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Eric Kloss - several Prestige 2-fers are available on eMusic. I've never heard of this cat, but Scott Yanow (I know) gives him props and says he could hold his own when he was a youngster. Anyway, I just found out that one of Booker Ervin's last recordings was on Kloss's In the Land of Giants, which is available on eMusic. Anyone have any thoughts on this or the other Kloss albums? I'll probably download it next week.

My order showed up this week (I was away, so it greeted me upon my return!). Anyway, it was the full size Wes Montgomery and Bill Evans Riverside boxes -- booklet and all. Really such a steal at those prices.

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Recent story listed on Sports Illustrated The last sentence sounds a lot like the set-up to either a farce or a tragedy. For a movie with more than a bit of both, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue Part 10 deals with two brothers who have to decide how to split up their father's priceless stamp collection. At least once in your life, you need to see the entire series.

I see they have added two albums by Fieldwork (or maybe Field Work), which is a trio Vijay Iyer is a member of. I don't know too much about this group, but I like Iyer a lot, so will download both albums when my downloads refresh.

I disagree that the situation is really that different. From an economic (not moral) point of view, you need to consider past sales as sunk costs or sunk benefits. The fact that it was a legitimate purchase is irrelevant to the fact that there won't be any future revenue from a person who buys a used CD.

In the U.S. libraries are covered in the copyright law. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/usc...08----000-.html There's a short list of exemptions, like reproduction for the blind, exemptions for classroom teachers, fair use, etc. On the question of whether authors are harmed by library lending, they are harmed more when libraries deem their works unworthy of being collected and preserved for public use. My broader point is had RIAA and others been around, libraries would never have gotten established in the first place and thus won a place (or exemption) in copyright law.

Honestly if the RIAA, etc. were around in the 1800s and as influential as they are today, there would be no libraries and the very concept would be derided as communistic. It's only the fact that they have such a long history that keeps them safe.

I only did it one time, but I did complete a super Su Doku that was 4 x 4 squares building up to a 16 x 16 puzzle. It can be done, but it took a lot of time and didn't feel all that satisfying (I was bored with it long before I actually finished). I find one a week is just enough.

I was talking about moving iTunes special format over to MP3. Anyway, emusic downloads are regular MP3s. They generally are saved into a folder on your desktop. Once you find them, you can move them anywhere else you like and play them in regular players like WinAmp and do whatever you want with the playlists.

There are two general approaches -- which I blend a bit. You start in some square that has a few numbers filled in. You can either pick the first missing number (2) and say, hmm, which of the empty squares can hold 2. Or you can go through all the empty squares and fill in all the possible available numbers. I usually start with the first approach and move towards the second as I fill in things. This helps keep the puzzle slightly less cluttered. I write the possible numbers really small in the corners, then cross them off as they become unavailable. But I usually don't write down numbers if there are more than three possibilities for a square. I either move to a different 3 x 3 or work on a different number within that 3 x 3. The important thing is to start recognizing patterns and to look across the entire puzzle. Maybe it helps to think as in chess. A number blocks that same number from appearing in that same row and column, like a rook (sort of). The other thing is that as bits of the puzzle get filled in, you can use incomplete information to fill in elsewhere. So for instance, lets say the grid is like this: A B C D E F G H I If you can narrow a number down to A or D (because there is something that blocks all the way across G-H-I and there are some other numbers that get in the way), this may be enough to tell you where the same number is placed in the square above or below. Anyway, it's basically a winnowing process.

When I first moved over, I did them every day. Now I just do one a week (Saturday). There really is no math involved, but you do need to be good at working with patterns.

Hey, that's really good news!!! I hope you manage to get all the shows off. I had the mechanical failure, you speak of once. Who knows, maybe the tiny motor blew out. It would have been a near impossible job to transfer the physical components to some other drive just to get it to the point where I could run data recovery software. In the end, it wasn't worth it.

Well, the DRM issues suck, as one might expect. One can't use these downloads with Macs or Linux or iPod without some serious hassles. That said, there are still a few BN albums with only a few tracks where you can buy them for much less than on iTunes (where you must buy the entire album). So in a handful of cases it is probably worth buying the Walmart tracks, converting them to mp3 through some software (which I do own) and then using them as you please.

Emusic is greart, but it doesn't have any Blue Note or Verve, and while Walmart has a bunch of restrictions just like iTunes, it does have stuff from these labels. In fact, it looks like they may not have as many restrictions on the BN stuff as iTunes. I'll definitely check out the format of these downloads, and then I might well download Where is Brooklyn or something equivalent.

I have mixed feelings about Barber and wasn't impressed when I saw her live, but she is always striving for something new, and I appreciate that. This sounds like the kind of project I would be interested in.

Thanks to everyone's help, it does appear that I have the Wes Montgomery and Bill Evans Riverside sets winging their way to me across the Channel.

My disc 2 is ok as well. There is something unusual going on on track 4, but I decided it was percussion, maybe brush work.

It needs a sticker saying this book was proof-read by Adam Holzman.

I finally got my copy and am starting to listen to it. Maybe I should listen to disc 2 first, just in case there is a problem. Anyway, I read through the thread (not that carefully) and maybe I missed it, but my booklet does indeed have the sticker that "corrects" the credits for the compilation on p. 94. Am I the only one?What a frigging waste of time to hold up this set just so someone's ego gets stroked a bit more.

I think they're gone again.

For a literary take on this, you might find Toyko Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta interesting. It is about 13 people stuck in an unnamed Asian airport trying to get into Toyko and a freak snowstorm closes the airport, so they spend the night telling each other stories. It's being marketed as an updated Canterbury Tales, though in fact it is closer in spirit to Boccaccio's The Decameron. Most of the stories are a bit too much like fairy tales for my tastes, but it was still an interesting read. I can't recall too many bad flights, just too many trans-Atlantic flights that stretched on for far too long. I've got more than my share of Amtrak horror stories though.

Yeah, I saw this other story, and I thought what a chump. So anyway, he sells all his treasures, and she'll probably leave him in a year anyway. I don't care how wonderful your boyfriend/girlfriend is, if they make you give up your main passion in life, they aren't worth it. I'm not saying there can't be a little compromise, but if someone gave me that kind of ultimatuum, they would/should be out the door. Actually, that was kind of relevant in my own life. My wife never liked my cats much, but she didn't make a big deal about them, since it was quite clear in the first year we were dating, that the cats were a major part of my life ...

For the CD or LP? (I guess Amazon really doesn't list LPs). Yeah, I managed to pick up a clean LP for $10 or so about 18 months ago. I think that is definitely the way to go, since some of the best material is left off the CD.

I guess you never know, but I think Ripken will make it in his first year of eligibility. Any thoughts on McGwire? At one point, he would have been a shoe-in, but looking at how much the man has shriveled without being on the juice, I wonder if that will give voters a reason to hesitate.