From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #716 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, September 22 2008 Volume 16 : Number 716 Today's Subjects: ----------------- What is that quality called? ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: What is that quality called? [2fs ] Re: What is that quality called? ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Awww! and FUTC! [Tom Clark ] Re: Awww! and FUTC! [2fs ] Re: Awww! and FUTC! ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Awww! and FUTC! [Rex ] Re: What is that quality called? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Awww! and FUTC! [Christopher Gross ] Re: Awww! and F_Y_TC! [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Awww! and FUTC! ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: What is that quality called? [Rex ] Re: itunes frustrates me too but what is air port? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: What is that quality called? ["(0% rh)" ] Re: What is that quality called? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] DVD of the Moment ["Stacked Crooked" ] Stackenblocken [Sebastian Hagedorn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:32:51 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: What is that quality called? So I'm watching Herzog's "Stroszek" right now and have the thought that several of the characters are people I could imagine appearing in a song by Robyn Hitchcock. Is there a name for this attribute? "Hitchcockesque" does not sound quite right and moreover it has too many consonants in the back of the throat, like an evil foreign villain in cold war cinema. J - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:16:00 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: What is that quality called? On 9/20/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > So I'm watching Herzog's "Stroszek" right now and have the thought > that several of the characters are people I could imagine appearing in > a song by Robyn Hitchcock. Is there a name for this attribute? > "Hitchcockesque" does not sound quite right and moreover it has too > many consonants in the back of the throat, like an evil foreign > villain in cold war cinema. Not to mention that in a film context, it would obviously be misconstrued (the word there, though, is usually "Hitchcockian"). Around here we'd just say "Robynesque" - but that's unlikely to communicate outside feggish circles. I think you're simply going to have to go with "reminiscent of Robyn Hitchcock" or the like. Or you could be truly satanic and write "hitchcocksomething." Vast mansions in hell await all the journalists who use that suffix. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:21:34 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: What is that quality called? On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:16 PM, 2fs wrote: > Not to mention that in a film context, it would obviously be misconstrued > (the word there, though, is usually "Hitchcockian"). Yeah well I rejected that one straight off. Maybe confusion between the two Hitchcockae would not be a terrible thing in the context of the quality name I'm trying to formulate... What I really want is a name for the quality independent of it making me think of Robyn Hitchcock songs and/or films by Sir Alfred. Like the way I can feel myself completely, exactly inside Bruno's head while simultaneously seeing him as fully alien, a different species from myself. J - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:36:44 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Awww! and FUTC! On Sep 20, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > -- djini@voicenet.com is rumored to have mumbled on 20. September > 2008 09:52:11 -0400 regarding Awww! and FUTC!: > >> "Enter a full name, such as Tom Clark, which will be displayed in >> outgoing messages. Enter an email address, which will be used in >> the From >> field when you send messages. For a .Mac account, you must enter your >> .Mac email address and password." > > Huh, in German it's Tim Becker. Anyway, AFAIK our Tom Clark has > nothing to do with mail, so I'd guess it's a coincidence after all(?) I've yet to get to the bottom of it, but some old friends are responsible for that documentation. I may just be flattering myself to think they had me in mind when it was originally written. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:08:50 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Awww! and FUTC! On 9/20/08, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > -- djini@voicenet.com is rumored to have mumbled on 20. September 2008 > 09:52:11 -0400 regarding Awww! and FUTC!: > > "Enter a full name, such as Tom Clark, which will be displayed in >> outgoing messages. Enter an email address, which will be used in the From >> field when you send messages. For a .Mac account, you must enter your >> .Mac email address and password." >> > > Huh, in German it's Tim Becker. The plot thickens: in Vietnamese it's "Phuc U." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:20:27 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Awww! and FUTC! On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:08 AM, 2fs wrote: > The plot thickens: in Vietnamese it's "Phuc U." "In Berkeley", don't you mean? - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:21:39 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Awww! and FUTC! On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:08 AM, 2fs wrote: > > The plot thickens: in Vietnamese it's "Phuc U." > > "In Berkeley", don't you mean? > I'm mighty amused by my cow-orker's nicely legit-looking pennant from STFU. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:38:15 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: What is that quality called? 2fs wrote: > > Or you could be truly satanic and write "hitchcocksomething." Vast mansions > in hell await all the journalists who use that suffix. Nah, they'd just use the dreaded "quirky". Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:30:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Awww! and FUTC! On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Tom Clark wrote: > I've yet to get to the bottom of it, but some old friends are responsible for > that documentation. I may just be flattering myself to think they had me in > mind when it was originally written. My theory is that they're trying to prevent nuisance lawsuits. Some ornery old guy in North Dakata might see his name in the documentation and try to make a million by suing Apple for using his name without permission. But if they use an employee's name, they're covered. When a crotchety old Tom Clark tries to sue them, they can reply "Bullshit! We meant the one who works for us. So fuck you, Tom Clark!" - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:21:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Awww! and F_Y_TC! Christopher Gross wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Tom Clark wrote: > > I've yet to get to the bottom of it, but some old friends are > > responsible for that documentation. I may just be flattering > > myself to think they had me in mind when it was originally written. > > My theory is that they're trying to prevent nuisance lawsuits. Some > ornery old guy in North Dakata might see his name in the documentation > and try to make a million by suing Apple for using his name without > permission. But if they use an employee's name, they're covered. When > a crotchety old Tom Clark tries to sue them, they can reply > "Bullshit! We meant the one who works for us. So fuck you, Tom > Clark!" BTW, should this subject line been, well, the above sans underscores all along instead of FUTC? "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 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:22:47 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Awww! and FUTC! > I'm mighty amused by my cow-orker's nicely legit-looking pennant from STFU. > > -Rex > I want one! but all I can find so far is this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/78ae/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:59:20 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: What is that quality called? On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > 2fs wrote: > > > > Or you could be truly satanic and write "hitchcocksomething." Vast > mansions > > in hell await all the journalists who use that suffix. > > Nah, they'd just use the dreaded "quirky". > Eccentic, yo, - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:38:39 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: itunes frustrates me too but what is air port? can I over-extend the hate for iTunes 8? Before iTunes 8, I had a nicely working 2GB iPod Nano. After iTunes 8, I have a brick. I let it update my iPod, and now it's stuck in a black screen/reboot cycle. I've reset it, put it into disk mode, rebuilt the iTunes library - - done everything that Apple says will fix it. And still it sits there, rebooting every five seconds. Pissed off isn't close. Oh yeah, and iTunes 8's UI is too lumpen to be useful. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:03:43 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: What is that quality called? Rex says: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > >> 2fs wrote: >> > >> > Or you could be truly satanic and write "hitchcocksomething." Vast >> mansions >> > in hell await all the journalists who use that suffix. >> >> Nah, they'd just use the dreaded "quirky". >> > > Eccentic, yo, "Barrettesque." xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:57:47 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: What is that quality called? (0% rh) wrote: > > "Barrettesque." I'm guessing you're *not* meaning Toronto's queen of kalimba-based nerd rock, Laura Barrett? (actually, you really should check her music out. It's great - "Robot Ponies" is perfect.) Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:50:26 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: DVD of the Moment while i was certainly prepared to enjoy *Heima*, i was most certainly *not* prepared to find it the most riveting, emotional, mesmerising, gut-wrenching movie i've seen in many a fucking moon. my question now is whether it's the best music doc ever, or merely a close runner-up to *Stop Making Sense*? and plus bonus! download o' the moment = . uh, is it just me, or are cheap trick now approximately thirty-three-and-one-third times more rocking that they were in their heyday? new tv on the radio: good on 'em for trying something new. and i do like it. but it's nowhere near being in the same ballpark as the devotchka rekkid. we'll see, come next week, what the lonely astronauts have to say about the album-of-the-year race... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:19:00 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Stackenblocken This is actually quite old, but funny nonetheless ... Conan O'Brien reports about a German game show: A colleague of mine is worried that Americans might believe the story ;-) - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #716 ********************************