug band music [2fs ] Re: Jug band music ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Jug band music ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? [2fs ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #137 [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #137 [2fs ] Re: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Its tentacles might be bland, but think what it could do with 96 of them... (0%RH) ["Charlotte Tupman" ] Re: Headline Of The Moment [FSThomas ] Re: Headline Of The Moment ["Stewart Russell" ] Michele Pregnant? [Tom Clark ] Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? [Tom Clark ] Re: Headline Of The Moment ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Headline Of The Moment ["Jason Brown" ] Re: Michele Pregnant? ["(0% rh)" ] Re: Headline Of The Moment [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Headline Of The Moment [Rex ] Re: Headline Of The Moment [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:22:41 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > > > I just sold $2500+ worth of CDs to my local shop, Sonic Boom Records. Nice; may I ask how many discs that was? > > I eventually brought everything in. they were pretty picky and i > found that it was best to come in on certain days depending on when > the more generous buyers where there. I don't have any stores quite close enough to dial in that schedule... but we'll see. I have a few people expressing interest in the whole collection... haven't called anyone back yet; still trying to decide on a low-end figure. > > > Otherwise i highly recommend backing up everything multiple times. i > have my music triply backed up on drives at home an backed up on a > drive at my brothers place as well. I've got 'em in two places already, and the second thing I'm buying with the proceeds is a 1TB drive for the hat trick. Thanks, Rex > > > -- > "IGNORE ME!!!!!!!" - The Grand Galactic Inquisitor ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:24:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:59 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 7/21/08, Jason Brown wrote: > > In other words, if you find a situation where you're getting reasonably > decent money, I wouldn't waste much energy thinking maybe possibly you > could > get even more. I won't... but what would we define as "good money"? I'd call $2000 for 2000 records a bit low. Oh well... it's an experiment! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:26:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Lots of fish! On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > Well, it's actually another Ponyo trailer (without Yukie Nakama, sorry). > > > Nifty. I think my stepdaughter thought I'd gone nuts when she saw me watching this. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:39:08 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? >> I just sold $2500+ worth of CDs to my local shop, Sonic Boom Records. > > Nice; may I ask how many discs that was? I think they took about 700 discs. - -- "IGNORE ME!!!!!!!" - The Grand Galactic Inquisitor ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:37:34 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Tech Q i should perhaps clarify that by my "no worries" comment, i didn't mean that i wasn't worried about losing data; but rather that i'm a fairly compulsive back-er-up-er. (although i did have a bit of a rex-type event a few months back, in accidentally backing up in the *wrong direction* -- i.e., ended up deleting all the new albums i'd just finished tagging and filing in the permanent collection; then had to go back and re-download and re-tag, and whatnot. can't recall exactly *how*, but this then led to me seeking out some other artists; so it ended up being a positive development, although much time was, indeed, lost.) yeah, i'm beginning to strongly suspect that it's the bittorrent client that's causing the weirdness. thanks for the tips, brian! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:34:02 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Tech Q On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > (although i did have a bit of a rex-type event a few months back, in > accidentally backing up in the *wrong direction* -- i.e., ended up deleting > all the new albums i'd just finished tagging and filing in the permanent > collection; then had to go back and re-download and re-tag, and whatnot. > can't recall exactly *how*, but this then led to me seeking out some other > artists; so it ended up being a positive development, although much time > was, indeed, lost.) And, indeed, I got all my stuff back, learned a few Afterschool Special-worthy lessons, and am now headed for double-redundancy land. It could, indeed, have been worse. