Dmitry

I understand that you are convinced that Chinese death numbers are/will be lower than ours will be when it's all tallied up? I'm scratching my head as to why you are saying that..

Found it. Wilton, not New Canaan. And it looks like both houses were designed by a man with a funky name Beverly Thorne. I'm sure you now can locate his Oakland house too. I'm going to dinner. Check this out - https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/home-decor/a28396899/dave-brubeck-midcentury-connecticut-house/

That is probably not it. I'm digging the shirt though.

Guy, what directs you to think so?

Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross - Things ain’t what they used to be

Ella Fitzgerald - I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good), from Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook Sarah Vaughn - Don't Be On The Outside, from In the Land of Hi-Fi Miles Davis - I Don't Wanna Be Kissed, from Miles Ahead Miles Davis - There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York, from Porgy and Bess Cannonball Adderley - We'll Be Together Again, from Presenting Cannonball Adderley Horace Silver - The Respiratory Story, from Music to Ease Your Disease Pitch in. Let's make it work!

As opposed to what other supermarket chain? With all due respect, it reads like a fluff piece. If they did "see it coming", all the upper management would've dumped their 401k holdings, and opened CDs.

I read it. I don't know what they are doing that's different from our regional chains, at lest overtly, as I'm not privy to the runnings of the supermarket business. There's no food shortage, the toilet tissue is back in stock at our local supermarket. N95 masks...Do they have them now at HEB? Doesn't appear to be the case from reading the article.

It takes a big man to apologize, and I appreciate it. We are all on edge here, regardless of our location. Stay safe, and enjoy the vino!

Kevin, if you decide to come down here for the Newport Festival this August, I will take you to that Cantonese restaurant. It's a hidden gem. I really hope it survives the turmoil.

Your statement is bullshit. I really wasn't expecting for someone here to drag out the "racist" placard, as a response to my original post. Anti-sanitary conditions are responsible for millions of deaths every year, mostly in third world countries, or countries with large swaths of population living in, get ready, anti-sanitary conditions. For instance, wet markets, like the one in Wuhan, where the virus is purported to have infected patient zero, are notorious for the detritus soup, in which the the buyers interact with sellers and their wares. When large numbers of people live in cramped quarters, the anti-sanitary conditions prevail, and foster disease - from easily treated , but embarrassing pediculosis, like my son brought home from two weeks of a soccer camp in Madrid, to something a lot more serious. That's why I asked a question whether there was evidence that the virus originated in Lombardy in a Chinese enclave, where people work in sweat shops and live in cramped conditions. True, diseases have no nationality, but they have origins...China, USA, Germany, Russia, Africa. Knowing and understanding them is essential for epidemiologists to fight, and hopefully cure them.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-19-no-evidence-coronavirus-jumped-pangolin-people/amp?__twitter_impression=true There’s no evidence the coronavirus jumped from pangolins to people

Best post of the tread!

Bergamo Mayor Giorgio Gori said this week: "It's very probable that 40,000 Bergamaschi in the stands of San Siro, all together, exchanged the virus between them. "Unfortunately, we couldn't have known. No one knew the virus was already here. It was inevitable." The head of the WHO had recently stated there was no evidence of the human-to-human transmission. The Chinese were also proclaiming, urbi et orbi, that airline travel to and from China was safe. Also, even after the first cases started to snowball, the Italian populist politicians from top to bottom were hi-fiving each other, breaking their own quarantine, drinking Prosecco and happily giving tv interviews that no-one was afraid of the virus. This article is poor. The writer completely misses the point of his own title - who infected the football stadium fans before they, in turn, infected the others, and where did the infection come from to Italy, in the first place.

I have information that Lombardy went down rapidly because of the thousands of Chinese nationals legally and illegally living there, working in sweat shops for the fashion industry. Are there enclaves of the Chinese there, akin to the Indian reservations here, with their own laws, etc., and the local authorities closing their eyes to the anti-sanitary conditions, because everyone was making money? True or not? Thanks.

Most strip mall Chinese restaurants around here provide very low end Szechwan food to the customers who would eat garbage, provided it was cheap. However, I would be sad if my favorite one were to close; they are the only ones in the area who make nice Cantonese dishes, dim sum, congee, etc. I have no idea how authentic they are, unlike Brad, who made a distinction above. It just tastes good. It's probably authentic; it is the only one where I regularly see Chinese people as customers, sometimes whole families sitting around a lazy Susan. Hot and sour soup - one of the few Szechwan dishes I truly relish. A well-made one is remarkable. Tough to find, though.

The solution is easy - eat less, poop less, and if you must go, do it behind the garage, in the hole in the ground... His shit is not as crazy as the stuff you watch on cable news or read in your favorite internet daily.

