Cali WILL someday take over Mass.
And RI will someday take over NY.
Heading down the Fall River,
((((((((D r e a m))))))))
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Subject: THESLIP Digest - 17 Nov 2003 to 18 Nov 2003 (#2003-151)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:00:06 -0500
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Topics of the day:
1. 10/30/99 Halloweeeeeeeennnnnnnn
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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:04:37 -0500
From: Nick Fitanides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 10/30/99 Halloweeeeeeeennnnnnnn
Now this makes five emails in a week, and the week ain't over!
BTW, just a friendly reminder where is the best place to post Slip Setlists:
http://www.phrazz.com/slipbase
Traffic-wise, I get about 500 visits each week (give or take a couple hundred)
and these are folks who visit more than once. In fact, over half the visits
touch three or more items per visit, and only 10% or so have only visited once.
[I can give you more statistics, but it'll cost you extra.]
By posting to SlipBase you save me time, and save everyone time when it's time
to look up songs or burn shows. I update this almost daily...and build song indexes,
clean the data and do all sorts of things that can't be done in an email digestifier.
I can do things that haven't been done yet--just send me your ideas and I'll let
you know how easy they are and often just do 'em. I also make changes
that are wrong, so if you know a show has such-and-such song, insist
upon this and if you're even surer, send me a copy of the show and I'll
bring it up to the BAM song Title Advisory Committee (BAMTAC, which is
party of NORAD ;-}). [This is not the Totally Independent Coalition for
Teasers And Covers, aka "TICTAC", nor TICTACTOE...go figure that one out
sometime yourself....]
Incidentally, do you know what state has had the most Slip shows?
Ok, most of you guessed that one. But do you know the
top 10? Well, here's all of them, sorted by frequency.
It is apparent that CA may overtake MA shows some day!
This isn't 100% accurate, of course (neither is SlipBase):
MA 92 CA 63 NY 59 RI 44 PA 37 CO 28 OR 24 VT 17 OH 16 IL 14
NC 11 WA 10 CT 9 MD 9 GA 8 LA 8 MO 8 (CAN) 7 NH 7
TX 7 VA 7 AZ 6 ME 6 MI 6 WI 6 Japan 4 ?? 3 KS 3 MN 3 MT 3 WV 3 ??? 2
IN 2 NM 2 Scotia 2 TN 2 - 1 216 1 ? 1 ?,? 1 AR 1 BC 1 CAN 1 Canada 1
College 1 DC 1 FL 1 Ga 1 IA 1 ID 1 KY 1 Lodge 1 MS 1 NH. 1 NJ 1 NS 1
Ohio 1 Oregon 1 RI. 1 UT 1 University 1 University) 1 Vineyard 1
For all you UNIX hackers who want to try this at home:
grep ^[0-9] setlists.txt | awk '{print $NF}' | countwords
(Now isn't that easy to fathom? Just like English, only worse. )
I'm working on the auto-indexing of songs in SlipBase, but this is a lot
harder than one would think. First of all the songs aren't set in stone,
second of all they all have strange ASCII characters (punctuation wreaks
havoc with code of all types), and third of all there's plenty of holes to
patch in the main data (which changes pretty much on a daily basis).
Next year I plan on providing logins so people who care can fix some of
these with their own accounts, and also upload photos and lots of other
fun stuff we can do with a larger site. In the meantime, please help me
to help you by updating SlipBase early and often. Like voting, it's a
collaboration that builds upon itself, and through participation it
becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Every contributor is a big
help--and major contributors will get shows in return (just tell me what
you're looking for or I'll send something you don't have yet).
That's enough wheedling for the time being. I know many of you (on the email
digestifier) already post to SlipBase (and I thank you profusely), but
there are still some who haven't been there yet. Also feel free to email
me for my photo link(s) (I don't post these for bandwidth/webcrawler
reasons). In addition, if you have photo, lyric, or other Slip-related
links, feel free to post these to SlipBase and I'll make sure they make
it into the indelible link ink which is now part of the ever growing
SlipBase Universal Blog Verification Enterprise Revolution Technique (SUBVERT) ;-} .
-Taking care of your Jumby,
Phrazz
http://www.phrazz.com/slipbase
http://www.pbase.com/phrazz
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