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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: fyi - found Test For Echo, leading off with Half The World: (c) Rush Half The World Good one. I always liked his lyrics, he's a kindred spirit to me. I like his mix of science, spirituality and awe at nature. He seems as genuinely amazed about life and the world as when he was a kid. It's good to keep your eyes open like that. It's unusual to have the drummer writing lyrics and I always felt a bit sorry for the singer who has to get a catchy tune out of some of his more technical stuff like this: Freewill There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance A planet of playthings We dance on the strings Of powers we cannot perceive 'The stars aren't aligned Or the gods are malign...' Blame is better to give than receive You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear I will choose freewill There are those who think That they were dealt a losing hand The cards were stacked against them They weren't born in Lotusland All preordained A prisoner in chains A victim of venomous fate Kicked in the face You can pray for a place In heaven's unearthly estate Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet. And another good Christmas one. Time Stand Still I turn my back to the wind To catch my breath Before I start off again. Driven on without a moment to spend To pass an evening with a drink and a friend I let my skin get too thin I'd like to pause No matter what I pretend Like some pilgrim Who learns to transcend Learns to live as if each step was the end (Time stand still) I'm not looking back But I want to look around me now (Time stand still) See more of the people and the places that surround me now Freeze this moment a little bit longer Make each sensation a little bit stronger Experience slips away Experience slips away I turn my face to the sun Close my eyes Let my defences down All those wounds that I can't get unwound I let my past go too fast No time to pause If I could slow it all down Like some captain, whose ship runs aground I can wait until the tide comes around (Time stand still) I'm not looking back But I want to look around me now (Time stand still) See more of the people and the places that surround me now Freeze this moment a little bit longer Make each impression a little bit stronger Freeze this motion a little bit longer The innocence slips away The innocence slips away... Summer's going fast, nights growing colder Children growing up, old friends growing older Freeze this moment a little bit longer Make each sensation a little bit stronger Experience slips away Experience slips away... The innocence slips away That's from Hold your fire one of their best albums. Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway Half the world lives Half the world makes Half the world gives While the other half takes Half the world is Half the world was Half the world thinks While the other half does Half the world talks With half a mind on what they say Half the world walks With half a mind to run away Half the world lies Half the world learns Half the world flies As half the world turns Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half Half of us divided Like a torn-up photograph Half of us are trying To reach the other half Half the world cares While half the world is wasting the day Half the world shares While half the world is stealing away --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Power pop at its best - you've reminded me - I have a few Rush CDs and what a better band for Xmas?? Time to rock!! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Wow, it *does* sound defective - Refund! Yeah, I have quite a cassette collection too, mostly from 80's and 90's - REM, Rush, E. Costello, T. Heads, Bowie, etc. and, er, The Psychedelic Furs(!). The first four names there were among the things I downloaded before giving up, Rush have been my fave band since I was 14! And they're still going strong. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I bought one from Sandisk a couple years ago. The user interface is awful. What I did though was load my own music on it manually (not using the autosync function), and
[FairfieldLife] Re: Seasons greetings from Londinium...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Salyavin, Same to you, old chap! We're having a rather wet weather here in San Francisco, CA as well. But I like it better than the snow that I used to endure when I was in Seattle, WA. I love a bit of snow, it's so rare over here these days though. It doesn't like like we'll get any this holiday, nature is still paying it's debt from all the dry years we've had recently and most of the country is underwater. We have many reasons to celerate during this Christmas season. For one, the Mayan prophesy was wrong. And, we get live another cycle of the Mayan calendar count, hopefully. Further, I'm still looking for evidence of higher consiousness among our leaders here in the US. By the looks of it, they're about to lead the country over the fiscal cliff very soon, if they don't get their act together. Stay tuned. It sounds like a disaster is looming, or is it the press making a mountain out of a molehill? Difficult to tell from here. Cheers! JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: Merry Christmas y'all. Hope you are having a super time whatever you are doing and wherever you are. And that you get some traditional crimbo weather to remember rather than the warm rain we have here. I'm busy putting to the test the a new theory that too much chocolate isn't necessarily a good thing. I'm starting to suspect it will be proved correct. looks like the dog will be forced to endure another long walk in the woods or I won't have any room for tea and mince pies. Luckily she is the stoic type. I also hope you didn't get a Sony walkman MP3 player because mine is driving me nuts. It's got to be faulty as no human could design something so difficult to use unless they were seriously sadistic which doesn't sound like a good marketing strategy to me. I think the BBC must have believed the Mayan apocalypse prediction as they didn't bother making any thing worth watching and are instead broadcasting old episodes of Porridge and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Marvellous. Life could be a lot worse.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Seasons greetings from Londinium...
Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon:
1 laNDra (prob. fr. the French %{londres}) , London L. [:D]
L. = only in lexicons?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Seasons greetings from Londinium...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: I think the BBC must have believed the Mayan apocalypse prediction as they didn't bother making any thing worth watching and are instead broadcasting old episodes of Porridge and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Marvellous. Life could be a lot worse. Don't forget the Stephen Fry Gadget Man Christmas Special over on Channel 4.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Seasons greetings from Londinium...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: I think the BBC must have believed the Mayan apocalypse prediction as they didn't bother making any thing worth watching and are instead broadcasting old episodes of Porridge and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Marvellous. Life could be a lot worse. Don't forget the Stephen Fry Gadget Man Christmas Special over on Channel 4. Maybe he'll have advice on how to use a walkman, might save my day if not my sanity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Seasons greetings from Londinium...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: A walk with the dog, in the rain, through the woods on Christmas - sounds delightful. Â Merry Christmas to you in London. Â Thankyou Em, same to you wherever you are! The walk was super, I love the gloomy, dead mulchiness of midwinter, the dog grumbled a bit because I forgot to put her goretex coat on but once she found some wildlife to harass she perked up a bit. From: salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 8:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Seasons greetings from Londinium... Â Merry Christmas y'all. Hope you are having a super time whatever you are doing and wherever you are. And that you get some traditional crimbo weather to remember rather than the warm rain we have here. I'm busy putting to the test the a new theory that too much chocolate isn't necessarily a good thing. I'm starting to suspect it will be proved correct. looks like the dog will be forced to endure another long walk in the woods or I won't have any room for tea and mince pies. Luckily she is the stoic type. I also hope you didn't get a Sony walkman MP3 player because mine is driving me nuts. It's got to be faulty as no human could design something so difficult to use unless they were seriously sadistic which doesn't sound like a good marketing strategy to me. I think the BBC must have believed the Mayan apocalypse prediction as they didn't bother making any thing worth watching and are instead broadcasting old episodes of Porridge and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Marvellous. Life could be a lot worse.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Seasons greetings from Londinium...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 12/25/2012 08:23 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I'm busy putting to the test the a new theory that too much chocolate isn't necessarily a good thing. I'm starting to suspect it will be proved correct. looks like the dog will be forced to endure another long walk in the woods or I won't have any room for tea and mince pies. Luckily she is the stoic type. When I was on TTC back in the 70s my buddy had some Swiss Marriott dark chocolates and I've never found anything to compare in the US until now. Some of you probably recall Flicks chocolates. Maybe you bought some at the movies. They came in little round foil wrapped containers. They're back and this time they have a dark chocolate product that compares very well with those Swiss Marriott ones. I gave some of those for stocking stuffers this year and they went over very well. Flicks is a California company based out of Fresno. My favourite. http://www.hotelchocolat.co.uk/ Pricey but the crimble stuff will be on discount tomorrow. I wait poised with credit card at the ready I also hope you didn't get a Sony walkman MP3 player because mine is driving me nuts. It's got to be faulty as no human could design something so difficult to use unless they were seriously sadistic which doesn't sound like a good marketing strategy to me. Blame Sony engineering. And you wouldn't want to see what is under the hood. No, I wouldn't The build quality on the outside is bad enough but the website is not only pointlessly difficult to use all the downloads are just loans, so if your subscription lapses they all get deleted should you think about just downloading some during the trial period and then sneakily rejoining for a month and loading up some more on the cheap. Which was my cunning plan, they saw me coming that's for sure! I think the BBC must have believed the Mayan apocalypse prediction as they didn't bother making any thing worth watching and are instead broadcasting old episodes of Porridge and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Marvellous. Life could be a lot worse. I think we cable subscribers should get a discount for December. Most of the shows are on hiatus and reruns here too. Instead of paying production companies for episodes in December they use the money for executive bonuses. In fact probably viewer were so bored that they overloaded Netflix last night causing an outage. Luckily for us the old shows are much better than the new ones. To me anyway. I doubt Netflix will do BBC christmas specials but the two I mention above are classics, I've only seen them 20 times.
