Dave Garrett

That is what I understood as well. It has become quite a large site and forum for Dead lovers. I didn't think that there were any secrets about it. Apparently not anymore - Rhino has unleashed their lawyers. The files are already gone, and the site owner has indicated he intends to take the domain offline as well.

Already one up on eBay touted as "newly out of print" with bidding starting at $200.

It's not uncommon for me to have 50-60 tabs open in Firefox all the time, as well as Thunderbird and whatever other programs I happen to be using at any given moment. And this isn't on a high-horsepower box at all, but rather a 6-year-old homebuilt with an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ and 1GB RAM running Win2K. I hadn't realized Macs had gotten so anemic since the Mac IIx I owned close to 20 years ago. All kidding aside, if I ever win the lottery I'll probably get a fully-loaded Mac Pro with one of those enormous, TV-sized Apple Cinema Displays. Ever seen "Pi"? THAT is the machine I want if I win the lottery! Yep, I've seen it. Did you know it was based on two real-life mathematician brothers who actually built a supercomputer in their apartment? The full, amazing story can be found in a (long but very much worth it) 1992 New Yorker article: The Mountains of Pi I was working in a university math department when this article was published, and one of the professors there pointed it out to me. Strangely enough, I don't remember much if any mention of the Chudnovskys when the film was in theaters, but it's the first thing I thought of when I saw it.

It's not uncommon for me to have 50-60 tabs open in Firefox all the time, as well as Thunderbird and whatever other programs I happen to be using at any given moment. And this isn't on a high-horsepower box at all, but rather a 6-year-old homebuilt with an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ and 1GB RAM running Win2K. I hadn't realized Macs had gotten so anemic since the Mac IIx I owned close to 20 years ago. All kidding aside, if I ever win the lottery I'll probably get a fully-loaded Mac Pro with one of those enormous, TV-sized Apple Cinema Displays.

Looks like the buyer's been NARUed at eBay, so presumably the sale fell through.

I think I've recommended this here before, but just in case: Total Recorder

I've been looking at laptops recently, as I'm probably going to be getting one for my wife soon. My requirements as far as specs were 2GB RAM, >120GB hard drive, DVD burner, and a dual-core CPU. You can get something matching these specs for $500-600 if you shop around - most of the big-box stores have had different machines in this price range on sale each of the past few weeks. Best Buy in particular has had some attractive deals, and you frequently don't have to screw around with mail-in rebates there, as you get the discount right at the point of sale. The downside is that you're pretty much stuck with Vista on the new machines. I'd greatly prefer XP, but I've heard reports of mixed results from those who've tried to "downgrade" Vista to XP.

The author clearly isn't familiar with the work of the Fugs.

Me too - just called Mosaic this morning. I haven't gotten an email from them yet indicating it's been moved to Running Low/Last Chance, but it seems like everyone that's put off getting this one is jumping on it quickly now.

I forgot this was on, and turned on the TV last night just in time to catch the Best in Show award. I'd read that Uno was favored to win, but I had no idea a beagle had never won Best in Show there. The crowd went absolutely apeshit when the judge announced the winner. And Uno got caught up in the excitement too, barking at his handler a couple of times.

Just found out about the KSB reunion concerts toward the end of last week, and thought about going but couldn't swing the $125 ticket price (despite it being for a worthy cause). The afternoon following the second concert, news of his passing had started to spread. Will be spinning the CD in remembrance.

My wife essentially left the music selection for our wedding reception up to me, so for our first dance I picked "Day Dream", the version on "...and his mother called him Bill". Johnny Hodges at his most achingly sublime. Lots of other Ellington played that night, but this is the one I'll always remember.

I got the Horsehoe Tavern box Saturday in the mail. Sound is nice. You'll like it. Is the Detroit Jazz Center Residency box still available? And are y'all getting these sets directly from Transparency, or through third-party vendors?

