Dave Garrett

It's a 5-disc set due out in November: Sinatra: New York

Yeah, the Three Wolf Moon t-shirt's OK, but for true style, nothing compares to the Three Keyboard Cat Moon t-shirt.

I had a similar experience. I've been called several times, but have only been selected once. Once we got into the jury room and began deliberations, I couldn't believe some of the things that my fellow jurors uttered. One particularly vociferous woman angrily insisted that she would never vote in favor of the plaintiff because he "just looked like he was lying", completely ignoring the fact that his case was quite strong against a defendant who had clearly been negligent. She also made other statements that were borderline racist (the plaintiff was black). I remember thinking that if this was a jury of our peers, we were all screwed.

I got it later, but I'm thanking you now. Some pretty amazing stuff here. The low price from Caiman seems to have (temporarily?) disappeared, but importcds still has it for not too much more.

I managed to snooze through the free shipping code that expired a week or so ago - anyone know if there's another similar code that still works? There are a few discs I'd like to pick up before BMG closes its doors for good (on, I believe, the 23rd), but I'm weighing the chances of another free shipping promotion happening between now and then before deciding whether to pull the trigger now or wait a bit longer.

3.0 is noticeably faster and more stable for me than 2.x was. Many of the problems listed in this thread could very well be OS-related, firewall/anti-virus software issues, or plug-in conflicts. It's often hard to pinpoint the root causes of browser problems because there are a whole lot of other variables at work besides the browser. 3.5 is supposed to be out in a week or two, and Mozilla claims it will be twice as fast as 3.0.

Throttle position sensors themselves are not very expensive and shouldn't be too difficult to replace. Unfortunately, I recently had to replace the entire throttle body on my Honda because Honda, in their infinite wisdom, does not sell the TPS separately for my particular model (although based on some online research, I might have been able to get an aftermarket one and hack it to work, but the results seemed to be mixed). So instead of a $20 part, I had to pay $500 for a new throttle body plus the labor to install it. Hopefully Ford isn't as insane as Honda when it comes to this part.

Oh yeah, the 400 Fours were beautiful, jewel-like bikes. I've always wanted one, although as was already pointed out they're pretty scarce and collectible now. I saw a nicely restored one at a car show a few months ago - some guy had a really impressive collection of immaculate vintage bikes there, including a Kawi Z1 turbo, an Ariel Square Four, and the only other bike that seriously diverted my attention from the 400 Four, a 6-cylinder Honda CBX. I've always been fascinated with the CBX - I remember well the impact it made on the motorcycling press when it first appeared in the late 70s, its engine being a streetable descendant of the fearsome RC166 racebike: Sound of Honda - RC166 YouTube - RC166 A 6-cylinder 250 that revved to 18,000 rpm and made 60hp. In 1966.

I'm sorry to hear that Corbin may be having problems - I had a Corbin Gunfighter on my '81 Honda CB750/836F that was a very nice seat. I sent it back to Corbin to have it reconditioned some years ago before I put my bike into what I thought would be a short-lived storage but has turned into a much longer one that will almost certainly require going through the bike head-to-tail before it's roadworthy again. I don't have a pic of mine, but I found this pic of one that's almost identical - same seat, same Kerker 4-into-1, K&Ns on tweaked CB900F carbs. Mine still had the stock Honda paint job; it was previously owned (and built) by a friend who used to roadrace in WERA events in the late 70s/early 80s. Last of a storied lineage of great aircooled Honda fours, dating back to the original '69 CB750.

Pepsi Throwback About time, but they had to go and fuck up a good idea by making it a limited-time promotion. What really sucks: soft drinks made with HFCS. I defy anyone to drink a Mexican Coke, which is still made with cane sugar, and tell me they can't taste the difference between it and the regular stuff sold here.

My first car was a used Duster of similar vintage with a six. It had a 4-speed with, of all things, a Hurst shifter. I always wondered if the previous owner had harbored thoughts of eventually shoehorning in one of the Mopar V-8s you were more likely to find on the other end of most Hurst shifters. Those sixes were quiet, smooth, and damn near indestructible. Mine used more oil than it should've, but it didn't smoke. I'd probably still be driving it, but less than a year after I bought it, I was driving around and heard a "bang", and the front end sagged on the passenger side. Took it into the shop, expecting some sort of suspension or shock failure, only to have the mechanic put it up on the rack and point out the big-ass crack in one of the frame rails. Off to the junkyard it went.

