Aggie87

Made my picks! Prepare to mock me as I totally blow this...

v/a - Ultimate Jazz Christmas (Blue Note) Ella Fitzgerald - Christmas Jenny Scheinman - Jenny Scheinman Pablo Milanes/Chucho Valdes - Mas Alla De Todo Al Green - Lay It Down Radiohead - Best of Opeth - Watershed

That's bad when i'm pining for the "good ol' days of Dennis Franchione" LOL. Never should have stole him away from Alabama in the first place. Bad karma ever since. Hell, never shoulda fired R.C. Slocum I don't think...

ok I'm gonna have to revise my 8-4 prediction. A&M just lost to Arkansas State in their opener, 18-14. Arkansas State!! And it was at home - broke a 20 game home opener winning streak. And it's Ark State's first win over a Big 12 opponent ever (they were 0-14 or something). Jeez... Maybe 6-6 is optimistic now, LOL.

East Carolina upset #17 Virginia Tech today. Scored a TD in the 4th quarter to pull close, 22-20, then blocked a punt and returned it for a TD, and held on for a 27-22 win. Exciting finish. Bowling Green is on its way to upsetting #25 Pitt right now.

Out of curiousity, how do you subscribe to things when you live on the road for what....330 days out of the year? Aren't you having to submit change-of-address cards every week or so?

5 posts in, and nobody knows if you're a trustworthy trading partner, and you're insulting established board members.

Check the toaster.

There's nothing like a turkey sandwich, except another turkey sandwich.

First college games of the year start tonight! How is your school going to do this year? Lock for a bowl game? Top 10? Cellar dweller? My Aggies have a new coach this year, former Packer head coach Mike Sherman. It's his first college head coaching job, so should be interesting to see how he fares. Most Aggies are glad that Dennis Franchione is no longer around. Not a very bright coach as it turned out - at least during his stint at A&M. The offense devolved/simplified into a one-dimensional option attack, and the defense disapppeared altogether with a crazy 4-2-5 lineup. Enter Sherman, who vows to get back to a pro-style, drop back passing offense, with a healthy running game to complement it. Steven McGee has the tools to be a very good passing quarterback, if they can find some receivers to catch the passes, not having had to do that the past couple years. And remember RB Mike Goodson's name - he may be a breakout star in the Big 12. I think they'll be ok on offense, but it's going to take a while to rebuild the talent on the D, so it's going to be a transitional year. I think 8-4 would be a good record, and head off to a lesser bowl game somewhere. I'd be happy with that if it looks like there's improvement over the course of the year.

Losing Umenyiora is a huge blow for the Giants! I read they've moving Kiwanuka back to the D line though, so that should help. But at the expense of the linebacking.

Pacman Jones was fully reinstated by the NFL today. Hopefully he can make it rain on the field now (and nowhere else!!). Cowboys could have the makings of a VERY good defense, if they mesh this year. Their base 3-4: DE Chris Canty NT Tank Johnson/Jay Ratliff DE Marcus Spears OLB Demarcus Ware ILB Bradie James ILB Zach Thomas OLB Greg Ellis CB Terence Newman SS Roy Williams FS Ken Hamlin CB Anthony Henry Along with Pacman, Michael Jenkins, Kevin Burnett, and Anthony Spencer coming off the bench as backups or nickel types. Not bad at all! edit - Apparently Pacman was at a Hooter's when he was notified that he'd been reinstated....LOL.

Happy Birthday!!

Our live chats must really amuse you if you're sober during them!!

congrats! made two (maybe half-hearted) attempts in response to this thread but with no success so far... what i did give up after this thread was my other habit of eating 500 grams of chocolate a day which i'd been carrying with me for a year - giving that one up was so easy it was ridiculous... thought it would be good to know i quit anything at least (and 500 grams of chocolate aren't that cheap or healthy either i guess)

Hey, I have no problems with legal downloading at all! LOL I have downloaded stuff from Dave Douglas, Jason Moran, & Greg Osby, Robyn Hitchcock, & Porcupine Tree - some free, some paid for. But all with their consent. I have ended up with a couple of burns from various board members in previous trades as well. Unsolicited stuff (that was thrown in) that's found its way into the circular file. The intent of sharing is appreciated, though.

