Re: [tuning] Digest Number 712

Paul-
A power failure nuked my server, and I had to rebuild it. It is
now finished and up, with a new Icecast and Red Hat Linux 6.2.
Unfortunately, I notice a distortion on some pieces when played with Real
Player (no other mp3 players I have tried have this problem). I will have
to go through the config files a bit and see if I can clear it up.
So try it out with Winamp at http://132.194.200.113:8000.

All-
BTW, "gay" is sometimes used in a different context by the very
young. I have heard my nieces friends use it as folks use "lame", which
also has PI connotations. An episode of the Simpsons featured the school
bully Nelson falling for Lisa, and when his gang discovered them kissing
on a date, one of them declared "That is sooo gay!" Perhaps Spooky is just
an ordinary lamer.

John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html

John Starrett wrote,

>So try it out with Winamp at http://132.194.200.113:8000.

I don't know if installing Winamp would help, but I still get "The page
cannot be displayed".

>BTW, "gay" is sometimes used in a different context by the very
>young. I have heard my nieces friends use it as folks use "lame", which
>also has PI connotations.

PI?

>An episode of the Simpsons featured the school
>bully Nelson falling for Lisa, and when his gang discovered them kissing
>on a date, one of them declared "That is sooo gay!"

Simpsons humor is sophisticated -- and "gay" does not simply mean "lame". In
this case the humor was in the irony of the fact that while associating with
girls is perceived as an unmasculine activity among pre-adolescent boys, and
gets greeted with an (intentional) accusation of homosexuality, the actual
activity in this case was a heterosexual one. Do you remember being 9?