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I already had the JSP Bix/Tram box remastered by John R.T. Davies so I stalled on buying it until last August's sale. I'm so happy that I bought it! I return to it often. While there are other strategies for buying Bix (namely the Bix Restored series, which I do not own - yet ), I'm also a fan of Teagarden, so I greatly enjoy his inclusion. Maybe I'm more used to the music of this period now, but honestly there aren't many vocals that annoy me on this set. Highly recommended. Frankly, I dig Teagarden's vocals. Oh I do too! I was responding to J.A.W.'s comment, but I'm certain he was referring to the vocals not sung by Teagarden.

I already had the JSP Bix/Tram box remastered by John R.T. Davies so I stalled on buying it until last August's sale. I'm so happy that I bought it! I return to it often. While there are other strategies for buying Bix (namely the Bix Restored series, which I do not own - yet ), I'm also a fan of Teagarden, so I greatly enjoy his inclusion. Maybe I'm more used to the music of this period now, but honestly there aren't many vocals that annoy me on this set. Highly recommended.

Sorry to dig up an old diversion to this thread, but it just occurred to me that those numbers have to be way, way high for Zorn. I've seen Masada, both the brass and string groups, several times in the past 10 years, both in and out of NYC, and only paid more than $25 or (at most) $30 once (wouldn't be willing to pay more since I'm not the biggest fan) Ticket prices were low for his visit to Eugene a few years ago. However the prices were kept low thanks to a grant that the arts group was able to snag. Heck of a deal to have your concert tickets discounted due to a grant!

Happy Birthday to the King!

My sister has a friend who is runs so late, that when this person is invited to parties she gets an invite for 7 PM while everybody else gets it for 8:30. The chronically late person still arrives late, just fashionably so. So you might want to try that trick with the troublesome late-comers. I tend to be a few minutes early, even if I try not to be. But once in grad school I overslept for a meeting (first one at that) with one of my profs. I ran all the way (20 minutes late), was panting when I got to his door and he was finishing up with another student. I apologized profusely and he looked at me, threw up his hands and said "What is time?" He didn't mind in the least and we chatted for 20 minutes or so, very little of the time having to do with my project.

Yup, here's one of several links about it. Don't blame me, I don't have one!

Luke starting isn't the problem. He's the type of fundamentally sound guy like Battier who could start or be the 6th/7th man, depending on what you have elsewhere & rotation. The problem spots for the Lakers are Smush should be a backup PG, and their current Cs would be better as 2nd & 3rd centers and ongoing projects, not starters. A better PG & C are pretty big spots to fill!

I'm pretty sure that as long as you pay 100% of last year's tax, even if you have a very good year the next (which has happened to me for at least the past 2) you won't get hit with penalites. For my state taxes I have to fill out 1/2 of their underpayment form (the easy parts), before hitting the magic line that says I owe no penalities or interest. Why I have to do this in a dozen lines when 1 saying "did you pay 100% of last year's owed" would do the trick is beyond me, but that's tax authors for ya! I then up the estimated for this year's to 100% of last. Only in bad years do I get a refund.

While you're right that for some collectors it's all about the object, once again the reason why some feel downloads count less goes back to resale rights. It's nice to be able to trade in the old when the new & improved comes along (after checking here to see if the new really is improved.) Which is why the physical object with legal transfer rights matters in matters of art. Also as hard drives become bigger & cheaper still, the capacity will reach the point where they can hold more music than we can ever hope to listen to in (many months 24/7, years, perhaps decades or lifetime.) The other thing we know about the music industry is that they always look for ways to sell it to you all over again. Selling mp3 downloads now, when they don't have to (Grateful Dead & King Crimson, among others offer both mp3 & FLAC) means they'll be sellin' the same digital ball of goods later on, only next time it'll be lossless. After lossless, how about a higher bit rate? Some of us know or think we can hear the high & low ends of music not there on the mp3s, so why not humor us and offer it to us at a slightly higher price (since it takes up a little more drive real estate)? The only official downloads I have are live shows as FLACs. They are very real to me, but then again, it's the only form they've ever been offered in, at least legally.

#&@$(! F#@&*$@* SH@#, take this motherfucker, Anna Nicole Fucking Smith and Don Imus out to an uninhabited island and drop a fucking atomic bomb on them. If I hear ONE more word about any of these idiots, I'm going to explode!