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I bought one from Sandisk a couple years ago. The user interface is awful. What I did though was load my own music on it manually (not using the autosync function), and looked at the directory structure of the mp3 player on my PC, so I could see where stuff was. Other than that, it has a great sound, good battery life and is so small I lose it from time to time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: I think the BBC must have believed the Mayan apocalypse prediction as they didn't bother making any thing worth watching and are instead broadcasting old episodes of Porridge and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Marvellous. Life could be a lot worse. Don't forget the Stephen Fry Gadget Man Christmas Special over on Channel 4. Maybe he'll have advice on how to use a walkman, might save my day if not my sanity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Seasons greetings from Londinium...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: I bought one from Sandisk a couple years ago. The user interface is awful. What I did though was load my own music on it manually (not using the autosync function), and looked at the directory structure of the mp3 player on my PC, so I could see where stuff was. Other than that, it has a great sound, good battery life and is so small I lose it from time to time. I've been told the sound is good but haven't got that far! The problem with mine is it won't stop charging even though it says full and as the only way you can do that is via USB it makes downloading *anything* rather difficult. I'm sure it's a fault but the software is bad enough to make me happy that it doesn't work! I've tried everything I can think of from reformatting, re-installing and it's going back to the shops tomorrow. I might exchange it for a stack of C90s and dig my tape deck out, you know where you are with the old ways. Sound better too. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: I think the BBC must have believed the Mayan apocalypse prediction as they didn't bother making any thing worth watching and are instead broadcasting old episodes of Porridge and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Marvellous. Life could be a lot worse. Don't forget the Stephen Fry Gadget Man Christmas Special over on Channel 4. Maybe he'll have advice on how to use a walkman, might save my day if not my sanity.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Seasons greetings from Londinium...
