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I don't speak (much) Spanish. Or Russian. Yet 75 percent of the e-mail spam I get is in one of these two languages...setting aside the spam I get that is in unidentifiable languages. Is this common among, say, the native English speakers/US residents out there? Or did I just find my way onto a special spam list, perhaps by traveling a lot in Spanish- and Russian- speaking countries?

Haven't had an opportunity (time or phone) to try this, but for your information: http://tones.wolfram.com/ About WolframTones When prominent scientist Stephen Wolfram published A New Kind of Science in 2002, it was immediately hailed as a major intellectual landmark. Today the paradigm shift that Wolfram's work initiated is starting revolutions in a remarkable range of areas of science, technology--and the arts. WolframTones is an experiment in applying Wolfram's discoveries to the creation of music. At the core of A New Kind of Science is the idea of exploring a new abstract universe: a "computational universe" of simple programs. In A New Kind of Science, Wolfram shows how remarkably simple programs in his "computational universe" capture the essence of the complexity--and beauty--of many systems in nature. WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story--and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition. It's all original music--fresh from "mining" Wolfram's computational universe. Sometimes it's reminiscent of familiar musical styles; sometimes it's like nothing ever heard before. But from just the tiniest corner of the computational universe WolframTones can make everyone on Earth their own unique cellphone ringtone. It's a taste of what it's like to explore the computational universe--and a hint what's to come...

Monk, for sure. But also Art Hillery.

Nice line up. Good write up in allmusic. I'm tempted.

All the cool kids? But wait...

Pony! Must have. (Clarification: I must have. No recommendation intended.) Pony's an old buddy.

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As much as I liked the people and business generally, the only way I could ever justify Red Trumpet purchases was when they had a 25 or 30 percent off sale. Fortunately, this was just about every week. But the sales flyers have stopped coming.

Chet Baker - Cause of Death - Defenestration. One of my all-time favorite words. (The odd mind of a Laitn student.)

Strange array of jazz types listed. Wardell Gray and Art Blakey, but no Art Pepper or James Moody, just by way of example. Do a text search on 'jazz'.

http://www.nndb.com/ If you want to check out someone's (presumed) sexual orientation...

STRESS? WHAT STRESS? I've gone from listening 40 hours a week to 40 minutes. 100+ hour work weeks. Constant travel. No 'portable' music, most of the time. Next time I see my CD collection (January '06), I'll try to pull out a couple of the recommendations here. Like the Coleman/Bierach, which I have only vague memories of. Sorry, don't mean to gripe. Personally, I'm a Ben Webster-for-stress-relief guy. No one better at low to moderate tempos.

As much as I believe that turnabout is fair play, and I'd like to make you jealous, my main 'road bike' ride is a 31-pound bike built around a frame I picked up from one of those bike touring companies, after the end of its useful life. Straight-guage steel. Nasty-looking unsculpted lugs. Cantis. Fenders, half the year. But it gets me through most of a 25,000km/year 'habit'. Still, I do appreciate a nice-looking ride, just as I do a fine auto...provided the bike doesn't have Shimano components. But I tend to be hard on bikes/cars, and abusing a beautiful bike would bother me - it might even prevent me from taking that off-road ride in the sleet or doing the spur of the moment CX. Can't have that. So, for both of us, ENJOY!

Heck, I'm not even sure where I am right now. I'll have to call the front desk.

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Can't help but wonder if the author's husband is a cyclist. And if a guy named Schrader has some inflation problems, I shouldn't be surprised.

This is old news - probably a decade or more - and I thought fairly well discredited by now. Even after 30 years of 25,000km a year, I'm not paying any attention to all those Viagra ® ads in my e-mail. And for any cyclists out there, I'm doing most of my riding on an unpadded, circa 1974 Unicanitor. And if that won't do it...

Hey, this is a friend. I'm not playing the G-Man in her new house. I'm forming the impression that the electronic deterrents are mainly hokum.

A friend of mine bought a house. It's in a semi-rural area. There are mice. I've never dealt with mice before. She'd prefer to just keep them away, and there appear to be 'repellents' for this purpose, both chemical and electronic. Any experiences or opinions out there? Anything appreciated.

'Git it.

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To each their own, but I've never intentionally had anything autographed for the purpose of selling the item at a profit....or with the thought that I can re-sell it later for whatever reason. Some of my autographs are personalized, some aren't; I'm happy to have met the artist and to have a special mememto of that meeting. ← I agree. I'm not sure I could ask someone NOT to personalize an autograph. What would he/she think?

No. Somehow, I miraculously survived the late 60s, 70s, and 80s in Berkeley without buying Birkenstocks. Even lived in a Cal Co-op.

...and where are poker, Chrysler 300s, barbeque, low-hanging pants...

I've played Trivial Pursuit, though at least 15 years after the 'fad' era, and I own a non-iPod MP3 player. Otherwise, I'm clean.