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fegmaniax-digest         Tuesday, June 2 2009         Volume 17 : Number 161



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: big news for eMusic members                      [dolphmusic@yahoo.com]
  My name is "Eb", and all scenes depicting injury to my bunghole have been simulated  ["Nectar At Any Cost!" <ete]
  Miyazaki at Berkeley (NR)            [Steve Schiavo <steveschiavo@mac.com>]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and all scenes depicting injury to my bunghole have been simulated  [FSThomas <fsthomas]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and all scenes depicting injury to my bunghole  have been simulated  [Rex <spottedea]
  Did Robyn Make This?               ["Nectar At Any Cost!" <etews@inwa.net>]
  insane idea that probably won't happen.     [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: insane idea that probably won't happen.   [lep <softboygirl@gmail.com>]
  Re: insane idea that probably won't happen.    [Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com>]
  Re: insane idea that probably won't happen.   [lep <softboygirl@gmail.com>]
  Re: insane idea that probably won't happen.  [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com]

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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:12:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: dolphmusic@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: big news for eMusic members

Sadly, no grandfathering this time -- subscribers, see <https://www.emusic.com/account/notification.html>.  I had the 90/mo/$19.99 plan and will be downgraded to 50/mo/$19.99.  Still a very good deal, but not the outrageous deal it is now.  I was an eMusic subscriber when it was unlimited/mo/$19.99, so I've gotten a lot out of working with them, and they've been very good to the little guy up 'til now.  We'll see if that continues, but for now I'm still in.

- -- Dolph



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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 11:02:45 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>


Some price increases are likely - although if past is any precedent, people
will not be compelled to change their plans (i.e., they'll be grandfathered
under the old plan until they quit or upgrade).

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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:01:14 -0700
From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: My name is "Eb", and all scenes depicting injury to my bunghole have been simulated

dang!  this new eels is really great.  .and the new iggy is...pretty damned
interesting.  (i think, though, that the record-pressing plant mixed it up
with the new l. cohen?)


<PS: I can't believe I forgot "Borat".>

and *i* can't believe you (all) forgot *Schizopolis* and *Napoleon
Dynamite*.  i think *Strangelove* is the funniest upon first viewing; but
probably *Life Of Brian* retains its funny the best through repeated
viewings.


<I generally find awkward passages in all of their movies -- particularly
"Hudsucker;" and even in two of my favorites, "Big Lebowski" and "Brother
Where Are You Bound.">

i'm missing the pun here.  this is some sort of supertramp reference?  or
maybe wachowskis?  i'm not always the quickest on the draw, here, clearly.


KEN "The exceptions to the vegetarian diet are ants, pocket gophers, and
elk calves" THE KENSTER

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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:57:38 -0500
From: Steve Schiavo <steveschiavo@mac.com>
Subject: Miyazaki at Berkeley (NR)

<http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41270>

Just in case someone is close to Berkeley and interested in Miyazaki.


- - Steve
__________
I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone  
girl with a scythe. - John

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_6O-xByzRg>

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:47:39 -0400
From: FSThomas <fsthomas@ochremedia.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and all scenes depicting injury to my bunghole have been simulated

Wow.

You've got staying power with your "eb" subject lines, dude.  He's been 
off-list for what? At least a year now? Good traction.

- -f.

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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 22:30:22 -0700
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and all scenes depicting injury to my bunghole  have been simulated

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! <etews@inwa.net> wrote:

>
> KEN "The exceptions to the vegetarian diet are ants, pocket gophers,


I was guessing this last was something other than what it is, never having
heard the term before and being part of an Eddie sig but:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_gopher

Saw one of these guys just the other weekend poking out of the ground over
and over again at a carnival-type thing at a local nursery school.  Didn't
seem to give a good goddam about all the kids throwing shit at him.  Really
unaccountable behavior, or so it seemed at the time.  Now that I know about
the pocket thing, it all falls into place.

- -Rex

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:02:40 -0700
From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: Did Robyn Make This?

<URL:http://tinyurl.com/mvhxzk>.

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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:40:59 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: insane idea that probably won't happen.

If I were to get a Mac Mini and leave it on and connected to the internet
and to my 1TB external drive where my iTunes library lives, and also install
Simplify Media (see <
http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/stream_your_itunes_library_anywhere>),
in theory that would mean I could access my entire music collection from my
laptop anywhere I am, right? (And actually, it sounds like I could let other
people do so too...)

