From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #290 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, November 14 2009 Volume 17 : Number 290 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Dictionary.com word of the day [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Dictionary.com word of the day [Christopher Gross ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #289 [James Dignan ] Re: Answers to: Number one pop songs with numerals in title [James Dignan] Re: Dictionary.com word of the day [2fs ] Hm, maybe I ought to listen to [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Hm, maybe I ought to listen to [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Hm, maybe I ought to listen to [Jeremy Osner ] RE: [sfbayfegs] Happy birthday, Winky Nickworth ["Reynolds, Russ" ] Mexican God chords [Jeremy Osner ] math bah! [2fs ] 11 for 12 [FSThomas ] 2010 World Cup qualifying matches [James Dignan ] Re: 11 for 12 [2fs ] 11/12 [Carrie Galbraith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:49:28 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Dictionary.com word of the day On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:10 PM, lep wrote: > > see if you can use that in a sentence. > > > Or better yet, in a lyric! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:33 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Dictionary.com word of the day On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, lep wrote: > 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. "That is one capacious crab carapace you have there, Reg." - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:58:54 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #289 >Happy Andy Partridge Birthday to all! >Wait - so Andy Partridge shares a birthday with Kurt Vonnegut (and with one >of my sisters)? Cool! The eleventh was "International Carl Sagan Day;', too, for anyone else of a geeky nature like myself. >carapace > >see if you can use that in a sentence. That's easy - Julian Cope is wearing a tortoise carapace on the cover of his wonderful album "Fried". Next? 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: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:08:24 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Answers to: Number one pop songs with numerals in title >Here's the quiz again: I suppose I'd better send the answers to the additional ones I posed: 8 (1965) (US only single; UK band) 19 (1966) (back when this band was good) 2 (1977) (HUGE hit in Britain, not so big in the US) 3 (1978) (no. 1 in the UK and US) 4 (1979) (a classic Canadian song, but not a big hit, apparently) 45 (1981) (one of the worst things ever to hit the airwaves) 2 (1982) (back when this band was good) 2 (1982) (another one! Debut for quirky new wavers) 19 (1985) (bit of a giveaway...) 500 (1988) (for Stewart) >And now, the answers: (Scroll down) 8 Eight days a week (Das Bootles) 19 Nineteenth nervous breakdown (Rolling Stones) 2 Two tribes (Frankie Goes To Hollywood) 3 Three times a lady (The Commodores) 4 Four strong winds (Neil Young) 45 Stars on 45 (Starsound) 2 Two hearts beat as one (U2) - and yeah, it was '83, not '82: sorry! 2 Goody two-shoes (Adam and the Ants) 19 19 (Paul Hardcastle) 500 I'm gonna be (500 miles) (The Proclaimers) 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: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:13:39 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Dictionary.com word of the day On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:10 PM, lep wrote: > > > > > see if you can use that in a sentence. > > > > > > Or better yet, in a lyric! > And for extra geek points, rhyme it with "Kara Thrace"! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:06:45 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Hm, maybe I ought to listen to those Pixies tapes a friend sent me recently. Listening again to the Ken Stringfellow disc that I got in the spring and finding it pleasantly reminiscent of music I like. Beatles riffs in entertaining places. And, now listening to "Jewels for Sophia"... wop shoo wadda do, J ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:10:27 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Hm, maybe I ought to listen to Speaking of Mexican Gods, any of you folks know who this fellow is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNEJVeS1Z04 J On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > those Pixies tapes a friend sent me recently. Listening again to the Ken > Stringfellow disc that I got in the spring and finding it pleasantly > reminiscent of music I like. Beatles riffs in entertaining places. And, now > listening to "Jewels for Sophia"... wop shoo wadda do, > > J ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:10:57 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Hm, maybe I ought to listen to Oh and one other thing: does anybody here have a lead sheet for Mexican God? On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Speaking of Mexican Gods, > any of you folks know who this fellow is: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNEJVeS1Z04 > J > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > >> those Pixies tapes a friend sent me recently. Listening again to the Ken >> Stringfellow disc that I got in the spring and finding it pleasantly >> reminiscent of music I like. Beatles riffs in entertaining places. And, now >> listening to "Jewels for