From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #206 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 Tuesday, August 7 2001 Volume 06 : Number 206 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Move Over Dr. Terenzi [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: opinions are like . . . here's mine [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: opinions are like . . . here's mine ["Robin Thurlow" Subject: Re: Alloy: Move Over Dr. Terenzi And lo! At 17:08 2001.08.04, the email zephyrs conveyed thy words unto me thusly: >Here's a site for a movie of TMDR's appearance on what is my latest >must-see TV show, the Screen Savers (too bad we didn't have a dish >player years ago so I could have seen him live): > >http://www.techtv.com/internettonight/musiconline/story/ >0,23008,2436337,00.html We only just got this channel a few months ago ourselves, so we missed it too. At least they have the RealPlayer file. Personally, I kept expecting him to show up on Audio File. I was watching Screen Savers just tonight, and they do have some nifty people on. Actually, Sunday's show was a repeat of Wednesday's, and the guests were Bill Nye and Mae Jemison, who were both making a case for maintaining children's interest in science. Did you see the ad for Screen Savers the other week that was a parody of the Compaq (or is it Dell) commercial with the neighbor kid stumping for the local parents to buy their kids computers? I 'bout fell over laughing. I have to admit that, since I'm a heavy duty gamer, my favourite show on the network is Extended Play. However, I could watch TechTV just for the station IDs. They have some really innovative people in their promotional department. Robyn M @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.wiccans.net/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 02:06:11 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: opinions are like . . . here's mine And lo! At 18:18 2001.08.05, the email zephyrs conveyed thy words unto me thusly: >Thanks, Paul and Keith, for the very nice words. > >I really do apologize to everyone at Alloy for being so passionate about >what I >wrote. I know I sound like a broken record at times, and none of you need >to be >dragged into my personal campaign against the end of civility in the United >States. What I wrote was simply my take on things coastal. I am *so* sorry for >sounding preachy - I assure you I wasn't looking for any sympathy. It >really just >is my life experience, good, bad, or ugly, to throw into the mix. > >Sometimes wishing I'd learn when to keep things to myself, As everyone else has said, please don't apologize, and you don't sound preachy. I can relate to what you're saying, since we have similar experience. Like you, I'm a large woman with a strong tendency toward unorthodoxy. I smile at strangers, I coo at babies, I'm polite to beggars even if I don't give them anything, etc. I've got to agree that people out west can be just as intolerant and inconsiderate as they like to believe east coasters are. Since I don't particularly wear makeup and am prone to throwing on whatever's available, it's amazing the things people assume of me. I'm not looking for sympathy either, I just wanted to say I know where you're coming from, because I'm there too. Have a ::hug:: anyway. Robyn M @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.wiccans.net/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 10:22:49 +0000 From: "Tim Hudson" Subject: Alloy: plate tecktonic-crypto-geo-cheese-morphology blues thang RE: Cheese and geomorphology Hi Barbara Good that you gave Lyall a mention..........discontinuitys etc... but what about Hutton - if you get my drift? Even though we're continents apart. Regards - admitedly a bit smugly - this time, Tim p.s. I suggest Robin on her next tour of Britain in search of cheese and geology could do worse than visit Cheddar Gorge. The wreck of the Camenbert.... The beauty of a brie..... Cheese pyjamas Cheese pyjamas She was wearing Cheese pyjamas... MMMMmmmm em ......MMmmmmmmm the beauty of a brie..........is you dont ever let it go. are there any cheese pop stars ? I can only think of UK indy band.... Cheesus Jones [Jesus Jones] ! Oh USA Blues Giant and Brie Brie King ! or of course those other kings of cheese - Judas Priest What ? !!! You dont get it ? Its Rock fort ! Tim. [going franglais fromage mad ]....... ___________________________________________________________________ To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 10:40:58 -0400 From: "Ian Gifford" Subject: Re: Alloy: opinions are like . . . here's mine Dear Melissa.... You obviously have not spent enough time in Canada.... Come on up here and spend a day with Crackers and myself... I guarantee you will feel right at home. I can introduce you to well-respected business owners that dress even more bizarre than the punks at the skater park and still are seen as the most fashionable in he city ;) Yep we Canadians are a freaky lot I tell ya... but Normal everyday kinda freaks. Ian Ian Gifford Singer/Songwriter, Radio show host ("For The Folk"), promoter, producer. On-air Wednesday Evenings 8:30pm to 10:00pm (est) http://www.chrwradio.com ___________________________________________________________________ "All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song" Louis Armstrong, 1901-1971 ___________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 23:29:39 +0100 From: Slarvibarglhee Subject: Re: Alloy: OT Home Renovations (was: sorry! & Japanese fetishpage) Robin Thurlow wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Slarvibarglhee" > > Slarv (who mostly draws the line at washing up, at which he is > particularly > > adept) > > As I recall, you're an experienced interior house painter too! But you were > probably trying to push the memory of this as far back into your > subconscious as possible, weren't you (and I've just wrecked it! :( Every > time I even think of painting a room I wince, remembering your stories. Yeah, experienced and reluctant, but my wife got one over on me again this week-end. It started simply enough; my sister and brother-in-law live in South Africa and were hoping to visit us in the Autumn when they are scheduled to come over on a business trip. Lyn (my wife) said we ought to buy a sofa bed for our front room as we don't have enough bedroom to accomodate visitors. (So far, so good.) We had a look for sofa beds and ended up at IKEA where we found the very thing. Lyn decided she'd make new curtains as well as the ones we have at the moment don't really match the rest of the decor, but were ones we brought with us when we moved in last year. (Still OK at this point.) Then she said we should really redecorate the room as we'd only given it a quick once over a few months ago. (Not quite so OK now.) If we're decorating, she said, we really need to re-paper the chimney breast wall, as it's a mess. (Really not very OK now, I HATE papering and that wall has nasty curves instead of corners which can be tricky to paper round without leaving big bubbles under the paper. But, I've got a while to do it, so I can psyche myself up to it) And then last week, the final bombshell. She's ordered a new carpet and it should be with us in about ten days. This can only mean one thing. The room's got to be fully decorated this week end (i.e. the one just gone.) So, you know what *we* did his week-end. Dismantled the stereo, took the tape and CD racks off the walls, moved the record collection, two sets of book shelves and the dining suite out of the room, painted the ceiling, papered the wall, painted all the walls, including the newly papered one, and glossed all the woodwork. Along with the weekly shopping expedition, that was my week-end gone. BUT, the paper went on like a dream, no bubbles on the corners (or anywhere else; hell, I'm getting GOOD at this), the new curtains really complement the rest of the decor, as does the new carpet which was delivered today. Stereo reassembled after work tonight, all racks back on the walls, books in their shelves .... whew, it's all done and the sofa bed will be with us the week after next ..... BUT , my sister rang over the week end. My brother-in-law is being forced to take early retirement, so the autumn trip is 99% not going to happen. Well, at least I didn't have to paint the room three times to get the colour right this time. It needed doing anyway. (I repeat this last thought to myself every five minutes or so to make me feel better about the whole thing.) I'd still have preferred to have someone else do it, even if it was some big butch geezer in a rubber French maid's outfit. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:51:55 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Alloy: (OT) CyberPounce It's a computer game for cats... go to http://www.cyberpounce.com I saw it on the news last night & it looks like such fun. The cats seem to really enjoy chasing the little creatures around on the screen. I've seen cats watch tennis on TV so it follows that they'd love video games designed just for them :) Sorry for the OT, but... it was really cute!! xxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 23:07:21 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Re: Alloy: opinions are like . . . here's mine - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Gifford" > > Yep we Canadians are a freaky lot I tell ya... > > but Normal everyday kinda freaks. Dave is planning to get his MFA in Painting over the next few years. He's going for his dream of becoming a professor and gaining teaching positions at colleges or universities in various places around the world. It's been a collective dream for both of us for ages. Toronto is one of the cities we hope to live in one day, so you'll have two more freaks adding to the Canadian landscape if all goes well :) xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 23:11:58 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Re: Alloy: plate tecktonic-crypto-geo-cheese-morphology blues thang - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Hudson" > p.s. I suggest Robin on her next tour of Britain in search of cheese > and geology could do worse than visit Cheddar Gorge. Is there really a gorge in Cheddar? I have a feeling our geocheese tour of the UK is going to shape up nicely. xxx ~R ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #206 ***************************