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:21:48 EDT From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? Yes, dump all the 99-cent bin CDs at your local used store. But my advice would be that USPS flat-rate boxes are your friend. When mailing a large pile of CDs, Priority Mail rates are as good as the delivery-by-slow-mule rate. See how many CDs you can fit in a $10 flat rate box and group your CDs in collections of that size that belong together. Intelligently constructed lots of CDs usually get good bids on eBay. People who insist on selling their collection by pairing up bluegrass and disco artists are usually disappointed at their final price. **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:35:40 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Jug band music Has anybody noticed the structural similarity between "I've Got a Message for You" and the old song (by Cannon's Jug Stompers, if hunch serves) "Side by Side"? J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:00:02 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Jug band music Or the similarity between "Veins Of The Queen" and "Summer Song" by Chad & Jeremy? c* On 23/07/2008, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > Has anybody noticed the structural similarity between "I've Got a > Message for You" and the old song (by Cannon's Jug Stompers, if hunch > serves) "Side by Side"? > > J > > -- > READIN 2.0 > http://www.readin.com/blog/ > - -- 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, 23 Jul 2008 08:01:31 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? On 7/23/08, HSatterfld@aol.com wrote: > > People who insist on > selling their collection by pairing up bluegrass and disco artists are > usually > disappointed at their final price. Hmm. That explains why my series of home-made mix CDs - "Disco Barn," "Cocaine Hoedown," and "Nights on Possum Hollow Road" - didn't go very quickly... Guess I'll ditch the plan to sell tight-fitting, white-denim overalls and mirror-encrusted shovels, too. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:04:41 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Jug band music On 7/23/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > Has anybody noticed the structural similarity between "I've Got a > Message for You" and the old song (by Cannon's Jug Stompers, if hunch > serves) "Side by Side"? My first guess is, no, nobody has ever noticed that...but as it happens, Robyn and Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers *have* been mentioned on fegmania before: - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:12:16 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Jug band music See what happened this weekend while I was away was, I started thinking of "I've Got a Message for You" and humming it to myself. I could not think if there was a break or chorus or "b" part though, just sort of stuck the verse on repeat; and *then* I start humming, Treat me (something) and (something)y, Treat me (something) and (something)y, Treat me (something) and (something)y, I've got a message for you. (bass lick)... Through all kinds of weather, What if the (x) should fall? Long as we're together, It doesn't matter at all (two, three, four) Treat me (something) and (something)y,... On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:04 AM, 2fs wrote: > On 7/23/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: >> >> Has anybody noticed the structural similarity between "I've Got a >> Message for You" and the old song (by Cannon's Jug Stompers, if hunch >> serves) "Side by Side"? > > My first guess is, no, nobody has ever noticed that...but as it happens, > Robyn and Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers *have* been mentioned on fegmania > before: > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:15:14 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Jug band music And looking at the Asking Tree, I see the actual break (If I was a hairless spinster) does indeed match up to the Side by Side break. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > See what happened this weekend while I was away was, I started > thinking of "I've Got a Message for You" and humming it to myself. I > could not think if there was a break or chorus or "b" part though, > just sort of stuck the verse on repeat; and *then* I start humming, > > Treat me (something) and (something)y, > Treat me (something) and (something)y, > Treat me (something) and (something)y, > I've got a message for you. > (bass lick)... > Through all kinds of weather, > What if the (x) should fall? > Long as we're together, > It doesn't matter at all (two, three, four) > Treat me (something) and (something)y,... > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:04 AM, 2fs wrote: >> On 7/23/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: >>> >>> Has anybody noticed the structural similarity between "I've Got a >>> Message for You" and the old song (by Cannon's Jug Stompers, if hunch >>> serves) "Side by Side"? >> >> My first guess is, no, nobody has ever noticed that...but as it happens, >> Robyn and Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers *have* been mentioned on fegmania >> before: >> >> >> -- >> >> ...Jeff Norman >> >> The Architectural Dance Society >> http://spanghew.blogspot.com > > > > -- > READIN 2.0 > http://www.readin.com/blog/ > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:16:39 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? 2008/7/22 Rex : > > I've got 'em in two places already, and the second thing I'm buying with the > proceeds is a 1TB drive for the hat trick. You can get nifty network attached storage boxes that will serve your music via uPnP or DAAP (aka the reverse engineered iTunes library protocol). I'm ripping my CDs, putting them in storage, backing them up in triplicate, and serving them using Firefly Media Server from the basement mini-server to Roku Soundbridge in the living room. But that was probably too much information. Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:07:45 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Stewart Russell wrote: > > > But that was probably too much information. > Nevar. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:22:55 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Stewart Russell wrote: > 2008/7/22 Rex : > > > > I've got 'em in two places already, and the second thing I'm buying with > the > > proceeds is a 1TB drive for the hat trick. > > You can get nifty network attached storage boxes that will serve your > music via uPnP or DAAP (aka the reverse engineered iTunes library > protocol). I'm ripping my CDs, putting them in storage, backing them > up in triplicate, and serving them using Firefly Media Server > from the basement mini-server to > Roku Soundbridge in the living room. He's a wizard! Burn him! > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:11:56 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #137 Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > > Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:48:38 -0700 > From: "Crazy Unca' Nick" > Subject: Re: My name is Mike Godwin and you will surrender to my > superior psychic powers > Holy sweet chocolate Jesus (thanks Lauren) ...do you know how many > digests are sitting in my Fegmaniax folder unread? Well trust me, you'd > be a long time a-countin'. > So, lo after all this time, I randomly decide to read one and ...whaddya > know? My name! Right there in the middle of Godwin's post! What is this, > the Internet version of that thing where you turn around because > someone's staring at the back of your neck? > >>> hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: >> * Good question, Jeff. He must have done a gig or two to promote 'Great >> Central' and 'Bible of Bop', mustn't he? Otherwise we are going to have >> to turn to Nick Winkworth for memories of the Waves in the pre-Katrina >> era. > > Yeah, yeah ...pre Soft Boys Waves. Sure I remember - I'm as old as dirt > (though not as old as Mike. Ha!). If anyone comes to the Slims show next > week I'll be the one who looks like he's accidentally wandered in from > the old peoples' home across the street while looking for the spectacles > that are on top of his head. > It's been a rapid decline though. Only a year ago someone* might have > easily have mistaken me for a slightly more manly version of John > Travolta, but unfortunately I took a recommendation for a building > contractor from Tom Clark... * Great stuff, Nick! The only time I met you it was just like John Travolta walking into the bar, but of course that was some time ago. > Anyway, the Waves last played in Cambridge in 1978. > http://njaz.com/sboys.htm (see the bottom of the page) * And did Kim sing lead? I hadn't taken it in about the Waves being called 'The Hamburger Waves'. I have also found some stuff about 'Jack': and 'The Cadillac Blues Band' but (surprise surprise) Kimberley plays lead guitar rather than singing lead in both of these. > See you at Slims! > ~N * I thought I might give it a miss this time...sorry! - - Mike Godwin, catching up on unsent posts of 2007... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:39:12 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #137 On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:11 AM, wrote: > > - Mike Godwin, catching up on unsent posts of 2007... > Whew. I was worried that those nutty Swiss physicists who want to end the universe had riddled time full of holes, thereby causing posts to get lost in temporal eddies (hey! Eddie!) for "years" at a time... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:42:45 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) I'll be there, at least on Saturday. Maybe one other day. At 07:14 PM 7/22/2008, you wrote: >Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:46:25 -0400 >From: Steve Talkowski >Subject: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) > >Anyone attending San Diego Comic Con this week? If so, track me down >for some free Sketchbot swag (stickers, buttons, postcards), and get a >first-hand look at my recently completed Sketchbot prototype that I'll >be pimping at the show! > >http://sketchbot.blogspot.com/2008/07/sketchbot-prototype-sculpt-completed.html > >This shameless self-promotion brought to you by the letter "T." - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:49:25 +0100 From: "Charlotte Tupman" Subject: Its tentacles might be bland, but think what it could do with 96 of them... (0%RH) In cephalopod news, a sex-et-nonagintapus: http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/07/monster-octopi-with-scores-of-extra-tentacles/ I was in two minds about posting this, fearing that it would amount to encouraging some kind of octopus freak show. But then the Victorian lurking beneath my 21st century exterior won through... Charlotte ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:27:26 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Headline Of The Moment "Kid Rock Sentenced To Year Of Probation For Waffle House Brawl" not only funny in its own right (i had not known of the incident in question); but also strikes me that, not so long ago, this sentence would've been akin to "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." how long has "waffle house" been a part of the lexicon? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:07:15 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment Stacked Crooked wrote: > "Kid Rock Sentenced To Year Of Probation For Waffle House Brawl" > > not only funny in its own right (i had not known of the incident in > question); but also strikes me that, not so long ago, this sentence > would've been akin to "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." how long > has "waffle house" been a part of the lexicon? It's the actual name of the restaurant, not a verbal invention. Think "McDonald's Brawl", not "Purveyor of Crisp, Pancake-Like Batter Products Prepared in a Specialized Iron Resulting in a Textured Pattern". Waffle Houses (as well as Huddle Houses) are scattered all over the south. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:07:53 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment 2008/7/23 FSThomas : > > Waffle Houses (as well as Huddle Houses) are scattered all over the south. Yeah, think IHoP, except ... yellow. Never been to a Huddle House - they don't seem to have got east of St Louis (though I notice there's one in Rolla for all those homesick southern engineers at school there). Hen House, on the other hand ... Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:54:01 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Michele Pregnant? I was just listening to Robyn's "Turning Point" show and before "I Feel Beautiful" he says "This is for Michele and molecule." Hmmm... - -tc, about to leave Anaheim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:02:46 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? On Jul 23, 2008, at 6:16 AM, Stewart Russell wrote: > 2008/7/22 Rex : >> >> I've got 'em in two places already, and the second thing I'm buying >> with the >> proceeds is a 1TB drive for the hat trick. > > You can get nifty network attached storage boxes that will serve your > music via uPnP or DAAP (aka the reverse engineered iTunes library > protocol). I'm ripping my CDs, putting them in storage, backing them > up in triplicate, and serving them using Firefly Media Server > from the basement mini-server to > Roku Soundbridge in the living room. > > But that was probably too much information. Not at all. I'm curious about how other folks manage and distribute their digital media. There are tons of high-end custom install packages but those are just not feasible or needed by most people. Naturally I'm all Apple, with 1TB iMac serving music and video to Airports and AppleTV's throughout the house. That's still a bit pricey and ad hoc for most people tho. On the other end is your solution which while economical involves a bit more tinkering than most non technical people would want to attempt. What's in between? - -tc, still about to leave Anaheim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:19:11 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment Waffleheads are the kids who hang out at Waffle House. (I just flashed on a remake of A Clockwork Orange with Waffle Houses in place of the milk bars.) *** Obligatory disclaimer: I don't "get" the song Wafflehead. It doesn't really move me like a Robyn Hitchcock song ought to. Are you moved by the hearing of this song? What makes you like it? *** On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:07 PM, FSThomas wrote: > Stacked Crooked wrote: >> >> "Kid Rock Sentenced To Year Of Probation For Waffle House Brawl" >> >> not only funny in its own right (i had not known of the incident in >> question); but also strikes me that, not so long ago, this sentence >> would've been akin to "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." how long >> has "waffle house" been a part of the lexicon? > > It's the actual name of the restaurant, not a verbal invention. Think > "McDonald's Brawl", not "Purveyor of Crisp, Pancake-Like Batter Products > Prepared in a Specialized Iron Resulting in a Textured Pattern". > > Waffle Houses (as well as Huddle Houses) are scattered all over the south. > > -f. > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:48:58 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > *** Obligatory disclaimer: I don't "get" the song Wafflehead. It > doesn't really move me like a Robyn Hitchcock song ought to. Are you > moved by the hearing of this song? What makes you like it? *** Wafflehead is not a good song. It should have been a b-side and replaced by Dark Green Energy or something. It's a dark mark on an otherwise great album. But it is one of the few songs written about cunnilingus. Are there any others? Certainly more songs about blow jobs than going down on a woman. But when i do listen to it i do tend think "I'm down for giving some of that right now". - -- "IGNORE ME!!!!!!!" - The Grand Galactic Inquisitor ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:06:06 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Michele Pregnant? tc says: > I was just listening to Robyn's "Turning Point" show and before "I Feel > Beautiful" he says "This is for Michele and molecule." Hmmm... oh, that would be nice. the world could use some more robyn DNA. xo p.s. the one "conversation" i had with robyn was mostly talking about his daughter, maisie (sp?) i was wearing a bowie shirt, and he was saying that she's a big bowie fan. so she's clearly 2X cool. p.p.s. i'm not quite sure why i put "conversation" in quotes. i mean, it wasn't imaginary or anything. