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Wow, North Carolinia. 60 degrees. You really know how to hurt a guy.

This jazz BB as well as the others, seems tobe very active today. I guess all of us in the northeast are snowed in.

Just started here on Long Island with a light dusting. If it hurries up the most of it will be on its way to you in New England.

Just finished Faulkner's "Sound and the Fury" . Now into Ackroyd's brief bio of Chaucer. (My wofe tidied it up and now neither one of us have been able to find it, so I can finish it. Just started Freeman Dyson's "Infinite in All Directions" which has much merit. He's an interesting guy, or was.

Years ago, in the fifties, my date and I attended a jazz concert with friends, who knew some of the jazz musicians. After the concert. friends, my date and I and one of the musicians wanted to go the Lou Terrassi's club on the west side of Manhattan, so we piled into a cab and went there, where Billy Taylor and his trio were playing. Billy sat and talked with us thru all of his breaks and was extremely nice to us. My wife and I will always remember him for spending so much time with us. Once again, a VERY nice guy.

I have, in addition to a 2005 Minni-Cooper, a 1970 Saab, fire engine red and running fine, thank you. No rust.

Yup---here in the NYC/Long Island area it has so far been an incredibly warm winter. I know you shouldn't let the fairies hear you say that, but there's no getting around it. Okay by me, but this global warming is no hoax.

montg--------Thanks for the link to the Abe Lincoln discography etc. I've been a fan of his for about 50 years now, and just now, thanks to you, discovering that he was playing since before I was born. He's another of those favored few musicians who are clearly identifiable after only a few notes. (Like Louis,Hackett, Wild Bill,Goodman,etc) Once again, thanks.

Very good, gang!. Most of you didn't take the bait to be negative.

When I was in industry, we received a brochure from a Japanese company describing a piece of electronics they made that "was fitted with an alarming device"

Before you consign Condon's mob to the "just dixieland" segment of your consiousness, I suggest you listen to them first.

I can only repeat my remarks based on about 30 years of teaching Physics on college level. It was generally agreed by teachers of other disciplines that over that period, there was a marked deterioration in student interest preparation and performance. This, to the point of our inability to teach to the level that we had previously maintained. That was the root cause of our taking early retirement, as most of us agreed who pulled the pin. Mathematical preparation had plummeted, but worse was the student attitude that they were deserving of passing the course without doing the requisite amount of work. I'm sure that the top students in high school are still as good as they ever were, but the general body of students is in big doodoo, despite the fact that they don't realize it yet.

Yeah, that's a pretty good article. I was only astonished that it was by Ratliff

A few years ago I was talking to a technician at a college where I was teaching. He was a horologist of sorts (calm down guys, its a clock expert) who was talking about this old guy who was also a horologist. Lives quietly way out east one Long Island. The conversation wound on about an ancient gearing device which had just been shown to be a clock-like gizmo for predicting planetary motion. Seems that both of them were particularly interested in the history of this gizmo. Then he mentioned the old guys name: Hal McKusick. Well shuck my peas! The tech had no idea with whom he was dealing, he being as ignorant of jjazz as most people. Last I heard, McKusick is still living out there with his clocks.

A band of yesteryear was "Miff Mole and his Molars"\ This topic, however, does bring to mind what Ralph Sutton said on a live interview radio show in Britain. The interviewer was a woman who said to him "Mr. Sutton, don't you think it is a bit presumptious for the band to call themselves 'The Worlds Greatest Jazz Band'". Sutton replied, "Well, we were going to call ourselves the Sheep Fuckers, but ....."

Marty Jazz=====What is the "Vine Circuit" ??

I shoulldn't hav e to repeat myself here, but for a modest fee, as low as 3.65 a month, Radio365 on the Internet has more jazz on it than you have time to listen. Scans the complete spectrum of jazz from vintage stuff to ultra modern. I think they have trial periods as well.

I think pretty highly of the Riverside. I figured it was something like that. It smells of academic horseshit. I spent most of my life with them and I really preferred the folks i met in the service. cheers.

ejp626------I just came across your comment about the Riverside Shakespeare. What in blazes does she find wrong with it?? Or did you just step into the middle of a pile of Academic doodoo there.? Any specific comments she made??

Problem is solved, I hope. In poking around Amazon about the printer, I found that cd-r makers Maxell, Memorex and Philips sell pens for labeling cdr/rw's . We'll see, but thanks anyway to all you folks for your input.

Jim,Gdogus and all---- I checked on the Epson R220 customer comments at Amazon and found a lot of criticism. Have you guys had any trouble with it????

Thanks, folks. there goes that project.

Can any of you guys help me. I need recommendations for software for a Macintosh for making labels for burned CDR/RW's and the preformed papers on which they're printed. I've checked the internet and I'm overwhelmed with conflicting claims for such products. Have any of you any experience and recommendations?? Thanks

For quite a while now, I've been getting bored with mainstream jazz. Not the musicians' fault. They're as good or better than ever. It's the lack or new songs. Anybody agree? Do you suppose there are poor songwriters out there, frustrated Mercers, Porters, berlins, Rodgers and Harts etc. working as accountants and worse, cursing their fate that they were born too late?

According to the late great Mr. Benchley, the only cure for a real hangover is death.