From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #225 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, August 19 2009 Volume 17 : Number 225 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Mad Men [Tom Clark ] Re: to feg-parents [lep ] reap [Christopher Gross ] Re: to feg-parents [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: to feg-parents [2fs ] Re: to feg-parents [lep ] REAP [Michael Sweeney ] Re: to feg-parents [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: reap [Tom Clark ] Re: to feg-parents [lep ] Re: reap [Jeff Margrave ] Re: reap [Jeff Margrave ] best reason to have a twitter account... [lep ] Re: best reason to have a twitter account... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Mad Men [kevin studyvin ] Re: best reason to have a twitter account... [lep ] Re: reap [kevin studyvin ] Re: best reason to have a twitter account... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: tweens [James Dignan ] Re: tweens [Miles Goosens ] Re: to feg-parents [2fs ] Re: to feg-parents [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: to feg-parents [kevin studyvin ] Re: to feg-parents [lep ] Re: to feg-parents [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: to feg-parents [kevin studyvin ] anyone home? [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:54:57 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Mad Men On Aug 18, 2009, at 7:32 AM, 2fs wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Great Quail >wrote: > >> Sebastian writes, >> >>> You're missing out. It's the best thing on TV right now. >> >> In this case, my German friend and I agree on a video form of >> entertainment! >> I also believe that "Mad Men" is currently the best thing on >> television. >> Oh, and Christina Hendricks is in it. >> > > Hell yeah. Oh double hell yeah. Litfegs might also find this interesting: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-16/the-mad-men-book-club/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:11:41 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: to feg-parents tc wrote: > On Aug 16, 2009, at 8:18 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:36 PM, 2fs wrote: >>> >>> So, uh, I'm confused. If "tweens" are in high school, who the hell are >>> "teens" then? > > > They can go from playing with dolls to telling you to shove your > neosocialist worldview up your ass at the drop of a hat. i have it on good authority (twitter) that the young clark is pathetically darling. i'm sure she wouldn't call tc a neosocialist. but if she did, she'd have good cause. xo p.s. seriously, tc - back to school photograph is just too cute. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:27:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: reap Right-wing political commentator and reckless driver Robert Novak, 78. ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:32:40 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: to feg-parents - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 18. August 2009 12:11:41 -0400 regarding Re: to feg-parents: > p.s. seriously, tc - back to school photograph is just too cute. So true. She's also really cute in person. The day I met Tom, Coleen and her, she had multicolored toenails :) But how did you see the picture? Do you have a secret Facebook account?? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:48:36 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: to feg-parents On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 18. August > 2009 12:11:41 -0400 regarding Re: to feg-parents: > > p.s. seriously, tc - back to school photograph is just too cute. >> > > So true. She's also really cute in person. The day I met Tom, Coleen and > her, she had multicolored toenails :) > > But how did you see the picture? Do you have a secret Facebook account?? Ha! Our secretive Lauren is found out... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:45:04 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: to feg-parents Sebastian says: > -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 18. August 2009 > 12:11:41 -0400 regarding Re: to feg-parents: > >> p.s. seriously, tc - back to school photograph is just too cute. > > So true. She's also really cute in person. The day I met Tom, Coleen and > her, she had multicolored toenails :) > > But how did you see the picture? Do you have a secret Facebook account?? twitter. but i do have a secret facebook account. i meant to be-"friend" you, but i spaced out. i'm still trying to sort out "epitaph one"... xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:06:46 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: REAP Robert Novak...78 -- and not a second too soon. _________________________________________________________________ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_BackTo School_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:12:48 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: to feg-parents - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 18. August 2009 12:45:04 -0400 regarding Re: to feg-parents: >> But how did you see the picture? Do you have a secret Facebook account?? > > twitter. Ah, that's one game I'm not (yet?) playing. > but i do have a secret facebook account. i meant to be-"friend" you, > but i spaced out. i'm still trying to sort out "epitaph one"... No sweat. I should probably rewatch that myself. Glad to have found you, though :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:43:14 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: reap On Aug 18, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > Right-wing political commentator and reckless driver Robert Novak, 78. > Good riddance, scumbag. