Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread victor
Groenewegen ma...@dinkum.nl Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:22 AM Subject: Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 victor wrote: ... seems to have been announced. I got an email from ICMA about it. premature, AFAIK until very recently the LAC organizers were

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread fons
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:55:16AM +0100, victor wrote: that makes sense now, so someone jumped the gun. Some time ago I learned on this list the expression 'jumping the shark' - IIRC it was Paul Davis using it. But what is 'jumping the gun' ? Ciao, -- FA

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:33:26AM +, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: that makes sense now, so someone jumped the gun. Some time ago I learned on this list the expression 'jumping the shark' - IIRC it was Paul Davis using it. But what is 'jumping the gun'?

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:55:16AM +0100, victor wrote: that makes sense now, so someone jumped the gun. Some time ago I learned on this list the expression 'jumping the shark' - IIRC it was Paul Davis using it. But what is 'jumping the gun' ? Ciao,

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: that makes sense now, so someone jumped the gun. Some time ago I learned on this list the expression 'jumping the shark' - IIRC it was Paul Davis using it. But what is 'jumping the gun' ? I didn't find this in the first links someone

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread drew Roberts
On Thursday 15 October 2009 04:33:26 f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:55:16AM +0100, victor wrote: that makes sense now, so someone jumped the gun. Some time ago I learned on this list the expression 'jumping the shark' - IIRC it was Paul Davis using it. But what is

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Marc Groenewegen
Hello, the conference will take place May 1-4 in Utrecht. Confirmed ! I asked my colleague Hans Timmermans to post this to the ICMA mailing list and I'm bringing the --so far quite limited-- website under people's attention. If there are other channels that need to be notified, please do !

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Chapman
On Thursday 15 October 2009 1:01 pm, Marc Groenewegen wrote: the conference will take place May 1-4 in Utrecht. Confirmed ! Not a 'clash', indeed it may work very well for non-European-based folk, the Second Ambisonics Symposium is at IRCAM, Paris, May 6th-7th. Full conference details yet to

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Jumping the Gun is prematurely advertising some event. Jumping the Shark is inventing new fantastic facts to fit your bullshit soap-opera script. /j On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 08:33 +, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:55:16AM +0100, victor wrote: that makes sense now,

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: Jumping the Gun is prematurely advertising some event. Jumping the Shark is inventing new fantastic facts to fit your bullshit soap-opera script. Comparing all that English - English idiom explanations on the www I guess those German translations at www.dict.cc are

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 20:45 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Jumping the shark means that something, e.g. a serial becomes a bad seller, like Dallas was, when Bobby was dead :D. Nope, that was the /reason why/ the authors of Dallas jumped the shark, not the definition. You are inventing new

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread fons
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:45:28PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Even if your explanation of jumping the shark is correct, it could be misunderstood ;). When Bobby Ewing rise from the dead, the reason for this was that the serial season when he was dead, just was a bad dream of his wife Pamela,

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: The origin is in the TV series 'Happy days'. When the audience started to decline the story editors made the Fonz jump over a shark. I have waited a very long time for a Fons/Fonz connection... and it comes from Fons!! :-) -gabriel

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:22:21PM +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: Jumping the Gun is prematurely advertising some event. Jumping the Shark is inventing new fantastic facts to fit your bullshit soap-opera script. Anyone see the Arrested Development episode where Henry Winkler jumps over a dead

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-14 Thread Robin Gareus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 victor wrote: ... seems to have been announced. I got an email from ICMA about it. premature, AFAIK until very recently the LAC organizers were looking at different time-slots so that LAC will not coincide with other events. So far there is no 100%

[LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-13 Thread victor
... seems to have been announced. I got an email from ICMA about it. Why was it not announced here or in the Consortium list? I would have thought these are the main places where you find good interest. Any further news? Victor___ Linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-13 Thread Ivica Ico Bukvic
To: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List Subject: [LAD] Next year's LAC ... seems to have been announced. I got an email from ICMA about it. Why was it not announced here or in the Consortium list? I would have thought these are the main places where you find good interest. Any further news