From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #350 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 Friday, December 31 1999 Volume 04 : Number 350 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: "...the jackpot question in advance" ["Ian Gifford" ] Re: Alloy: a most strange day ["Melissa R. Jordan" ] Re: Alloy: New Years Eve [lulfstedt@amadeus.net] Re: Alloy: New Years Eve ["Trevor James Blagg" ] Alloy: Re: alloy-Volleyball etc. ["Julie Sweeney" ] Alloy: MP3 etc. ["Ian Gifford" ] Alloy: Songs for Y2K ["Ian Gifford" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 02:23:02 EST From: "Ian Gifford" Subject: Alloy: "...the jackpot question in advance" Whatever I do newYears eve....I am refusing to be anywhere that there isn't going to be live music! Have two bottles of wine set away and a bottle of Canada's best cheap Champagne. Have a happy one whatever you are doing guys and gals. Ian ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:20:37 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Re: Alloy: New Years Eve And on the day of 29/12/1999 8:31 am, Keith Stansell thus did spake... > What are the New Years Eve plans for the Alloyers. Are you going to party > like it's 1999, or sit on your stockpile of freeze dried food with the door > bolted tight? > > Are you going to go to a small party, revel with thousands, or just roll > over and fluff your pillow. Are you going to be in a drunken stuper, or at > work drinking coffee in front of the computer monitors. > > Or are you still weighing your options? I'll have to join several others here in saying would that I actually had options to weigh! I'll be tucking a state's worth of servers spread over 20 odd towns & cities into their respective beds before shutting them down (if they want bedtime stories before going to sleep it's going to be a long day...) - the servers are compliant, the power grid having to deal with potentially wildly fluctuating load is the wild card. Melissa dearest, I like your idea of just quietly cracking a bottle of wine and raising a glass at home alone; I'll think of you when I do the same. New Year's Day will see me disappointingly sober (on call: the other two in the team have lives so I volunteered) and back at work in the early afternoon to restart aforementioned servers and try to handle any dramas as they arise. (Yes, Virginia, protecting the world from bad and/or evil can be a thankless task...) Anyway, a belated happy Thanksgiving & Merry Christmas to you and those close to you, and hope you have a great new year's eve leading into what I hope will be a dramatically better year for you. Paul. [Warning to fellow Mac users out there - though Y2K doesn't affect your computers, don't get complacent! You have only 27,940 years left to fix rollover problems. (Sorry, exceedingly geeky but had to be said. ;-)] This message powered by Shimmer/Fuel. ________________________________________________________________________ Paul Baily paulb@thehub.com.au JustSomeGuy Can I be her friend Brisbane we'll forget the past Australia maybe I'm not able ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:46:41 -0500 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Re: Alloy: a most strange day RThurF@aol.com wrote: > it started when we went to the post office this morning & on our way back, > saw a human tongue (yes it was really a genuine human tongue) lying on the > sidewalk right near the gas station... it had been bitten off by its previous > owner, at least that's what it looked like. I've been really creeped out ever > since & in a terrible mood. happy new year.. eeeeechhhh. Oh, yuck, Robin! May I just say "Eeeeew!" What do you do in that situation? Go to the gas station and ask if anyone's missing a tongue? A friend of mine in Moscow once found a... errrr... um... male appendage in ice and snow outside a Metro station. It was near a market where there was a lot of mafia activity, so we assumed it was punishment or a warning (well, that would have been one HELL of a warning)... Remind me to tell you the deer tongue story from the New England Journal of Medicine sometime. I won't send that one out to Alloy - the gross-out factor is waaaaay too high for a public venue. :-) Waiting for the garbage disposal repairman... Glad I'm working from home today, since I woke up at 6 a.m. to see my office building blocked off by a zillion police cars and the bomb squad investigating "a suspicious package"... Cheers, Melissa - -- Melissa R. Jordan Owner/Artist, Compass Rose Studios (www.crstudios.com) Owner, Compass Rose Consulting (www.askcrc.com) Visit my new blank, websites! Text, pictures, and all that coming soon!!