Newspaper was the only thing I used to wipe my ass for the first 18 years of my life, along with hundreds of millions of people in this world of ours. You'll be just fine, trust me! And you will learn something new, while sitting on the john.

I'm officially provisionally unemployed since last Thursday. So far I have managed to drive my wife crazy way more than my allocated weekly allowance. She is working, so I only see her a few hours a day, but thank god for uninterrupted cellular signal. Tele-quetching ... I love it, and Im good at it. Some observational notes : The cable news channels are just fear-mongering machines, fine-tuned to near perfection. All of them, no matter the political angle. I've been working out every day, but am still not losing any weight. WTF?! Traffic in the the gun stores is insane; even the anti-gun people are buying firearms. It's somewhat nostalgic to see people standing 6 feet apart outside the gun shop, line is wrapping around the block, like in the USSR, when the toilet paper was said to be available...until the stock runs dry. Speaking of the toilet paper, our BJ's was sold out of 8 pallets by 9:30am. They opened at 9. Darwinism at work. On the positive angle - I'm spending a lot of time with my kids, and they are actually eager to do various chores around the house, since there isn't anything else to do, god forbid, like reading. So far they've vacuumed, washed the floors, did the laundry, and are on to the yard cleaning next. Went to the liquor store yesterday at 1pm, and saw the locals I've never seen before - the drunks. Makes sense now - noon is the time to refill on the cheap booze and expensive cigarettes, once you shake off enough of yesterday's hangover...

Another shitty piece of cover art by the chronically-lazy BN art department.

Was looking forward to seeing his trio tomorrow at the Side Door [possibly one of the best jazz clubs in the country right now, imho], but at the last moment his trio is being replaced with Dave Stryker's. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dave-stryker-trio-tickets-82879688379 Wish Vic Juris well!!!

One of the words in your response is the same as a word in the previous post, doesn't matter whether it's name, or part of the the album title, or a song title. Following from above - Art and Aviation - Jane Ira Bloom Interaction - Art Farmer Me and the Farmer - The Housemartins The Famer - Thin Lizzy Dizzy, Miss Lizzy - Larry Williams A night in Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie Hope that explains it. .

Have you guys been doing this, and I missed it? For instance, I say: So What - Miles Davis ,you counter with Life - Art Davis ,then Art Lives - Art Pepper , then Bird Lives - Ira Sullivan , then Art and Aviation - Jane Ira Bloom

I haven't been wearing a watch on a daily basis in more than 25 years. When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I got my first one, and would wear it daily, as most of us had then. The horological need disappeared when I got my first cell phone in the late-1990s, and with my schooling, and then the job for the last 25 years I couldn't really wear a watch. Until recently I've only had one for convenience on vacations, where my cell phone wouldn't have signal. For that purpose ten or 11 years ago I bought a plastic Swatch in some airport, and it still runs, as long as I remember to replace the battery every few years. i don't even remember what watch I had prior to that. My wife, otoh, can't step outside without a watch on her wrist. Some years ago I bought for her a 26mm Rolex Lady-Datejust chronometer as a very special gift. No gold or diamonds, just a reserved stainless steel piece, as she wanted. It has been flawless, and went with her on many a trip, both terrestrial and aquatic. Recently my wife's eyesight has gotten worse, and telling time on a small dial with tiny hands has become problematic, so we decided to sell the Rolex, which I did, to an excellent, reliable on-line dealer. The process was a breeze, and the price I received was substantially more than from the other big on-line luxury watch dealers. If you want the name, PM me. It is truly amazing how Rolex watches keep their value, even after years of wear! We were initially considering buying her another one, but the prices are obscene at the moment, especially for the stainless steel models. On a whim, I bought a used mechanical 1990s 39mm Seiko in a consignment store for $30, and she's wearing it for now, and loves it. The hands are so much bigger than on her 26mm ladies watch! Since we've started to look for a new watch for her, I, myself, have gotten a bit into it. I have held on to a couple of watches that belonged to my late father; one is a giant perpetual calendar quartz Seiko from 1990, which needs to go to the Seiko service center to replace the battery and reset the calendar. It's a huge watch; my dad, unlike me, had massive wrists, so I don't know if it'll be comfortable for me once I size the bracelet, but we'll see. Another one is a self-winding no-name Swiss job from the 1970s that I remember him wearing since I was little. I've already taken it to a watch-maker for service. The plated case is brassed and dinged up, the plastic bezel has a burn mark from a hot car engine or tool surface, wherever he was working when it happened. Once it's back, I'll wear it. Are you guys wearing watches?

Good call on the plugs, I'll bring them! and sun block. 85* and full sun tomorrow. The beer garden opens at noon.