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By "this site" you mean "that site," as in the site with the chart, right? When I first read your post, I thought you were referring to organissimo and Jim.

I'm paid to upload stuff to the internet that you guys are wasting your time on. (rather: "... on which you guys are wasting time.)

Amused that the ad at the bottom of this page (at least when I posted this) reads: "Want to Retire in Panama?" These ads are really targeted quite well. My actual numbers, which I failed to include above, and which I consider to be a great personal accomplishment: "You work 210 hours less than the annual average for United States. This is 233 hours less than the OECD average." It would have been skewed even more, but I had my five weeks vacation cut back to four when the private equity suits took over earlier this year. Still can't get over how hard those Greeks work. Productivity must be another matter.

Greece is No. 3? I thought they were a bunch of early-retiring, government sucking, moped-riding, beach-combing layabouts who do nothing but eat, drink, smoke, dance, eat, fish, dance, smoke, dance, fish, eat and collect pensions. ... Have I been duped? Again? And Russia No. 4? I wouldn't have guessed those two would be in the top 4. As for myself, everyone but the French, Norwegians, Germans and the Netherlanders (Netherlanders?) works more hours than me. (shhhhh)

Should we regard this, with hands wringing (or is that wringing hands? -- don't want any dangling modifiers), as a Coleman Hawkins IPO matter? In other words, did orders overwhelm the machines?

I think Bev is trying to disrupt the intent for which this thread was designed, prepositionally speaking. The heat has him confused, thinking he was in the weather thread? It's kind of hot here, too. But I'm used to stumbling around in a confused state.

Definitely not the work of a starving artist.

I'm beginning to think you folks are a little preoccupied with death. RIP and all, but what's next? A "Davy Jones has died thread?" ... Whoops. Carry on.

I'd go for chefs. Lots of 'em. And maybe one starving artist. Although, not too starving.

I can damn sure tell you it wouldn't be anybody dead!

Thanks for mentioning this one, Bill. Definitely will pick it up.

Seconded. Which reminds me of Moondoc's "Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys," also with with Breedlove.

Geez. Dunn lived in this area, or at least did some years ago. Met him at a small party about 10 years back. Very gracious. Talked a lot about how he loved to golf. Damn shame. RIP

Not sure if this fits, and I'm guessing it's not unknown or overlooked by any means, but I recently was delighted to listen for the first time to a performance of Darius Milhaud's "La Creation du Monde" by, I believe, the Royal Philharmonic on NPR. Not stunning, powerful or massively significant in any way, just really, really pleasing for how Milhaud incorporated elements of early jazz into a classical piece from the early 20th Century without seeming gratuitous or compromising to either form. Milhaud, whom I was not familiar with prior, was a French composer who was struck by New Orleans jazz in particular, and one result (there may be more in his work) is this 1923 composition for ballet. Here, the University of Manchester Chamber Orchestra takes a run at it. It's about the 4 minute mark when things start to get interesting. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFBwmGB55G8&feature=related

Glad to hear things are working out Jeff.

Thanks for posting the samples Jeff. I just returned to this thread tonight for the first time in several days (nights). You've done a wonderful job researching this, and given all the evidence you've presented, surely the music deserves, at the very least, a reappraisal by those who have discounted the OM5 as the source. I obviously have no way to judge the music technically, only enjoy it. But having a pretty good sense of your familiarity with this sort of material, and seeing no firm alternatives offered yet as to who the individuals in the band might be, I'd say you deserve the benefit of the doubt on this one.

"Half a million" infected Apple computers sounds like a big number (I guess), but is it really? So, lets say a conservative estimate puts the number of macs sold since 2006 at ~50,000,000 (an average of somewhere north of 2 million per quarter since 2006). The number of macs that may be infected with this malware is about 1.2% of just those macs sold since 2006. Factor in all macs sold prior to 2006 that are still in use, and I'm guessing the percentage of infected computers approaches the realm of being statistically meaningless. Course, if yours is one of the 600,000 infected, all that doesn't matter.

Nice. Any chance of getting a sample of these up on your blog?

This is a Loonie idea. ...

I get "How to avoid running out of money in retirement" ads (except in this thread). I'm going to guess that one of the first suggestions in "How to avoid running out of money in retirement" is: stay away from the girls of singles.net at all costs. ... course, how bad could running out of money in retirement be, really? There's always the library.

I remember you giving me directions there. Sat across the street and soaked it in for a while.

Yeah, that's a great commercial.

Just got around to 1944-45 (AMCD-12), with the same band as the 1944 recordings. Dodds is brilliant. Just gotta smile at what he does sometimes, rolling through the rhythms. Was he as entertaining physically as these recordings suggest? I almost imagine the guy doing somersaults and flips around the kit as he plays. The '45 recordings were done at "George's house," ... Lewis, I'm supposing. Liners are a bit sketchy there. And these have a clear, intimate quality, sans the slight echo on the recordings made in Jacinto Hall. Well put together, this one.

Good point. But as for comparing Tebow to Bradford, Bradford isn't a 'project quarterback' like Tebow. Sure, he needs some experience, same as any new quarterback, but he doesn't need his arm retrained the way Tebow does. Besides, Tebow is only 8-6 in the NFL; you'd think someone with god on their side could do a bit better than that... Guess God's busy with other stuff on Sundays? As for the conventional wisdom on Tebow's throwing form, I guess. That's what the experts say. No, I'm not seriously making a comparison. Just "throwing" it out there. BTW, I googled images for Tebow. Have you guys seen the woman who is supposed to be his girlfriend. If this guy actually is celibate, his throwing motion is far from his biggest issue.

Tebow had a better QB rating in the playoffs last year than Aaron Rodgers and Ben Roethlisberger. He had a better QB rating in the regular season than Sam Bradford and he was in the same ballpark as Sanchez, Matt Cassel, Josh Freeman and Colt McCoy. His throwing mechanics apparently stink, but he sure seems to take a lot more criticism than the Bradfords and McCoys of the league (guys with generally the same experience), with a lot more wins in his pocket than they have. Not saying he's god's gift to the position, but he's not the worst young quarterback in the league either. At least judging by the results. Disagree with the notion that the Broncos are nowhere near being a contender in the playoffs. They got there last year with this horrible quarterback named Tebow. They play in a relatively weak division, although they have a fairly tough schedule this coming year. They have a good defense. And don't forget what Manning was able to do with a Colts team that was exposed as being pretty bad without him. Worst in the league, in fact.