From: Digestifier To: Subject: Dead-Flames Digest #556 Dead-Flames Digest #556, Volume #48 Wed, 12 Oct 05 01:00:02 PDT Contents: Re: (NDC) Attention Yankee fans (Kelly Humphries) Re: Oooh, attempting to do my first shn ("scarletbgonias@hotmail.com") "Presidential" fidgeting (NDC) ("band beyond description") Re: Oooh, attempting to do my first shn ("band beyond description") Re: MP3 vs. Lossless (this one may be easier to read) ("band beyond description") Re: A Conservative viewpoint.... (Seth Jackson) Re: who on rmgd would you like to meet? ("k sturm") Re: alternate to 11/70 Portchester Run for DP (Seth Jackson) Re: (NDC) Attention Yankee fans (Seth Jackson) Re: (NDC) Attention Yankee fans (Seth Jackson) (ndc) Ever Wonder.... (Walter Karmazyn) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kelly Humphries Subject: Re: (NDC) Attention Yankee fans Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:09:46 -0700 Also sprach DG : > I'm thinking that Jr might wind up on the Yanks. Why not? A-Rod, Tino, RJ and Luis Sojo helped beat the Yankees in the division series ten years ago, why not add Junior and make it completely impossible for NY to win in the playoffs in the forseeable future? And with Piniella as their manager, they would be assured of watching the Mets rub it in their faces. OK, I'm getting ahead of myself here. That was great, BTW, listening to Lou do the color commentary on TV tonight. And he knows that the fans in Seattle didn't want to see him go. Meanwhile, let's compare 1st-base-line interference calls. 1995: Joey Cora bunts, slides away from Mattingly and is... safe. Ends up scoring the tying run ahead of Junior, who above all else in his career is forever responsible for eliminating the Yankees in the playoffs. I lose my voice for a week. 2005: Robinson Cano swings and misses, runs to first and is...out. Yankees gone. Too bad. So sad. Tell it to Jeffrey Maier. ------------------------------ From: "scarletbgonias@hotmail.com" Subject: Re: Oooh, attempting to do my first shn Date: 11 Oct 2005 22:13:53 -0700 Holy Crap does this Other One sound wonderful. What a wonderful tune to lay my weary head down to (been up since 5AM). Good night rmgd. On a completely other thread note, BOOIE, what about that SKB on 10/31 at Mexicali Blues in Teaneck? Sushi???? I'll drive. ------------------------------ From: "band beyond description" <123@456.com> Subject: "Presidential" fidgeting (NDC) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:12:40 +0900 bc-bush-sketch (wap) (ATTN: National editors) //For President Under Duress, Body Language Speaks Volumes// (Washn) By Dana Milbank (c) 2005, The Washington Post WASHINGTON It's only 6:17 a.m. Central time, and President Bush is already facing his second question of the day about Karl Rove's legal troubles. ``Does it worry you,'' NBC's Matt Lauer is asking him at a construction-site interview in Louisiana, that prosecutors ``seem to have such an interest in Mr. Rove?'' Bush blinks twice. He touches his tongue to his lips. He blinks twice more. He starts to answer, but he stops himself. ``I'm not going to talk about the case,'' Bush finally says after a three-second pause that, in television time, feels like a commercial break. Only the president's closest friends and family know (if anybody does) what he's really thinking these days, during Katrina woes, Iraq violence, conservative anger over Harriet Miers, and legal trouble for Bush's top political aide and two congressional GOP leaders. Bush has not been viewed up close; as he took his eighth post-Katrina trip to the Gulf Coast Tuesday, the press corps has accompanied him only once, because the White House says logistics won't permit it. Even the interview on the ``Today'' show was labeled ``closed press.'' But this much could be seen watching the tape of NBC's broadcast during Bush's 14-minute pre-sunrise interview, in which he stood unprotected by the usual lectern. The president was a blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts. Bush has always been an active man, but standing with Lauer and the serene, steady first lady, he had the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere. The fidgeting clearly corresponded to the questioning. When Lauer asked if Bush, after a slow response to Katrina, was ``trying to get a second chance to make a good first impression,'' Bush blinked 24 times in his answer. When asked why Gulf War residents would have to pay back funds but Iraqis would not, Bush blinked 23 times and hitched his trousers up by the belt. When the questioning turned to Miers, Bush blinked 37 times in a single answer along with a lick of the lips, three weight shifts and some serious foot jiggling. Laura Bush, by contrast, delivered only three blinks and stood still through her entire answer