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Best birthday wishes, Bruce.

Thanks fellas! Enjoying taking it easy today. Funny, I was reminded by an old friend today how bummed I was about turning 30 (1987). Guess I figured my days of being an irresponsible roustabout were behind me. ... Little did I know.

Chicago dog.

Bumpity bump Any updates on the tally so far?

nice.

wtf?

Check out this guy's -- whatever they are -- which he says have never been played. More here.

More like trying to play a malfunctioning game of Tetris where the descending blocks keep changing shape, or falling apart, or deciding to on their own they'd rather be a pong game instead of a Tetris game.

Yeah, much better now with a day off. Rush job + poor communication + holes in execution + everyone else on a jet stream at 5 p.m. Friday = bad weekend for me.

That last graph is a doozy: So, she was just hindered by booze (as opposed to completely wiped out) and only trying to put a new (presumably "jazzy") spin on some old chestnuts because, poor thing, she must be sick of having to sing all those tunes straight by now.

Whoever let her go on stage in that condition is a moron. Can you imagine being in her band? Complete train wreck.

Got my ASS kicked at work over the weekend It's all about 'clicks' and bar charts and web traffic Never enough Everyone on vacation but me Not yet Shit

That one didn't work for me, some plugin thingy I don't have. Here's the YouTube version though:

After another round of skips today, I'm going with the DVD player for now. It's working fine and dandy and I don't notice any dropoff in audio quality. The CD player began acting up again after I inadvertently hit the power off button while a disc was playing. Coincidental or not, it was behaving fine prior. But, c'est la vie. I'm fine with the DVD player. If this fails, I have an old rig in the shed that uses neighborhood squirrels to drive it.

Damn. RIP

Maybe he thinks that Metheny was able to extract from the tune's "basic architecture" some harmonies and syncopations that were not evident in its "pop" form, but only emerged when a jazz sensibility was applied? That the structure of the tune lends itself naturally to these harmonies and syncopations?

I think I've been one of those making that observation here. But it's nothing new, I don't think. Google "Luongo weak glove side" and you'll find a lot of discussion about it. He's primarily a butterfly goalie to begin with, so he's covering the low part of the net first. He also tends to keep his glove low while in his normal stance. From one discussion of this elsewhere: Bottom line with him, though, is he didn't play well, whether it be a weakness to his glove side or just generally letting in some goals that maybe he shouldn't have. The Bruins weren't exactly a scoring machine, after all. Until they faced Luongo.

Glad to hear you're on the road to recovery. :tup

Oh yeah, he was great. He made a diving save in the Lightning series that was spectacular, as good as any you'll ever see. But the fact that the Bruins had to go 7 games in three out of four series indicates he wasn't "dominant" throughout. Tampa Bay did light him up pretty good (scoring 5 goals in four different games ... I think he played all those games, yes?). While he was solid in the finals for sure (except for that overtime gaffe in Game 2), the Bruins really just outplayed the Canucks in front of him, limiting Vancouver to a lot of long-range shots, giving them poor shooting angles, blocking a lot of shots in front of him, keeping things to the outside nicely, etc.

Thomas and that mattress he wears under his jersey played well. He did play well and deserves the Conn Smythe. Happy for him. He seems like a down to earth dude. But Luongo played very poorly in all four losses. The three goals the Bruins got on him in Game 7 were not exactly highlight-reel gems. And in previous games the Bruins were all over Luongo's weak glove side, high. Another real difference in the series from where I sit was that Boston was able to take advantage of Vancouver's seemingly passive defensive scheme: the Bruins were often able to move the puck through the neutral zone and over the blue line virtually without being challenged. Once inside the zone, the Bruins often were able apply sustained pressure, or at least keep the puck in the Vancouver zone and cause havoc. It was all the Canucks could do to get the puck out of their own zone sometimes, and when they did, the Bruins would either challenge them every step of the way through the neutral zone, or gobble up the puck themselves and regroup for another attack. OTOH, when Vancouver attacked it was often one-and-done for them. Not a lot of sustained pressure. It would come in spurts, but by and large, they couldn't seem to mount many sustained attacks. The Sedin twins, the crown jewels of their offense, were a non-factor, really. It also seemed like as soon as Boston got up a goal, the Canucks became much more tentative offensively, and defensively, for that matter. It was a good series, but not one of the great ones, IMHO. The schmucks who tore up the town afterward are losers. Apparently, thousands of people have signed up through a facebook and twitter campaign to help clean up the mess.

bump

I do have a dvd player here. A cheapo Samsung. Cheapest one I could find on the shelves at Best Buy. CD player is behaving for now after running the cleaning disc.

Sounds exciting. Although I've only taken day trips while visiting family in Virginia, Washington's a unique and vibrant place. Good luck to you and your wife with all your ventures in your new home.

Thanks Larry. Yeah, I would be reluctant to try to get it fixed if the problem persists. I'll check out musicdirect.com, but feel free to PM about the unit you settled on. If I'm going to be in the market, might as well get some good recs.

short leash. He definitely has some weaknesses -- glove side high, in particular.