Sophia"... wop shoo wadda do, >> >> J ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:14:17 -0600 From: "Reynolds, Russ" Subject: RE: [sfbayfegs] Happy birthday, Winky Nickworth electric bulbs on a birthday cake. ________________________________ From: sfbayfegs@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sfbayfegs@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Gloster Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 5:54 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Cc: sfbayfegs@yahoogroups.com Subject: [sfbayfegs] Happy birthday, Winky Nickworth Or Nick Winkworth! Happies, -Markg __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group Start a New Topic MARKETPLACE Parenting Zone: Find useful resources for a happy, healthy family and home Yahoo! Groups Switch to: Text-Only , Daily Digest * Unsubscribe * Terms of Use . __,_._,___ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:53:43 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Gloster Subject: Happy birthday, Winky Nickworth Or Nick Winkworth! Happies, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:04:39 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Mexican God chords Well these are not the real ones, I think, but I am getting somewhere with them. The doo-wop portion of the song is surprisingly difficult to play, the verse part surprisingly easy to get a pleasant sound. Fingerpicking this with drop D tuning. G D G Oooh, wap shoo wadda dap D G Oooh, wap shoo wadda dap D G D G C D Chip-chip-chipper up in the crow's nest D G C D Upside down face but it still saw a lot G D G D Flaking off, breaking off, crumbled and cracking D G C D Time will destroy you like a Mexican god Dreaming your eyes away, closed to the future Pray for amnesia to finish you off This is the evil I wished on so many Time will destroy you like a Mexican god Moon in a cup, crushed garlic and babies Sailors all stagnant and bloating and rough The horror of you floats so close by my window At least when I die, your memory will too Oooh, wap shoo wadda dap Oooh, wap shoo wadda dap Cruel, magnificent, roasting your people I am secure at the end of your rod Cut out my heart and it flies to the ceiling Time will destroy you like a Mexican god Time will destroy you like a Mexican god Time will destroy you Oooh, wap shoo wadda dap Oooh, wap shoo wadda dap Oooh, wap shoo wadda dap Oooh, wap shoo wadda dap Oooh ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:03:43 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: math bah! Whence the canard that music is somehow inherently "mathematical"? I run into this constantly (admittedly, mostly from first-year college students...hardly a sampling of the forefront of humanity's intellect), but it's always seemed like a weird idea to me, based almost entirely on the fact of Western music's being based largely on symmetry, and on the fact that time signatures look like (but aren't, really) fractions. Especially since, in much folk and current pop-music practice, actual rhythmic subdivisions are not nice neat mathematical subdivisions: listen closely to, say, Clyde Stubblefield's drumming with James Brown, and "eighth" notes are not all even-steven divisions of a 4/4 bar; they're variable, swung and shifted (with the second "half" of a "quarter"-note shorter than the first) in proportions that, if "mathematical," are hardly thought of as such. I mean, sure, the language of mathematics, particularly in its dialect native to acoustic physics, can tell us much about the way sound works...but math can be a language expressively analytical of much w/o saying much about actual practice. Thoughts (particularly from, say, musical mathematicians or mathematically inclined musicians)? (One reason I'm highly skeptical here is that even though I'm very experienced in music in many ways, having taken piano lessons and theory for years, having written about music for several years, being quasi-competent on a few instruments, and of course being a compulsive and analytical listener to music, I'm not much-all in actual mathematics, which tends to confuse me beyond its most basic elements.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:10 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: 11 for 12 http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:59:48 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: 2010 World Cup qualifying matches YEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! 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: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:13:02 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: 11 for 12 On Nov 13, 2009, at 8:00 PM, FSThomas wrote: > http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php 12/12. The overall results are scary though. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:50:55 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: 11 for 12 On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:00 PM, FSThomas wrote: > http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php > 11/12 here too (although I guessed luckily on one) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:47:36 -0800 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: 11/12 I missed the amount of troops in Afghanistan as well... - - c "The great thing about being a Slayer is kicking ass is comfort food." - - Buffy ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #290 ********************************