about encouraging volunteerism. Perhaps the set itself made Bush uncomfortable. He and his wife stood in casual attire, wearing tool belts, in front of a wall frame and some Habitat for Humanity volunteers in hard hats. ABC News noted cheekily of its rival network's exclusive: ``He did allow himself to be shown hammering purposefully, with a jejune combination of cowboy swagger and yuppie self-consciousness.'' Perhaps, too, the president's body language said nothing about his true state of mind. But the White House gave little other information that might shed light on this. A White House spokesman, Trent Duffy, entered the press cabin on Air Force One to brief reporters at 1:58 p.m. He left two minutes later, after answering the only question by saying, ``We don't have anything to announce.'' The one newspaper reporter allowed to travel with Bush as part of the White House's ``pool'' system reported back to her colleagues after the ``Today'' event: ``we were at a distance and could not hear what was being said (a theme of the day).'' Other than the ``Today'' appearance, Bush delivered a one-minute talk to military recovery workers (``I'm incredibly proud of the job you have done'') and a two-minute statement outside a school (``out of the rubble here on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi is a rebuilding''). Certainly, Bush retained many of the gestures that work well for him: the purposeful but restrained hand gestures, the head-tilted smile of amusement and the easy laugh. But he seemed to lose control of the timing. He smiled after observing that Iraqis are ``paying a serious price'' because of terrorism. As Lauer went through his introduction, the presidential eyes zoomed left, then right, then left and right again, then center, down and up at the interviewer. The presidential fidgeting spiked when Lauer mentioned the Democratic accusation that Bush was performing a ``photo op.'' Bush pushed out his lower front lip, then licked the right corner of his mouth. Lauer's query about whether conservatives ``are feeling let down by you'' appeared to provoke furious jiggling of the right leg. Bush joked about his state of mind when Lauer asked Laura Bush about the strain on her husband. ``He can barely stand!'' the president said, interrupting. ``He's about to drop on the spot.'' But the first lady had a calming influence on the presidential wiggles. When Laura Bush spoke about her husband's ``broad shoulders,'' the president put his arm around her and the swaying and shifting subsided. The president, now on more comfortable terrain, delivered a brief homily about ``the decency of others'' and ``how blessed we are to be an American.'' Through the entire passage, he blinked only 12 times. ------------------------------ From: "band beyond description" <123@456.com> Subject: Re: Oooh, attempting to do my first shn Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:14:15 +0900 "Kelly Humphries" wrote in message news:uo5pk1hnvikkcgjf6nkpk5lcba3a7ec5v2@4ax.com... > Also sprach scarletbgonias: > > > I'm a good ole' Roman Catholic Irish Girl, no sins over heah > > Catholic ... school girls rule! > > Catholic ... school girls rule! "Catholic girls, at the CYO"...(Frank Zappa) -- Peace, Steve ------------------------------ From: "band beyond description" <123@456.com> Subject: Re: MP3 vs. Lossless (this one may be easier to read) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:22:52 +0900 bc-digital-music (wap) (ATTN: Lifestyle, Tech editors) //Digital Music Files Trade Quality for Size// By Michael Tedeschi Special to The Washington Post 10/6/05 You may not have realized that the song playing through the earbuds of your MP3 player is a lower-quality, digitally compressed version of the original recording. But try playing that same MP3 file on a high-end home stereo system and you'll likely hear some hisses and snaps and pops in the music even if you bought it from a download service such as iTunes or ripped it from your own copy of the original CD. MP3 music files, much like the Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) formats, are created by removing some of the undetectable data in the music track through a process known as ``lossy compression.'' What that means is the track has been reduced to about one-tenth of its original size, which makes for faster downloads and allows thousands of songs, instead of hundreds, to fit on a portable player. So, what's a music aficionado to do when he or she wants the best of both worlds: high-quality music and portability? Actually, there are a few options. The latest comes from a Nevada company that last week launched Musicgiants.com, a music download service designed for those folks who want high-quality digital music tracks. For a $50 annual membership fee, users