And I get criticized for sticking to my guns on the downloading thing?

It may be. Molde is Aug 81, Motians Psalm is Dec 81. There were several before these according to this discography page: http://www.bryanaaker.net/pre1983.html Thanks! Alot of stuff I've never heard of before there.

I'd love to see those two out!!! Probably my favorite Liebman stuff. Drum Ode, and Arild Anderson's A Molde Concert, actually came out here in the States around the turn of the century! Was Molde Concert the first recorded Bill Frisell, or did something come before it? I need to give that one a spin tonight.

is hilarious! A masterpiece of irony! Thanks. I think I better just agree that we disagree and move on. I clearly don't see this the same way as the majority of people here or elsewhere. I know the industry is changing. I will continue to enjoy CDs and vinyl though, thanks very much.

I don't see that as any different than some kid downloading a copy of the AEC box illegally. Except that somebody else happened to profit. In either case, the rightful people received no compensation. Your tunnel vision is your prerogative, so as long as you're at it, why don't you ask proponents of euthanasia (or even better, pro-choice advocates) if they feel "ok" with a drive-by or a mass murder or if they think it's "wrong"? Put that lack of nuanced thinking on full display for us, ok? And to be perfectly honest, if that kid had a choice between downloading a free copy of the box off of some blog, or paying beaucoup bodacious bucks for it from some "speculator" on eBay, I'd encourage him/her to download it from the blog - if all they wanted was to hear the music and not own an "object". But not before encouraging him/her to contacting Chuck first to see what the man himself could do. Excuse me now. I just heard a song on the radio that i like, and it's the fourth time today I've heard it. 20th time over the last two weeks. I now have a moral obligation to buy it. Hearing a song on the radio is apples and oranges, or else I don't get the comparison. I don't get that it's ok to download something that you aren't entitled to, but it's wrong to make copies of it physically and sell it. Either way it's wrong, isn't it? And I'm not sure I understand the need to insult someone who doesn't see things the same way as you do. Is nuanced thinking a way to justify doing something wrong? You keep trying to correlate the music thing with murder and other horrible crime (here and in our previous discussion about this), but it's simply not the same thing. What's wrong is wrong in either case, but there's certainly degrees of wrongness in the examples you're bringing up and downloading music. Stealing a pack of gum from 7/11 is wrong too, but I would never compare it to something like murder. Why are you doing that with the music thing? You commented in the other thread that it's your birthright to only respect laws that respect you (and presumably not the other ones?). I think that's our disconnect on this one.

I don't see that as any different than some kid downloading a copy of the AEC box illegally. Except that somebody else happened to profit. In either case, the rightful people received no compensation.

For those that illegally download material and defend the practice (because it's OOP or simply because you're "entitled"), how does this particular situation strike you? Is it wrong or is it ok? Is it wrong because you know Chuck?

By all means, don't make rash decisions. I don't think anybody in this thread has recommended doing so. My point was once you've made a decision to get a divorce, don't dawdle. Our decision to get divorced occurred in late 2002 or early 2003 while living in Germany. We didn't return to Texas until Nov 2003 (for a couple of reasons), and the divorce wasn't final until May 2004. In our case that was too long to remain together under one roof, and things happened to make our relationship worse than it already was during that time, not by my doing.

Agree with Paps' and catesta's advice. If you do go ahead with the divorce, it's important for your daughter to understand that she's not the cause or at fault in any way. When we got our divorce four years ago, I talked with both of my kids about it quite a bit (as did their mother). My daughter was 6 at the time, and had a difficult time at first. My son was much younger (3), so it didn't seem to affect him as much. We have 50/50 custody, where the kids live with me for a week, then their mother, and back and forth. Luckily we live close enough to make that feasible with schooling, activities, etc. If you're able to do something like that, I strongly urge you to consider it. Your daughter will get to spend an equal amount of time with both of you, and will realize that you both do love her. My kids understand our situation better now, and are accepting of their situation. They are able to have the same friends come over to either home, and have alot of friends with divorced parents as well, which I think makes it easier to deal with for them. Catesta is right that if you are going to ultimately get divorced, it's probably better to go forward and not drag things out. You will be happy again, whether that's something you can see now or not. Take care.