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:06:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment Jason Brown wrote: > Jeremy Osner wrote: > > *** Obligatory disclaimer: I don't "get" the song Wafflehead. It > > doesn't really move me like a Robyn Hitchcock song ought to. Are you > > moved by the hearing of this song? What makes you like it? *** > > Wafflehead is not a good song. It should have been a b-side and > replaced by Dark Green Energy or something. It's a dark mark on an > otherwise great album. I don't know that I'd defend it as a good song, but I appreciate its goofy charms. It's kinda out of place on Respect, but I tend to think of it as a bonus track rather than a real part of the album. ("DGE," was a b-side off PI, not Respect, so that wouldn't have been an option.) > But it is one of the few songs written about cunnilingus. Are there > any others? Yeastie Girls/"You Suck" > Certainly more songs about blow jobs than going down on a > woman. But when i do listen to it i do tend think "I'm down for > giving some of that right now". "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: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:31:35 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) Steve wrote: > > Anyone attending San Diego Comic Con this week? If so, track me down > for some free Sketchbot swag (stickers, buttons, postcards) "bot" is allegedly Gaelic for "penis", so I leave the rest to your imagination(s). Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:45:56 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? Tom Clark wrote: > > On the other end is your solution which while > economical involves a bit more tinkering than most non technical people > would want to attempt. What's in between? There are several home NAS boxes that support Firefly/iTunes out of the box; store your music (and I suspect video, too) in a designated area, and it'll happily serve it up. Firefly works fine with iTunes*, and will run as a server on almost anything. Unlike iTunes, it allows remote clients to receive media over the internet, so I can listen to my home music collection at work. (I'm told there's an iPhone client too ...) There was remarkably little configuration required; I just installed the Firefly package on my server from the Ubuntu repository, changed the Firefly admin password from the web interface, and then iTunes just found it. Screw high fidelity, I'm all about high ubiquity. Stewart *: except for m4p, but you'd expect that. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:13:02 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > *** Obligatory disclaimer: I don't "get" the song Wafflehead. It > doesn't really move me like a Robyn Hitchcock song ought to. Are you > moved by the hearing of this song? What makes you like it? *** I don't... at least not much. I figure it's just the kind of restless experimentation Robyn can't help but get up to occasionally. Seems like it was also on a record which was part of a run where the last songs were relatively duff, although I'm sure there are those who disagree. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:14:18 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Jason Brown wrote: > > Jeremy Osner wrote: > > > *** Obligatory disclaimer: I don't "get" the song Wafflehead. It > > > doesn't really move me like a Robyn Hitchcock song ought to. Are you > > > moved by the hearing of this song? What makes you like it? *** > > > > Wafflehead is not a good song. It should have been a b-side and > > replaced by Dark Green Energy or something. It's a dark mark on an > > otherwise great album. > > I don't know that I'd defend it as a good song, but I appreciate its goofy > charms. It's kinda out of place on Respect, but I tend to think of it as a > bonus track rather than a real part of the album. > > ("DGE," was a b-side off PI, not Respect, so that wouldn't have been an > option.) > > > But it is one of the few songs written about cunnilingus. Are there > > any others? > > Yeastie Girls/"You Suck" Aerosmith rather famously opined that you ain't seen nothin' 'til you're down on the muffin... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:21:20 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment On 7/23/08, Rex wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > Jason Brown wrote: > > > Jeremy Osner wrote: > > > > *** Obligatory disclaimer: I don't "get" the song Wafflehead. It > > > > doesn't really move me like a Robyn Hitchcock song ought to. Are you > > > > moved by the hearing of this song? What makes you like it? *** > > > > > > Wafflehead is not a good song. It should have been a b-side and > > > replaced by Dark Green Energy or something. It's a dark mark on an > > > otherwise great album. > > > > I don't know that I'd defend it as a good song, but I appreciate its > goofy > > charms. It's kinda out of place on Respect, but I tend to think of it as > a > > bonus track rather than a real part of the album. > > > > ("DGE," was a b-side off PI, not Respect, so that wouldn't have been an > > option.) > > > > > But it is one of the few songs written about cunnilingus. Are there > > > any others? > > > > Yeastie Girls/"You Suck" > > > > Aerosmith rather famously opined that you ain't seen nothin' 'til you're > down on the muffin... And Mr. Marty Balin claimed to have found a taste of the real world when he went down on whatshername in "Miracles"... (My guess? A top-40 radio programming director.) Oh - and Ray Manzarek's "Perfumed Garden" - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #664 ********************************