From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 11, 2003
Probably MEANT to happen.
I had started out to just TRIM alt.slack down to the
most recent 200 or
so posts, but my finger slipped and the whole shebang
vanished, with no
undo.
AHHHH, YES, the HARVEST.
If I wanted to, I could retrieve all of everything posted
to this
newsgroup for the last YEAR, just from the server I
use, Giganews. And
I was working with a back-up alt.slack list anyway.
See, on my newsreader program, Thoth, I can make various
special
customized copies of sublists of the newsgroups I'm
interested in.
Generally I work with the Main One. If I read something
good, I copy it
into an archive for eventual permanent engraving on
SubSITE. After I've
read something, it doesn't reappear the next time I
look at the
newsgroup unless I want it to.
I have been a busy feller lately, basically trying to
keep up with the
editing of an unprecedented outburst of SubGenius creativity
all over
the Internet and also in Real Land. Let me put it this
way, I had to
buy the Church a TWO HUNDRED GIG hard drive. I'm burning
DVDs at the
rate I used to burn CDs. And I burn a dozen CDs a day.
Because of that and a string of live stage devivals
I haven't been
sociable in newsgroup land, and this month have barely
even been
reading. And much of alt.binaries.slack is still a mystery
to me this
month.
But on my Main Alt.Slack List, the number of UNREAD
POSTS had grown to
over 4,000. Again. (And this is after the killfiled
ninnies have
already been automatically removed!) There's no way
in hell I could
ever possibly catch up, and it takes WAY TOO FUCKING
LONG for those
4,000 posts to "come in," so to speak. So
I decided to mark the first
3,500 posts as having already been read... just trim
it down, less to
download and wade through.
Well, instead, I have KILLED (in a virtual sense) ALL
OF THE POSTS in
this one safety copy of my Main Working List -- which
still exists, but
will go into mothballs on some CDR, frozen in amber,
meaningless except
as a bunch of funny subject titles.
I WILL NEVER READ the wonderful hilarities of alt.slack
this whole
month. What a TERRIBLE TRAGEDY!!
And, to be even more cruel, I am going to finally finish
typing and
posting the logs of the last several Hours of Slack.
I have managed to
continue cranking out shows (or reruns!) on time, but
not the typed
logs. Nobody ASKED for the typed logs until the other
day, anyway. The
only reference I usually get to those are Nenslo's complaints
about
them. Although complaints from Nenslo are like snow
or rain or wind,
just a fact of life, nonetheless if that's all you ever
hear about your
Hour of Slack logs, you get less inclined to post them
in a big hurry.
They're just lists of file names really, but in their
working form
they're incomprehensible, except to me, so they have
to be translated.
So that the people who contribute audio to the show
can know whether or
not to bother to listen to an upcoming show.
Also, every line on those logs represents a discreet
audio file that
can be later re-edited into a different arrangement
with other pieces.
They could even be computer-arranged. For instance,
I could do a
computer search for every audio file with "BOB"
in the title that was
UNDER A CERTAIN SIZE, and VOILA I'd instantly have a
collage of short
clips all using "BOB". Same with other common
subject matters --
"Connie," "War," "X-Day,"
etc. In fact I did this very thing to the
Church ARTWORK files in order to create art montages
to go with songs
on those very subject matters.
And those videos are some of what I've been monkeying
with inside my
computer. I have about 10 projects all almost finished.
No lie.
Typical. This always happens just before Xmas and just
before X-Day.
And I haven't added A SINGLE ONE to the catalog OR THE
OTHER CATALOG!
But god damn, when I finally do pass that mighty load,
pitch that
humongous loaf, pinch off that giganto-grunt, will the
dial-up users of
alt.binaries.slack be sorry.
So anyway, here I am, with a FLESH BLANK SLATE of ALT.SLACK,
newly
erased, as if for a NEW YEAR. I might still not feel
like I have time
to READ all the precious throbbing prose on it, but
at least it won't
take so long to download.
(In truth I probably won't be able to resist going back
to look at some
of the older posts, because just before I disappeared
the whole list, I
saw that old-timers Dynasoar and Tarla had returned
from the Mists of
Time! MAH GAWD!!)
--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath
of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
PRABOB
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From: "Priestess Pisces" <priestesspisces@hotmail.com>
"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
wrote:
> Probably MEANT to happen.
>
> I had started out to just TRIM alt.slack down to
the most recent 200 or
> so posts, but my finger slipped and the whole shebang
vanished, with no
> undo.
>
> AHHHH, YES, the HARVEST.
