Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Rocket scientists are a dime a dozen.. software is where the action is.

As an unrelated aside, I should apologize for losing all the user names that registered since the last backup. Bummer dude!

OK. I will admit it. I don't know what you are talking about. It may have been lost in the Great Board Crash of '04.

What is a hobnob? What is a Mike Doughty and where is Starr Hill?

Is this all legal?

A Shop-Vac is a very handy thing indeed. They work great on hardwood floors. And they can't be beat for vacuuming cars. We have one which is also a leaf blower. We don't use it that way often but it was handy when inflating a swimming pool for the kids. Don't forget to make sure it is wet/dry. One t...

Wish Mrs S and I could be there but the company Christmas party is the same night so we can't.

I have most if not all of Joe Jackson's US original releases (few collections) including the 7 and 10" inch editions of the first two LPs. I haven't found much of his that I don't like including Jumpin' Jive and the instrumental work. I really liked his work on the Mike's Murder soundtrack. I w...

This is a shameless plug... Just a note to let you know that we are in the process of setting up links to shopping sites like Amazon (US and UK), CD-Now and any others that you might suggest. If you have some Internet site in particular you plan to do some serious shopping, please let myself or Mrs ...

Ahhh Mrs S... you make me blush... Everyone.. I have setup a "Dynamic DNS" name for the site which will work even if the cable company changes the IP address. You should be able to get here as: http://ecfans.dyndns.org If it all works as it claims, our hardware firewall/router will update ...

Thanks for the platonic smooches.

And thanks for tripping it so I got an email that the topic had been posted to. I don't know whether people will have to recheck that or not. It definitely works if you check it now though.

What do you think of all the nice logos?

I just started watching this topic.. let's see if I get email when I post.

Thanks to Mrs S, I was able to login remotely and restore the old avatars.

Spooky just pointed out ot me that no one has avatars. Let me
get home and see what I can do about it. I have eithe rnot restored
them or the board is configured to look in the wrong place.

Hi All, As you know, the site was broken into on November 27. Since that time, I have worked to restore a September backup and rehost the site on another computer that is dedicated solely to hosting The Fan Forum. This has some nice advantages. We now have no limits on bandwidth or disk space consum...

Speaking of food and graduate school. Right after I got my PhD, I taught a graduate class. On the day instructor evaluations were handed out, Spooky made brownies for the class and sent them with me. Needless to say, I got nice evaluations. :D I can still remember doing just about anything for a fre...

You're telling me!!! I love my Spooky 40 year old hottie.

I just wanted to wish my very own Spooky Girlfriend a very special 40th birthday. It is an understatement to say that she means the world to me. Although married only 8 years, we have known each other over 20 and been through a lot together. She really is my soulmate. Since it is Monday, today is a ...

I don't know about everyone but The Man's music is a nice romantic background in the Spooky household.

Spooky and I were lucky enough to be at two of the Memphis HiTone shows back in April. I look forward to a nice CD with those songs arriving in our CD player.

Professional computer nerd of the PhD sort.

Thick glasses are no longer needed thanks to LASIK.

I am sure you all will probably have noticed before you read this but I just modified the page header to show a list of the users in chat room. Hopefully this will make it easier to hookup.

Man Called Uncle was used to introduce a John Kerry segment on David Letterman tonight. Congrats to Brilliant Mistake who managed to start a thread on it in the minutes it took me to confirm the short piece was Man Called Uncle.

()*&&%^)( IT! I can't believe that you beat me to posting this.

But what's the connection between Kerry and Man Called Uncle?

Happy Birthday to THE MAN! It seems like just yesterday that I first saw a review of an EC LP in a Scholastic newsletter like Weekly Reader. That was either in the 6th or 7th grade back in the late 70s. He has been a constant in my musical life ever since. I can't imagine EC using the AARP discount ...

Spooky has posted some about the car that that ended up on its side on our front lawn. My EC when you least expect him moment came yesterday. I was on hold with their insurance company with the elevator music version of "Everyday I Write the Books". Is there any meaning to this? How should...

Spooky now has Green Shirt as a ring tone on her phone.

I also came across "The Bad MIDI Museum" at http://littleitaly.fortunecity.com/vatican/791/midi.htm. Check out that barely recognizable Smoke on the Water.

I have listened to a LOT of MIDIs the past day or so. I am just about convinced that music that was electronic or had that late 70s/early 80s keyboard sound is the best sounding. AC/DC and Queen seems to suck on phones. If it had a bass line, it seems to suck. I found a Rock Me Amadeus that sounded ...