Dave Garrett

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.

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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.

This is the same company that worked on the kinescopes of Elvis' appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show which were released on DVD not too long ago. I believe one of the principals is or was a "Gort" at the Steve Hoffman forums. They have a blog (or they're at least somehow affiliated with one - not sure of the exact relationship) as well - there's a piece talking about the Elvis DVDs here. Edit: a little more digging turned this up: LiveFeed Video Imaging

We could do a thread just with them Pocahotass. Where the fruit lies The cocksucker Proxy Chances are, for every one you think up, someone in the porn film industry has already beaten you to it. That said, I'm not sure anyone will ever top EDWARD PENISHANDS (yes, it's a real movie).

Ad-Aware 2007 Free Spybot Search & Destroy I use both of these - I normally run full system scans on my machines using one right after the other, as they will each find things that the other won't. Combine with AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, and you should be pretty well-protected from a software standpoint. From a hardware standpoint, if you don't have a NAT router, you should get one even if you're only running one computer off your DSL connection and don't need to share it with other computers - it will provide an additional significant layer of protection to the computer(s) behind the router. I've heard mixed things about Zone Alarm - my dad uses it and has been relatively pleased with it, but other people I know don't care for it. I've never used it myself.

No, but you might be out your PayPal account. PayPal really doesn't like chargebacks. But last I remember, they usually wouldn't yank your account the first time you filed a chargeback through your CC company. More than that, and you're probably on thin ice.

Nice coupon. Too bad that my local Borders has so little worth buying. Anyone interested in the On the Corner box that hasn't got it already might want to check their local Borders - mine just got 4 copies in last week. I used a 25% off coupon to pick one up last weekend - if I'd known they were going to have a 30% off one, I'd have waited. Depending on tax in your locale, you should be able to get it for less than CD Universe is charging with the 30% off coupon.

Try sleeping with two people and a 70-pound German Shepherd in a queen-size bed. My wife loves to remind me that she suggested we get a king-size bed when we first moved into our house, several years before the dog came along. Hindsight's always 20-20.

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We live five minutes away from a large farmers' market in Houston, and when they're in season you can find huge strawberries there for cheap. They haven't had any for about a month now, and although I can still find some in the grocery stores, they're getting scarcer and they're not nearly as nice as the ones at the farmers' market. I eat a fair amount of raspberries and blackberries as well, and the supply of those is also starting to dry up. Unfortunately, I'm not too fond of apples or pears.

That's what I thought too on Saturday, but I went ahead and ordered anyway. Think about it, if you want the set, you really don't have anything to lose by ordering it - at worst, Amazon will cancel the order. But if it turns out to be a real deal and you didn't order it, you'll be kicking yourself later for not doing so. I passed on this set and the Art Pepper Galaxy box during the big Zweitausendeins sale because I thought I'd already spent too much on the two orders I placed. Many times since then I've wished I had just gone ahead and spent the extra cash to get those two sets at what was then a ridiculously affordable price.

There was a thread about it on the Steve Hoffman forum several months ago.

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I ordered these: and got a shipping notice for all except the Strayhorn, which I assume was sold out or otherwise unavailable.

Our first dance was to the version of "Daydream" on "...And His Mother Called Him Bill". For the processional we used "The Single Petal of a Rose". And later on in the evening, I'm pretty sure that most if not all of "The Far East Suite" was played.

My external hard drive claims to be full, but it's not This is the first reference I stumbled across after I experienced this problem when I tried to copy a >4GB DVD ISO image to the drive in question. There's also a Microsoft KnowledgeBase article that covers the conversion: How to convert a FAT16 volume or FAT32 volume to an NTFS file system in Windows XP

NTSC? Do you mean NTFS? There is apparently a way to switch the filesystem on hard drives from FAT32 to NTFS without reformatting them - it's a relatively simple command-line switch. I have one external drive that I failed to notice was default-formatted as FAT32 before I loaded 100+ GB of FLAC files onto it, but I've never felt brave enough to try to perform the filesystem switch as I don't have a good set of complete backups for the drive.

Last night, using the 40% off Borders coupon: Duke Ellington - The Jaywalker (Storyville) Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement (2006 remaster) King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (2004 remaster)

I always wanted "MTHRFCKR" vanity plates. Unfortunately, even if someone was asleep at the switch and actually approved them, Texas has a 6-character limit on license plates.

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