If you like powerful, rear-drive cars, the Corvette V8-powered G8 GXP is very nice. As is the GTO (which was only made from 2004-2006, but I seem to remember talk of resurrecting it). But both of those were essentially rebadged Holdens (GM's Australian subsidiary). The Solstice 2-seat convertible is very nice also, and set a new standard for cars of its class at a lower price point than had previously been the norm. The Saturn Aura convertible shares the Solstice platform, so I guess it'll be going away as well if GM sells off Saturn and shutters Pontiac.

Looks like there's one on eBay: DUKE ELLINGTON Carnegie Hall Nov 13 1948

You have to have either a PayPal or a merchant account to list on eBay now: Accepted Payments Policy eBay has gotten progressively more draconian in its policies over the years, and the changes have favored the large-volume sellers to the detriment of people who just want to sell odds and ends once in a while. Remember when you used to be able to use your email address as your user ID?

I ordered RT 2.2 on 4/6, got a shipping confirmation on 4/8, and the Brown Santa dropped it on my doorstep on Monday, 4/13. Seconded on the shitty packaging - I didn't tear it open, but I was sure I was about to. Whoever designed this clearly didn't intend for it to be actually used on a regular basis.

Did you try creating a clean test profile to see if the same problems showed up? I've seen many complaints of Firefox problems that were ultimately traced back to profiles that had somehow gotten corrupted or an add-in that decided not to play nice with a new version of FF. Creating a new Firefox profile on Windows FWIW, I'm running FF 3.0.8 on a 7-year-old machine with Windows 2000, an AMD Athlon XP1700+ CPU, and 2GB RAM. I typically have between 50-100 tabs open, and have had no problems aside from having to restart FF every couple of days when the memory use starts to get a little on the high side (the machine, and FF, are running 24/7).

This is the one you want. It's a 3-disc compilation, and it's outstanding. Really wish they'd release additional sets, but so far that hasn't come to pass.

Try this link instead.

They have been testing them since last year, and it looks like they're getting ready to expand the caps into additional cities: Time Warner Cable Bandwidth Caps Coming To More Cities

Comcast has a 250GB monthly cap now, after which you start getting whacked with extra charges or warnings that they'll close your account if the level of usage persists. I'd be interested to know how much bandwidth the Roku consumes, as one of the big concerns about the bandwidth cap is that it's going to be quite easy for those who stream decent-quality video on a regular basis to hit the cap.

PM sent on this one: Nigeria 70 The Definitive story of 1970's Funky Lagos 3 cd set $25

All of the Reprise-era Sinatra CDs are OOP, at least in the US - this was a byproduct of the deal the Sinatra family struck with Warner in 2007. The charitable interpretation is that they intend to eventually rerelease the Reprise titles in improved versions. The uncharitable interpretation is that what Sinatra fans have to look forward to is an endless series of themed compilations like the recent "Seduction - Sinatra Sings of Love" CD or last year's "Nothing But The Best" disc. Given the changes in the music industry, the economics of physical product, and the manner in which the Reprise discs went OOP (there are claims that they were actually pulled from stores, as opposed to the distributor removing them from availablility for new orders), I'd say that if you want any of these CDs and happen to run across them, you'd do well to grab them while you can.

Spotted elsewhere on the net: >In honor of the Octo-mom Denny's is offering a new breakfast meal: > >You get fourteen eggs, no sausage, and the guy next to you has to pay the bill.

I my Oppo DV-980H. In addition to upconversion, Oppo players are also region-free and perform PAL->NTSC conversion nicely. My previous region-free player was markedly inferior in terms of picture quality and tended to choke on DVD+/-Rs; not so the Oppo, which has played everything I've thrown at it without a hitch. Blu-Ray does appear to be the future, but I haven't upgraded yet for several reasons: I am still using an analog CRT TV, the number of available titles I'm interested in hasn't reached critical mass yet, and I understand that region-coding is much more of a sticky issue than it is with standard DVD.

Van Dyke was a big fan of Keaton, and in fact played a fictional silent-film comedian that was partly based on Keaton in the 1969 film The Comic.