Big Wheel

If you install the Live HTTP Headers extension for Firefox, then try to load the page, you'll have output you can copy into a post here (or PM me) to troubleshoot. Other things to try: -Try clearing your cookies in addition to cache. -Change your browser's proxy setting to "auto-detect proxy settings" - a long shot, but could work. It's an off chance, but if you have a static IP they could be blocking it (maybe they think you're visiting too frequently and racking up bandwidth costs on their end).

I did finally manage to get through with them today, although the customer service rep seemed kind of frazzled and eager to get me off the phone. They said their IT dept. has been notified about some customers not getting confirmation emails, and that one of my orders had some items backordered but the other one is ready to ship.

Can't hurt to place a phone call. One of my orders was messed up not long ago and I just gave them a call and I just reordered it. They're pretty good over the phone. Um...has anyone tried to call them this week? It's 4:30 EST and they say they don't close till 5, but I've now called twice (and left a message yesterday) and nobody has picked up or called me back.

BTW, their site is seriously janky. It's like they paid a designer a ton of $$$ to make it really pretty and then had no money left for someone who understands how to build a good ecommerce website. Forget about the usability issues, like the fact that it's almost impossible to search or browse by artist without drilling through multiple pages. The parts that keep track of your info seem really, really buggy. For example, I just placed my second order - but I never got a confirmation email for either of my two orders (has anyone else?) And now, although I wrote down my order number for the first order, it's nowhere to be seen in my order history....

It does appear that the $5.98 pricing is gone from the listings for now. The weird thing is, the items already in my cart still show $5.98...

Given the huge scale of some of these sites, major bugs happen more often than you might think (though you don't see most of them because downtime of course equals $$$$ lost and companies have the equivalent of engineering SWAT teams to fix them). I could tell some stories but I don't think my current employer would appreciate it...

Seems fine to me - I just looked up a bunch of Terje Rypdal ECMs to test. Maybe a brief datacenter outage screwed up the system's attempts to talk to its database?

IIRC it could also be the wiring on the wall though. If your outlet can't handle 6 devices going through an outlet meant for 2, that could be the source of your problems. My mom had the exact same symptoms you're describing with the power in the computer room wavering. It turned out she was daisy-chaining multiple power strips together, putting a computer, printer, monitor, UPS, and other stuff through the same outlet. Bad news.

Are you using a power strip? Did you daisy-chain multiple power strips together? If yes to either of the above two questions, how many devices do you have on each strip?

Noah Howard - Live at the Village Vanguard - Freedom/Intercord 28.488-5U Noah Howard (as, tamb, bells) Frank Lowe (ts, bells) Bob Bruno (p) Earl Freeman (el-b) Rashied Ali (d) Juma Sutan (cga, tim) Back A'Town Blues (12:42) Conversation (NH solo) (8:33) Dedication (to Albert Ayler) (14:34) NYC, 22/8/72 Great LP! Noah actually mailed me a homemade CD copy of this for the show that was the impetus for this thread. Sadly, it reached me too late to air it at the time. I don't have the disc anymore (gave it to the station) but remember enjoying it.

Did anyone else hear the Hans Groiner show? I'm 5 minutes in and wondering how long this is going to be...

test - some corrupted posts in here and i want to see if replying will restore them... arghhh...looks like some of these posts are gone.

Whoa. $13.99 settles it for me. Thanks Lon.

Thanks Mike - will check that board out. I did find this local company, http://www.soldrums.com/conga.html , but these drums seem well above mid-range! I was initially planning for a budget of maybe $400 per drum, tops.

Clifford Jarvis

So I was in this funky bar in SF this weekend and these local dudes, mostly Cuban I think, were playing guaguanco inside. 3 congueros, chekere, some other random sticks and blocks and shakers, plus a coro. Anyway...I'm thinking I might have the bug again to learn this stuff (I know the basic tumbaos and montunos on piano, but never really learned to understand the music inside and out). I kind of have the sense that mastering Afro-Cuban styles starting with salsa piano is kind of like trying to build the Great Pyramid starting at the top of the pyramid. So this time, I'm thinking I should get a drum. What's a reasonable price to pay for an entry level, but decent tumba or conga? And how much maintenance does it need? Is there a size I should start on?

They renovated the whole place around 2005. Luke Kaven hasn't posted here in a while but maybe he can give more details.

I've never noticed this much Keith in Hays's playing either. Maybe he was listening to a lot of Keith that week? What I love about Hays is the way he just makes everybody he plays with sound better without an excess of flash. Having a feel that perfect is really underappreciated.

This Anthony Wilson show is nothing earth-shattering in terms of doing new things with the music, but bebop fans will eat it up.

Ah...I think I figured it out. It appears that they are just pulling all the Amazon and Amazon Marketplace prices, but instead of showing you the Amazon.com price as the primary price and telling you that it's available from Marketplace sellers "used and new for $5.99", they instead just show the cheapest one as the primary price. So scienceblog.com is a pure affiliate - they don't process your order or do anything else with what you bought, they just get commission from Amazon for sending you over there and buying from them or one of the sellers in the Marketplace.

Has anyone seen this site before? http://store.scienceblog.com/ They appear to be using an Amazon API to essentially create another frontend on top of Amazon.com....but some of their listed prices are significantly cheaper than Amazon's. When you click "checkout," it takes you to the Amazon sign-in page. I haven't yet tried to enter Amazon from here. Is it a bad idea to enter my Amazon password on this page?

Maybe he stamped it every time he played the record, just so he'd know how much wear and tear it had gotten? Does there seem to be any rhyme or reason to the number of stamps?

The first half of the A sections sounds to me like Rodgers/Hart's "Lover" (which a Google search shows Chestnut has played in the past) but the bridge is totally off, I think.

I think those species are rare and I'm assuming the idea was to sell them for lots of money as pets. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/...gling-case.html Back in the day in Miami, before I was born, there was a rare bird aviary/sanctuary near the house where my parents eventually moved, and one of the species they raised were red-whiskered bulbuls (native to Asia). A storm damaged the place and freed a large number of them, and they ended up thriving in Miami. The funny thing about them was that they would perch on our windowsills, see their own reflections, and then peck the shit out of the windows. They stopped doing that after a year or two, so either the bulbul population figured it out eventually or whatever windows we had bought during renovating the house turned out to be less reflective.

Quick update to this: I went into the Oxford Circus HMV today and most RVGs, though not all, were still £4. However, the real deals are the doubles - I picked up the aforementioned Cornell 1964, Dorham's Round About Midnight, and Groovin' at Small's Paradise for £5 apiece. I almost never see any of these for under $20 in the US whereas the singles are frequently discounted to the $7-8 range. One question on these: are they still being copy controlled? All the doubles I bought had the "this label is subject to copy control" on the back traycard but I was under the impression that EMI had stopped actually putting all that CC crap into the marketplace.