From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V7 #174 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 27 2002 Volume 07 : Number 174 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: ahem [PRAEst76 ] Re: Alloy: sensitivity [PRAEst76 ] Alloy: OT: Caffeine ["Dennis Alexander" ] Re: Alloy: Orwell [Robyn Moore ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:31:31 +0100 From: PRAEst76 Subject: Alloy: ahem Can I just point out that if people are going to just change the subject and drop the whole issue you'll be leaving behind a lot of bitterness? You really need to clean up the mess before you can move on. - -- PRAEst76 http://www.cancellation.freeserve.co.uk/praest76/ np: Frank Tovey - Diana ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:40:17 +0100 From: PRAEst76 Subject: Re: Alloy: sensitivity William Steffey said... > I just got back from band practice today, and noticed that everyone > was being a little extra sensitive... protective... defensive. > Something's in the air, I say. I think the topic of "how to act > naturally without stepping on the toes of others" is a large topic in > Alloy and beyond right now. Aggression is boilking in the blood. I think it's in everyone, even in the most civil people it can erupt at some point. I hate it. It leaves me feeling sad and worn. I was in london about a month ago for a few weeks. the amount of hostility and aggression I felt around me was overwhelming. I got elbowed in the fact trying to get on a bus. Someone attacked the conductor. I was told this is common now. People are developing their own borders, demonising the rest of the world out of fear. Not knowing who can be trusted, or who is out to get you, or your children. It's easier to hate all strangers I suppose. Rather than trust them and have it broken. > It's in the air, I say. Everybody's extra sensitive right now. Don't > know why, that's just what I've noticed. Not being able to trust your neighbour makes it a very lonely world. - -- PRAEst76 http://www.cancellation.freeserve.co.uk/praest76/ np: Frank Tovey - Diana ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:20:16 -0700 From: "Dennis Alexander" Subject: Alloy: OT: Caffeine I've weaned myself from caffein a few times (and somehow find myself back in the habit again and again...) What I did was start diluting my coffee with decaf for about a month (it can probably be done quicker than that) until I was on straight decaf. I never had a headache from doing that. I discovered the caffeine headaches when I was drinking on the weekdays at work and not on the weekends at home. By Sunday night, my head was killing me! Took about 6 months to put two and two together along with someone elses advice. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Robin Thurlow Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 10:33 AM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: RE: Alloy: U.S. Congressmen Want to Stop Online Song-Swapping Melissa wrote: :: Decaf. Arg. I've just had to decaffeinate myself recently. I was diagnosed with diabetes, unfortunately, and caffeine can spike your blood glucose. No fun. :: Did you have to endure the caffeine withdrawal headaches? I remember those from when I gave it up. The migraine meds I take are packed with caffeine, so I assume there may be an across-the-board headache connection, somehow. I hope you're feeling well, and have been getting medical advice from doctors you find extremely trustworthy on this subject! xx ~R ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:18:29 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Orwell At 12:32 PM 23/08/2002, you appeared to say: > > I think the > > culture of commercialism and shoving products at us everywhere we > > look (I can't remember what sci-fi it was, where the advertisements > > were even projected into your dreams.. was it Red Dwarf?) > >Don't think so... not that I recall. Though I'm associating this >scrabled memory with Sci-Fi comedy of some kind. Maybe it was one of >the novels? No, it wasn't Red Dwarf. I think it was Max Headroom. Speaking of Max, there was another show which had a good track record for predicting what would happen "20 minutes into the future" - Simulated actors, massive media conglomerates with undue influence, that annoying little perpetual station logo in the corner of tv screens (which concept I think the RL networks "borrowed" from Max, personally) an underground movement of people who live without ID, etc. Robyn M @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.wiccans.net/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V7 #174 ***************************