GA Russell

Jeremy O'Day announced his retirement today. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=352982 ***** Despite published reports that he would sign with the New York Jets, Chad Owens re-signed with the Argos today through 2013. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=352960

Thanks, Dmitry. That place looks interesting. Expensive gadgets usually do!

Dmitry, I plan to spend less than $70 for the Sansa clip+ and the micro SD card combined. I figured that there would be some earbuds for folks on a budget which were nevertheless much better than those which come with the device.

I am thinking about getting an mp3 player to use when I exercise. I have pretty much decided that I will get a Sansa clip+. It seems to be the universal opinion that the earbuds that come with mp3 players aren't any good, and that I will have to buy a better set. Money is a factor, so I don't care what the best in the world are. I will be content with something that is obviously better than what comes with the device. Amazon has some Klipsch on sale right now, but they probably won't be on sale when I am ready to make my purchase. Can anyone recommend earbuds that are a good value under the circumstances?

GA - The first one listed isn't the pre-Atlantic Columbia stuff. It's post-Atlantic (I guess Aretha went to Arista IIRC). Seeing that Sony logo could certainly lead one to believe that it's Columbia material. The second listing IS Columbia material. Oops!

Well, he may indeed be a big ego and a jerk. But considering Texas's reputation for thinking big, I find it easy to imagine any Texas owner wanting to break the record for Super Bowl attendance. I don't think that you can fault Jones for that.

Thanks, Harold. Do you have an opinion of her Arista material?

The Ravens - Their Complete National Recordings 1947-1950 (3 CDs) - $14.25 http://www.amazon.com/Ravens-Their-Complete-National-Recordings-1947-1950/dp/B0000C7PU1/ref=wl_mb_hu_m_T2_2_dp

I've posted this to the Aretha Columbia box thread, and I thought it would be appropriate to post it here too.

Here are eight Columbia albums: Aretha Franklin - Original Album Classics (5 CDs) - $18.09 http://www.amazon.com/Original-Album-Classics-Aretha-Franklin/dp/B003ZBX83C/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1297127014&sr=1-3 Aretha Franklin - Original Album Classics (3 CDs) - $12.10 http://www.amazon.com/Original-Album-Classics-Aretha-Franklin/dp/B0030BCCAC/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1297127014&sr=1-1

Chris Bauman was let go by the Ticats last week, and today he signed with the Eskimos. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=352869 http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Edmonton/2011/02/07/17186556.html ***** The league announced today that they will again play a regular season game in Moncton this year. Details will be announced when they release the season's schedule. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=352879

OK, what I did was stumble upon an mp3 page where on the left it allows you to click on groups of prices. I've seen this before, but not every time, and I don't know how to get there reliably. Then I clicked on "$1.99-$4.99". Then I clicked on the left on "jazz". Maybe 1% of the titles are jazz. It took me a long time, but I looked at the first 86 pages, up to $3.96. I settled on Herbie Mann Returns to the Village Gate for $3.45, less the $2.00 credit, leaving $1.45. I saw a Peter Brotzmann called Neurotransmitter that some of you might be interested in. I saw one called Bird on 52nd Street. I also saw Bird with Chet called At the Tradewinds. And quite a few Billy Harpers.

I have had only good experience with Blowitoutahere in the past, so yesterday I ordered the Mahavishnu and McLaughlin Original Album Classics boxes (see post #321) from them. I blame my bad experience on the Post Office, not on the retailer. If that's usually the case, I don't suppose it makes much difference which of the major Marketplace sellers you use. By the way, yesterday I received an email from Amazon reminding me that if I ever receive the Sonny Prestige box, I should remember to ask them to charge me again. I responded that the seller (Newbury) is now offering that item for double what they charged me in December, and that I would be happy to pay my December price for another copy.

This all comes as a surprise to me. I had no idea she recorded so much for Columbia. And everything that I have read said that her Columbia recordings weren't any good. Live and learn.

Thanks sonnymax! 1) When does it expire? 2) I would like to look at jazz album mp3's in ascending price order. Is there a way I can do that?

This is the first time I've heard of AOL since they split from Time Warner. I guess AOL is going the MSNBC route.

Best wishes, Bill. I'll add you to my prayer list tonight.

ejp, that pretty much sums up my attitude. I've tuned in now with seven minutes to go in the third quarter, and I expect to listen to the end. But the big American leagues (and perhaps around the world as well) are too corporate for me, and it doesn't seem like fun like it did when I was a kid. In fairness, I think the game itself was quite good, notwithstanding the many off-putting circumstances.

Congrats to the NFL fans for another good Super Bowl game. After decades of crummy games, the past ten years has seen a number of good ones. My favorite was the Steelers-Cardinals match.

Dave, the show was never more than a cult favorite in the US. But I learned decades later that it was so popular in the UK that McGoohan was the highest-paid television actor in the UK at the time.

ejp, that pretty much sums up my attitude. I've tuned in now with seven minutes to go in the third quarter, and I expect to listen to the end. But the big American leagues (and perhaps around the world as well) are too corporate for me, and it doesn't seem like fun like it did when I was a kid.

I spent my credit today on a new DVD box set of all of the episodes (both half-hour and hour) of Secret Agent aka Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan. It's my favorite television show. I haven't seen them in 25 years, but I expect that I will enjoy them again. The half-hour episodes I've never seen before. Two years ago, the box of the hour episodes was about $100 and the box of the half-hour episodes was about $50. Last year at this time they were both out of print, and I saw an Amazon Marketplace vendor list the box of hour episodes for $600. So this new box, combining both of the old boxes, was issued in time for Christmas, and Amazon currently has it for $49.95 with free shipping. http://www.amazon.co...97038195&sr=1-1 So deducting my free $10 LivingSocial deal, that means I get 18 discs (3,420 minutes) for $39.95.

Jim, if the Super Bowl visitors were to have problems with the ice, etc., Dallas would be remembered in newspapers for decades as the city that clusterfucked the Super Bowl. Surely that bad reputation would hurt the economy worse than the business lost due to lack of productivity for a week, don't you think?

I was surprised to see a couple of years ago a list of top selling album acts, and over the course of his career, Kenny G has sold 2/3 the number of albums as The Rolling Stones.

Happy Birthday 2011 Big Wheel!