From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #152 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 22 2009 Volume 17 : Number 152 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Yes We Can! ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: mind your units [kevin studyvin ] Re: Trek [Tom Clark ] Reap [Jeff Margrave ] so 21st century (100% names of bands) [lep ] Re: Reap [lep ] Re: Reap [Jeff Margrave ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #151 [James Dignan ] Re: Reap [lep ] Re: Reap [Miles Goosens ] Re: Reap [2fs ] Re: Trek [Rex ] Re: Trek [2fs ] Re: Trek [kevin studyvin ] Re: more cats [Tom Clark ] Re: more cats [Eleanore Adams ] Bumper stickers and what they don't say [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 12:23:25 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Yes We Can! . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 13:22:29 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: mind your units On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM, lep wrote: > http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Unnecessary_Math_PIC > > and on the topic of math funnies, > http://digg.com/odd_stuff/New_Breakthroughs_in_Mathematics_funny > > as ever, > lauren > > p.s. apologies to the digg readers. i just started following a digg > twitter; the novelty will fade soon, i'm sure. > I got a giggle out of the link to the bacon assault rifle, which put me in mind of Charlie Krafft's beautiful porcelain weaponry: http://www.antiquesatoz.com/artatoz/krafft/war.htm ...speaking of C.K., anybody out there have a line on his ages-out-of-print volume of poems Near the Mouth Of the Mask? Still annoyed with Dave Letterman over the Grizzly Bear thing / KS np Miles Davis Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (disc 4 - that Konda thing is a mind-bender) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 14:22:56 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Trek On May 21, 2009, at 12:21 PM, michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > What, you didn't go to see B Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus? It opened > on > Tuesday according to IMDB. I believe this masterpiece was deemed to be too awesome for theater release, so in order to avoid overcrowded theaters and panic in the streets they decided to make it a straight-to-DVD project. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 15:48:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: Reap My ability to get away with using a fake last name on my e-mail. The Dwarf is dead, long live the Dwarf. np: Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 19:02:26 -0400 From: lep Subject: so 21st century (100% names of bands) these are four band names which have recordings up on dime within the past few days. the names seemed so 2009 that i would have been surprised had the recording dates not been very recent (n.b. i don't particularly like or dislike the band names (except #2 which is just wayl too catchy) - they are just striking me as modern is my point.) (1) And So I Watch You From Afar (2) David Cronenberg's Wife (3) The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (who have a song called "Kurt Cobain's Cardigan"; I am so there.) (4) The Haunted (Made Me Say "I Do") as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 19:05:59 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Reap Jeff Margrave says: > My ability to get away with using a fake last name on my e-mail. whyever, may i ask? xo lep (forever!) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:23:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: Re: Reap lep wrote: > Jeff Margrave says: > > My ability to get away with using a fake last name on > > my e-mail. > > whyever, may i ask? > > xo > lep (forever!) Same as everything else that ends anything vaguely fun: work crap. I guess I could have just set up another e-mail, but I already have 3 to check everyday, and I just didn't want a fourth. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell - --- On Thu, 5/21/09, ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:25:54 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #151 >When I was a kid, we had three cats-- Agnes, Norman, and Molaire. >Moliare lost his left eye in a street brawl when he was less than a >year old. He got used to it, and he did pretty well all of his life >(11 years). Despite the fact he had one eye he had some form of >depth perception-- he hunted, played with bits of string, etc. Stereopsis is only one form of depth perception (though the most frequently talked about and best known). There are many monocular depth cues: Optic flow 9things get bigger when they're approaching), perspective, motion parallax, superimposition (near things are in front of far things). For long distance there are also contrast cues lie aerial perspective (the blueing/greying of distant hills); for very close things there's accommodation (changes in the muscles around the eye's lens to keep things in focus). James (who wrote his thesis on this stuff) PS - good that Vomitor's a-ok! - -- 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, 21 May 2009 19:46:14 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Reap Jeff Margrave says: > Same as everything else that ends anything vaguely fun: work crap. I guess I could have just set up another e-mail, but I already have 3 to check everyday, and I just