Dave Garrett

Quite a few memorable pieces on that list, and it's notable how many of them appeared in Esquire. I highly recommend Esquire's collection of articles from the 60s, Smiling Through The Apocalypse; "Frank Sinatra Has A Cold" is in it, along with many other fine pieces from what many would argue were the magazine's best years.

I don't have the hi-rez download, and I've only skimmed the 1,000,000,000,000,000 posts in Hofflandia that you mention, but some people that have it were reportedly unable to extract some of the files from the huge .ZIP archive after downloading it. And if the disk you're downloading it to is FAT32-formatted instead of NTFS, you're out of luck, as the archive is >8GB, and FAT32 maxes out at 4GB filesizes.

The local alternarag posted this on their website a couple of days ago, with the priceless comment that "Dallas [was] getting teabagged just about to death".

Artist's shit

Well, wasn't it Apple who originally popularized use of the term "evangelist" in relation to technology?

The Brandeis bonus CD is apparently an Amazon exclusive, and is being given out with both the Witmark set and the mono box.

PM sent.

Mine showed up today. Thanks again, Allen.

I think this is an Adobe Reader issue rather than a FF issue. However: Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS X

I'll take it - Paypal on the way.

NSFW, if the title isn't enough of a clue: YouTube link I could see this becoming a big hit - his website mentions a sanitized-for-radio version that premiered on the BBC's Radio 1 yesterday, but doesn't explain exactly how they managed to clean it up.

Not to start an intercity pissing match with the residents of Austin, a wonderful place I've not visited in far too long, but if one is in search of a good meal, there's no place in Texas (and arguably the entire country) that can beat Houston when it comes to variety and quality. Yes, there's an abundance of crappy chain eateries here, but if you're willing to venture off the beaten path, the rewards are plentiful. Exhibit A: Robb Walsh's 100 favorite Houston dishes

That Amazon seller must've been hitting the pipe a little too enthusiastically - there have been several copies on eBay recently and they seem to be averaging around $450-500.

Marginally cheaper at Amazon.uk - I ordered it from them yesterday, and after VAT was deducted and shipping added, my total came out to GBP 52.42, or $84.09 (I have the foreign Amazon sites set up to charge me in USD so as to avoid foreign exchange fees from my credit card company).

Wow. End of one era, beginning of another. Sad I never got a chance to see the band in person, but happy to hear that everyone is pursuing new and equally vital paths. I will treasure the four CDs and DVD as mementos of a really special group.

Not without a hardware mod.

If memory serves, making an Oppo player region-free for standard DVDs is as simple as entering a hidden code, but doing the same thing for Blu-Ray discs requires a hardware modification which may void the warranty. You can buy them already modified from some vendors, or you can get a kit on eBay and DIY - it is apparently not very difficult.

It could very well have died. My (home-built) computer is 9 1/2 years old, and it's on either its third or fourth optical drive. Typically the laser pickups start to crap out, resulting in the inability to read/burn certain kinds of discs, but I've had one that was a mechanical failure - the internal drive belt broke. You could always get a replacement internal drive; they're not that hard to install, and the data transfer rate will most likely be higher than that of an external drive.

I just ran across this earlier today. Far worse than I'd realized, and I already had a pretty low opinion of some of their business practices: The truth about PayPal

Head coach of women's basketball. She held the same position at Duke before coming to UT.

Screw the Pac-10 South. Bring back the Southwest Conference.

I used the recent 40% off coupon to pick up the Rhino Big Star box set at my local Borders. But there's not a lot (music-wise, anyway) there that interests me much anymore. I'm hoping they stock the deluxe Bitches Brew set like they did with the KOB one, and another 40% off coupon comes along then. A couple of the Borders stores in my area still have copies of the big KOB set in their locked cases - no takers even when they had them on sale at 50% off.

I haven't done a comparison of the titles on the LDs and the DVDs, but if I'm not mistaken the DVD set contains a selection of shorts from both of the LD box sets that were released (Swing! Swing! Swing! and Vitaphone Shorts: A 70th Anniversary Celebration, aka Cavalcade of Vitaphone Shorts vols. 1 and 2). The second LD set was very hard to find, and supposedly only a few hundred copies were pressed. It was practically unobtainable if you hadn't gotten it when it was first released, and I was very happy to find a brand-new copy buried in the racks at Lazer Blazer in LA. I still have the LDs, so I haven't felt compelled to get the new DVD, but it's definitely a must-see collection of gems.