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:04:03 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: to feg-parents Sebastian says: > -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 18. August 2009 > 12:45:04 -0400 regarding Re: to feg-parents: > >>> But how did you see the picture? Do you have a secret Facebook account?? >> >> twitter. > > Ah, that's one game I'm not (yet?) playing. one can join and not play. i, for example, just sit there. any time i have a twitter-ish thought, i either ignore it, or post it to fegList instead. >> but i do have a secret facebook account. i meant to be-"friend" you, >> but i spaced out. i'm still trying to sort out "epitaph one"... > > No sweat. I should probably rewatch that myself. Glad to have found you, > though :) ditto. and thanks for the dollhouse link. i'd be happy to be-"friend" any other fegs. although, in full disclosure to jeff 2fs - i'm still as secretive** with a facebook as without. only on fegList do i spill my guts. (BTW, my name on facebook is lauren elizabeth. at one point, i was going to put my actual, nonest-to-gods last name, but facebook wanted me to fill out some form or show proof of marriage or some such, so i just left it as is.) xo p.s. actually, "secretive" sounds like i'm actually making an effort. i'll go with "mysterious." - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:04:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: Re: reap Christopher Gross wrote: > Right-wing political commentator and > reckless driver Robert Novak, 78. I guess his beloved Pinochet needed a new instructor at the Hades School.... "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:13:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: Re: reap Christopher Gross wrote: > Right-wing political commentator and > reckless driver Robert Novak, 78. Take2: And if a pact with Satan can't protect you from Obama's death panels before they are even implemented, nothing will stop him from killing all the Grandma's and retards once health care reform is established.... "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:27:04 -0400 From: lep Subject: best reason to have a twitter account... MAA number a day at: http://twitter.com/maanow sample for to-day's number, which is 45 (which is a fairly wretched number, but that shouldn't prevent you from getting the idea): http://maanumberaday.blogspot.com/2009/08/45.html actually, 45 is triangular, which hadn't occurred to me, so that redeems it somewhat. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:51:33 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: best reason to have a twitter account... lep wrote: > > 45 (which is a fairly wretched number ... All numbers are equally awesome. Even primes, maybe even the ones that hang around in skinny jeans drinking PBR (or 50, if they're Canadian primes) discussing dronecore. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:01:32 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: reap - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Clark" To: "Squidmaniax!" Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:43:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: reap On Aug 18, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: >> Right-wing political commentator and reckless driver Robert Novak, 78. >> tc came back with: >Good riddance, scumbag. Hopefully he won't have too much time to wait before Dick Cheney joins him in neo-con hades. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:23:46 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: best reason to have a twitter account... On Aug 18, 2009, at 11:27 AM, lep wrote: > MAA number a day at: > http://twitter.com/maanow > Two more, which I run from my home server: // In case you need to be reminded http://twitter.com/420_Alert // What music am I streaming around the house? http://twitter.com/bello_rocks - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:25:28 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Mad Men > Litfegs might also find this interesting: > http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-16/the-mad-men-book-club/ > > -tc > Nice to see my man Frank O'Hara getting name-checked, well, anywhere. (I was going to link over to the charming frank o'hara.com but it doesn't seem to exist any more, which is sad - it was a really nice tribute/fansite run by someone I remember only as Polly, but it seems to have been coopted by O'Hara's sister and had all the fun sucked out of it - a very un-Frank thing to do - as frank o'hara.org.) I'm assuming this Christina Hendricks individual is from the Mad Men cast. I do have a weakness for that kind of so-pale-it-glows-in-the-dark complexion, among other things. Still not real interested in the show though - it just seems creepy, and not in a fun way. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:33:11 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: best reason to have a twitter account... Stewart says: > lep wrote: >> >> 45 (which is a fairly wretched number ... > > All numbers are equally awesome. Even primes, maybe even the ones that > hang around in skinny jeans drinking PBR (or 50, if they're Canadian > primes) discussing dronecore. *even* primes? (not a pun.) primes rule. they are at the top of the number food chain. or maybe the bottom. well, wherever the hell they are, they have dominion over all other classes of numbers. