Dave Garrett

You would be amazed (or possibly appalled) at the number of people on the Hoffman board who regularly admit to sneaking large music purchases into their houses. Such discussions often devolve to a comparison of specific strategies on how to do so.

Interesting piece from Medium on Brian Rust and the culture of record collecting in WW2-era Britain: Hot jazz and air raids

Finally got to go see the staggeringly comprehensive Degas retrospective at the MFAH today. It was fairly crowded even on a weekday afternoon, not too surprising given that this is its only stop in North America and there are less than two weeks remaining before it closes. May try to pay another visit if I'm able to squeeze it in, as the sheer size of the exhibit certainly lends itself to multiple visits just to fully digest the works on display. http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/the-degas-exhibit-at-the-mfah-is-powerful-indeed-8888722

This one is somewhat better (but you still shouldn't expect audiophile quality):

Temporary installation (through February) at Project Row Houses encompassing both museum exhibits and live performances: https://www.houstonjazzchurch.com/#home The Jazz Church of Houston Highlights Bayou City Musicians

Frat houses across the country will be observing a moment of silence in memory of Mr. Hulseman, to be immediately followed by the ceremonial chugging of cupfuls of Everclear-based punch and random involuntary regurgitation.

Her legacy would be assured if she'd done nothing but SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, but something that is often overlooked is her role in preserving a particular aspect of Hollywood history long before many other people cared: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/12/debbie-reynolds-protected-and-preserved-hollywoods-most-precious-relics?mbid=social_twitter I hadn't realized that health issues had prevented her from attending the Governors Awards a full year ago until reading this.

Great music, and Sinatra was at the peak of his powers then. Unfortunately the BN CD is marred by the heavy-handed use of noise reduction. The set had circulated among collectors for years in better sound quality before it was issued by BN.

This does indeed work in Chrome for the NYT's site. They allow you to read 10 articles for free each month until the paywall kicks in, but in order to track the number of articles you've read, a cookie has to be set. If you're browsing in incognito mode, no cookies, so you're always under the 10-article limit. Until recently, links to NYT articles posted to Twitter or Facebook would also bypass the paywall, so if you followed them on either platform, you could access quite a few of the articles on their site (they tweet frequently, and I assume they are likewise frequent posters on FB, but I only follow them on Twitter). That is no longer the case.

Damn, I downloaded PhotoScan to my phone a couple of weeks ago, intending to check it out after reading some very positive comments about it, but got busy and haven't gotten around to it yet. Noted for future reference the next time I need to combine multiple photos.

Yeah, they're not as good as a stereo with built-in bluetooth, but again, this is a budget solution. It's adequate for my needs at present, especially given that my car's cabin is pretty far removed from an ideal listening environment. Minimal sound insulation, and I really have to crank the stereo to hear it over the road, engine, and exhaust noise at freeway speeds.

I installed a bluetooth stereo in my previous car, but when the car got stolen a couple of years later and I replaced it with an equally old car of the same model, I opted for a bluetooth FM transmitter instead. Plugs into the power outlet and pairs with your phone, transmitting over one of several otherwise-unused FM channels on your factory car stereo. The advantage is that they're dirt cheap compared to a new car stereo, but some are better than others when it comes to music vs. voice calls. Wirecutter has some good recommendations: The Best Bluetooth Kits for Every Car Stereo

I'm in the process of reorganizing my CDs, and I decided to shelve the Mosaic sets in order of their catalog numbers. Then I realized I'd forgotten about the couple of sets I have that were released by Universal in Europe with different catalog numbers...

I still haven't upgraded to iOS 10, but issues like this are why I *never* perform an iOS update without doing a full backup of my phone to iTunes first. As you're no doubt aware, even if you use iCloud to back up your device, that still does not capture all user data and settings the way an iTunes backup does. I've only had to restore from an iTunes backup once, and it was when one of my phones bricked after an iOS update.

http://www.londonjazznews.com/2016/11/feature-ghosts-and-spirits-remembering.html

I think you meant disc 4, track 4. I just checked my copy and it is present there as well.

From Wikipedia: I don't remember when I started seeing the overly intrusive ads, but I'd bet they can ultimately be traced back to the sale of the site and the almost-inevitable desire of the new ownership to shake some revenue out of their new toy.

One that many Deadheads will recognize:

I realized there might be potential pagination issues like the ones you describe after I posted that. Glad that Sejda provided a partial resolution to the problem. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any free utilities that can merge multiple pages into a single page - the one that seems to get recommended a lot is an Acrobat plugin called Quite Imposing: http://www.quite.com/imposing/index.htm but it requires Acrobat 9 or later. There's a related discussion here that I just skimmed - you may want to go through it in a bit more detail: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/711593

The full version of Acrobat allows you to reorder the pages in a PDF file. There are other online services that can do this as well without requiring you to install any sofware, such as this one: https://www.sejda.com/visually-combine-reorder-pdf I haven't used this specific service, but I have had to do this in the past, and the (long forgotten) one that I used got the job done.

Buckner gets all the blame, but he didn't lose the game by himself. It would never have gotten to that point if Schiraldi hadn't given up three successive hits with two outs and Stanley hadn't thrown a wild pitch to score the tying run. And I say that as someone who clearly remembers cursing loudly and throwing something at my TV as I watched the ball go right past Buckner. I knew the Mets were going to win game 7 and the Series then.

That reminds me, yesterday I ran across a fairly recent (within the past several months) interview with Sonny that I don't think has been previously posted here: Interview with Sonny Rollins, Musical and Spiritual Autodidact

I just picked up a copy of the limited-edition hardcover, but the CD of unreleased performances was missing from its pocket inside the back cover. There doesn't seem to be much information about it online - can anyone else that has this shed some light on what's contained on the CD?