From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #278 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, November 20 2000 Volume 05 : Number 278 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: RE: alloy-digest V5 #277 [jonathan.chiddick@nokia.com] Re: Alloy: TMDR Photos from the PopTech conference - OT [Slarvibarglhee <] Alloy: OT - my friend's movie was just on!!!! [Robin Thurlow Hi all, > welcome Tim. Here are some of my thoughts for your questions. Shingle Street. .... blah blah blah I forgot to add allegedly at the end... this are just a perusals of my mind. There is maybe a little basis on factual evidence but not that much! Sally tearfully scribed... > I also have a very sad thing - when I was 17, I bought a 12" remix of > "Hyperactive" by post and it arrived still in the sleeve but > in pieces. I was so upset, because I knew I wouldn't find another one. I'm > 31. I still have the pieces. I just couldn't ever bring myself to throw > them out. Sad in both senses of the word! Sally! You're making me weep! Check the cover. If the catalogue number is 12R6065 (Hyperactive 7" mix + white city 7 Hyperactive 12" heavy breather sub-version) then you're in luck. I've got a spare copy of this which I would love to send you. Contact me privately by mail with your details and we'll call is a Christmas present. Cheers all, Jon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:26:09 +0000 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR Photos from the PopTech conference - OT Robin Thurlow wrote: > Please visit > > http://camden.k2bh.com/Community/Story.cfm?StoryID=4303 > > for images from the PopTech conference at Camden, where Thomas gave a > great presentation!! > > > xxx > Robin T Sorry in advace. This is off-topic and quite long. Feel free to skip or delete it. I do most of my web surfing at work, as we have desktop access to the net and are allowed to surf out of hours and during lunch breaks. Whenever Robin (or anyone else) sends us a URL to look at I usually forward it to my work address to look at later. I had time on Friday to visit this site and ended up spending the whole of my lunch hour there. Not gazing, dewy-eyed, at the pics, but taking a virtual tour of Camden and Rockport. What a strange location for a PopTech conference, but they have a great website. Apart from the pics, I looked for a transcript of Thomas' session, but just kept getting taken back to the pics. So, I began to look at other parts of the site. They have a few webcams (the harbour, main street and a duck hunting tackle shop, I think). Being around 1pm in the UK, it must have been very early morning in Maine, so there wasn't a lot of activity. I went back to the home page and took the 'virual tour' which gave me a feel for the place. Looks like something out of Twin Peaks, but without the body in the lake. Or maybe not. The more I delved, the more I got drawn in. An interesting thing to do, if you find one of these community sites, is to have a look at their bulletin boards. I soon got a feel for what is currently of concern for the folks of Camden. Leaves! Or rather the dispute about the local authority's responsibility for removing leaves. It seems they have a specially equiped truck to suck up leaves from the streets, but not everyone gets theirs cleaned up. Some parts of town are covered, others not, and it's causing bad feeling. And there are some residents who dump leaves from their gardens in the street so the truck will remove them, when really they should deal with them themselves, and THAT'S causing bad feeling too, as is the problem of one resident's leaves being blown into another resident's garden. The place is a seething hot-bed of horticultural hot-headedness. What's really riling people right now is that the leaf truck is on loan to Rockport, so leaves in Camden aren't being cleared at all, and if EVERYONE'S leaves are being cleared in Rockport, there's going to be more trouble!! There ARE other topics of interest. The spate of damaged mail boxes and thefts from cars, in the same area and on the same night, has caused some comment. The local police have reminded residents that they should be locking their cars, as all thefts were from unlocked vehicles. Sounds like the kind of place where folks have always felt they could leave cars, and probably their houses, unlocked, but times are changing and it's not safe to do that any more. Then there's the resident with the lake front land who's filled in and extended a breakwater without planning permission, and who seems to be reluctant to comply with the local council's demands to restore it to its previous condition. My first impression of Camden was that it was an idyllic little backwater where everyone knows everyone else, they look out for each other and it's a great place to live. Going deeper I found that it has it's problems like everyhwere else. Different problems, but problems nontheless. Looks nice though; wouldn't mind visiting some time. Maybe it WAS a good venue for PopTech after all. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:43:03 -0500 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: OT - my friend's movie was just on!!!! I'm so psyched about this that I've given myself a headache,... I've just seen my friend John in his Cinemax short film 'HATE - a comedy' & I'm so thrilled!! Did anyone get to see it? it's about a guy who is stalked by a vengeful chicken. It's on again next sunday at 7am if you wish to tune in out of some strange curiosity :) John is the guy's friend at the card game with the light green striped shirt who's dealing the cards when the scene opens (& has lots of lines!) and, SPOILER ALERT - he's ultimately poisoned by a chimichanga. I'm so psyched right now. I'll never get over how cool it is to see friends on film!!! What's more, the lead actor is wearing a sweatshirt from Emerson College in one of the scenes in which he's jogging. This is actually John's sweatshirt - which I once personally borrowed! A shirt I once borrowed is in a film - yay!! (LOL) ow, my head... gotta go mope a little now (because seeing John on film reminds me of how much I miss him, it's the first time I've seen him or heard his voice in ages :( but I'll mope happily because John rocked in this film! xxxx Robin T fan/friend/geek girl ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #278 ***************************