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Thanks for posting that Bill. Couple of blog links at the end were useful as well.

Going crazy at the Kingdome. ... That's good stuff. Thanks for posting it.

One of my neighbors just came home with a rescue dog she adopted, found wandering the streets, about 5 months old. Small dog, kind of looks like one of those long-haired terrier breeds. Cute. It's in a good home now.

I would think that the coach would have had to alert the officials before the game that they might run this play. Otherwise, the natural reaction from officials to a coach shouting from the sidelines for one of his players to re-spot the ball, and then that player doing it, would be to blow the whistle and throw a flag for delay of game.

Yes, thanks for sharing that Jeff.

I did. It wasn't. Either that or my previous attempts were so much more of a disaster that this disaster was a shining success by comparison. In any event, I'll follow the above advice more closely next time. Thanks.

Fried up some rice tonight using a red hot pan (no wok), with an egg mixed in, some chopped green onions and a splash of soya sauce (no oyster sauce on hand). I fried it separately from the other stuff I was throwing in with it, and I kept it moving as it fried. Worked beautifully! Thanks for the tip. I think my mistake earlier was frying it too slowly at too low a temperature. I was married to a Korean woman who was raised in Tokyo and the rice cooker was in pretty steady use back then. She would get care packages of rice and other 'necessities' from home pretty regularly. We visited Tokyo some years ago and the variety and quality of food 'experiences' there was amazing.

Happy birthday Jeff. Enjoy!

Happy Rhythm: New York Columbia Recordings, Vol. 1 Rhythmic Eight -- "48 of the Best 48: 1927-1930" Fess Williams -- "Pre-Victors the Complete Set 1925-1927" Preservation Hall Jazz Band -- "Marching Down Bourbon Street" Preservation Hall Jazz Band -- "New Orleans 1" Get Easy Blues

Kind words Jeff. Thanks for posting this.

One of those 'one thing led to another' purchases, ordered earlier tonight: Sam Charters' Washboard Jazz Band -- "New Orleans Jazz"

RIP Mr. Anderson. One of the greats.

He and I share the same birthday (although he's got about 10 years on me). Have a few of his discs scattered round here somewhere. Saw his Utopia band in concert back in the day and it was pristine.

Since my last post here: Willie Humphrey -- "New Orleans Trad Jazz Legends, Vol. 2" Best of the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition Okeh Ellington John Kirby -- "Rehearsin' for a Nervous Breakdown" Louis Armstrong -- 1925 - 26" (chrono classics) .. for the handful of tunes not included on the JSP Ellington Cotton Club Anthology 1938 Ellington -- "Jungle Nights in Harlem" Ellington -- "Jubilee Stomp" Lonnie Johnson -- "He's a Jelly Roll Baker" Blind Boy Fuller -- "East Coast Piedmont Style" Blind Boy Fuller -- "Truckin' My Blues Away" Percy Humphrey & Paul Barbarin (American Music) Port of Harlem Jazzmen Early Ellington

Series goes down as a pretty one-sided affair -- in favor of the pre-series underdog, too, I guess. I certainly thought Lee was a good bet to get Texas two wins. Nope. Nice to see Renteria go out on top, if this is his last hurrah. Congrats to both the World Champion Giants and AL Champion Rangers. Wasn't the sort of series I'd hoped for, but it had its moments. Spring training's just a few months away!

Can't say I'm surprised he was waived. The guy just kind of went through the motions; barely ran routes at all.

Lincecum looks locked in so far.

Not sure if this is still available, but I could give it a new home. I can offer this (free shipping to US, bit more elsewhere): Noisettes What's the Time Mr. Wolf Sure is. It's yours. PM me your mailing address and I'll send it off to you in the next day or two.

What did I miss? Why would we not be here without the moon? If we didn't have an unusually large natural satellite to stabilize us, the Earth's orbital inclination would wobble drastically. IOW, our axis of rotation would wander all over the place, sometimes tilting by as much as 90 degrees, and back again, unpredictably. The climate, consequently, would be a chaotic mess. In the unlikely event that humans managed to evolve under such conditions, there'd be no chance that civilization could develop. So getting hit by that Mars-sized hunk of junk four-plus billion years ago is the best thing that ever happened to us, in a certain sense. Thank you Bruce. What about other planets that don't have one large moon, but rather a series of much smaller (relatively) moons. Do they wobble? Slightly, significantly? Maybe I'll go look it up later, but haven't the time now. I do agree that we're lucky (blessed, fortunate, what-have-you) to be here at all. There was an article in the paper a couple of days ago saying that some group of scientists somewhere had concluded that there are many more planets in our galaxy alone that are similar to earth than had been previously thought. Meaning, I suppose, that the likelihood of life elsewhere just went up. No comment about moons though.

Put it on the old wish list. This thread has prompted me to pick up some of the collections of Ellington's early recordings. Among them, the Okeh recordings on this 2 CD set: Got it used for next to nothing at amazon, and was not expecting much in the way of sound quality after reading about what sounded like the near criminal overuse of noise reduction on these recordings. Gotta say, I'm quite pleasantly surprised. I've heard noticeably worse transfers where nobody blasted the sound engineers. I suspect there's another agenda at work in some of the criticisms.

What did I miss? Why would we not be here without the moon?

Well, after expressing satisfaction with my switch to a MacBook (and I still am), the CDR function just crapped out the other day. Can't read the disc, spits it out. (I've tried a couple of different kinds of discs. Same thing with each.) It'll play discs fine, but that's not something I use the computer for at all. It will also import to iTunes fine. Just won't write. Not a big deal, cause I don't burn very many CDs in the course of things anyways, but I'll take it down to my local Mac repair shop and see what they have to say. The computer is old enough now that if they want to charge me too much for a fix, I'll probably do without for a year or so until I upgrade.

Great Pete. I agree also that a daily multi-vitamin is important. I also take two fish oil capsules each day now -- about 2400 mg. Not only do they help lower stuff like triglycerides, which were a problem for me, but I've also heard from doctors that they contribute to an overall sense of well-being, mentally. You feel better, more positive, etc. I'm all for that! PS -- just to show how nuts I was about counting calories when I started all this, I even included the calories in the fish oil capsules in my daily total. Two capsules = 25 calories. Now that I have a general idea about the calorie content in various foods, I'm no longer counting.

There is literally nothing in those munchie machines that you can eat. Even a small bag of harmless peanuts is 200 calories. And I like peanuts. But I'd rather have something more substantial to get those 200 calories. Maybe a cup of low fat cottage cheese and sliced tomato. Some celery sticks. More filling. Better for you. A lot of these things like low calorie mayo, fat free yogurt, low calorie salad dressing, even low cal cottage cheese, they taste just as good as the high calorie stuff.