Rooster_Ties

Ed Swinnich?

There's a lot of good one's on Fark.com. One I remember seeing just last night was Limp_Bisquick.

Time for me to kick-in $100 then. It'd sure be nice if this board could generate a total of at least $1,000 in contributions to the fund. Who else is in?? Jim -- Can we get the topic changed to mention the fund (maybe a subheading like "donate to his medical expense fund"), and get it pinned?? Thanks!!!

Anybody know (or can find out) how much Mr. Ranelin's medical bills were?? I'm gonna try to contribute about $50 (which I know I can afford), and I might be moved to give $100 - depending on the size of those bills.

It means you need to move, and move fast!! I'm sure its probably not safe living in an invalid zip code.

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No kidding. I think my Mom's Power Mac was/is running the more recent Max OS (the new one, circa 2000-2002), that really changed the user-interface from the older OS (which I still kinda knew). Never could find how to do certain things under the new OS, and pretty much hated it every time I went back home and tried to use it for something. For instance, without any kind of secondary mouse button -- there never was any way I could find to apply (cause) a context-based action to occur, like you would on a PC. In other words, I could often find the object I wanted to manipulate (selected text, icon, file), but then once selected -- there was never any way to bring up the list of actions that were approprate to apply within the context of having that kind of object selected. SO, I was forever digging through menues to try to find what it was I wanted to do. I'm sure the new Mac OS is great if you know what you're doing. But for people that only use PC's, it is/was a royal pain in the ass. -_-

UPDATE Well, my dad needed to really print some stuff (mailing labels for Xmas stuff), so he bit the bullet and let the print que print everything -- just to get it cleared out. I think it printed about 10 or 20 pages of stuff, and now he's back in business. Appreciate all the help, even if it turned out to be for naught.

Where would the "Applications" menu be?? Doesn't appear to be in any of the pull-down menues on the machine when he has -- damn what was that called on the mac. Anyway, in any of the menues when the desktop is visible. Got him on the phone as I'm typing this.

By the way, I a couple days ago I did get far enough along to somehow bring up the properties of his printer (or some sort of "printer status" utility program). But based on my dad's description over the phone - there never was a list of print jobs, nor any kind of menu option related to print jobs or the printer que. The printer utility he brought up had four options (icons I think, or buttons, that each ran a different utility -- to check for things like ink levels (one option), a clogged print-head (another option), and two more options I think (print alignment was one of them, probably). Anyway, I never could find how to bring up the print que --- which was actually was my first thought when he first called me. I didn't think he was out of ink either, and I thought his print que got stopped by accident. Turned out to be the ink after all (when you print black, it prints just a little bit of color too -- to keep the print nozzles clear), so he really did run out of color ink, even though he never printed in color. But before we figured that out, I thought his print-que had gotten stopped by accident. Never could find the print que menu option or utility, though --- and then we discovered the ink issue.

Not sure the problem is unique to macs. I seem to think that I've seen full-print ques on PC's before, even after being powered off and back on. Or maybe I'm remember my old Mac days, back in college (circa '87-'91, and about two years more after that). Far as I know, I've never had it happen on my own machine (a Dell PC, running under Win-ME).

Oh yeah, several times. Printer's been off and on 5 times or more, and the computer's been off and on as many or more times. Printer-que still full with unprinted docs.

Anybody know what Ranelin's medical expenses came to?? I recently discovered and LOVE that guy's recordings from the 70's, and wish him all the best on a speedy recovery. Will probably pitch in $50 myself. Would love to hear him some time, and am thrilled that he wasn't hurt any worse than he was.

Help!! My father is trying to clear out the print-que on his Power-Mac, circa 2001/2002. (Don't know what the OS is, but probably whatever was "current" about 3-4 years ago.) I haven't used a Mac in years and YEARS (well over 10 years ago), and my Dad doesn't know very much more than how to turn it on, open the word processor, type, and how to print. He ran out of colored ink recently (he never prints in color, so that couldn't have been the problem - though it did turn out to be the problem after all), and in the process of me troubleshooting it remotely over the phone - he tried to print out his document 5 or 10 times, or more. Now the printer-que is full with 5-10 unprinted jobs, and needs to be cleared out -- and I can't for the life of me figure out where to do go to that. (He's in St. Louis, I'm in Kansas City -- and nothing he describes over the phone leads to the printer-que control panel, or whatever it's called on a Mac.) I'm been searching on-line Mac-FAQs for 20 minutes, and can't find anything. Anybody got a link to a FAQ, or a solution?? (Or free long-distance, and wanna call him and talk him through it tonight??) Only half-kidding about that last suggestion. Or could you talk me through talking him through it, like if we did the live-chat thing (you "talking" to me via the new Big-O chat function --- since he doesn't have internet access anymore, since my mom passed away a couple years ago). Many, many, MANY thanks in advance for any advice anyone can offer. Could solve this in a heartbeat on a Windows machine, but I'm stumped on damn Macs. I know, they're (supposed to be) easy - but only if you know how to use them.

WTF?? Ranelin had liability insurance himself, but it's the the insurance (or lack thereof) of the OTHER driver that determines whether or not Ranelin's medical expenses get paid?????? I'll admit that I certainly don't know all the ins and outs of the insurance industry, but it seems like I've heard (several times before, I kinda think) that the OTHER driver's liability insurance takes the first hit. But absent that, I thought that your own insurance kicked it. Isn't that one of this things that having insurance is for?? - to cover for when the other guy DOESN'T have any?? I thought that's what my policy covered. Don't tell me that you're TOTALLY at the mercy of whether the other guy has insurance or not - as to whether you, yourself, are covered. Cuz if THAT'S the case, that just ain't right!!!

Bought a sealed copy of PASSING SHIPS from somebody on eBay about 6-months ago, and it had Sam Rivers' CONTOURS in it. Those two Conns weren't even from the same series - what gives?? Ironically, a buddy of mine bought COUNTOURS (also a sealed copy, from a distributer)- and it had the right disc in it (it played CONTOURS), but it didn't have ANY printing on the disc itself, none at all. Wasn't a CDR, but a real silver-disc, but with no printing on it. Gave him my extra CONTOURS (out of the PASSING SHIPS packaging), to go with his COUNTOURS packaging, and he gave me the blank CONTOURS disc. Then I bought another copy of PASSING SHIPS, burned it, and gave him the burn (along with the extra PASSING SHIPS packaging I had), and all was well -- for the most part. Yeah, another EMI QC problem.

Anybody??

I just wish someone would kill this thread.

How's the piano-less trio date with just bass and drums?? Come to think of it, I don't know that I've ever heard any Dex in a small group setting, without piano. How's the one with guitar?? Any other piano-less small group Dex records??

Hobart really peaked in the 90's. (The 1890's, that is. )

For what it's worth, BOOGALOO is probably my all-time favorite John Patton album. (And in large measure, because of the imaginative work the tenor player. )

Beautiful!! Would that all jazz musicians be so lucky to have written at least one really great (and frequenly played) standard, and one that they retained the publishing rights for.

I believe that only the admins (Jim and Use3d) can change your user name, but it can be done - and has been done before. FWIW, I've thought about having Jim take the "_" out of my name ("Rooster_Ties"), but I've never bothered -- since most of the people who know me here, know it's there. And since user names always appear underlined - you can't tell if the darn thing ("_") is there or not.