It's not practical to have my laptop connected to the drive & online all the
time...but a second computer?

Hmm....

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.wordpress.com

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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:57:02 -0400
From: lep <softboygirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: insane idea that probably won't happen.

2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> says:
> If I were to get a Mac Mini and leave it on and connected to the internet
> and to my 1TB external drive where my iTunes library lives, and also install
> Simplify Media (see <
> http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/stream_your_itunes_library_anywhere>),
> in theory that would mean I could access my entire music collection from my
> laptop anywhere I am, right? (And actually, it sounds like I could let other
> people do so too...)
>
> It's not practical to have my laptop connected to the drive & online all the
> time...but a second computer?

</wonders> huh.  is this a question, a rhetorical question, or a logic puzzle?

xo

p.s. yes, i'm aware of the venn diagram problem in that thought.

- -- 
"people with opinions just go around bothering one another."  -- the buddha

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:46:36 -0700
From: Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com>
Subject: Re: insane idea that probably won't happen.

On Jun 2, 2009, at 11:40 AM, 2fs wrote:

> If I were to get a Mac Mini and leave it on and connected to the  
> internet
> and to my 1TB external drive where my iTunes library lives, and also  
> install
> Simplify Media (see <
> http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/stream_your_itunes_library_anywhere 
> >),
> in theory that would mean I could access my entire music collection  
> from my
> laptop anywhere I am, right? (And actually, it sounds like I could  
> let other
> people do so too...)
>
> It's not practical to have my laptop connected to the drive & online  
> all the
> time...but a second computer?

Absolutely, provided your internet connection's upload speed is  
sufficient.  I used to stream a random playlist out of my collection  
for fun, but it slowed down all my other DSL traffic.  These days it's  
more feasible.

- -tc

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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:42:14 -0400
From: lep <softboygirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: insane idea that probably won't happen.

tc <tclark@mac.com> says:
> Absolutely, provided your internet connection's upload speed is sufficient.
>  I used to stream a random playlist out of my collection for fun, but it
> slowed down all my other DSL traffic.

</wonders> is that an actual random playlist or a pseudo-random playlist?

as ever,
lauren

p.s. sorry**, i'm in total geek mode -- my group theory class starts
to-night (no way anyone's got better summer plans than *that*.

** or not

- -- 
"people with opinions just go around bothering one another."  -- the buddha

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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 18:45:11 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: insane idea that probably won't happen.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com> wrote:

> On Jun 2, 2009, at 11:40 AM, 2fs wrote:
>
>  If I were to get a Mac Mini and leave it on and connected to the internet
>> and to my 1TB external drive where my iTunes library lives, and also
>> install
>> Simplify Media (see <
>> http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/stream_your_itunes_library_anywhere
>> >),
>> in theory that would mean I could access my entire music collection from
>> my
>> laptop anywhere I am, right? (And actually, it sounds like I could let
>> other
>> people do so too...)
>>
>> It's not practical to have my laptop connected to the drive & online all
>> the
>> time...but a second computer?
>>
>
> Absolutely, provided your internet connection's upload speed is sufficient.
>  I used to stream a random playlist out of my collection for fun, but it
> slowed down all my other DSL traffic.  These days it's more feasible.


It would seem, though, there might be better options than the particular
set-up I half-described - partly for generally practical reasons, partly for
reasons particular to my situation.

Aren't there devices designed to be used as music servers on a local
network? Cuz that might be a smarter way to go, at least within the
house...and if a machine were hooked up to it permanently, the Simplify
thingy could take care of whatever strange needs I might have to have my
library accessible on the road or whatever.

The other thing is, my external drives are in a closet, connected to the
laptop by means of a long USB cable that snakes down to the basement and
back up into that closet. The network printer's in the same closet, and the
closeting is largely because one of our cats is an inveterate wire-chewer
(it's a religious thing with him: he's Chewish) and so we've gotten into the
habit of either hiding most wires or encasing them in that plastic
corrugated stuff (or both). I'm not sure where the machine where iTunes
would live, and be permanently connected to the drive where the library is &
the 'net,  could be kept to be both safe and accessible. But if I really
wanted to do this, I'm sure that if I outlined my sitation and requirements
more fully, there'd be a way.

Gonna watch some DVDs now.



- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.wordpress.com

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