neveronfriday

o boy, it's not even past noon It is, in my book. yeah, but what does you CLOCK say? Me clock says 21:32. I checked twice. Mate, down here in the South they just tick differently, especially today. Allez Hop! Cheers!

o boy, it's not even past noon It is, in my book. Cheers!

How about 15,000 That would be, err, hmm, 2.03 CDs per thief. I think you're onto something here. It just might be possible. Hell, even I've managed to steal 2 albums in my life, I think. Who would have thought? A global CD-stealing conspiracy. I'll be damned. This calls for a drink. And a healthy dose of Teddy Wilson to go with it. Cheers!

You think they stole 30501 albums? How many thieves work for them? 10000?

Gene

Right off the top of my head ... Basie Ellington Thad Jones Gil Evans Lionel Hampton (can't remember how big) Buddy Rich McCoy Tyner Clayton-Hamilton BB ... plus more ... and of course various Danish and German radio BBs (I was a huge fan of Fatman Herbolzheimer). Cheers!

After much reading and debating I decided to buy this thing: It holds 1 GB of songs, has excellent sound (you need to get some better headphones; unit also has a built-in EQ [five settings]) and is dirt cheap (I got it for under $90). Firmware can be upgraded easily. Can of course also be used to store any other larger data file. It's just what I was looking for and beats any iPod big or small, especially since it will run 18 hours on one battery or rechargable (14 hours with mine) ... highly recommened. Available on Amazon.de for 119 Euro. Cheers! I understand that this is some repackaged unit which originally comes from Korea?

Yep, I'm sure. That's the problem with the Canon printers and the ink they use. I knew this before I bought the printer. Went for it anyway because the tests were great, printing results are otherwise excellent and the ink is dirt cheap (and good). A good allround printer with that one single problem. Cheers.

Me too. Don't collect covers but Presentation Packs. Have a complete collection of Christmas stamps as well (full sheets only). My most rare/prized possession: A "yearbook" (first one, if it can be called that at all) from Greenland (60s, as far as I recall without looking). It's actually a small plastic envelope containing all the stamps of the year, sealed by the postal authorities. I've never opened it and don't dare to either. It's such a small jam-packed envelope that I'm afraid the stamps might be sticking together. Lots of unique items in my Danish collection. My wife's dad had collected extensively since the early 50s. I also "inherited" an extensive collection of Swedish and Norwegian stamps. I stopped collecting all but the Presentation Packs because I needed my money for other things.

Hi, I bought myself a new Canon printer which can also print on CD-Rs/DVDs. The result looks stunning (I'm using Taiyo Yuden CD-R 80/700MB 48x *inkjet white*, full prinbtable surface) but, as with most printers, if water is dripped onto the surface etc., the ink smears. I'm thinking of using Colour Protection Spray to protect the surface. Despite my search in various forums, I could not find an answer to the most important question: If applied carefully (keeping the stuff off the playing surface and the inner ring), will a spray like that have any adverse effect on the CD-R? Has anyone used sprays like that? Cheers!

Congratulations!

Sorry, but when I read your list first, the last entry made me laugh. It's the progression, I think.

Contemporary Horror Fiction, hardcovers, collectible paperbacks, magazines ... the lot. Started in the late 70s and have slowed down these past two/three years. Photography and design books. Other books, books, books ... DVDs. P.S.: I'm also into Danish furniture of the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s, but that can hardly be called collecting. I've got a couple of Mogensen, Kjaerholm and Wegner chairs plus a whole bunch of tables from various known designers. When in DK you can always find me haunting the used furniture shops. Lots to be found there if you're there at the right moment (practically when things come in the door). Add to that Grethe Meyer china (produced by Royal Copenhagen) and cuttlery (produced by Georg Jensen) plus lots of glas, Swedish and Norwegian pottery ... you get the picture.