On 12/25/2012 10:49 AM, salyavin808 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 12/25/2012 08:23 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I'm busy putting to the test the a new theory that too much chocolate isn't necessarily a good thing. I'm starting to suspect it will be proved correct. looks like the dog will be forced to endure another long walk in the woods or I won't have any room for tea and mince pies. Luckily she is the stoic type. When I was on TTC back in the 70s my buddy had some Swiss Marriott dark chocolates and I've never found anything to compare in the US until now. Some of you probably recall Flicks chocolates. Maybe you bought some at the movies. They came in little round foil wrapped containers. They're back and this time they have a dark chocolate product that compares very well with those Swiss Marriott ones. I gave some of those for stocking stuffers this year and they went over very well. Flicks is a California company based out of Fresno. My favourite. http://www.hotelchocolat.co.uk/ Pricey but the crimble stuff will be on discount tomorrow. I wait poised with credit card at the ready Flicks has been around for over a century but just now moving into retail. This is often a sign that hip great-grandkid has taken over the business. For the promo the tubes were selling at 99 cents. http://www.flickscandy.com/ I also hope you didn't get a Sony walkman MP3 player because mine is driving me nuts. It's got to be faulty as no human could design something so difficult to use unless they were seriously sadistic which doesn't sound like a good marketing strategy to me. Blame Sony engineering. And you wouldn't want to see what is under the hood. No, I wouldn't The build quality on the outside is bad enough but the website is not only pointlessly difficult to use all the downloads are just loans, so if your subscription lapses they all get deleted should you think about just downloading some during the trial period and then sneakily rejoining for a month and loading up some more on the cheap. Which was my cunning plan, they saw me coming that's for sure! I think the BBC must have believed the Mayan apocalypse prediction as they didn't bother making any thing worth watching and are instead broadcasting old episodes of Porridge and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Marvellous. Life could be a lot worse. I think we cable subscribers should get a discount for December. Most of the shows are on hiatus and reruns here too. Instead of paying production companies for episodes in December they use the money for executive bonuses. In fact probably viewer were so bored that they overloaded Netflix last night causing an outage. Luckily for us the old shows are much better than the new ones. To me anyway. I doubt Netflix will do BBC christmas specials but the two I mention above are classics, I've only seen them 20 times. There are quite a few Christmas movies and TV specials on Netflix and they even have a Yule Log. And lots of Netflix gift cards were probably given out too. Players that hook up to the TV now are as low as $20. I've been trying to find Silent Night a comedy horror movie at the Redbox Kiosks of which I have about 10 in about a 3 mile radius. Not a one has that movie though it is listed online at kiosks outside that range and not renting either. My theory is that Redbox does not put all the new release except for big titles in all their Kiosks. I pay a buck for the DVD and online like on Vudu or Amazon will be $3.99 for DVD quality (HD available). Seattle and ex-Seattle folks may remember Malmo's Nursery which was a local chain of nurseries in Seattle. The son didn't want to be in the business so he started CoinStar (since banks were wanting a cut or didn't want your old coins at all) which was a success and then Redbox which has been even more sucessful. They are about to launch a streaming service.
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Wow, it *does* sound defective - Refund! Yeah, I have quite a cassette collection too, mostly from 80's and 90's - REM, Rush, E. Costello, T. Heads, Bowie, etc. and, er, The Psychedelic Furs(!). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I bought one from Sandisk a couple years ago. The user interface is awful. What I did though was load my own music on it manually (not using the autosync function), and looked at the directory structure of the mp3 player on my PC, so I could see where stuff was. Other than that, it has a great sound, good battery life and is so small I lose it from time to time. I've been told the sound is good but haven't got that far! The problem with mine is it won't stop charging even though it says full and as the only way you can do that is via USB it makes downloading *anything* rather difficult. I'm sure it's a fault but the software is bad enough to make me happy that it doesn't work! I've tried everything I can think of from reformatting, re-installing and it's going back to the shops tomorrow. I might exchange it for a stack of C90s and dig my tape deck out, you know where you are with the old ways. Sound better too. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: I think the BBC must have believed the Mayan apocalypse prediction as they didn't bother making any thing worth watching and are instead broadcasting old episodes of Porridge and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Marvellous. Life could be a lot worse. Don't forget the Stephen Fry Gadget Man Christmas Special over on Channel 4. Maybe he'll have advice on how to use a walkman, might save my day if not my sanity.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Seasons greetings from Londinium...