Part of the reason why reviews about Sony, Imation, Fuji, TDK, Maxell & Memorex are all over is the place is that they do not make the discs but merely slap their name on them. Once upon a time dedicated users (or perhaps I should say Dead traders ) would look for "Made In Japan" as this meant that the discs were manufactured by Taiyo Yuden, albeit with a Sony (or whatever) name on it. If they were made in Taiwan they weren't TYs. Rather than play the game of running around town to see if the advertised specials for Fujis were "good" Fujis (and so on), about 5 years ago I said to hell with it and started ordering Taiyo Yudens online. There are a few other companies that make their own discs too. I think Verbatim may be one of them, but I'm not positive. Not sure where you live, but you might check and see if there's a specialty type of store that sells TYs in any amount you chose. I live in a city of about 120,000 people and we have such a store where you can buy just 1 disc or hundreds at a reasonable price (I still order online by the hundred though.)

Sorry, but that just isn't true. The lasers in cd players operate in the infrared. They are completely "indifferent" to the dye of the cd. It used to be true that the green cds had shorter lifespans because the material used to make the dye simply did not maintain its reflectivity for very long, but that is no longer the case. Things change and I guess I haven't kept up, as I burn a LOT less than I used to because bit torrent & hard drive storage has taken the place of burning & trading. I was refering to the inability to extract the music later in (shelf) life from a few discs from 5-8 years ago. Dreaded Taiwanese TDKs, the "bad" Maxells, so on & so forth. Just make sure they don't have wheat gluten in them.

I know "CDR" doesn't work well with the search engine, but we've been thru this at least a couple of times. CD-R discussion And a thread about my favorite brand Taiyo Yuden. And it's just not 1s & 0s, it's about the dye.

Don't panic! Only 3 games. Weren't the Mariners in first place last year after the first week? Ouch! That's it, I'm putting Beri on my ignore list.

Wow, I might have too. About all I can recall performancewise on Captain Kangaroo involved rabbit, moose, and ping pong balls. Still, I wonder if somehow this explains why George Coleman's playing sounds like comfort food to me. Are there any online hypnotists out there, I need to get to the bottom of this!

Soulstation wins some RVG money! I may have won the pool, but I feel like the C student who aced the final. Edward's pickin' was way more impressive.

Woo hoo! As it's early April I'm letting myself believe, that if the ifs & maybes work out right, we might just win the west. Gotta be optimistic about something in life!

Add a dry cat food to the list, a prescription one at that. Hills Science Diet m/d dry. So much for prescription foods being of the highest quality. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

And just today there's a story about how the decline of large sharks in the Atlantic (all for shark fin soup ) is leading to an increase in rays, which then feast on scallops and oysters off the eastern US coast. Life out of imbalance indeed. Honeybees were introduced to the US in 1622. Escaped bees spread on west. Some natives called them "the white man's fly" if I remember right. It's one of the few introduced species that's "done good" in the US. Mites have been decimating honeybees for years, so hives are already weakened. Almonds are especially dependent upon honey bees, so if you're an addict you're probably going to be paying more for them.

Got mine today. First time the number is less than my age. #42! Gotta finish my taxes before I can listen to it. It's a great incentive to get 'em done. I don't want to spoil any surprises, so I'll just say the last photo of Chu in the booklet reminds me of my maternal grandfather.

I'm in 2 head-to-head leagues. Dice-K on both my teams (one was an auto-draft and he'll be the #2 to Johan Santana!) I'm relying on Delmon Young of the Rays as an OF on both teams. That could be interesting. And a sign that yes indeed it is fantasy (careful reading this Dan), I have ARod & Ortiz together on one of my teams. Gee, I hope they'll get along okay.

I have the same problem, and I've tried 'em out several times at different times, wondering if they would eventually catch. Nope. I can't stand the melancholy lyric/poppy jolly melody thing that seems to be part of every song. I loved mariner themes & accordion 20 years ago with The Pogues but I'm tired of accordion in every blasted indie band nowadays (okay, an exaggeration.)

SI has recently revamped its baseball section. I used to rarely go there, but at least the team pages seem more useful. I guess the trick will be how it handles the regular season. They also give links to team oriented blogs (as expected, on each of the team pages.) I only recently discovered Baseballmusings, but I think I like it. And for something silly, there's the fake chat section on the lower left of The Dugout. An aquired taste, or maybe no taste at all. Not long until Opening Day!

Boots Day, an Expos OF in the early '70s. And no, he wasn't really a bad fielder.

Good to see ya back! Sorry I don't have a link, but his condioning routine is very different from the modern coddled on-a-pitch-count US pitcher. Although Dice usually only pitched every 6 days in Japan, his training was waaaaay over the top in comparison to here. 300 ft long tossing in between starts and throwing pitches after (like, right after!) his start are just a couple of the unconventional (though not in Japan) sorts of things he did. Too bad Jim Kaat retired from announcing, otherwise he'd probably go on about how he did that sort of thing as a kid. I've read the Red Sox & Dice-K are (or maybe it's past tense now) trying to reach a compromise regarding his training & habits. I think the Sports Illustrated site has a story that goes into how he trained in Japan.