01) first "paid" job: indexing my dad's rather extensive record collection (... was paid in Mordillo hardcovers) 01) Burger King employee (all stations, incl. garbage) until my drum set was paid for 02) musician (various more or less successful Pop/Rock/R&B bands) 03) assistant to two professors at the same time (didn't leave much time for studying) 04) freelance writer for various fan magazines and later pro publications 05) freelancing in book publishing here in Germany (secured some major authors I knew from my fan magazine work for one of the biggest German publishing houses; helped put out a slew of limited editions for a now mostly defunct publishing house) 06) web/intranet design work, both freelance and hired 07) teaching at both private and public high schools (still my day job)

Any good?

Why do these childish remarks always have to appear in memorial threads? Would you like some other people (totally unkown at that) battling it out on your grave? Sucks! Jim Capaldi was great. No less. R.I.P.

Me. Me. Me. Too. PM on its way in a minute.

If your burner and software support it, you can extend the time a few minutes past 80 min. I think it's called "overburning" or something like that. Few commercial releases go beyond the 80 min standard, though, because some players can't handle reading them. You can push a burnable way up there. Theoretically, you can squeeze 99 minutes (NERO) on there if overburning is enabled and the burnable supports it. It doesn't adhere to any standards though and can only be played back on suitable players, none of which are PC-independent, I think. So you have to use your PC exclusively for these. I've used 800 MB TDKs for some serious overburning and they run fine ... but I still have my doubts regarding the longevity of these discs. Cheers!

Those are some damn expensive disco lights. I guess the mystery speakers must have cost an equal amount because it would be a shame to drive anything but the best speakers with these. And, $75.000 doesn't come near what a setup like that would cost (just think about the amount of money invested in cables alone to get the best out of it) ... unless he got a discount for buying a whole production run. My guess is that he was driving speakers and subs with mono-blocks, maybe even doing some decent bi-amping. If you include the speakers for a setup like that (all asuming that he went with better ones in a surround sound setup) we're talking way above 100.000 dollars, probably more than twice as much, all depending on the discounts he got. If you do run a setup like that, acoustics become a major problem and lots of money has to go into making a room acoustically suitable. Besides that, you need more than ... and so on. I've seen a setup similar to the one you're describing (at an audio fair in Frankfurt, Germany) and the price tag came close to a million Euro, all told. Crazy, but if you do play a THX disc through this it would probably sound all the alarms at the Pentagon. And in Peking. Cheers!

I think this lovely critter is a thing called a Gulper Eel that lives in very, very deep water - hence the deformed shape. Great pics ! I thought it was Giger's alien.

Burnum, Burnum? Yeah, you just gotta love that guy! He sailed over to England, stepped ashore and planted the Aboriginal flag on the coast of Dover. The man had humor. Cheers!

Can someone explain to me what is supposed to be so good about Slim Gaillard? I don't get it. I have quite a bit of his stuff on some Japanese etc. box sets and I usually skip it. The guy just goes on my nerves. Is this heresy?

Yep. Just my thoughts. Surround sound can bug the hell out of you if the room isn't suited to it. On top of that, if you don't have a super-huge screen, I often have problems aligning the smaller (TV) picture with the huge sound. I'm thinking of surround sound headphones (currently I use Sennheiser 590s stereo cans which give quite a movie punch). But they're to darn expensive if you really want the good stuff. And, to sit in the sweet spot, you have to basically rearrange your living room in such a way that it becomes virtually useless. Besides, who the hell wants to live in a speaker-storage living room? Cheers!

I don't know. In the beginning I just loved it but I think it's somehow a bit uneven (small group/big band; somehow the arrangement [= sequence] of the tunes bugs me.). My fave tune is still "Straighten Up and Fly Right" - he does that one really well. Another old fave of mine is "Walking My Baby Back Home". Memories. Cheers! (Am I allowed to say that James Taylor did a grand version of "Walking My Baby Back Home"? Or will the Organissimo family ostracise me?).