On 12/25/2012 11:36 AM, Bhairitu wrote: On 12/25/2012 10:49 AM, salyavin808 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 12/25/2012 08:23 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I'm busy putting to the test the a new theory that too much chocolate isn't necessarily a good thing. I'm starting to suspect it will be proved correct. looks like the dog will be forced to endure another long walk in the woods or I won't have any room for tea and mince pies. Luckily she is the stoic type. When I was on TTC back in the 70s my buddy had some Swiss Marriott dark chocolates and I've never found anything to compare in the US until now. Some of you probably recall Flicks chocolates. Maybe you bought some at the movies. They came in little round foil wrapped containers. They're back and this time they have a dark chocolate product that compares very well with those Swiss Marriott ones. I gave some of those for stocking stuffers this year and they went over very well. Flicks is a California company based out of Fresno. My favourite. http://www.hotelchocolat.co.uk/ Pricey but the crimble stuff will be on discount tomorrow. I wait poised with credit card at the ready Flicks has been around for over a century but just now moving into retail. This is often a sign that hip great-grandkid has taken over the business. For the promo the tubes were selling at 99 cents. http://www.flickscandy.com/ But having a chance to read the history section that's not the case. A Swiss-Danish immigrant bought the company which had been out of business since 1989. Hence probably why the dark chocolate is so good. BTW, my mother used to make chocolate drop cookies using Hershey's semi-sweet chocolate and would break off a piece and give to me. So I acquired a taste for dark chocolate at a young age.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Seasons greetings from Londinium...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: Wow, it *does* sound defective - Refund! Yeah, I have quite a cassette collection too, mostly from 80's and 90's - REM, Rush, E. Costello, T. Heads, Bowie, etc. and, er, The Psychedelic Furs(!). The first four names there were among the things I downloaded before giving up, Rush have been my fave band since I was 14! And they're still going strong. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I bought one from Sandisk a couple years ago. The user interface is awful. What I did though was load my own music on it manually (not using the autosync function), and looked at the directory structure of the mp3 player on my PC, so I could see where stuff was. Other than that, it has a great sound, good battery life and is so small I lose it from time to time. I've been told the sound is good but haven't got that far! The problem with mine is it won't stop charging even though it says full and as the only way you can do that is via USB it makes downloading *anything* rather difficult. I'm sure it's a fault but the software is bad enough to make me happy that it doesn't work! I've tried everything I can think of from reformatting, re-installing and it's going back to the shops tomorrow. I might exchange it for a stack of C90s and dig my tape deck out, you know where you are with the old ways. Sound better too. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: I think the BBC must have believed the Mayan apocalypse prediction as they didn't bother making any thing worth watching and are instead broadcasting old episodes of Porridge and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Marvellous. Life could be a lot worse. Don't forget the Stephen Fry Gadget Man Christmas Special over on Channel 4. Maybe he'll have advice on how to use a walkman, might save my day if not my sanity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Seasons greetings from Londinium...
Power pop at its best - you've reminded me - I have a few Rush CDs and what a better band for Xmas?? Time to rock!! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Wow, it *does* sound defective - Refund! Yeah, I have quite a cassette collection too, mostly from 80's and 90's - REM, Rush, E. Costello, T. Heads, Bowie, etc. and, er, The Psychedelic Furs(!). The first four names there were among the things I downloaded before giving up, Rush have been my fave band since I was 14! And they're still going strong. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: I bought one from Sandisk a couple years ago. The user interface is awful. What I did though was load my own music on it manually (not using the autosync function), and looked at the directory structure of the mp3 player on my PC, so I could see where stuff was. Other than that, it has a great sound, good battery life and is so small I lose it from time to time. I've been told the sound is good but haven't got that far! The problem with mine is it won't stop charging even though it says full and as the only way you can do that is via USB it makes downloading *anything* rather difficult. I'm sure it's a fault but the software is bad enough to make me happy that it doesn't work! I've tried everything I can think of from reformatting, re-installing and it's going back to the shops tomorrow. I might exchange it for a stack of C90s and dig my tape deck out, you know where you are with the old ways. Sound better too. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: I think the BBC must have believed the Mayan apocalypse prediction as they didn't bother making any thing worth watching and are instead broadcasting old episodes of Porridge and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Marvellous. Life could be a lot worse. Don't forget the Stephen Fry Gadget Man Christmas Special over on Channel 4. Maybe he'll have advice on how to use a walkman, might save my day if not my sanity.
