From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V11 #44 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 16 2006 Volume 11 : Number 044 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Chatroom fun, anyone? :^) Saw your Pub post, Bill! :^) ["A. v] Alloy: Happy Valentines Day [Patrick McMillan ] Re: Alloy: Happy Valentines Day [Peter Adams ] Alloy: Ha! Double-whammy Thomas technology moment ["Kara R. Laidlaw" Subject: Re: Alloy: Chatroom fun, anyone? :^) Saw your Pub post, Bill! :^) Kara R. Laidlaw wrote, 15-feb-2006 5:40 uur: > Okay, I'm going to try to spell this...wait for it...Slarvibarglhee, > I found your post in the Dolby Forum/Pub, and I'm willing to chat > until my fingers fall off. ;^) How'd I do in the spelling department, > there, Mr. Hargreaves??!? > > I'm DYIN' for some live interaction--anyone else??!? Sorry, but I must decline..., this 'live interaction' for me is way too fast. I'm enjoying most of the posts tremendously though! (Go Cory go!) Going through the archives (http://www.smoe.org/lists/alloy/) sometimes even too. There I found the bio of ... Slarvibarglhee ... (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V); indeed before 1997... Would you mind if I repost it here, Bill? Bill Hargreaves wrote, 4-feb-2006 1:58 uur: > Regrettably, a couple of mishaps and several changes of address along > the way mean that I only have mail going back as far as 1997, but > that means I have most, if not all of the Dolby lyric parodies we did > and a lot of the biographies posted around then .... I'll look up mine, and repost, or rephrase that too some day. I joined just one or two weeks before Thomas himself (gasp! Didn't expect that!) announced the special re-mixes of Submarines From http://www.smoe.org/lists/alloy/v08.n048 > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:28:02 -0800 > From: Thomas Dolby Robertson > Subject: Alloy: Submarines EP > > Hi all, > > I'm getting ready to put a few hundred signed and numbered copies of > the German "One Of Our Submarines" EP for sale on CD Baby. It has not > been altered musically from the version compiled and sold in Europe > by Salz, but as there's been quite a lot of interest in it over here > we arranged with Salz to press some in the US and sell them on the > Web. It should be ready in about 3 weeks. > > I need your input: after the bad experience some Alloyites had when > they placed early orders for "Forty" but didn't receive low-numbered > CDs, I want to make sure you have a good shot at it this time. So > here's what I propose, tell me what you think: the moment the CD goes > up for sale on CDBaby, I will notify this List, which goes out to > less than 100 people. I will not publicize it in any other way for 3 > days. During that time, if you place an order at CDBaby you're quite > likely to get a low-numbered (<100?) CD. I will give CDBaby clear > instructions that they need to allocate the CDs on a first come, > first served basis (none of us thought of that last time!) Of course, > I can't prevent others who happen to be browsing the site during > those days from buying one ahead of you. Then, after 3 days, we'll > link to it from thomasdolby.com, email others on the CDBaby mailing > list, post it on a few newsgroups etc. > > Is this a fair system? > > TMDR > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:43:13 -0600 From: "Andrea Allen" > Subject: Re: Alloy: Submarines EP > > Being an Alloyite I would have to say... yes! > > Andrea. So this is how I ended up with Submarines EP # 011 ! tara, Anton. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:00:21 -0800 From: Patrick McMillan Subject: Alloy: Happy Valentines Day Thanks Alloy for tossing an abundance of love back and forth. Thanks also to Thomas for teaching this group of hopeless romantics so much about love. I've been listening to his music all evening. I always gush when that happens. Patrick McMillan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:36:36 +0000 From: Peter Adams Subject: Re: Alloy: Happy Valentines Day On Wednesday 15 Feb 2006 08:00, Patrick McMillan wrote: > Thanks Alloy for tossing an abundance of love back and forth. Thanks > also to Thomas for teaching this group of hopeless romantics so much > about love. > I've been listening to his music all evening. I always gush when that > happens. "...then at that moment, I thought of my mother." - -- Peter ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:25:50 -0600 From: "Kara R. Laidlaw" Subject: Alloy: Ha! Double-whammy Thomas technology moment ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:36:27 -0600 From: "Kara R. Laidlaw" Subject: Alloy: Oops!!!!!! (the REST of A Double-Whammy Thomas Tech. Moment) ! ;^) What key did I hit, there??!?!? Anybody want a bodiless post??!? ;^) Anyway, I just saw this cell-phone commercial--Verizon or something, I forget which one. But the phone was playing "Urgent" by Foreigner, and I said to my Mom (we were eating dinner), "Thomas played keyboards on that track." Then, it hit me--Thomas' Beatnik Sound Engine is the reason that that phone is able to play that song in the first place!!!!! :^) That's so coooooollllll... Yeah, some people say that his having played on "Foreigner 4" isn't anything to put on his resume [yeah, as if it *needs* padding! ;^)], but $5000 quid is $5000 quid, right? [I think that's about what Thomas earned for playing on that album. Helped him get his own career off the ground, so how can it be negative?! ;^)]And anyway, "I've Been Waiting for a Girl Like You" is an awesome song--at least, I always thought so. I loved those shiver-inducing keyboards long before I ever found out who had played them!!! Love and techno toys, Kara ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:28:28 -0600 From: "Kara R. Laidlaw" Subject: Alloy: Me again...but maybe I won't be here for much longer. Hey, all. I just wanted to let you know, in case any of you were wondering, that my usual exuberant style is just the way I am. I write like that in my own journal, for heaven's sake! So if any of y'all think I'm putting it on, I'm not. The multiple exclamation points etc. are just "me". Does this colorless style suit anyone better?!? I get the distinct feeling that I don't exactly fit in around here. So if even one person would like me to unsubscribe, then I will. I don't want to make a nuisance of myself. Kara. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:29:12 -0700 From: Beth Meyer Subject: Re: Alloy: Me again...but maybe I won't be here for much longer. Hi, Kara; Well, speaking strictly for myself, please stay! You might feel that some of your posts are met with a resounding silence, and that is like a moment at a party when everyone is staring at you (and not in a good way). Actually, the situation as I see it is more that you have stumbled into a party that has been going on so regularly for so long that everyone knows each other well and enjoys each other's company, but don't have much to say anymore. So the new invitee shares an insight, and the assembled old-timers nod their heads in agreement, occasionally go "Yep", and keep rocking in their rocking chairs in their comfortable quietness. I'm not sure what you mean by "this colorless style" though. It's your words and ideas that give your posts their color, so as long as they are there, the message is hardly colorless! (Oh, OK, maybe your first message this evening was colorless ;-)) - -Beth, one of the geezers "Kara R. Laidlaw" wrote: > > Hey, all. > > I just wanted to let you know, in case any of you were wondering, that my usual exuberant style is just the way I am. I write like that in my own journal, for heaven's sake! So if any of y'all think I'm putting it on, I'm not. The multiple exclamation points etc. are just "me". > > Does this colorless style suit anyone better?!? > > I get the distinct feeling that I don't exactly fit in around here. So if even one person would like me to unsubscribe, then I will. I don't want to make a nuisance of myself. > > Kara. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:39:08 -0800 From: Patrick McMillan Subject: Re: Alloy: Me again...but maybe I won't be here for much longer. Kara, Never change. You make me smile when I read your posts. Patrick On Feb 15, 2006, at 8:28 PM, Kara R. Laidlaw wrote: > > Hey, all. > > I just wanted to let you know, in case any of you were wondering, > that my usual exuberant style is just the way I am. I write like > that in my own journal, for heaven's sake! So if any of y'all think > I'm putting it on, I'm not. The multiple exclamation points etc. > are just "me". > > Does this colorless style suit anyone better?!? > > I get the distinct feeling that I don't exactly fit in around here. > So if even one person would like me to unsubscribe, then I will. I > don't want to make a nuisance of myself. > > Kara. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:15:31 +0000 From: Peter Adams Subject: Re: Alloy: Me again...but maybe I won't be here for much longer. On Thursday 16 Feb 2006 04:28, Kara R. Laidlaw wrote: > I just wanted to let you know, in case any of you were wondering, that my > usual exuberant style is just the way I am. I write like that in my own > journal, for heaven's sake! So if any of y'all think I'm putting it on, I'm > not. The multiple exclamation points etc. are just "me". > > Does this colorless style suit anyone better?!? Why are you posting this? Has someone been critical of your online personality? Or is it just paranoia? > I get the distinct feeling that I don't exactly fit in around here. So if > even one person would like me to unsubscribe, then I will. I don't want to > make a nuisance of myself. There will always be one person who will want you to unsubscribe. Maybe a lurker who feels bitter and wants to be destructive. I don't think anyone should leave a group because one single individual wants them to. There is another group i'm in where there is this guy... everyone hates him. He's the very definition of "jerk". He hangs around. He posts his mad conspiracy theories and attention seeking rants... it's got to the stage now where he's seen like some mad old dog that hangs around the faryard. You want to kick it and wish it would die but if it did you'd actually miss it. That's not you BTW. that's just me rambling because I haven't sleep in 30 hours. - -- Peter ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V11 #44 ***************************