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I love to click on the ads displayed at websites I patronize (like this one). Click, click, click.

Ugh. ... On the bright side, I think there are still tax credits available for installation of a new furnace.

Came away really impressed with Andrew Luck. As the commentators said at one point during the game, he looks a lot like Manning at the line of scrimmage. A no-brainer for the Colts, I'd think. Plus, he's from Stanford -- so, presumably a pretty sharp guy. Rose and Fiesta were both really entertaining games. Putting the outcome of a college game on your FG kicker has proved to be a losing strategy lately, seems like. The Boise loss(es), Georgia yesterday, Alabama in its loss to LSU during the regular season, Stanford yesterday.

Not necessarily. Just as the rules for drinking alcohol are different in terms of where & how you can consume & how much, fair use is different when it's for non-profit educational purposes versus posting stuff on the web. Are for-profit schools restricted when it comes to fair use?

Cued it up at the top of the old wish list.

Well, I'm pretty sure I didn't pick up 5 new releases this year, let alone 10. But of those I did snag, I'd go: Matana Roberts -- "Coin Coin" Allen Lowe -- "Blues & The Empirical Truth" Roscoe Mitchell -- "Before There Was Sound" ... and that's about it. So, top 3. The Miles bootleg release wasn't on my radar, but the enthusiasm here for it has me interested.

Sad news. I'm not intimately familiar with Mr. Rivers' music, but certainly love 'Contours' and 'Fuchsia Swing Song,' and will be listening today. Was looking forward to a scheduled performance here in Sarasota in a couple of months. RIP

Video here. Website here.

Merry Christmas, happy Hannukah, happy holidays to all you wonderful Organauts. Enjoy the holidays!

Nice essay. Thanks.

He is the son of an Air Force General, and a accomplished Golden Gloves boxer, and he graduated from Pomona College with a B.S. degree, and then became a Rhodes Scholar from Oxford University.He joined the U.S. Army at the prompting of his father. After graduating from Officer Candidate School he attended and graduated from both Army Airborne and Ranger training in the very top of each class. He was selected for U. S. Army Special Forces Training but refused so that he could attend pilot training where he earned his wings, and became an accomplished U.S. Army helicopter (gun ship) pilot, and achieved the rank of Captain. He was about to be promoted to the rank of Major, and appointed to teach at West Point when he resigned his commission from the Army to go into music and acting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU-A7eqadho&feature=related

I couldn't care less what the religious or political leanings of a food/restaurant ... or any other company are if they have good product. Re Jim's daughter's experience interviewing at In-N-Out ... there's a joke in there somewhere, and she's probably already made it. I live next to an Amish neighborhood with some g-r-e-a-t home-style cookin' restaurants. Tasty pies, too! (Strawberry rhubarb anyone??) I'm pretty sure they only hire the faithful (kinda like Hooters only hires the young and well-endowed) but the food's damn good, if I can say that.

A coded message ...

Knew he was diagnosed a while ago, but had kind of forgotten about it. He was a rascal, an agent provocateur and in the end a tragic figure who always came across as someone more interested in stirring the pot than worrying too much about the ingredients. But ... always stopped to listen to what he had to say and it seemed like there were enough kernels of truth sprinkled throughout the bombast to make it all worth while. RIP

Don't really see a skull to the right of the light. Too many textures going on to discern anything. But the unexplained light is freaky enough on its own. If it were me, I'd have gotten rid of the dresser the moment I suspected it might be a portal for evil gramps. And really, it seems a little curious why anyone would resist doing so, if they believed it might be a source of the weirdness. Keeping the dresser could even be interpreted as encouraging the events, don't you think?

The battery swelled in my MacBook and caused the cursor to go berserk. Got a new battery and the issue was resolved.

Scary. Sounds as though he is being well taken care of. Here's hoping his recovery goes well.

Yeah, as always, cool photos ...

Well, as long as we're discussing taboos, I've thought for some time that one major source of anger -- perhaps the singular source of anger -- among young men in some Islamic societies is the extreme sexual repression they live under. It's a wonder the women in these societies aren't all raving lunatics, given that the repression they suffer is much more extreme. So, say for instance two young people in Afghanistan fall in love, but are told that they can't pursue their relationship because she has been promised to some old codger in the next village and he has to marry and provide for some girl half his age who he has never met. If the two young lovers so much as look at one another, she'll be killed and maybe he'll have some body parts lopped off for shaming the family. In the face of this madness, is it any wonder some of them run screaming with a lit stick of dynamite toward the prospect of 72 virgins awaiting them in the afterlife? As for the molesting of young boys by old men lurking around the showers, kids need to be taught that these are the worst kind of people.

The first and fourth pond reflection shots are upside down, yes? Surreal effect.

I think MG would approve of the direction this thread has taken. ...

Sad news indeed. RIP

Me too. Now that's a rec I'd get behind! ... Don't make me wait too long, get me in, dose me up, clean the old choppers, file the insurance paperwork for me and get me out. I walk into a plush office with all kinds of leather furniture in the waiting room or that "designer" touch, fancy equipment all over the place and then the dentist starts recommending all kinds of work ... I'm suspicious right away.

Yeah, I pretty much disregard them, too. I just assume with, say, car dealerships, there has to be a healthy dose of 5-star ratings written by the sales staff. But with, say, dentists, tastes and standards don't really matter so much. Good or bad service is easier to gauge.

It goes straight into the recycling bin. A total waste of paper, for me. I can find any phone number and/or address and/or business I need to in seconds on the internets, along with customer reviews and all that jazz (for whatever they're worth).