These titles have mysteriously disappeared all-of-a-sudden. Yeah, I had all 4 on order and they got canceled. I'm hoping they were just added to the catalog alittle too early. Maynard Ferguson LIVE AT BIRDLAND also got canceled. I had the recent Kenny Cox Conn on order at BMG for the past several months. I'd previously emailed them inquiring about it, and finally got a note from them this weekend cancelling it because "this selection will no longer be available for distribution through our club".

PM sent on the OKeh box.

Also from The Far East Suite: Mount Harissa Agra

1966 Topps Willie Mays #1 Not a card collector (although I used to be as a kid), but this one seems to be very reasonably priced compared to all of the other "collectors' priced" ones that a quick google turned up.

Internet Acronyms RTFM.

These are almost certainly bootlegs, with the variable audio and video quality that bootlegs usually have - I believe only four of the Columbia shorts are actually in the public domain, due to an oversight resulting in copyright not being renewed on them when it should've been. You want this set, which is the first volume in a series Sony plans to release of all the Stooges shorts in chronological order. I haven't personally seen it yet, but I've read nothing but good things about it, and assuming Sony sees the project through to its eventual completion, it should go a long way toward remedying their somewhat haphazard previous DVD releases of Stooges material.

I mainly listen to broadcast radio, occasionally internet radio. Don't have satellite, and probably won't unless I ever get around to buying a new car (my car is 17 years old and doesn't even have a CD player, let alone a satellite radio deck). Houston is pretty fortunate to have several very good radio stations breaking up the godawful Clear Channel monotony - as you might expect, almost all of them are affiliated with local universities. KTRU, from my alma mater Rice University, has a reputation for favoring indie-rock obscurata, but they also have an excellent jazz and improvised music program on Sundays, and the DJ usually plays a lot of out stuff - here's today's playlist so far: 03:59 PM- die like a dog quartet / ii [from valley to valley] on the eremite label. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03:35 PM- jon raskin quartet / bloodcount [the bass & the bird pond] on the new world records label. 03:25 PM- albert ayler quartet / ghosts [the hilversum sessions] on the esp disk label. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03:12 PM- john coltrane / one down, one up [new thing at newport] on the impulse! label. 03:02 PM- archie shepp / gingerbread, gingerbread boy [on this night] on the impulse! label. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02:41 PM- luther thomas & the human arts ensemble / una new york [funky donkey] on the atavistic label. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01:56 PM- cecil taylor & gunter sommer / riobec [riobec] on the free music production label. You can view setlists and listen online here. KTSU, the radio station of historically Black university Texas Southern University, has the phrase "Jazz in all its colors" as its tagline, but you're just as likely to hear R&B or classic soul, with Sundays almost exclusively devoted to gospel. I probably spend more time listening to KTSU than any other station, as their non-music talk-show programming is usually interesting as well, offering as it does a down-to-earth perspective that's absent from other stations. Unfortunately, they don't appear to have an online stream available. Classical station KUHF, at the University of Houston, used to be a jazz station some years ago. Wish it still was, but that was also back when there were a couple of other competing classical stations as well, all of which are now gone, so KUHF is still filling a valuable role. [Edited to fix my oversight of intending to list radio station KUHF but having it come out with TV station KUHT's call letters]

I like uTorrent too, but anyone contemplating using it should be sure to read the FAQ, particularly sections 1.7 and 1.11, to make sure they have a compatible router or modem. If your router is on this list and you try to run uTorrent, you can expect your net connection to drop every few minutes as the router gets overloaded. This happened to me when my old router died and I unknowingly replaced it with a model that didn't play nice with uTorrent. The constant connection drops were driving me crazy until I figured out what had happened, upgraded to a Linksys WRT54GL, and flashed it with the DD-WRT third-party firmware mentioned in the FAQ. If you have everything properly configured, uTorrent flat out screams.

I ordered this, along with the other four Conns released at the same time, from BMG at the beginning of September and have yet to receive it. When I check my account, it's still showing up as backordered.