Big Wheel

I love Deschutes's beers in general but have never enjoyed Jubelale. The first time I tried FS's Wassail I really liked it, but wasn't quite as impressed the second time around. Still haven't yet sampled the Sierra Nevada Celebration ale yet.

What, no Ibiza?

I disagree. It's a myth that you get the best people by offering the most money. One tenant of good business is never to hire someone who's just doing it for the money. Which is why I used the words "measurably show." My point is more that rewarding fundraisers may, in some cases, have a good ROI for the charity and less that they will never be able to find any talented people if they don't approach the pay found in corporate sales.

The Boy Scouts are only nominally a "charity" and the Heritage Foundation certainly isn't. Hardly surprising that a fake think tank devoted to wingnut welfare would pay its CEO $500k - if anything I'd expect higher. Ultimately charities still have to be managed and they compete with for-profit businesses for managers. If a development person can measurably show a record of attracting big donors, rewarding them might be the right way to manage the enterprise.

I know it's not against the rules, and the band sounds halfway interesting. I'm just incredulous that marketers still haven't figured out that simply being honest is the best way to pimp. Wrong: Right: Is the problem simply that it's cheaper to hire a 24-year-old who knows little about the music to do a guerrilla marketing blitz than it is to find someone somewhere in NYC who's actually knowledgeable about the target audience?

I'm sure it's just one of those kuh-razy coincidences that all of this band's non-Danish facebook posts have the location Brooklyn, NY.

Welcome to Berklee, dude! My initial listen to this was on my crappy laptop speakers and I could barely hear the bass at all. I can hear it now that I'm listening on headphones....there's definitely more air between the bass and drums than I'd like. Like maybe either the bass player is playing a bit behind where he should or the drummer is just driving the car at 125 bpm without really paying any attention to what everyone else is doing, or both. On the other hand...yeah. I have a feeling that students at all but the top 8 or 9 conservatories in the country, if they tried to pull this off, would produce something "not even wrong." By a weird coincidence the first group picture I found of this band contains the bari player in my high school big band! edit to add, interesting how even ToP's own version has gotten way faster and somewhat less greasy over time. I listened to the second version first and so didn't even realize that most of the vocal backgrounds in the Berklee version were cribbed straight from the record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzy1g3VIcXY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9lGMb9DS9A

That bad? I mean, the vocal backgrounds are pretty cheesy (I suspect this was one of those cases where a student group ends up with 8 more singers than it actually needs and then screws with the arrangements to fit the skewed personnel) but it seemed like the groove was pretty close to where it should be. 99% of college student groups couldn't come this close. Or is the problem just that affluent white kids shouldn't be trying to copy ToP and that the last two minutes seem uncomfortably Glee-ish?

King....Mulva?

Ah, Australian puns. Parsnips are kind of expensive here. I think they're at least 4x the price of carrots, which I can get for about $0.40/lb. That alone may account for their unpopularity.

The Onion's ongoing coverage of this event has been quite stellar. http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-onions-coverage-of-the-royal-baby,33214/

If the guy never worked for you, why would you legitimize any of his nonsense claims about your business practices by trying to rebut them in detail? Such a standard would force any organization to constantly be fighting anything that any random crank says about them. Also: the "entire" doubt?! "Hey, here's some guy who sent an email to my friend's dad's contractor's navy buddy's nephew. His email address is strangely no longer on the email chain so we can't contact him. He mentions websites were written by Koreans that mention him but omits mention of any URLs so we can see for ourselves. He says he worked for a subsidiary of a major aerospace company and his client was a major international airline, yet he is mysteriously difficult to find via Google, and has no Linkedin profile or other easily found presence on the Internet. Zero of the people he mentions - friends and foes - have names given for them. SOUNDS COMPLETELY CREDIBLE TO ME!"

Because if there's any source I trust on air safety, it's some jackass who starts chain emails. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2013/0712/Asiana-Flight-214-Was-the-pilot-training-program-to-blame re: tl;dr... I thought it was well worth the read, actually (and appreciated it having been posted here). It seemed to have the ring of truth to my ears (or at least one truth), from what I think seems like one informed perspective. Who knows, maybe it was all BS, but there was enough technical detail, and generally didn't come off as someone who had an axe to grind -- that it sure seems like the real deal to me. "Some jackass who starts chain e-mails" this did not read like. I had a long reply here that got eaten when I hit my browser's back button by mistake, but suffice it to say that I disagree. One google search for some of the letter's text shows that it most definitely is a chain email already and is turning up on every paste-eater's conservative blog. And it's a chain email that seems to have been carefully written to appeal to the whole raft of rightwing prejudices (that other countries' militaries are incompetent, that American free enterprise is the secret to air safety, that only fired American martyrs can save Korean pilots from themselves...I could go on). The author most definitely does have an axe to grind - the subtext of the whole letter is that if the Koreans hadn't fired him as a result of their purportedly broken corporate culture, then this accident probably would never have happened!

