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Happy Birthday again!!! My, how the time flies. Seem like just last month we were celebrating your birthday...

Interesting. Is there a way to browse their "inventory", to help decide if I want to join or not? Or do you have to go through the sign up process and list your trade items in order to see what others have to offer?

rostasi posted a thread about lala.com back in March. I was curious about the mechanics of how trades work. You basically list what you have available for trade, and if someone wants one of your titles, you send it to them? What do you get in return? And when you want something that someone else is offering, what do you have to give in return to get it?

oh, by the way, it's Jade's favorite Mosaic!

Happy Birthday Flurin, and thank you for what you bring to the board!!

Order placed Thursday, arrived today! That's a quick turnaround, given the Easter weekend AND tax deadline! JJ Set #4885. Dizzy #3774, & PC #2558, if anyone's keeping track of those...

Though not vinyl, do check out one of the Zweitausendeins stores. They have some incredible bargains every day, (and usually have a little bit of vinyl as well). Of the places you are visiting, there are shops in Koeln, Muenchen, and Nuernburg. Seems like we have had threads previously about music store recommendations in Germany, but a quick search didn't find any.

KReilly - It's not a Yo Miles at all. Instrumentation is unusual - trumpet, guitar, voice, computer processing, and percussion/live electronics. Very moody, spacy stuff, and nice thoughtful playing by Smith. The voice fits in well with the computer processing, lending a futuristic but not cheesy feel. You inspired me to pull it out this morning. I like it quite a bit. I think it's very well worth $8, if Jason still has it available. There's a review of Snakish at aaj.

Me too!

I agree it's lame....HOWEVER.... Anyone looking to pick up the Beatles Capitol Box Vol 2, I believe you can combine the discount with the $15.00 rebate that FYE.com is offering, nabbing the box for a grand total of about $31.50. That's about as good as you're going to find on this.

...this ain't the "Name Three People" thread

Hey, I figure I can skip one bottle of fine single malt for the JJ set, right BF? Isn't that what you did?

Office Basketball Got skills?

Mosaic order just placed - the JJ, along with the Dizzy & Chambers Selects. <sigh> And yep, I've been in weekly contact with Stephan. He assured me the order shipped on March 11th (late due to the warehouse change supposedly). And they shipped with DHL economy airmail, which supposedly takes 12-20 working days to arrive (which would have been April 7th). He told me if it hadn't arrived by this past Monday, he would contact DHL to look for the missing parcel, and prepare a replacement shipment. ...I HOPE that's what's happening now. That was a big order I placed -- I guess I should have placed a smaller order first, to see how well it worked, before plunging in. I don't mind the wait, as long as I know it will arrive - the prices are still fantastic. But it's been frustrating for sure. I expected this during the first week in March or so.

Dangit, y'all are pushing me into the JJ set. ....and I bet it will arrive before my zweitausendeins order from February, too!

If you consider the possibility - as stated in the article - that the phone line actually WAS used illegally after the father passed away, and was in use continuously for roughly 3 months (January to April), that equates to about (3 months * 30 days * 24 hours *60 minutes) 129,600 minutes. Dividing the $218 trillion, you get a per-minute cost of $1,682,098,765.43. ($1.6 Billion/per minute ) What phone service could possibly have a rate like that?? Someone must have had a SERIOUS jones for some phone sex!

... i'm still getting a laugh over the ".01 ringits" on the bill. Couldn't they just round that off, make it a nice, even 806,400,000,000,000.00?

Whoever used to translate Aric's posts (was it Aric?) into English on the old BNBB, could you work your magic on the last post by SS1?

No comment on the topic, but congrats on post #10,000 Jim!

$218 trillion phone bill uncalled for, man says By The Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian man was speechless when he received a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday. Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father's phone line in January after he died and settled the 84 ringgit ($23) bill, the New Straits Times reported. But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a bill for 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit ($218 trillion) for recent telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the newspaper reported. It wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya's father's phone line was used illegally after his death. "If the company wants to seek legal action as mentioned in the letter, I'm ready to face it," the paper quoted Yahaya as saying. "In fact, I can't wait to face it." Yahaya, from northern Kedah state, received a notice from the company's debt-collection agency this month, the paper said. Yahaya said he nearly fainted when he saw the new bill. Government-linked Telekom Malaysia is the country's largest telecommunications company. A company official, who declined to be identified because she was not authorized to speak to the media, said Telekom Malaysia was aware of Yahaya's case and would address it.

Ray - for your first trick, perhaps you should use your powers to swap member numbers with Sandy Jarrell (no. 666)!

Thumbs up for: Ben Allison - Peace Pipe Joel Frahm/Brad Mehldau - Don't Explain Larry Goldings - Sweet Science Andrew Hill - Dusk Bobby Previte - Counterclockwise Voodoo Dogs Matt Wilson - Arts & Crafts

...the same seller is offering Ornette Coleman's jacket!

It tells me we all have diffferent tastes, likes, dislikes, and things we have not yet discovered. Nothing wrong with that! We have certain likes and dislikes and priorities when it comes to purchasing music that are reflective of who we are as people and how we view the world. Nothing at all wrong with that. It's just insightful is all...sometime predictably so. So if Person A is lacking in Sun Ra, does that tell you something about the person that's different from Person B, who may not have begun exploring Red Norvo? And tell you something that reflects who they are as people and how they view the world? edit - and do these assumptions pertain only to people in red and blue states, or world wide?