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:53:55 +0100 From: lulfstedt@amadeus.net Subject: Re: Alloy: New Years Eve Well,...after all too many absences and way too much lurking, I'm creeping out from under my stone to wish you all a very happy New Year! >And on the day of 29/12/1999 8:31 am, Keith Stansell thus did spake... > What are the New Years Eve plans for the Alloyers. Are you going to party > like it's 1999, or sit on your stockpile of freeze dried food with the door > bolted tight? Well, our New Year here in France will be a different one for us, as we probably won't see anyone we know apart from my parents, who are over for the holiday this year. Working for a software company means that the few buds I've made here in France are at work or out of the country on the 31st, and I feel a bit selfish in saying that I find myself missing family and friends that we've left behind in Finland at this time of year. As to what we'll do, let's say that my parents are not amongst the most decisive of people, so our plans remain unclear(!) Surprisingly, there's very little organised down here for the millenium, except for a few parties that no one I know could ever afford to go to. The horrific expense of restaurant and bar entrance fees in the area is going to curtail New Year's festivities for us & many other people here (most restaurants seem to be charging a minimum of a whopping 1000 Francs per head for a meal on the eve,...that's about 200 dollars US. Bars seem to be charging an average of 400FR minimum to get through the door (80 USD)....hell, even Planet Hollywood is charging 2000 Francs (400USD) for the meal there! I understand them having to charge extra to pay staff, but it's getting ridiculous, and makes me feel like forgetting the entire celebration. Are any of you guys experiencing these silly prices in your home towns? But I didn't mean to paint a gloomy picture of the New Year though & I can tell you that no matter what, I will be raising a glass to my dear Alloy friends at midnight, and wishing you all a fantastic and sunny year 2000! That's all folks,...see you in the next millenium! Lissu :-) P.S. To those of you who mailed me to ask how we were after the storms, thanks so much for thinking of us.....we're fine! The fallen trees here managed to miss us, our car and the house, and our power is still on, for which we're really grateful, unlike many further west who will be without power & heating over the millenium. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:11:57 -0000 From: "Trevor James Blagg" Subject: Re: Alloy: New Years Eve And on the day of 29/12/1999 8:31 am, Keith Stansell thus did spake... > What are the New Years Eve plans for the Alloyers. Are you going to party > like it's 1999, or sit on your stockpile of freeze dried food with the door > bolted tight? As per the majority of the planet, we had no idea what we were going to do until only a few days ago; In Coventry City Centre the will be a huge New Years Bash culminating with a tight rope walker attempting to walk between 2 of the Cathedral's spires 60 foot above the ground, at an upward angle of about 30 degrees (I saw the preparations yesterday) without any safety net. I only hope that his rope isn't too icy otherwise he could end up putting a damper on the festivities, and that just wouldn't do would it? ... Then, all being well we're off to a friends flat to let off some fireworks and work our way through £120.00 worth of ale. There are only 6 of us!!!! I will be working a 3-11 shift New Years Day, so that should give me plenty of time to become conscious again! A great New Year to you all.... Trevor... - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 1:53 PM Subject: Re: Alloy: New Years Eve > > > Well,...after all too many absences and way too much lurking, I'm creeping out > from under my stone to wish you all a very happy New Year! > > >And on the day of 29/12/1999 8:31 am, Keith Stansell thus did spake... > > > What are the New Years Eve plans for the Alloyers. Are you going to party > > like it's 1999, or sit on your stockpile of freeze dried food with the door > > bolted tight? > > Well, our New Year here in France will be a different one for us, as we probably > won't see anyone we know apart from my parents, who are over for the holiday > this year. Working for a software company means that the few buds I've made here > in France are at work or out of the country on the 31st, and I feel a bit > selfish in saying that I find myself missing family and friends that we've left > behind in Finland at this time of year. As to what we'll do, let's say that my > parents are not amongst the most decisive of people, so our plans remain > unclear(!) > > Surprisingly, there's very little organised down here for the millenium, except > for a few parties that no one I know could ever afford to go to. The horrific > expense of restaurant and bar entrance fees in the area is going to curtail New > Year's festivities for us & many other people here (most restaurants seem to be > charging a minimum of a whopping 1000 Francs per head for a meal on the > eve,...that's about 200 dollars US. Bars seem to be charging an average of 400FR > minimum to get through the door (80 USD)....hell, even Planet Hollywood is > charging 2000 Francs (400USD) for the meal there! I understand them having to > charge extra to pay staff, but it's getting ridiculous, and makes me feel like > forgetting the entire celebration. Are any of you guys experiencing these silly > prices in your home towns? > > But I didn't mean to paint a gloomy picture of the New Year though & I can tell > you that no matter what, I will be raising a glass to my dear Alloy friends at > midnight, and wishing you all a fantastic and sunny year 2000! > > That's all folks,...see you in the next millenium! > > Lissu :-) > > > P.S. > To those of you who mailed me to ask how we were after the storms, thanks so > much for thinking of us.....we're fine! The fallen trees here managed to miss > us, our car and the house, and our power is still on, for which we're really > grateful, unlike many further west who will be without power & heating