From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #791 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, November 30 2008 Volume 16 : Number 791 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. [Rex ] Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. [Sebastian Hagedorn ] I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours ... [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. [2fs ] Re: I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours ... ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. [Rex ] tech query [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:11:52 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Brian Huddell wrote: > > > Miles, i'm kind of confused by what you've said here, mostly because I > > happen to know, for a fact, that you're quite fond of "Battlestar > > Galactica". I mean, if "Star Wars" is about God, it's about God in > > the mythic sense (supposedly Lucas based it on Joseph Campbell's "Hero > > of a Thousand Faces.") > > This is a rare case of failure to have listened to enough Queen. > I fail it, too, although I did recognize the quote because I spent a bit too much time married to someone who thought that Queen was the best, last, and perhaps only rock band since the Beatles. I didn't much like 'em to begin with, but that permanently soured me on 'em. The (new) wife, by contrast, as part of a family guessing game last night, had one of the daughters posed as Patti Smith, so I feel I've come up in the world just a bit. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:42:38 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. - -- Rex is rumored to have mumbled on 29. November 2008 11:11:52 -0800 regarding Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B.: >> This is a rare case of failure to have listened to enough Queen. >> > > I fail it, too, although I did recognize the quote I do now, but I didn't out of context ... > The (new) wife, by contrast, as part of a family guessing game last night, > had one of the daughters posed as Patti Smith, so I feel I've come up in > the world just a bit. Hm, all things considered I'd say I'd actually rank Queen over her ... I know that's blasphemy, but I never really got much out of her music. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:39:33 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. On 11/29/08, Brian Huddell wrote: > > > > I'm proof that this isn't an exact correlation. I adore all things > > > Whedon, but God was never my scene and I don't like STAR WARS. > > > > > Miles, i'm kind of confused by what you've said here, mostly because I > > happen to know, for a fact, that you're quite fond of "Battlestar > > Galactica". I mean, if "Star Wars" is about God, it's about God in > > the mythic sense (supposedly Lucas based it on Joseph Campbell's "Hero > > of a Thousand Faces.") > > > This is a rare case of failure to have listened to enough Queen. Probably true - however, googling fails to bring up results - could someone enlighten me? (I was going to have a line here about just being a poor boy, but *everyone* knows "Bohemian Rhapsody" even if they know no other Queen song, so that wouldn't really be interesting.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:09:05 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours ... but I think that some WalMart employee's got a sick sense of humour. http://friendlyatheist.com/6370/walmart-price-fail/ "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:55:52 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. - -- 2fs is rumored to have mumbled on 29. November 2008 15:39:33 -0600 regarding Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B.: >> This is a rare case of failure to have listened to enough Queen. > > Probably true - however, googling fails to bring up results - could > someone enlighten me? It's from "Bicycle Race". I really should've got that when Craigie wrote: > yeah, yeah, and all you want to do is Bicycle, right? Alas, I did not. NW: "Paper Moon" - for the first time. (Actually I'm now listening to the commentary track, so it's technically the second time) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:58:26 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Player, heal thyself? I love how they stress that it's the injured leg - maybe he thought some lead therapy would help? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:26:59 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. On 11/29/08, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > -- 2fs is rumored to have mumbled on 29. > November 2008 15:39:33 -0600 regarding Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B.: > > This is a rare case of failure to have listened to enough Queen. >>> >> >> Probably true - however, googling fails to bring up results - could >> someone enlighten me? >> > > It's from "Bicycle Race". My googling guessed incorrectly on which part Miles had altered... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:45:42 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours ... Other news from WalMart: http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/11/president-bush-should-pardon-wal-mart.html J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ = ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:11:21 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Player, heal thyself? Sebastian says: > I love how they stress that it's the injured leg - maybe he thought some > lead therapy would help? > > i like how how the reporter makes sure to nail things down from the get go: "Plaxico Burress Shoots Himself Accidentally in Thigh". what with all those intentional thigh shootings, one can never be _too_ specific. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:18:42 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:26 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > My googling guessed incorrectly on which part Miles had altered... > Jaws > God ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:51:03 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: tech query Here's what I want to do: I've got a laptop, and I want to be able to play music via wireless speakers in my study. Now, right now I have an AirPort thingy attached to my home stereo system, and that works fine...but as far as I can tell, that needs to be hardwired to *something* (in this case, my home stereo) to work... So one possibility/question is: if I got a second AirPort and portable, self-powered speakers I could plug in, would that work...or would having two AirPorts cause interference or confusion on the part of my laptop? (Oh: laptop runs WinXP 3.) FWIW: I use Winamp, but found a plugin that allows it to "broadcast" to AirPort (even though supposedly AirPort is iTunes only...I think I discussed a few months back why I switched to Winamp). The other possibility (or maybe the only one) is a pair of wireless speakers compatible with laptops. Does anyone have any experience with those? One problem I see commonly in reviews of those products is a lot of hiss and interference problems...that would be an automatic fail for me. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #791 ********************************