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Thursday, January 27. 2011Rafale #14
Le Rafale #14 est sorti.
C'est merveilleux. C'est comme un bébé cadavre qui ressort du bercueil. Sunday, January 16. 2011Rafale appelle papiers
Basically French ezine Rafale is giving a call for papers since some times.
That's not a computing stuffs zine, much more like a poisoning people zine. Well, no, as it counts as drugs. But there are interesting stuffs indeed. Don't miss it if you speak French: -> CFP Rafale #14 <- And here is a gopherspace with interesting stuffs and articles and ezines: gopher://isisunveiled.no-ip.org/ New files every day.
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Friday, January 7. 2011Mon Gros Bénédictin
« Deschamps est un faux méconnu, un faux inconnu.
Il n'a été que trop connu, que trop redouté. Il fut, dix année durant, refoulé par les forces dominantes de l'Encyclopédie pour lesquelles sa doctrine et ses écrits représentent un danger vital. En plein triomphe du dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des techniques, Deschamps appelle une société future qui n'aura besoin ni de savants, ni de poètes, ni d'ingénieurs et qui se passera de toute économie concertée. Deschamps forge l'expression de « siècle des demi-lumières » qu'il attache au cou des « philosophes ». Il s'est voulu hors cadre. L'actualité le lui a bien rendu en l'ignorant. » Dom Deschamps : le maître des maîtres du soupçon par André Robinet, page 10, éditions Vrin. (il est évident qu'André Robinet n'est que la réincarnation de Jean-Baptiste-René Robinet qui a tourné sa veste. on tourne tous nos vestes en nous réincarnant. c'est arrivé à Klaus Dinger, qui s'est réincarné par erreur en l'un des membres du groupe Be Wiz'U alors que celui-ci était dans le coma, par erreur je vous dis, il visait quelqu'un d'autre. vous verrez quand vous serez une âme solitaire. dans les limbes et ailleurs. et puis, il a oublié ce qu'il avait été. il est quelqu'un d'autre, maintenant. ça nous arrivera à tous. c'est triste, je sais.) Dom Deschamps tenait correspondance avec Rousseau, dont la contribution à l'Encyclopédie se limita à ce qui devint plus tard son Dictionnaire de musique, et ils voulaient bien se voir mais la maladie du pauvre Rousseau les en empêcha. C'est vrai que ça fait bien, une correspondance de soi-même avec Rousseau devant votre texte à vous. J'avais payé, un jour, le tome deux des Œuvres Philosophiques encore aux éditions Vrin en pensant acheter les deux tomes, mais si l'on ne veut lire qu'une partie de la correspondance Rousseau-Dom Deschamps ça se passe là. Lettres 70 et 72. Un jour, je suis allée à la librairie Kléber et ai demandé à un type s'il avait, ou s'il était possible, de commander du dom Deschamps. Il a cherché, il a cherché, et c'était impossible de commander. Il a dit qu'il chercherait encore. Je suis revenue beaucoup plus tard, le même type, je lui ai demandé la même chose. « Quoi ? » « dom Deschamps. » Il a levé les yeux (vers moi) et sursauté et bégayé. C'était super-marrant. Une nana de ma classe d'alors pensait que je lisais un livre sur les églises à cause du tout petit logo des éditions Vrin quand elle m'a demandé de lui montrer le livre. « Elle lit un livre sur les églises ! » Et tout le monde était silencieux. La honte.
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Anniversaire de Charles Addams : ébauche de biographie ; semble complète, ne l'est pas.Joyeux anniversaire, Charles Addams. Charles Samuel Addams est né un dimanche 7 Janvier 1912, à Westfield, dans le New Jersey, fils du mariage de Grace M. Spears (1879 - 1943) et de Charles Huey Addams (1873 - 1932), ancien architecte naval devenu manager dans une entreprise de réparation ou de fabrication de pianos (?). Références et choses intéressantes :
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Thursday, January 6. 2011Nevermore!
Almost called that like the series of posts presumably on Addams, or in commemoration of him, but yeah.
