From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #289 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, November 13 2009 Volume 17 : Number 289 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Off topic again [Steve Schiavo ] Answers to: Number one pop songs with numerals in title [bayard ] Re: REAP [kevin studyvin ] Re: REAP [Sumiko Keay ] Re: REAP [Christopher Gross ] U.S. oil production vs. great music [Tom Clark ] WUGA Interview with Robyn Hitchcock: 11.15.09 [JoE Silva ] For Lep (and anybody else who likes fractals) [Jeremy Osner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:30:44 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Off topic again Happy Andy Partridge Birthday to all! Anybody listened to the Kinks Choral Collection yet? - - Steve __________ There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. - Kung Fu Monkey ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:39:49 -0500 From: bayard Subject: Answers to: Number one pop songs with numerals in title Here's the quiz again: 96 (1966) 2525 (1969) 50 (1976) 1963 (1976) 9 (1981) 2 (1990) 4 (1992) 4 (1997) 21 (2003) 3 (2009) And now, the answers: (Scroll down) 96 96 Tears/? and the Mysterians (1966) 2525 In the Year 2525/ (1969) 50 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover/Paul Simon (1976) 1963 December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)/The Four Seasons (1976) 9 9 to 5/Dolly Parton (1981) 2 Nothing Compares 2 U/Sinead O'Crooner (1990) 4 All 4 Love/Color Me Badd (1992) 4 4 Seasons of Loneliness/Boyz II Men (1997) 21 21 Questions/50 Cent featuring Nate Dogg (2003) 3 3/Britney Spears (2009) Honorable mention 99 Luftballoons/Nena, reached #2 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:52:29 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Off topic again On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > Happy Andy Partridge Birthday to all! > Wait - so Andy Partridge shares a birthday with Kurt Vonnegut (and with one of my sisters)? Cool! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:46:48 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: REAP On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > Dollhouse, age 2: > > < > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/11/joss-whedons-dollhouse-comes-crumbling-down.html > > > > Can't even say I blame them. > Well, that blows. And I can't get that excited about Whedon directing Glee since outside of the awesome Jane Lynch it has zero appeal for me. On the other hand, Lou Dobbs is quitting CNN! Whoopee! I'm guessing he's planning to run for president on the Teabag Party ticket, maybe with Sarah P... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:01:01 -0600 From: Sumiko Keay Subject: Re: REAP Episode schedule for the rest of the series: Dec. 4 - 8:00PM-10:00PM ET/PT (Episodes 5 & 6) Dec. 11 - 8:00PM-10:00PM ET/PT (Episodes 7 & 8) Dec. 18 - 8:00PM-10:00PM ET/PT (Episodes 9 & 10) Jan. 8 - 9:00PM-10:00PM ET/PT (Episode 11) Jan. 15 - 9:00PM-10:00PM ET/PT (Episode 12) Jan. 22 - 9:00PM-10:00PM ET/PT (Episode 13 / Series Finale) http://io9.com/5402497/ What Joss said on Whedonesque: mm. Apparently my news is not news. I don't have a lot to say. I'm extremely proud of the people I've worked with: my star, my staff, my cast, my crew. I feel the show is getting better pretty much every week, and I think you'll agree in the coming months. I'm grateful that we got to put it on, and then come back and put it on again. I'm off to pursue internet ventures/binge drinking. Possibly that relaxation thing I've read so much about. By the time the last episode airs, you'll know what my next project is. But for now there's a lot of work still to be done, and disappointment to bear. Thank you all for your support, your patience, your excellent adverts. See you again. -j. What I want: next show on HBO. sumi On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:46 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn < > Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > >> Dollhouse, age 2: >> >> < >> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/11/joss-whedons-dollhouse-comes-crumbling-down.html >> > >> >> Can't even say I blame them. >> > > Well, that blows. And I can't get that excited about Whedon directing Glee > since outside of the awesome Jane Lynch it has zero appeal for me. On the > other hand, Lou Dobbs is quitting CNN! Whoopee! I'm guessing he's planning > to run for president on the Teabag Party ticket, maybe with Sarah P... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:22:15 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: REAP On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > Dollhouse, age 2: > > Sad, but not unexpected, so it doesn't hurt as much as it might have. At least they're airing the 13 episodes already promised, instead of just cutting off in the middle of the season. > Can't even say I blame them. I don't blame them; that is, I know they're a business, and if they can make more money by airing So You Think You Can Dance reruns in that time slot, naturally that's what they'll do. But since I don't actually care about Fox's bottom line, I can still *resent* them for ending a show I loved, even if it is a smart business decision. Dollhouse is the *only* show I've been watching on the big four networks lately. Maybe Joss should do his next show for AMC! - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:33:01 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: U.S. oil production vs. great music The correlation is remarkable...kinda. http://tinyurl.com/3srwzt - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:21:23 -0800 (PST) From: JoE Silva Subject: WUGA Interview with Robyn Hitchcock: 11.15.09 Interview that I did with Robyn last week about "I Often Dream of Trains in New York" DVD and his recent contribution to the MOJO Abbey Road disc. You can tune in here, Sunday the 15th at 4PM EST: http://wuga.org/listen_online.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:38:05 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: U.S. oil production vs. great music Tom Clark wrote: > The correlation is remarkable...kinda. > http://tinyurl.com/3srwzt A compelling article to be drilling the Hell out of the off-shore deposits. Drill, baby! Drill. And then dance. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:11:19 -0800 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: REAP On Nov 12, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > >> Dollhouse, age 2: >> >> > dollhouse-comes-crumbling-down.html> > > Sad, but not unexpected, so it doesn't hurt as much as it might > have. At least they're airing the 13 episodes already promised, > instead of just cutting off in the middle of the season. > >> Can't even say I blame them. > > I don't blame them; that is, I know they're a business, and if they > can make more money by airing So You Think You Can Dance reruns in > that time slot, naturally that's what they'll do. But since I > don't actually care about Fox's bottom line, I can still *resent* > them for ending a show I loved, even if it is a smart business > decision. > > Dollhouse is the *only* show I've been watching on the big four > networks lately. Maybe Joss should do his next show for AMC! > The last episode of Dollhouse really knocked it out of the park. It's the only show I follow (on TV or not). A friend recently suggested Joss found his own network...just to keep hi shows on the air. - - c ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:07:20 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: For Lep (and anybody else who likes fractals) 3-dimensional Mandelbrot set: http://readin.com/blog/?id=2052 J ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:10:33 -0500 From: lep Subject: Dictionary.com word of the day http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/ i couldn't find a permalink so for posterity: << carapace \KAIR-uh-pace\ , noun; 1. The thick shell that covers the back of the turtle, the crab, and other animals. 2. Something likened to a shell that serves to protect or isolate from external influence. >> see if you can use that in a sentence. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #289 ********************************