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:35:32 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: reap > Christopher Gross wrote: >> Right-wing political commentator and >> reckless driver Robert Novak, 78. My heart is so overflowing with schadenfreude it's practically singing...yuk yuk yuk... > > Take2: And if a pact with Satan can't protect you from Obama's death panels before they are even implemented, nothing will stop him from killing all the Grandma's and retards once health care reform is established.... "Retard" is such an ugly word (except in a musical context): http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20090815 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:42:00 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: best reason to have a twitter account... lep wrote: > > well, wherever the hell they are, they have dominion over > all other classes of numbers. naw, powers of two kick their scrawny emo arses. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:52:28 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: best reason to have a twitter account... On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:33 PM, lep wrote: > Stewart says: >> lep wrote: >>> >>> 45 (which is a fairly wretched number ... >> >> All numbers are equally awesome. Even primes, maybe even the ones that >> hang around in skinny jeans drinking PBR (or 50, if they're Canadian >> primes) discussing dronecore. > > *even* primes? > > (not a pun.) > I > primes rule. they are at the top of the number food chain. or maybe > the bottom. well, wherever the hell they are, they have dominion over > all other classes of numbers. Even as a near-mathematical illiterate I'm still fascinated by primes...one day last week I fell into some kind of trance in the bathroom and found myself counting the little blue hexagonal floor tiles in the corner. There are sixteen of them, and depending how you count them they're either stacked 10 by 6 or 9 by 7. I concluded that the 9 by 7 sort is preferably since there you have one prime and the square of another, as opposed to the other sort that doesn't factor out anything like as neatly. And yes, I've been off work for way too long. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:33:16 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Mad Men On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Aug 18, 2009, at 7:32 AM, 2fs wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Great Quail >> wrote: >>> Oh, and Christina Hendricks is in it. >>> >> >> Hell yeah. > > Oh double hell yeah. Unless any of you watched BEGGARS AND CHOOSERS, I have dibs. And a lot of Ms. Hendricks' ample charms were on full display in this series. OK, that ought to get a few more e-mails and letters to Buena Vista Home Video demanding that they put the B&C DVDs back on the release schedule... later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:55:41 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: tweens >Part of the confusion probably comes from the fact that the Defining >Document of Tweendom was entitled "High School Musical". It should be >understood that this text relates to actual "highs school" in no way >whatsoever, least of all "reflecting it in any way" or "watchable by anyone >enrolled in it". Defining documents of tweendom? Two words: Hannah Montana 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: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:22:35 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: tweens On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:55 PM, James Dignan wrote: >> Part of the confusion probably comes from the fact that the Defining >> Document of Tweendom was entitled "High School Musical". It should be >> understood that this text relates to actual "highs school" in no way >> whatsoever, least of all "reflecting it in any way" or "watchable by >> anyone >> enrolled in it". > > Defining documents of tweendom? Two words: Hannah Montana I'll buy that, but I think it certainly has precedents in the '90s with the Spice Girls and Britney and such. I sure remember my now-21-year-old first cousin being very, very tweenish before Hannah Montana was a glimmer in Disney's eye. later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:04:57 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: to feg-parents On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:04 PM, lep wrote: > > (BTW, my name on facebook is lauren elizabeth. at one point, i was > going to put my actual, nonest-to-gods last name, but facebook wanted > me to fill out some form or show proof of marriage or some such, so i > just left it as is.) Whats? I was able to register both of our CATS on Facebook (in blatant violation of their TOS but fawkem) - and all that w/o access to their birth, marriage, dental, or LP records. That was a pun there, in case you didn't catch it. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:27:32 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: to feg-parents - --On 18. August 2009 14:04:03 -0400 lep wrote: >> Ah, that's one game I'm not (yet?) playing. > > one can join and not play. i, for example, just sit there. But then you don't really need an account. I follow a few twitterers (twittees?) using their RSS feeds. > any time > i have a twitter-ish thought, i either ignore it, or post it to > fegList instead. I've taken to posting them to Facebook, because there I also reach my non-Feggish friends. Sometimes I even cross-post ;-) > (BTW, my name on facebook is lauren elizabeth. at one point, i was > going to put my actual, nonest-to-gods last name, but facebook wanted > me to fill out some form or show proof of marriage or some such, so i > just left it as is.) When I first looked