Most of these articles have low correlation with him, poor dude being most known for his cartoons' adaptations than him or his cartoons. i'd show you that one Chas' cartoon with Poe thinking of possible animal saying "Nevermore!" but Addams' estate don't want these to go all over the Internet or something. Will I be in big troubles if I made some ASCII art out of it and posted it on my Gopherspace? Thought it'd interest people not in the know that John Astin played Edgar Allan Poe. Addams liked Poe much and here I am talking of Charles Addams in an article speaking not of him ; Astin said in Addams Family: An Evilution that everybody always do the Theme of the Original Series whenever he says he played Gomez. It's also him who played Professor Mortimer Grangreen in all these stories about killer tomatoes (think of it!) and Nelson Halliwell, director of a theatrical adaptation of Hamlet, in Tales of the Crypt's Top Billing (E05S03) episode, which got him nominated for an Ace Award. So, John Astin played Edgar Allan Poe, in Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight, being the only actor, a play directed by Alan Bergmann, written by Paul Day Clemens and Ron Magid, which music was written by Ian Freebairn-Smith and, evidently, unhappily,the play tour ended in 2004. Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight told you Poe's life through Poe's eyes, with lot of citations. Can't buy it anywhere! Not even the script! Still, its website is interesting: www.astin-poe.com "I feel that Poe, through his own tortured existence, gained deep insight into the nature of the universe, along with an intense love and appreciation for life itself. Through this play I want to share that impression with others." -- John Astin Or as we, french people, might say: « Je sens que Poe, à travers son existence torturée, a gagné une vision profonde de la nature de l'univers, ainsi qu'un amour intense et une appréciation pour la vie elle-même. À travers cette pièce je veux partager cette impression avec d'autres. » -- John Astin. Isn't that right everything is way cooler in French?
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Monday, January 3. 2011Charles Addams' birthday minus Four : pinball![]() Again, an article on the Addams Family. I'd like to speak of less-known Chas' cartoons, still, and those ones with extra-terrestrials. And these episodes of TV-shows The Addams Family, The New Addams Family as well as the animated TV cartoons where there are extra-terrestrials. Shit! ![]() The Addams Family flipper has been manufactured and produced in March 1992 by Midway Games, Inc. (once Midway Manufacturing, the people behind Mortal Kombat, now in bankruptcy) one year after they absorbed WMS Industries Inc.'s video games division, who got in 1988 from Bally Technologies the right to use the brandname Bally as they bought the Bally/Midway Manufacturing division dedicated to pinball; that's for all theses reasons that The Addams Family got produced under the brand Bally. With Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston (Gomez and Morticia in 1991 The Addams Family movie) voice-over, designed and programmed by Patrick M. Lawlor (designing), Larry DeMar (designing and programming, co-designer of arcade game Defender with Eugene Jarvis and of Jack*Bot with Barry Oursler and Jim Patla) and Mike Boon (programming) while John Krutsch (Jack*Bot, The Twillight Zone) was filling the technicals as well mechanicals needs and aspects. The music was composed by Christopher P. Granner (who did Pin*Bot theme, The Twillight Zone flipper music,produced by Midway as well, and the one of Pinball Magic from Capcom with Jeff Powell) and the artwork realised by John Youssi, who worked for IGT and maybe did the artwork of The Addams Family gambling machines, he did the packaging of Yoplait yoghurts and the magical covers of different books including R. L. Stine's. The Addams Family is based on Williams Pinball Controller system, who use a Motorola 6809 8-bits as main CPU, as the sound is managed both by main CPU and a ADSP-2105 d'Analog Devices, generated by Yamaha's YM2151 board as well as a DAC and encoded by the Harris HC55536. WPC systems run on an Apple OS. All this making me think there may be a way to use other programs or to program some others for the flipper, but that's not the subject. This was the only game produced with bot WPC system and Fliptronics I board. The Addams Family is then compatible with Fliptronics II board, which only added a diode bridge to ajust the flipper's voltage. The game offered to score higher than most of those precedently produced, its animations and game modes were really innovative. It was a big success, with 20 270 units sold on 20 750 produced. As the production ended, after The Addams Family broked every previous Bally flippers sales records, Midway Games Inc. produced 1000 others, the Gold or Special Collectors Edition. ![]() References : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family_(pinball) http://diehardgamefan.com/2011/01/03/diehard-gamefan-hall-of-fame-nomination-addams-family-pinball/ Differences between The Addams Family Gold and regular TAF pinballs http://www.fliptronics.com/ Official Fliptronics' website http://www.johnyoussi.com Official John Youssi website, partially in Flash, where he misspelled Addams Family « Adam's Family ». Just wrote it an email and he said his web designer will correct it and that he loved worked on this game as he was a big fan of the TV series. Can't believe he answered, and that fast! http://www.pinballnews.com/news/youssi.html John Youssi's interview where he doesn't talk about The Addams Family. http://www.flipperfrance.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2460 Forums d'Hydrogenaudio : What makes a DAC better or worse?
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