briefly, the new boards of canada (skam) is just incredible makeout music;
almost every track (except for nlogix) is really sensuous electronic funk,
without the fromage. i plan to make good use of this record on a wet,
rainy night with the perfect mate . . . 9/10
on the other hand, the autechre keynell remix was slightly disappointing.
the first side is good, though lengthy, with a nice beaty motif that runs
for a couple minutes, jumps to the babble scratching from E1 of the
original gescom release, and returns to the motif to close it up. the
second side is a slow, plodding song that i would use for a love scene,
were i to shoot a film with such a scene. it goes on a bit too long for
my taste, but i give credit to autechre for remixing a track which can't
be traced back (easily) to the original gescom track. i'd say 6/10 but
since they had to remix songs from a brilliant ep to start with, my hopes
were higher than they should have been. ergo, 7/10. qed.
obnonIDM: speaking as one who has written a number of non-personal web
pages, let me just make a quick comment: if you have to balance school and
work with writing a page for a student group that requires constant
rewriting and updating, you must decide how you're going to allocate your
time. i have two versions for this page, one with frames, and one without
and with minimal graphics. i will tell you right now that i would rather
(and i do) spend more time on the framed page, which gives a better
interface and a more professional look. as a matter of personal pride i
write a page for a browser which gives the best, most consistent looking
and easily codable page. this is netscape, hands down, but the point is
that if you're not getting paid to do a page, and you don't have unlimited
time/resources on your hands, you have to make a decision. the people who
code the browsers have decided to go ahead with their own html
"standards"; it's a shitty situation that doesn't benefit everyone, but
that's the reality. face up to it, and if you code, make a choice and
live with it. don't give people a hard time because they don't write a
page for lynx (!), mosaic (!!), or aol (no comment) browsers. evolve to
netscape, folks.
thanks, and a cool yule to all of ye,
alex
Alexander ("Alex" will do nicely) Peter Reynolds
polygon@jhu.edu
http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~polygon
http://www.jhu.edu/~jhufilm
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Senior User Consultant
Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Campus
Baltimore, MD USA