From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #32 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 Thursday, February 8 2001 Volume 06 : Number 032 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Thomas Dolby Robertson Mixman eMix(tm) from Barbara Cohen [bcohen@] Alloy: D'oh! Nortel contest woes [Barbara Cohen ] [none] [mde@stanfordalumni.org] Re: Alloy: still no word [Robin Thurlow ] Alloy: meandering on the Nortel site @ 6:30ish ["Robin" ] Re: Alloy: OT: Russians and Celine Dion [Lee Jackson Subject: Alloy: D'oh! Nortel contest woes After sending in my quick mix, I actually read the contest rules: Residents of Vermont, Arizona, and Tennessee are not allowed to enter !!! Wah. Maybe someone could convince a friend to enter for me ?? :( :( At least I amused myself for about an hour playing with Mixman and all the different permutations of Blinded.... Barbara Cohen, Lunatic University of Tennessee, Knoxville ************************************ Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives. ------------------------------ Date: 7 Feb 2001 09:24:02 -0800 From: mde@stanfordalumni.org Subject: [none] where does it say on the nhl website that you can win a poster? I can't find that. Monya - ---------------------------------------------- E-mail@stanfordalumni.org is brought to you by the Stanford Alumni Association and Critical Path. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 14:35:02 -0500 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: still no word Keith Stansell wrote: > > It will be on-demand so there will be > more than one chance to see it. > > If they are using the latest technology, it should recognize your modem > speed and play according to that. > Thias makes good sense Keith. i wasn't sure if 'on-demand' meant something strange in techno terms. Thomas scared me when he asked if I was sure about the webcast being open to all. Maybe he's just making fun of me because I don't know what the hell any of this stuff means. Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 18:29:12 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Alloy: meandering on the Nortel site @ 6:30ish hhmmmm... can't find anything refering to the webcast after 20 minutes of fussing around with the site (??) am I doing something wrong... I've hunted around & have hit 'refresh' on the top news page where the ad for the webcast is, several times. Unless... (imagines high-tech espionage scenario going on behind the scenes... cue soundtrack by Rage Against The Machine) ~sigh~ it's no wonder Thomas makes fun of me. Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 18:48:59 -0500 From: Russell Milliner Subject: Re: Alloy: meandering on the Nortel site @ 6:30ish I cant find it either. This does not give me the best impression of Nortel. bummer. - -Russ Robin wrote: > > hhmmmm... can't find anything refering to the webcast after 20 minutes of > fussing around with the site (??) am I doing something wrong... I've hunted > around & have hit 'refresh' on the top news page where the ad for the webcast > is, several times. > > Unless... > > (imagines high-tech espionage scenario going on behind the scenes... cue > soundtrack by Rage Against The Machine) > > ~sigh~ it's no wonder Thomas makes fun of me. > > Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 20:37:01 -0500 From: Russell Milliner Subject: Re: Alloy: meandering on the Nortel site @ 6:30ish Now at least they have a link, but the server is not found! ACK! - -Russ Russell Milliner wrote: > > I cant find it either. This does not give me the best impression of > Nortel. bummer. > > -Russ > > Robin wrote: > > > > hhmmmm... can't find anything refering to the webcast after 20 minutes of > > fussing around with the site (??) am I doing something wrong... I've hunted > > around & have hit 'refresh' on the top news page where the ad for the webcast > > is, several times. > > > > Unless... > > > > (imagines high-tech espionage scenario going on behind the scenes... cue > > soundtrack by Rage Against The Machine) > > > > ~sigh~ it's no wonder Thomas makes fun of me. > > > > Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:09:32 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Alloy: more Nortel I've tried to go again and saw the link Russ mentioned, but it still doesn't connect through to the webcast. Maybe someone's fallen behind on the whole thing (hard to believe since they're doing so much to promote Thomas' involvement with them!) Perhaps they're unaware of how very avid and punctual Thomas' fans are? :) Meanwhile, @ 8pm, I had a response from Nortel about accessing the webcast, from a contact who I will not name out of sheer mercy on my part: :: It is a webcast and it may require a fairly fast connection but it all depends and I am not sure about it. :: He did mention elsewhere in the note that it *is* indeed accessable by the general public... so at least we know this much for certain. I'll write back to him to let him know the link is down. xxxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:57:38 -0600 From: Lee Jackson Subject: Re: Alloy: OT: Russians and Celine Dion On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 23:07:33 -0500, you wrote: >A friend just sent me this hilarious mp3 file of some drunk Russians >performing a very, very upbeat version of "My Heart Will Go On", >complete with accordion. It's surreal. Oh good lord - Muzikin returns from the dead! :-) Seriously, this file came from a fellow member of the Video Game Musicians mailing list. He went by the handle "Muzikin," and he was apparently joining us from Russia (there were rumors that he was a Brit posing as a Russian, but none substantiated). He and his friends made this one vodka-soaked evening, after which he uploaded it to the VGM list's private web site. Someone must have spread it from there. You're right, though. You'll split a gut laughing the first time you hear it. - -- Lee Jackson Music and Sound Director 3D Realms Entertainment http://www.3drealms.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 00:54:46 -0500 From: "M. R. Jordan" Subject: Re: Alloy: OT: Russians and Celine Dion Lee Jackson wrote: > Oh good lord - Muzikin returns from the dead! :-) Seriously, this file came from a fellow member of the Video Game Musicians mailing list... Someone must have spread it from there. > I love it! And here's the wild route by which it reached me: a friend from Moscow, whom I haven't seen in almost ten years, got the file from an Armenian friend in Iran (!?!) who passed it to him in Greece, and he then sent it to me. I love the Internet! It's 12:52, I have insomnia, plus the stomach flu, and I can't sleep. Grrrrr. I'm hoping something good comes on BBC America soon. I'm totally hooked on Castaway 2000. It's so much more fascinating than Survivor ever could be - and I really like some of these people a whole lot. Anyone else watching? I downloaded my "Ben Pet" from the BBC America website. Silly, but cute. Cheers, Melissa, the Far Too Awake - -- Melissa R. Jordan Director, Compass Rose Consulting International (http://www.askcrc.com) Owner/Artist, Compass Rose Studios (http://www.crstudios.com) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #32 **************************