Damnit, as is my newsserver sucks so bad i only get
50% of the posts.. the
you go and erase the whole damn newsgroup off the net.
Fucker.
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
ALSO SPRACH Rev. Ivan Stang:
after dr mister sister retires you should have him teach you SQL
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
> Losing your edge?
I don't even have a point.
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
ALSO SPRACH Rev. Ivan Stang:
>See, on my newsreader program, Thoth, I can make
various special
>customized copies of sublists of the newsgroups
I'm interested in.
>Generally I work with the Main One. If I read something
good, I copy it
>into an archive for eventual permanent engraving
on SubSITE. After I've
>read something, it doesn't reappear the next time
I look at the
>newsgroup unless I want it to.
ONE OF THESE DAYS
I'm going to write a tool to webify usenet posts, allowing
you to load
templates for laying them out and output html files,
you input an
article ID then it walks up the references chain and
pulls them all
off Google.
I've kinda started on it but projects like that have
a way of going
into limbo with me. I had this thing I absolutely positively
needed
to write while I was out of town last week and I STARTED
while getting
blind drunk on an airplane but didn't quite finish,
which then got
pushed behind two other more interesting ones that came
up, then all
of which got completely forgotten because that night
I had an
incredibly twisted and evil dream, spent three hours
that morning
writing out the details before I forgot them, and have
started
converting to a short story.
One of these days.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
> How to Good-Bye Depression : If You Constrict Anus
100 Times Everyday.
> Malarkey? or Effective Way?
> by Hiroyuki Nishigaki. I think constricting anus
100 times and denting
> navel 100 times in succession everyday is effective
to good-bye
> depression and take back youth.
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From: "Revi Shankar" <me@privacy.net>
That sounds cool. I'll bet http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html
has some madules you could use.
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From: mshotz@aol.commonkeypo (Rev. Richard Skull)
>I WILL NEVER READ the wonderful hilarities of alt.slack
this whole
>month. What a TERRIBLE TRAGEDY!!
Well here is what you missed....
Nenslo Hates everyone and everything
We called Nenslo all sorts of uncouth names.
We discussed how much the world sucks
I came up with a great idea for aVideo Game based on
the Texas Twosome, Lee
Harvey Oswald & Charles Whitman.
I found a great photo of a kid with intestinal worms coming out of his ass.
We read the posts leading up to and the afterwards of the Detroit Devival
And the rest was, as they say in Mad Magazine, The Usual Band of Idiots!
MSHOTZ: The Post Post Modern Man
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From: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
wrote:
> Probably MEANT to happen.
>> I had started out to just TRIM alt.slack down
to the most recent
200 or
> so posts, but my finger slipped and the whole shebang
vanished, with no
> undo.
You ARE the Master. Some of us have been diligently
trying to make it
go away for years, but YOU made it happen by ACCIDENT.
You're just one
big psychic electromagnet of Stangulism.
--
HellPope Huey
If you told trendmongering DUH-people
that drinking terrier pee right from the dog
gave you stronger bones,
there'd suddenly be a LOT of shriveled pooches
staggering around.
"'Average Joe' wrapped up last night."
" Aw, who gives a shit."
- "Tough Crowd"
"What a mean little turtle to not poop for us."
- Gary G'Broagfran
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Priestess Pisces <priestesspisces@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
wrote in message
> news:111220031258593196%stang@subgenius.com...
> > Probably MEANT to happen.
> >
> > I had started out to just TRIM alt.slack down
to the most recent 200 or
> > so posts, but my finger slipped and the whole
shebang vanished, with no
> > undo.
> >
> > AHHHH, YES, the HARVEST.
>
> Damnit, as is my newsserver sucks so bad i only
get 50% of the posts.. the
> you go and erase the whole damn newsgroup off the
net.
>
> Fucker.
And the nasty thing is, by this morning, less than a
day later, there
are 116 new posts... half of them crossposted by idiots
from the other
Fighting-Idiots newsgroups, as if the idiots here gave
a third of a
fuck about the other idiots over there.
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From: "Rev. ErRoR" <rev.error@ntlworld.spamcom>
Please stop these IDIOTIC posts
er.
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com> wrote:
> ALSO SPRACH Rev. Ivan Stang:
>
> >
> >Also, every line on those logs represents a
discreet audio file that
> >can be later re-edited into a different arrangement
with other pieces.
