Big Wheel

Why is everyone going nuts about this? I don't mean to sound snotty...I was only months old at the time this was released originally, haven't listened to much in this genre, and because of my age I never understood nostalgia for the early '80s. So, why should we all be vaulting the baby carriages to pick this one up?

What I'm looking for is a specific number: how many sets, exactly, are left? If the set is just going to time out on January 1 and there are plenty left I guess there's no need for a specific number.

As far as I know that thread only mentions the number on the set purchased, which we're pretty sure is not an accurate reflection of the number of sets remaining. (For one thing, we don't even know for certain how many more are in this pressing.)

Damn it. Does anyone have an official count from Mosaic?

Pretty quiet down here on the east coast. Some heavy rain last night and strong winds today, but there was a lot of sun peeking through the clouds a little while ago. I think most of the boardmembers from Florida are from around these parts (MartyJazz, Evan, Dan) so nothing to worry about. Do we have any posters from theh Gulf Coast?

When I was in college I actually got to go through some of her and her husband's personal papers for a paper I was writing. At the same library that year I was peering through some cookbooks--and noticed on the inside cover there was a stamp that read "donated from the personal collection of Ella Fitzgerald"!

59 respondents have replied to this poll, and in total they've reported buying at least 806 boxes (probably there are many more, but I only tallied the minimum number for each poll choice). So assuming a minimum of $48 dollars a box, that's a minimum revenue to Mosaic of almost $39,000--just from the people on this thread.

The Marine Mammals, as usual. If they can recover from THIS offseason it will be more of an accomplishment than any of Marino's records.

Well, he lives on in mine every time I go in to the pantry for the greeeeeeeaze...

WOW. Did they say if the series was to include only other Vanguard dates, or was it broader in scope?

ok, this was a fast and possibly error-filled translation, as I'm in a hurry. _________________________________________ O N T H A Z U I D A R Z A A 013 010 (new line, I guess) T H a T o l D f I s H I N g s A a , 013 010 T H A F a A I R I A s s T o l A , 013 010 T H A b o y s o f M a R k A N Edit: I totally screwed this up. Will correct after dinnertime.

Hm, this is getting problematic. 013 is ASCII is a carriage return, 010 is a "line feed" command. Right now I've translated the first line as "ON THA ZUIDARZ."

D'oh! That has to be right--there are 128 normal ASCII characters.

Here's my frequency chart of the numbers in the title bar: 079: 1 110: 3 032: 10 116: 3 104: 5 101: 11 090: 1 117: 1 105: 5 100: 2 114: 3 122: 1 013: 3 010: 3 084: 3 097: 4 111: 4 108: 2 102: 2 115: 5 103: 1 044: 2 070: 1 098: 1 121: 1 077: 1 107: 1 Based on this, 101 or 032 almost has to be the letter E if this is a cipher. Unfortunately the sample size isn't very big, so normal frequency distribution (most common letters are E,T,R,O, and so forth) probably won't apply.

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.