From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V13 #3 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 Friday, January 23 2009 Volume 13 : Number 003 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: I know I'm not the only geek here... [Merujo Subject: Re: Alloy: I know I'm not the only geek here... On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Mary Brown wrote: > > who watches Jeopardy! I was floored last week to see the category "Poetry > in Motion" next to "We Blinded You With Science!". I suspect that the > folks > who write the answers are our contemporaries because I've seen a few > Crowded > House ones as well. Nice to see the publicity! Now everyone keep your > fingers crossed that I do well on the test to qualify to be a contestant on > the 29th! What a total hoot! I'm sorry I missed that. Of course, my perception of Jeopardy! is forever colored by SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy! (go, twisted Sean Connery!) Trebek is here once a year to host our geography bee, and I've seen in the cafeteria a few times. I have to fight the urge to say "Suck it, Trebek" a la Connery. I like my job too much to do it. ;) I tried to qualify for Jeopardy! once, but I failed miserably. A friend of mine appeared on the show (she insanely dyed her hair the color of a Smith Bros. cherry cough drop for the occasion) and lost everything on a question about a former U.S. secretary of state. Very embarrassing, since she's a foreign service officer. > > I also saw TMDR briefly when I was watching a show about the US festival on > Encore. He introduced it which was apleasant surprise. I wonder when he > did it because it looked fairly recent. Anyone know if there are plans to > release a DVD of the concert? The show is really frustrating because Mark > Goodman talks over the performances by my favorite bands like Oingo Boingo > and The English Beat. He shuts up for Divinyls and Missing Persons. Think > he's mesmerized by the female singers? > I was living under a rock back when this happened, and, in fact, I don't even remember knowing/hearing about it then. Just call me Clueless in Moline, Illinois. I'm going to have to look it up to see who all the performers were. Did TMDR play on the bill? Just heard this morning that one of my very favorite people here at NatGeo, Sylvia Earle, will be speaking at TED. She's one of the winners of the 2009 TED Prize, and she's on a mission to save our planet's oceans. Sylvia is a total ball of inspiration, and I love it when she swings by my office to talk. (Last year I wrangled a bunch of money to publish her new volume, Ocean: An Atlas - cool book, kids.) At a White House event two years back, she so inspired Dubya with her stories of how we could change the course of our oceanic future, he ignored his other guests for almost two hours (much to Laura's irritation, apparently) and then declared several marine sanctuaries a week later, as a result. He also dubbed Sylvia "Doc" which horrifed and amused her. I like to do my really awful Dubya impression and call her Doc when she comes by. Also at TED this year: Regina Spektor and Herbie Hancock. Very cool! Cheers from the ice-pack and Vicodin zone, Melissa www.merujo.com - -- "Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages." -- Malcolm Gladwell ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V13 #3 **************************