Big Wheel

That was better than watching the car odometer.

Sounds like she's calling out a word in the military alphabet.

I think it's Dutch. Or maybe German.

Maybe the three-digit numbers in the title bar represent letters, and it's some kind of cipher?

Isn't that the Gordian knot, or something like that?

Obviously you've never visited Jakarta on a particularly polluted day. Yowza!

Doon't have as much Ellington or Gonsalves as I should but the sickest Paul for me is the solo he takes on A Train--the 1952 version with Betty Roche, on Ellington Uptown. That ballad interlude (to say nothing of the subsequent burning section or the overall arrangement) is gorgeous!

Looks like he did pretty well! (link)

I wasn't a particularly big Foxx fan, but I saw him on a rerun ESPN's Espy awards the other day and he converted me. Even if someone else was writing the jokes for him, he was still killing.

What WERE the bad things in his life? I know next to nothing about the guy's personal life, but for some reason I always assumed he was a very clean-living man.

Matt Wilson's latest one on Palmetto is also a pretty strong date, called Humidity. I have Arts and Crafts, with Larry Goldings (on piano) and Terrell Stafford, but it doesn't grab me like the other record.

Sorry, I took out the reference to Cuscuna when I realized that my memory of this as two different sessions was dead wrong. Cuscuna did produce the US issue for release, though. Since there never was an LP of any of this material in existence until after the Lion/Wolff era, I'm guessing that the Japanese felt it was OK to take a few more liberties with the material.

I'm guessing that's the order which these tunes appear on the master. Not the best from an album standpoint, but OTOH, if you want instant romantic atmosphere, it sure is easier to fast-forward to track 6 and just let 'er run, rather than fiddling with "program play" on your CD player...

BTW, did you send the fudge Priority Mail or by some slower class? 6 days is within the window the USPS gives for delivery of Parcel Post (edit--I just looked and it's shorter to some locations. I dunno why I thought PP was 1 to 2 weeks.). On the other hand, if you sent it Priority, you have reason to complain if it takes 6 days.

I gotta agree with Dan here. I've never had a problem with the USPS. Six weeks ago I sent some stuff home very hurriedly three hours before I had a flight out of Boston. One of these boxes especially was packed like SHIT, with the tape coming off and the postal guy looking at me real funny, but he rolled his eyes and sent it anyway. I had a whole desktop computer tower in that box, and though it was well cushioned, I seriously thought it would never make it. It was at my house in 4 or 5 days, in one piece. It beat all the other boxes home!

Is the U. of Miami CD a live record? If so, I may have been at that show. They did Hang Gliding, among others...I think it was about a year before Allegresse came out. For me the problem with Maria is that the later music is TOO emotional for me to handle. There's something about Allegresse that cuts to the quick in a way that's almost spooky...in the second half especially, the way it drops to such a grim point on Dissolution and then ends so light and free...I just can't bring myself to play it as much as I would like. What that record does to me, I know it sounds weird, but it just doesn't feel HEALTHY to experience except in small, infrequent doses.

Marc Cary Kevin Hays Jaki Byard Walter Norris Hal Galper Marcus Roberts No Bud Powell or Herbie Hancock on your list??

I just installed Picasa and uploaded a bunch of pictures. I still haven't really explored the software but it seems like it focuses more on organizing your pictures than tweaking the images. Still a cool little piece of software.

I got back from a trip to Southeast Asia 3 days ago and my body's still all messed up. By around 5pm I start getting tired and cranky, but I've been forcing myself to stay up until I finally can't stand up anymore, which usually happens around 9:30. That's not such a bad bedtime...except I wake up at 2:30am every day. Then I stay up till around 6, at which point I go back to bed, more out of it seeming like a good idea than actually being tired. Is there anything I should be doing to start getting my sleep schedule back to normal? I'd rather not pop any pills.

Anyone used Picasa? They just partnered with Google and my Sony camera software is somehow related to them. Haven't hooked it up to my PC yet, though.

Is this a live or studio album? I saw this group back in November at the Jazz Standard. Nothing groundbreaking but very enjoyable nontheless.

Ricky Williams is quitting the game. I'm not sure what to make of it. I mean, if I were in Ricky's shoes, you bet I'd take the money and run when the alternative is getting the crap beat out of you day in and day out by defenders. In a sense the whole NFL is crazy and Ricky seems like the only sane one--is getting your body destroyed worth millions more dollars, when many players already have enough cash to live a comfortable life for the next 300 years? I can see how many want a championship badly enough to risk their bodies, but winning it all in the NFL is dependent on a lot of things and many great players never get a ring. On the other hand, I can't help but wonder if the chemicals in Ricky's brain have been acting up again....traveling the world and getting away from it all is great, but the guy still has responsibilities to be with his children if nothing else.

I'm not the seller, but I figured someone might be interested in these, which are pretty cheap right now. They end in a couple of hours: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...4025719266&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...4025718926&rd=1

No doubt...once I pinpointed the router as the problem, it wasn't very long before I found the solution on the web page. It was determining the problem was the router that was the hassle! I called up BellSouth, my ISP, figuring it was some weird proxy server problem, and they were clueless (in fairness to them, I didn't tell them I was hooked up to a wireless router--hell, I didn't even remember that the router was still plugged into this PC). Good to know that D-Link is responsive, though.

It may be that the problem doesn't occur on every model of router or even on every revision of a particular model. Here I'm using a DI-624, A1 revision. From their website: