From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #754 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, October 17 2008 Volume 16 : Number 754 Today's Subjects: ----------------- ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto... [2fs ] Re: Anti-Norton Anti-Virus for Windows XP [FSThomas ] synchronicitous thread crossing [James Dignan ] letterman - mccain tonight [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Turing must be spinning in his grave... [James Dignan ] Re: Turing must be spinning in his grave... [2fs ] Re: Rex Bearded Broome ["edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto... Funny how a phrase from this very training session for Republican canvassers popped up in a post here a few weeks back: < http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/mccain-volunteers-being-t_b_133980.html > More relevant generally: this trashes utterly the claim floated herein during that thread that, gee, McCain and Palin were probably just unaware of the rotting crap spewing from the mouths of their audience members. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:47:49 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Rex Bearded Broome On 10/15/08, Rex wrote: > > > Ever since then, I've had occasional dreams that I'm performing in PJ > Harvey's backing band alongside Margaret Fiedler. > "Performing" is one word for it... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:21:35 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Anti-Norton Anti-Virus for Windows XP (0% rh) wrote: > Hi Fegs, > > Does anyone have suggestions for anti-virus software for a Windows XP > machine that is NOT Norton? AVG. Free and very reliable. http://www.avg.com/ - -- FS Thomas | Interactive Developer | fsthomas-at-ochremedia.com 404.758.8616 (home/office) | 404.274.1632 (mobile) | ferraatu (AIM) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:24:05 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Anti-Norton Anti-Virus for Windows XP Lauren wrote: >Does anyone have suggestions for anti-virus software for a Windows XP machine that is NOT Norton? Trend Micro ("PC-cillin") is what I have on my Dell notebook with Windows XP. http://store.trendmicro.com/us/tis?gclid=CMnDhPzdq5YCFRxNagoduBVEyg Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:04:01 -0700 From: "Mark Gloster" Subject: re: antivirus on XP I use Etrust on my work computer, mandated by that certain company in Redmond. On my home computers I have used Trend Micro ever since I took Norton off the first one (after returning to Windows.) I'm quite happy with Trend Micro. I was quite unhappy with Norton, which, when it wasn't letting viri in, behaved much like a virus in my computer. Happies, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:54:51 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: synchronicitous thread crossing It happened again. No sooner do we get Rex's comment on why he was bearded in a dream than this arrives in my mailbox courtesy of the student radio station I have a show on: >THIS WEEK'S NATURAL SELECTION - HOWE GELB w/ Stephen Stedman. >Back in 1995, Howe Gelb got a band together, and out of the Arizona >dunes crawled Giant Sand. Twenty years and twenty albums later, they >release Provisions, and Howe Gelb heads out on another world >conquering tour. This Sunday on Natural Selection, Stephen Stedman >conducts the galaxy of Howe Gelb, taking in his side projects >Arizona AMP, Alternator, Op8, and the Band of Black Ranchett, as >well as a step to the side to take in the maligned magnificence of >Calexico by way of the tragic story of Rainier. >The Howe Gelb Natural Selection with Stephen Stedman. This Sunday, 6 >- 8pm, only on The One. 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, 16 Oct 2008 18:08:44 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: letterman - mccain tonight should be good my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:38:59 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Turing must be spinning in his grave... This is particularly strange... The last answer has an almost Robynesque quality - perhaps Robyn should have a conversatiuon with Elbot. 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, 16 Oct 2008 19:01:07 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: letterman - mccain tonight On 10/16/08, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > should be good If by "good" you mean "excruciating"... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:06:49 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Turing must be spinning in his grave... On 10/16/08, James Dignan wrote: > > This is particularly strange... > > > The last answer has an almost Robynesque quality - perhaps Robyn should > have a conversatiuon with Elbot. Interesting strategy, though..."impersonate" a wise-cracking robot, so that nonsensical or inappropriate answers are taken not as non-understanding but as humor or obnoxiousness. Hmm, wise-cracking robot...where have I heard of such a thing before? The gold Crow knows... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:14:01 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: letterman - mccain tonight On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:01 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 10/16/08, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: >> >> should be good Hoping McCain will perform for Letterman the Haka he's been working on. http://edgeofthewest.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/lastnightsdebateinpictures.jpg J (More interpretations here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/10/photoshop-conte.html ) - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:47:07 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: Re: Rex Bearded Broome spottedeagleray@gmail.com said: >Actually, that was Howe Gelb. He's been impersonating me in dreams for >years now. > >Both of us do perform "Do Policemen Sing", but we're both actually using the >arrangement that Neil Young first performed in a dream way back in '88 >shared by Howe and myself. Robyn was there as well, although I don't know >if it was the "real" Robyn or some kind of shared, hallucinated >Robyn-simulacra based on the shared impressions of those experiencing the >dream (and I happen to know some of you were among that number, although I >had yet to meet you). Doesn't matter. Anyway, the dream Robyn (or was it >the real Robyn, or was it the other guys whose name I can't remember) turned >to us halfway through the performance and said, "Do you know that this is >exactly how Elvis appeared to John Cale and myself back in the seventies? > That's why I mentioned Welsh people in this song. I think you both know >what you must do". > >Ever since then, I've had occasional dreams that I'm performing in PJ >Harvey's backing band alongside Margaret Fiedler. Talked to her last night >at the Wire show, and she did indeed recognize me as someone who had been >Howe during a certain percentage of the time during which she'd known him, >albeit less than half the time. Then Colin Newman told me that she'd said >the same thing to him about *JJ* Cale with regards to Wire's version of >"After Midnight", and that's when I knew that I was dead. But it didn't >last. > >-Howe > I have to say, this actually really impressed me. peace, Edward Free Games for all the family - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/play ________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #754 ********************************