Because if there's any source I trust on air safety, it's some jackass who starts chain emails. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2013/0712/Asiana-Flight-214-Was-the-pilot-training-program-to-blame

Yeah, remember when 60 year old men were at the forefront of haute couture? I must admit it took a certain amount of pizzazz to pull off the PukeShirt™ with extra chest hair:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Blue_Note_Records_live_albums This includes some records that were not originally on BN, as well as those recorded after the 1980s revival. I did not realize that The Three Sounds' Live at the Lighthouse was originally a Dick Bock session, but was issued as a BN record - BLP 4265, not on Pacific Jazz which Liberty had also acquired 10 years before. Did any other Bock sessions receive their first issue under the BN name during the Liberty years? Or was this a one-off? (Liberty didn't do this with some of the other Bock sessions released around this time - the Jazz Crusaders' Lighthouse '68 bears the Pacific Jazz logo.)

The food is supposed to be pretty good too (albeit expensive). In fact it looks like the food is really the feature attraction with music not booked every night. Anyone know how this is best handled if you only want to see the music? If the music is in a separate room within the place that seems easy enough, but if not I could easily see the waitstaff getting pissed off if you're taking up a table while not running up a big food/beverage tab.

These two were not originally BN recordings - BN just eventually acquired and put them out. Horace Silver's Doin' the Thing is another one. Not surprising that JOS/Silver/Blakey account for many of the live sessions in the pre-1967 period.

I certainly don't. The first ones are classics. The next ones at the Bohemia are also excellent. The remaining ones are meh - they're certainly not bad, but they definitely aren't better than, say, Moanin' or Free For All or Indestructible. (Note that Ugetsu and Three Blind Mice come from this period but were not recorded for BN.) As for why Blakey made more live records on BN compared to other artists, I imagine Blakey's prior success gave him a lot of clout with Lion/Wolff and they were OK with indulging him on projects they wouldn't do with other artists (e.g., doing four separate sessions with large percussion groups).

+1. I'm glad I'm not the only person who thinks this (literally every Californian I've met thinks it's God's gift to the state). When you point out that it's maybe two notches above McDonald's, invariably the reply is "well...yeah, it's not the greatest burger I've ever eaten but where else can you get a burger this good for $3?" Even the double-double is only 1/4 pound of meat, though. Umami Burger is supposed to be the real deal (though not cheap). In the Bay we have two local chains that are mediocre/overpriced (Burgermeister and Barney's) and a few smaller up-and-comers that are more promising (Pearl's Deluxe Burgers, Roam Artisan Burgers).

BBC says only one person unaccounted for. The figure of 60 may have been computed by simply subtracting the number reported to have walked off uninjured (190) and those definitely taken to hospitals according to hospital sources (49) from the total known to have been on the plane (307). 307-190-49= 68 passengers who some reporter is not sure what happened to them, not 68 passengers who first responders are trying to locate. update: BBC now reporting all passengers are accounted for.

Isn't that mostly Bargnani for Novak, one good-shooting guy who does little else for another? Exactly, that's why it's such a great trade. For everyone who hates the Knicks.

Also there's a paradox in much of European journalism: while the questions themselves are much more aggressive, the actual process of investigative journalism is much more limited (or so I've read). There's a heavier reliance on official sources for any story, which usually is going to mean much less shoe-leather reporting - aside from notable cases like, uh, hacking people's phones in an attempt to just smear them. So it seems like European journalism is better at figuring out when public figures are lying, but worse at filling out the details to find out what the true story really is. BTW am I the only one who's noticed the BBC (on the web, anyway) getting much schlockier and "CNN-like" in the last 12-24 months in an attempt to jack up their pageviews?

FWIW, he whole PF catalog is now available in Spotify after their Wish You Were Here publicity stunt last week. (They said that they'd open up everything after Wish You Were Here was streamed a million times.)

Offensive fouls do not result in free throws in the NBA, even when the other team is in the bonus. Thus the net result of the play would have been the same (except James picks up a 4th foul that's meaningless unless the game goes into a second OT). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgAbo6IJB_A LeBron's elbow does come up there. On the other hand, an instant before the elbow touches Green, Green's right hand is already touching LeBron's left hip. (see the 1:06 mark.) Green is not set in position, so strictly speaking that should be either a block or a hand-check called on Green. In a fast-moving transition play in overtime of an elimination NBA Finals game, the officials will almost never blow the whistle for either type of contact. The Bosh block on Green...seems like a similar case. A running fallaway 3 from the corner while kicking your legs out a little to get some separation? If the defender's hand gets all ball, which Bosh's did, it's hard to see the ref making that call for the body contact. The defender is required to give the shooter airspace to land, but has the right to contest the shot. If Green's momentum (from sprinting to the corner and launching off-balance, not really from the contact) doesn't cause him to fall down out of bounds, I think a no-call there is much more obvious.