over the > millenium. > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 07:40:44 -0700 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: a most strange day - ----- Original Message ----- From: > it started when we went to the post office this morning & on our way back, > saw a human tongue (yes it was really a genuine human tongue) lying on the > sidewalk right near the gas station... it had been bitten off by its previous > owner, at least that's what it looked like. I've been really creeped out ever > since & in a terrible mood. happy new year.. eeeeechhhh. Just pretend you accidentally walked into a David Lynch film. That is truly a strange story. I'm sure the owner of the tongue wasn't too pleased about it either. - -Keith ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:22:41 -0600 From: "Julie Sweeney" Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-Volleyball etc. > - - and thanks Julie - "What's wrong with volleyball?" > was most amusing! I misquoted, my dear hubby tells me, it was more like, "I am SO sure, like, what's the matter with volleyball?" accompanied by much eye rolling (and fiddling with her thumb ring--my apologies to any of you who happen to wear one--this one was the actual handle of a spoon). > > (I'm staying at home with my heavily pregnant wife.) You should watch the use of the term "heavily" in reference to any pregnant woman!! :) That's not as bad, though, as being called Tons O' Fun, which I was, and did not appreciate. > > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:15:21 -0800 (PST) > From: Elaine Linstruth > Subject: Alloy: Welcome 2000 > > Hi y'all, thought I'd say my greetings while I have a minute. We'll be > here at home too. With a 3-month-old that's being nursed, and a > 2-year-old, party options are somewhat limited. I've found remarkably > little on the web (and in bookstores) about drinking alcohol while you're > nursing a baby, so I'm trying to plan ahead and have bottles made. Elaine--in my experience, drinking wine or beer in moderation had little effect on my babies. I heard it would make them sleepy, which it didn't--I tried to limit myself to maybe 2 glasses of wine tops and it always seemed to work out okay. And at that stage of my life, that was about all I could handle anyway, pathetically enough--and all it would do is make ME sleepy. > Welcome Julie, and my sentiments exactly, re: the ISP biz. We, too, run > an ISP here and know that drill. You've found something else in common > with THIS Alloyed, at least! (And I agree, the volleyball story is pretty > funny.) Now, I would love to know more about where you are, and what your business is like, and all that good stuff. We are in central Wisconsin, with a network across most of the center of the state. What a frustrating and yet exhilarating business to be in. Flying by the seat of our pants every damn day... > Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 00:49:55 EST > From: RThurF@aol.com > Subject: Alloy: a most strange day > > it started when we went to the post office this morning & on our way back, > saw a human tongue (yes it was really a genuine human tongue) lying on the > sidewalk right near the gas station... it had been bitten off by its previous > owner, at least that's what it looked like. I've been really creeped out ever > since & in a terrible mood. happy new year.. eeeeechhhh. Um, that is pretty gross.... by the way, you should post Hannibal Lechter!!! I would love to read it. Here's wishing you all, wherever you are and whatever your plans are, a very happy New Year's... Kinda glad I'm not just a lurker anymore, Julie Sweeney jsweeney@pcpros.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:21:26 EST From: "Ian Gifford" Subject: Alloy: MP3 etc. I have a question for those who gave me MP3 advice at an earlier date.... I have a version of Real Producer G2 that I believe will convert audio to MP3 format. I hav a page set up at geocities. I want to place the MP3 files on my page when I have encoded them. Do I need to create a seperate page to be able to do this? I have 15 meg total to use, my text and graphics are less than 80,000 bytes. Does anyone forsee any problems for placing 4 tunes in MP3 format there? Please e-mail me directly as I get a digest version of Alloy. Sorry 'bout the off topic-ness of this post. Happy New Year all. I hope to Have a version of Auld Lang Syne loaded to my page for you by tonight or by tommorrow night! My address is http://geocities.com/folkie4/songs_for_Y2K.html just pics and text so far.... Ian ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:46:14 EST From: "Ian Gifford" Subject: Alloy: Songs for Y2K Hi, I just wanted to wish you a very Happy Y2K and invite you to check out a web page (by ME) that was created to celebrate the new year. The page has two versions of "Auld Lang Syne", as well as two other songs written by me (Ian Gifford). http://www.geocities.com/folkie4/songs_for_Y2K.html You will need an mp3 player to hear these tunes. Enjoy and write me back once you have heard it, I'd love to know what you think. Happy Holidays to you. Peace, Ian Ian Gifford Singer/Songwriter, Radio show host. Monday Mornings 12am till 2am (est) http://www.chrw.fm.net mailto:igifford@hotmail.com "All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song" Louis Armstrong, 1901-1971 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #350 ***************************