> >They could even be computer-arranged. For instance,
I could do a
> >computer search for every audio file with "BOB"
in the title that was
> >UNDER A CERTAIN SIZE, and VOILA I'd instantly
have a collage of short
> >clips all using "BOB". Same with
other common subject matters --
> >"Connie," "War," "X-Day,"
etc. In fact I did this very thing to the
> >Church ARTWORK files in order to create art
montages to go with songs
> >on those very subject matters.
>
> after dr mister sister retires you should have
him teach you SQL
I'm way ahead! Well, a few inches ahead, anyway. I have
installed an
entire automated section in SubSITE that's all PHP driven
forums, and
special interest boxes and little chat rooms and all
that, but, then
there's the question of MODERATING", or, in our
case, hosing out the
crap sure to be uploaded by saboteurs daily. So I have
kept it secret
so far, just an experimental chamber. Maybe someday
that'll someday be
the "ELITE" SubSITE/alt.slack, the one that
requires a subscription, or
at least a password, but has FEWER insipidly stupid
crossposts from
post-hole-brained drunks, manic depressive postmodernists,
or Insipid
Post Syndrome poster boys.
When iDRMRSR retires I'm going to ask him to teach me
RECLINING
TECHNIQUES OF THE SLACKMASTERS.
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com> wrote:
> ONE OF THESE DAYS
>
> I'm going to write a tool to webify usenet posts,
allowing you to load
> templates for laying them out and output html files,
you input an
> article ID then it walks up the references chain
and pulls them all
> off Google.
>
> I've kinda started on it but projects like that
have a way of going
> into limbo with me. I had this thing I absolutely
positively needed
> to write while I was out of town last week and
I STARTED while getting
> blind drunk on an airplane but didn't quite finish,
which then got
> pushed behind two other more interesting ones that
came up, then all
> of which got completely forgotten because that
night I had an
> incredibly twisted and evil dream, spent three
hours that morning
> writing out the details before I forgot them, and
have started
> converting to a short story.
>
> One of these days.
Oh. You're one of THOSE guys.
I know how it is.
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From: Reverend Vertigo <vertigo@nospam.invalid>
Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
> And, to be even more cruel, I am going to finally
finish typing and
> posting the logs of the last several Hours of Slack.
I have managed to
> continue cranking out shows (or reruns!) on time,
but not the typed
> logs. Nobody ASKED for the typed logs until the
other day, anyway. The
> only reference I usually get to those are Nenslo's
complaints about
> them. Although complaints from Nenslo are like
snow or rain or wind,
> just a fact of life, nonetheless if that's all
you ever hear about your
> Hour of Slack logs, you get less inclined to post
them in a big hurry.
The Hour of Slack wouldn't be the same for me without
the logs. I love the
logs. Often I don't bother listening to it unless I
have a log, a road map
through the SEETHING, ROILING CHAOS.
Personally, I like to be able to skip to a good bit,
or a bit I want to play
for a friend in a hurry. To that end I go through the
logs and add the
timings of each file. Like this:
1. 00.00 - 00.33 Lemur: HOS Intro E
2. 00.33 - 01.33 Cobblestone: On The Air1
3. 01.33 - 02.30 ESO RADIO 10-03-03i- World End; Big
Sleep
etc.
I've been doing this for all the Hours of Slack unleashed
since I GOT RIGHT
with "Bob" (#892 onward) and am about finished
with 'em.
It's a time consuming process since I do it by listening
to the Hour of
Slack in question and making a note of the time on the
Winamp display when
the file changes; adding up the times of the files only
works for the first
few tracks since the times are rounded/truncated to
the nearest second.
If anyone else gives a rat's ass, I'll post my backlog
here when I'm done
with it, and I'll start posting the "ENHANCED"
logs for new shows as I do 'em.
--
Dean for America
http://www.deanforamerica.com
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Rev. Richard Skull <mshotz@aol.commonkeypo> wrote:
> >I WILL NEVER READ the wonderful hilarities
of alt.slack this whole
> >month. What a TERRIBLE TRAGEDY!!
> >
> Well here is what you missed....
>
> Nenslo Hates everyone and everything
>
> We called Nenslo all sorts of uncouth names.
Perhaps there's a connection!
To be fair, Nenslo often provides helpful hints about
good books and
movies, and behaviors, and, while it often seems to
me really pretty
fucking STUPID for Nenslo to say the things he says
sometimes,
nonetheless, he's usually righter and funnier than those
calling him
names. I imagine he's wishing folks would come up with
better insults.
I would try, myself, but I'm chicken -- I know he'd
win, piercing
insult-wise.
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
Nenslo is as to outer space as outer space is to outer space.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
Look in a mirror all your life and you will see death
at work; like bees in a hive of glass
- Cocteau
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