on your page, it had your college email address. So I'm in the know :) But I'll keep your mystery ... I notice that your last name is quite rare and that it's most common in Pennsylvania - fittingly. But where does it come from originally? Cheers, Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:00:54 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: to feg-parents On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > --On 18. August 2009 14:04:03 -0400 lep wrote: > >>> Ah, that's one game I'm not (yet?) playing. >> >> one can join and not play. i, for example, just sit there. > > But then you don't really need an account. I follow a few twitterers > (twittees?) using their RSS feeds. > >> any time >> i have a twitter-ish thought, i either ignore it, or post it to >> fegList instead. > > I've taken to posting them to Facebook, because there I also reach my > non-Feggish friends. Sometimes I even cross-post ;-) > >> (BTW, my name on facebook is lauren elizabeth. at one point, i was >> going to put my actual, nonest-to-gods last name, but facebook wanted >> me to fill out some form or show proof of marriage or some such, so i >> just left it as is.) > > When I first looked on your page, it had your college email address. So I'm > in the know :) But I'll keep your mystery ... I notice that your last name > is quite rare and that it's most common in Pennsylvania - fittingly. But > where does it come from originally? > > Cheers, Sebastian > OK, this whole thread is starting to sound like some kind of epistolary novel via e-mail. (Which I guess makes this the clever self-referential part.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:02:57 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: to feg-parents Sebastian says: > --On 18. August 2009 14:04:03 -0400 lep wrote: > >>> Ah, that's one game I'm not (yet?) playing. >> >> one can join and not play. i, for example, just sit there. > > But then you don't really need an account. I follow a few twitterers > (twittees?) using their RSS feeds. i didn't know that. i think i've said all of three sentences in the same number of months. >> any time >> i have a twitter-ish thought, i either ignore it, or post it to >> fegList instead. > > I've taken to posting them to Facebook, because there I also reach my > non-Feggish friends. Sometimes I even cross-post ;-) i have no non-feg friends. (i'm exaggerating, but i'm an INFP so i tend to have only a few, intense friends. and leaving my (small-company) job of 17 years a few years back, followed by getting a masters in computer science at a school that caters to part-timers, coupled with a large foreign enrollment**, doesn't exactly lead one into the life of the non-stop party.) >> (BTW, my name on facebook is lauren elizabeth. at one point, i was >> going to put my actual, nonest-to-gods last name, but facebook wanted >> me to fill out some form or show proof of marriage or some such, so i >> just left it as is.) > I notice that your last name > is quite rare and that it's most common in Pennsylvania - fittingly. But > where does it come from originally? > When I first looked on your page, it had your college email address. So I'm > in the know :) But I'll keep your mystery ... i appreciate it. as i mentioned earlier, i prefer to keep on the down-low. this has nothing to do with the folks i know through the fegList and everything to do with the fact that the archives are public. i'm not big on strangers. my father's mother was 100% irish and his father was eastern-european, likely from some place with porous borders. the name used to longer, but weigh that with my father's short memory, and i don't know what. my sister claims the name is Slovak; she visited "the mother country" and met someone who claimed to be a relative while going through a local cemetery. anyone who really gives a shit about what we're talking about is welcome to e-mail me offlist. FWIW, my mother's english, with some covered-up scottish, and some even more deeply covered-up irish. xo ** re: foreign student colleagues: it's not that i don't like them - in fact, i tend to get along with foreigners quite well. it's just that they are basically here to study and then go back home. this, in conjunction with the fact that the foreign students are naturally a tight-knit, sort of instant-community, doesn't make for much non-school social interaction. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:13:58 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: to feg-parents - --On 19. August 2009 01:00:54 -0700 kevin studyvin wrote: > OK, this whole thread is starting to sound like some kind of > epistolary novel via e-mail. (Which I guess makes this the clever > self-referential part.) I've considered taking it off-list, but somehow these threads tend to veer between being personal, of general interest and even(!) on-topic for the list :) - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:36:38 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: to feg-parents somehow these threads tend to veer > between being personal, of general interest and even(!) on-topic for the > list :) Perish the thought. np: back to the Nicole Atkins again. So David Lynch-y. (Also, there was a loop going for a while alternating the original "Extreme Ways" from Moby's 18 with the version from the Bourne soundtrack (I believe I prefer that one) until I was asked to desist.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:19:31 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: anyone home? everyone off twittering? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #225 ********************************