Discussions - rec.music.filk

	Poll Question
	Thoughts? [link] By shaftjenkins@yahoo.com - 12:34am - 1 new of 1 message

	another math filk: METRIC RULES by Kate Gladstone (possibly useful)
	Another math filk below (Consider Yourself Warned!) ... this one written with an eye to: /a/ the prevalence of its subject-matter as an admittedly minor part of the background in science-fictional futures of _Homo_sapiens_, and /b/ the song's possible utility (e.g., on October 10th, "National Metric... more » By Kate Gladstone - Sep 6 - 24 new of 24 messages

	found: abundant science filks (including psychology psongs) at http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/km organ/Psongs/links.html#psongl inks
	Found: abundant science filks (including psychology psongs) at [link] Kate Gladstone - [link] or [link] By Kate Gladstone - Sep 5 - 1 new of 1 message

Data Processing songs

During the Folkworks Summer School in Durham (the one in norteast England) we fell to talking about Data Processing songs and their comparative rarity. In fact we came up with only four: Nigel Russell's White Collar Holler Les Barker's Re-installing Windows Stan Kelly's Repetitive Love Letter Tim O'Brien's Running Out Of Memory Over You... more »

By roger.gaw...@googlemail.com - Sep 3 - 19 new of 19 messages

	filk video on-line: charming pianist sings/plays several Tom Lehrer math filks
	Go here for a video of a charming pianist singing and playing several Tom Lehrer math filks -- [link] or [link] Kate Gladstone -- HandwritingRepair.info or HandwritingThatWorks.com By Kate Gladstone - Sep 2 - 3 new of 3 messages

	Loscon
	Loscon as usual will be Thanksgiving weekend. [link] The theme this year is A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE LOSCON with some Graeco-Roman drawings. To that end, I'm thinking of scheduling a) a themecircle of "classic filk" (over 25 years old) or b) a themecircle of filk about mythology... more » By Lee Gold - Sep 1 - 8 new of 8 messages

	filk by me: WEAPONS OF MATH INSTRUCTION (tune: "Alternate Universe Temperance Song" by Gary McGath)
	An arithmetic teacher yesterday was arrested. He was writing Arabic digits on the board -- Introducing, so the faculty has attested, A foreign practice, Eastern and abhorred. He'd infiltrated a weapon of math instruction Into each trusting student's tender brain -- Dooming their innocent psyches to destruction,... more » By Kate Gladstone - Sep 1 - 6 new of 6 messages

bad news / good news

=== Bad News === My dad (Ernest Gladstone) died a couple of weeks ago at age 77 -- a few months after he had actually learned to enjoy filk: a process that started sometime he added an alternative-energy filk to his alternative-energy development web-site (Google his name to get it to come up -- when I post Internet addresses in a newsgroup message,... more »

By Kate Gladstone - Sep 1 - 16 new of 16 messages

	posting new filk lyrics (to test if I can still post here)
	It looks as if I no longer get to post to newsgroups, but -- just to make sure -- I will post these new lyrics of mine (as a test) ... An arithmetic teacher yesterday was arrested. He was writing Arabic digits on the board -- Introducing, so the faculty has attested, A foreign practice, Eastern and abhorred.... more » By Kate Gladstone - Sep 1 - 94 new of 94 messages

	Pegasus ballot
	As far as I can see, no one has yet mentioned here that the Pegasus ballot is up. [link] By Gary McGath - Aug 31 - 2 new of 2 messages