can download high-quality tracks for $1.29 each a bit more than the 99 cents that iTunes and others are charging for a single track but much higher in quality. The average music file available via Napster, iTunes, Rhapsody and others is compressed to anywhere from 128 kilobits per second to 192 kbps. The files available on Musicgiants.com are compressed in a range from 470 kbps to 1,100 kbps. Even if you don't know what a kilobit is, you can understand that the higher the number of kilobits, the better the sound quality. Because higher-fidelity formats produce files approximately half the space of the CD track but are still substantially larger than an average MP3, the tracks downloaded through Musicgiants.com are ideal for someone who has made the investment in a home stereo, said company chief executive Scott Bahneman. It's not a bad way to go. But there are other ways of maintaining the superior quality of original recordings and still reduce the file size on a computer: using file formats known as ``lossless,'' an industry buzzword for files that preserve songs without compacting them so much. Those formats include Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), Shorten, Apple Lossless, and Windows Media Audio Lossless. In a test, all of these provided perfect reproductions of such recordings as Pachelbel's Canon, Nora Jones's runaway hits and some seminal Bruce Springsteen. The Shorten format has been around for a while and requires users to perform several steps to create files from a CD that most of the other high-fidelity file creation tools automate. Be careful, though, as some of the software may intimidate all but the geekiest music lovers. For more about Shorten, visit www.softsound.com/Shorten.html. FLAC is an ``open-source'' format, which means that anyone can use it for free, and that has led to a number of free software titles becoming available. Visit flac.sourceforge.net to experiment with some of these titles. Anyone who is familiar with CD ripping and burning tools made by companies such as Nero and Roxio should be comfortable with FLAC software. Most of the software for creating FLAC files also provides straightforward tools for converting songs into more compact formats. This is useful for those interested in storing their music with superior sound quality on a computer but want the flexibility to create smaller copies of some tracks for loading onto portable players. The Windows Media Lossless and Apple Lossless formats work a bit better because the format options are built into Windows Media Player and iTunes, but not every version. An update may be necessary. Users will also need to venture into the program to adjust settings. In most cases, you'll want to head into the Options or Preferences windows (under the Tools menu in most Windows programs) and adjust the rate or format for importing music. When you're done, you will have paved the way for new music to be imported as a less-compressed format, without extra manipulation after the download. Audio purists who have high-capacity portable music players could take this route instead, skipping the low-fidelity formats such as MP3 completely and storing the high-quality versions on their players, a space-chewing but sonically rewarding option. ------------------------------ From: Seth Jackson Subject: Re: A Conservative viewpoint.... Reply-To: hitmeister .at. mindspring .dot. com Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:38:10 GMT Classic ad hominem. Next time, try addressing the content of the article instead of attacking the author. On 11 Oct 2005 08:14:43 -0700, "Sparky the Wonder Dog" wrote: >Paul Craig Roberts is a "paleoconservative", not only against >neoconservatives on policy grounds but also due to his absorption of >"nativism"--when Roberts says Anglo-American he is pretty darn literal >about that Anglo-bit, for which you can read non-Jewish Caucasian. His >abhorence of what he perceives as a non-American (religiously, >politically, and ethnically) subversion of the originalist American >constitutional foundations by an arriveste Zionist cabal willing to >open up America's porous borders to the barbarian horde in exchange for >propping up the ZOG-toy Israel, has lately inspired a profoundly >libertarian understanding of civil liberties, at least when used to >defend the actions of anti-Zionist stalwarts such as Lynne Stewart's >client, who used, prosectors alleged, Ms. Stewart not only for legal >representation but for operational assistance in hooking up with his >cell network on the far side of the prison walls. > >Mr. Robert's rhetorical solicitude for Islamic radicalism's >determination to free the Middle East from the boot of the ZIonist >oppressor by any means necessary cannot, unfortunately, salvage >"attorney-client priviledge" from the determination of radical >attorneys to step outside of their legally defined function to play >consigliere for wannabe terrorists. Nor can it completely obscure the >anti-immigration ethnic valorism of paleoconservative theology. ------------------------------ From: "k sturm" Subject: Re: who on rmgd would you like to meet? Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:43:05 GMT "Neil X." wrote in message news:1129090097.624960.129930@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > >> Kurt asked: >> >> OK folks, who on rmgd would you like to meet? > > > I've been fortunate enough to meet nearly two dozen RMGDers, and > without exception, it has been a pleasure to get to know them. RMGDers > I've met include Ray Lee, Nick Georges, booie, leftie, Dave Kelly, Joe > Kohn, Walter Karmazyn, Tom K., Sue Weiand, Scratchie, Ted Thomas, Andy > Gefen, Volkfolk, brew ziggins, Ratdog Tim, Matt/Wyenot, Mark/Rogue > Island's Finest, Pam, Ira. The Iron Muffin will soon be added to the > list. I almost met Jeff/frndthedevl, but a nasty flu (mine) > intervened. > > As for who I still would like to meet, well, I'd like to meet a lot > more of y'all. I've traded or B&P's with so many folks here--Kathy, > Theresa, JC, Sean, Olo, ecocats, Steve Lenier, Garry Bryan, Bzl, Steve > Terry, Richard Morris, rcb. I'd love to meet all of these folks. I'm > a Chicago native, so I am of course especially interested in taking in > a sermon at the Chuich...... > > Peace, > Neil X. > Well as long as we're hiring a bus to take us to San Francisco, why don't we make it a real party and all go? ------------------------------ From: Seth Jackson Subject: Re: alternate to 11/70 Portchester Run for DP Reply-To: hitmeister .at. mindspring .dot. com Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:44:20 GMT On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:23:41 -0700, "Andrew Murawa" wrote: >"Sparky the Wonder Dog" wrote in message >news:1128975674.500710.324870@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... >> As an alternative to the 11/70 Portchester run at the Capitol Theater, >> how about the 2/71 Capitol Theater run? (2/18-2/24 or thereabouts). > >Most overrated run evah! IMHO... You beat me to it. ------------------------------ From: Seth Jackson Subject: Re: (NDC) Attention Yankee fans Reply-To: hitmeister .at. mindspring .dot. com Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:50:58 GMT On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:47:56 -0700, DG wrote: >Kelly Humphries wrote: >> >>http://www.speakeasy.net/~kpisces/haha.wav > > >Most Yanks fans realize this was an underachieving bunch. The won the >division but didn't finish ahead of Anaheim. Actually, there's a pretty good case to be made that the Yanks *overachieved* this year. Yeah, they had a high payroll, but what does that matter when management is throwing money away on stiffs like Carl Pavano, Jaret Wright, and Kevin Brown? Their entire starting rotation lost significant time to injury, then the surprising rookie sensation they brought up to fill in also lost 2 months. The team had dead wood at the bottom of the order, no defense in the outfield, and no bench. Basically, the team had 5 great hitters, one of whom sucked for the first 2 months of the season. Talk about a one-dimensional squad. And yet, they won the division and went to Game 5 of the ALDS. ------------------------------ From: Seth Jackson Subject: Re: (NDC) Attention Yankee fans Reply-To: hitmeister .at. mindspring .dot. com Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:57:20 GMT On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:01:44 -0400, wyeknot wrote: >That's exactly correct. Claiming the Yankees "screwed up" rather than >admitting the obvious (flawed team, Angels beat 'em fair and square) is >kind of pathetic. Not suprising I suppose given the (relatively) long >drought in their post-season success yet with a ballooning payroll. I suggest that, rather than being despite the ballooning payroll, the lack of post-season success is *because of* the balloning payroll. Steinbrenner, fool that he is, has learned nothing in all the years he's owned the team. Gene Micheal understood the formula for building a winner, and he put together the dynasty of the late '90s. So, what does George do? Banishes Michael from the front office and abandons the strategy that won them all the championships. Way to go, George! ------------------------------ From: Walter Karmazyn Subject: (ndc) Ever Wonder.... Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:36:30 -0700 What 2,000 dead soldiers look like? http://tinyurl.com/b7vp4 This is like a 9 meg download, modems be forewarned. Music by Pink Floyd, lies by Bush & Co. 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