From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #3 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, January 4 1999 Volume 04 : Number 003 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Sharing ["I T Admin @ Govt Office North West" ] Alloy: Einstein [Sean Cier ] Re: Alloy: Y2K [Sean Cier ] RE: Alloy: Einstein ["Beth Meyer" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 10:25:24 +0000 From: "I T Admin @ Govt Office North West" Subject: Re: Alloy: Sharing At 08:44 27/12/98 -0800, Michael wrote re Rochelle's message from Thomas at Headspace: > >You must have a psychic link to TMDR as I don't believe anyone I know of has >ever gotten a personal response via the Headspace address! >M. L. Well, now you know of another one, because I had a personal reply when I mailed him about the apparent death of the FES Tap Room. Granted it was not as interesting as Rochelle's reply, but it shows that the mail DOES get read and Thomas DOES reply, if appropriate. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 13:58:42 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Flat Earth? In a message dated 1/2/99 10:13:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, tmmanning@webtv.net writes: << What happened to the Flat Earth website? What happened to Mr. Dolby? >> the FES has moved & is now at Go to to read up on Mr Dolby's business adventures. Go to to see him at a recent speaking engagement discussing the technology he & his coworkers at Headspace are developing (photos courtesy of Alloy's own gentleman Brian Clayton). Our latest news from Mr Dolby himself is that he is extremely interested in writing/recording again at some point in the future as soon as time permits! and our fashion update is that Thomas has officially shaved his beard for reasons that are mysterious even to himself (though with the recent cold weather across the US he may be wishing he still had that extra bit of cozy insulation..) Any further information you might be looking for, please feel free to ask on this mailing list. And of course, a very warm WELCOME to you, TM!! You can write to me directly for any problems or technical questions, & I'll always do my utmost to help. Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 13:32:04 -0600 From: "Guy Story, KC5GOI" Subject: Alloy: Membership Sign in Has any one else had a problem with the membership signin on the FES site? I keep coming up with and error 404. Guy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:13:56 -0500 From: Sean Cier Subject: Alloy: Einstein Just came across this quote, thought y'all might find the juxtaposition amusing... Albert Einstein nailed Space/Time but the wild thing had him stumped -TMDR, "That's Why People Fall In Love" Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love -Albert Einstein (source unknown) - -spc - -- /- Sean Cier -\ ( If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes ) \- http://www.PostHorizon.com/scier -/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:13:52 -0500 From: Sean Cier Subject: Re: Alloy: Y2K Catching up on backlog here... MacSuirtain wrote: > > Hey, Sean. You have a cool last name -- how is it pronounced? It's pronounced 'sear'. Apparently the spelling is so counterintuitive that people routinely spell it with an 'S' even when I spell it out rather than pronouncing it for them...! It's actually mangled from Hungarian roots (via my non-Irish half), probably 'Czier' (pronounced 'cheer'), but everybody assumes it's French... > The place is called "Balalaika," and it's at M and 33rd in Georgetown. > Small restaurant, painted "Bordello Red" (that's what I call it) -- > reminds me a lot of cooperative cafes in Moscow. Mm; I'm going to have to check it out. There are so many great little places around that area... just found a little Himilayan / Tibetan place a dozen or so blocks away the other day. > I see that Springfield is your stomping grounds. Yep, I work in Springfield; actually live in Fair Oaks / Fair Lakes, though. > I was in NoVa (Loudoun > County - South Riding) for a Christmas party this evening (at the > ENORMOUS and GORGEOUS home of an up-and-coming graphic designer.) One > of the guests was a fashion photographer -- he started out in DC and > is now in NYC -- but he was kinda creepy and was name-dropping right > and left and had brought negatives from a shoot he'd just done with > some big name models. I thought it was kinda weird to bring this > stuff to a Christmas party and show it to whomever, but, then > again, maybe that's just me... Sounds like you live in that Hollywoodish, upscale aspect of DC that I hear about but never quite experience... not that I'm complaining. I was at a smaller Christmas party at a friend's apartment in Shirlington the same night... and with your account of the glamourous counterpart I missed, sounds like there's not much reason to dream of greener grass in that particular pasture. Sorry to hear about your shabby treatment at the party... but always remember that it's *their* insecurity showing when such low-lives feel the need to denegrate others in such a superficial manner! > All in all, I think I'll avoid hobnobbing with the beautiful people > in future. Give me a good book, some cool tuneage, and a comfy > chair, and I'm pretty happy. Sounds like we're cut from the same cloth, Melissa. - -spc - -- /- Sean Cier -\ ( If I had'n'a shot poor Delia, I'd'a had her for my wife; ) ( Delia's gone ) \- http://www.PostHorizon.com/scier -/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:53:06 -0500 From: "Beth Meyer" Subject: RE: Alloy: Einstein Hi, folks; Sean treated us to these quotes: >Albert Einstein nailed Space/Time >but the wild thing had him stumped > -TMDR, "That's Why People Fall In Love" >Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love > -Albert Einstein (source unknown) This reminded me of something that I heard from a professor, early in my grad school career. He had heard a prominent theoretical physicist lecturing about the Great Theory of Everything that most of the physics community was working on, and how it would be so wonderful and settle all the issues in physics for the foreseeable future. Someone asked him whether this theory, should it ever be formulated, would give any insights into human behavior. The physicist replied "Absolutely not," and said that even if he and his colleagues could formulate the entire set of laws governing every aspect of physics, that they would not even begin to apply to the realm of human behavior. So basically, even if the theoretical physicists find the Answer to Everything and hence finish their work for a while, we experimental psychologists will still have jobs :-) Cheers, Beth (hastening to point out that physics does a lovely job of defining the limits of how people can move, predicting that a person who leaps from the top of a tall building will land quickly and messily, and so forth.) Beth Meyer bethmeyer@mindspring.com ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #3 *************************