didn't want a fourth. FWIW, gmail allows you to forward e-mail to another account. i have two gmail accounts and a school account and use thunderbird to manage them all fairly easily (not to mention a dangling hotmail and yahoo account which i barely check, but i haven't bothered to see if i can read them through with thunderbird.) most of the time, i use this here gmail from firefox, though, so i have my "professional"-type e-mail from the other gmail account and from my school account forwarded here. i just use thunderbird to respond to non-this-account e-mail. as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 19:34:13 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Reap On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Jeff Margrave wrote: > My ability to get away with using a fake last name on my e-mail. The Dwarf > is dead, long live the Dwarf. I guess this is also a reap for me replying to your fegposts with "An interesting Jeff Dwarf said..." later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 20:11:11 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Reap On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:46 PM, lep wrote: > Jeff Margrave says: > > Same as everything else that ends anything vaguely fun: work crap. I > guess I could have just set up another e-mail, but I already have 3 to check > everyday, and I just didn't want a fourth. > > FWIW, gmail allows you to forward e-mail to another account. For me, I find it way easier to separate different functions of my life (or different uses of e-mail) into different accounts than to try to manage a single account for everything. Maybe Yahoo mail makes that easy, though. I have no idea how many e-mail accounts I have - I mean, there are four I check regularly, plus another work one, plus a few that probably no longer exist (set up because some website required an e-mail address & I didn't trust them not to spam me...), plus things like one-timers for each of our cats (don't ask), etc. etc. ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 19:00:44 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Trek On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:21 PM, wrote: > What, you didn't go to see B Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus? It opened on > Tuesday according to IMDB. > > > > The last Trek movie I liked was First Contact, although they madeB the Zef > ram > Cochran character a bit too goofy and a silly drunk B for being the > inventor > of the warp drive. Cochrane wasn't that way at all when he first appeared > in a > TOS episode. B T he last four seasons of Deep Spac e Nine were pretty > decent > withB wellB written story arcs, maybe the best of all the Treks. > Just to get flat out geeky, it actually occurred to me that the alternate timeline for Nu-Trek really starts with First Contact, right? 'Cause now that TOS happens differently, no TNG, and thus no TNG crew to mess around with Cochrane in the past, and also presumably no Borg to mess up the timeline in that manner anyhow. So presumably warp drive was invented just the way everyone thought, with no help from Riker and those guys. I'm sure that most of the internet has been devoted to realizing this fact for the past few weeks, but I haven't been to any of those parts of it. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 23:27:17 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Trek On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Rex wrote: > > > Just to get flat out geeky, it actually occurred to me that the alternate > timeline for Nu-Trek really starts with First Contact, right? I'd say, no - because the implication is that *both* timelines coexist albeit w/no connectedness between them. At least that's the way I read it. You know: like an alternate timeline in which John Cale endorsed scooters in the late '80s... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 22:34:32 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Trek > I'd say, no - because the implication is that *both* timelines coexist > albeit w/no connectedness between them. At least that's the way I read it. > > You know: like an alternate timeline in which John Cale endorsed scooters > in the late '80s... > Great - now I'm hearing "Hey - why settle fa walkin'?" in that baritone Welsh burr... You know more than I know / KS ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:15:16 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: more cats License plate frame spotted today: I my cat It does not care - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:20:56 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: more cats aaawwww!!!! ea On May 22, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > License plate frame spotted today: > > I my cat > > It does not care > > > > -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:12:57 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Bumper stickers and what they don't say On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > License plate frame spotted today: > > I my cat > > It does not care Cool. There's a bumper sticker on a car that's parked by my stepdaughter's school almost every day, which says-- this is a little difficult to approximate, but-- "I L VERMONT". So... "I LLOVE VERMONT"? "I LHEART VERMONT"? I mean, honestly... how did that HAPPEN? - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #152 ********************************