Dave Garrett

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Good choice. Yeah it is! That was my introduction to Ben. A terrific collection! Ben arrived in today's mail. Thanks again, Dan!

Funny--same thing happened to me yesterday. But when I uninstalled and reinstalled, it worked. Go figure. Damn! I could have avoided all that trouble, just by taking my PC to France! I'm a longtime user of AVG, both free and pay versions (I have the pay version on 2 desktop workstations, and the free version on my wife's laptop). Whenever anything like this happens, my first instinct is to do nothing and see if the problem is resolved on the next update. Which it appears to have been. I believe AVG's default setting is to check for updates daily, and to my mind it's a very minimal risk of getting infected because an update failed or was delayed. As always, YMMV, depending on your tolerance for risk - all of my machines are behind a NAT router, and I might very well feel differently were they not. It's also worth checking the AVG forums when you experience a problem to see if anyone else is having the same issues. What did try my patience seriously was when AVG mysteriously started requiring the PC to be restarted after every single daily update. Only one of my machines experienced this, but it was unfortunately one that runs 24/7, and it was a supreme pain in the ass to have to reboot every day when it normally goes months between reboots. Lots of other people reported the same problem, and various solutions were proposed but I'm not aware of one that conclusively fixed it. It finally went away as suddenly as it started; now that I've mentioned it, it'll probably start happening again.

Season one came out on DVD several weeks ago.

PM sent on Ben Webster, The Soul of Ben Webster (Verve) two discs - $14

For what it's worth, in various places online I've run across the multitracks to ANMHE, no one's ever claimed that they were anything except the original multitracks. Of course, it's possible they could've been reverse-engineered, but someone in this thread on another forum claims the tracks were licensed by Digidesign for the express purpose of demo-ing Pro Tools functionality.

Speaking of the Revenant box, has anyone had a defective disc 6 replaced as detailed here? I got the box a while back, but never got around to listening to disc 6 until recently, and sure enough, the "sizzling" problem that's described is clearly present on mine. I emailed Revenant using the form on the website, but that was probably a month or two ago, and I've yet to receive either a response or a replacement disc. Just curious how long it took others to get one, assuming there are even any replacement discs left since the set's almost OOP.

Got mine Monday - it was a shitty day at work, so it was nice to get home and find a package bearing the distinctive "Big O Records" label waiting for me. I'm on my second spin now as I type this, and I can already tell this is going to be in heavy rotation in my CD player for a while. Great stuff, guys! Now to get up to speed with the earlier two discs...

Worldwide ages of consent

Reload the page when you get that "no longer available" message. I've had this happen frequently on my computer lately as well, but when I reload the page the video is there. Not sure what's up with that. Of course, there are times when the error message is legitimate and the video really has been pulled.

Check your version number again - the update that was pushed out today (I got it this morning too) was for version 2.0.0.15, if you were already using 2.0.0.x. They usually don't push out major version upgrades (like from 2.x to 3.x) automatically at first - you have to manually download and install the new version if you want to migrate to it.

Mark Evanier had the best comment I've seen so far on Carlin's passing: "Seven words come immediately to mind. All are appropriate for the occasion."

Wasted Days, Wasted Lives (Part 1) Wasted Days, Wasted Lives (Part 2) Meaux's probation is revoked

On a similar note, I had an uncle (my father's older brother) who was born in the early 1930s and given the name "Adolph." By the census data of 1940, his name had already been changed to "Adam." My dad, born in 1937, wasn't even aware of this as his brother's original name had already been changed and essentially forgotten by the family. My father was born in 1931, in East Texas, and his first name is "Adolph". He never changed it, but at some point he started using the nickname "Pete", and I don't think I've ever heard anyone call him anything else. He will sometimes go by his first and middle initial as well, but does not use his first name except on official documents. I'm not too well-versed in the ancestry of his side of the family beyond the fact that they hailed from the Alsace-Lorraine region along the Franco-German border before emigrating to Texas at some point during the 19th century, so perhaps that's where the name came from.

A guy walks into a diner and orders a cheeseburger. He watches in amazement as the unkempt, wifebeater-wearing fry cook wanders back to the freezer, grabs a frozen meat patty, and shoves it into his armpit to thaw it out. The customer turns to the waitress and exclaims, "I can't believe what I'm seeing!" To which the waitress responds, "That's nothing, you should've been here yesterday when he was making the donuts."

Heartfelt condolences to you and your family, Jim.

Secret Sessions is back up to $69.99 via Newbury at Amazon. I was going to order it last night, but I figured it could wait until today. Guess I snoozed and lost.

Uh, no. It's a commemoration of the Mexican victory over French forces in the battle of Puebla. It's a much bigger deal in the US than in Mexico, as for Mexican-Americans it's become analogous to what St. Patrick's Day is for Irish-Americans.

Long shot, I know, but I figured it was worth a try. I'm looking for a copy of the booklet that came with the Complete Glenn Miller CD box set released by Bluebird/RCA in the early '90s. Not too long ago, I picked up a brand-new copy of the Japanese release of this set, which is almost identical to the US version, except the song titles on the jewel case inserts and the thick booklet containing essays and discographical information are all in Japanese. I didn't realize this at the time, but I'd have probably bought the set anyway as I got it for much less than the US version usually seems to go for. So, if anyone's got an orphaned copy of the US edition booklet looking for a home, PM me.

Houston Architecture Info Forum (aka HAIF)

Got mine today. Listening to disc 1 right now - very nice. (hey, we need a stealie smiley...)

Well, there is a nontrivial link between food and sex, after all. FWIW, I've always heard it as "fuck", but I'll have to listen to it again today to see if I hear it differently now.

Steely Dan was a dildo. A milk squirting dildo, to be exact! A steam-powered, milk-squirting dildo!