J Larsen

Pierre or Marie?!? Intentionally ambiguous. (Although I personally consider Pierre to be more of a solid-state physicist - but in some sense that's about as close as you get to being a chemist within physics.)

I have to say that I recently went to Peter Lugers with three friends - three of us ordered steak, the other a burger. The guy who ordered a burger made a mistake. OTOH, I've been to PL about 10 times and once got a really, really, really bad steak (the other 9 were among the best steaks I've ever had). So I suppose that my buddy could have just been unlucky and gotten a bad burger on a fluke.

Anyone ever had an Australian style hamburger? They put bacon, sunnyside up egg, beet and pineapple on their burgers. The really surprising thing is.... it's pretty good. I've had quite a few of them since I met the Australian side of my family.

Absolutely not. I think it is not much better than any other fast food. Others vehemently disagree, but I got to go with what my tongue tells me...

New Ideas and the Candid are really good. the (3 2/3)/4 time thing actually isn't one of my favorites.

Feynman and Einstein, hands down. They may not have been the most noble man in the world, but they both had incredible physical insight and a very cool way of thinking about fundamental physics. Honorable mention to Poincare, who worked in chaos way before it was trendy (or even had a name) and also is considered by some to be the true father of relativity theory. Least favorite might have to be Ed Witten. He was one described as Einstein and Feynman rolled into one, but I have come to the conclusion that he is the exact opposite of them. His work and way of approaching physics have done a lot of damage to the subject, IMO. OTOH, he really is a great guy... Favorite old-school scientist = Galileo. Favorite mathematician = Hilbert. Incredible researcher, and (depending somewhat on your POV and who you believe) beat out Einstein to the theory of General Relativity. Honorable mention to Godel. Favorite biologist = Darwin - no contest. Favorite chemist = Curie, no contest. Ultimate favorite - probably Feynman, if only because he was so much more obviously ahead of his peers than Einstein, and as a physicist (even if I am currently getting a paycheck for work in economics) I have to pick one of my own.

I recently asked Mosaic about this - they said that no Select has low enough stock to warrant Running Low status as of now, but that the earliest sets had sold very well and that they would add the selects to the main running low list as appropriate.

That's what I do. The great thing about this AFAIC is that you don't have to worry about cooking the meat so thoroughly this way (assuming you can get the butcher to rinse off the steak before he grinds it, which mine is always happy to do).

Rashied Ali - drums Jumanne Smith - trumpet (good) Lawrence Clark - tenor sax (quite good) Greg Murphy - piano (pretty good) Joris Teepe - bass (ok) There was also a second trumpet player whose name I don't remember (Joel something?) and a female alto player.

The best burger I have ever had (excluding Daniel's foie gras and short-ribbed stuffed bastardization that really shouldn't be called a burger anymore) was made with very lean beef which was ground with lamb fat. Delicious!

I'm pretty sure 8/14 is the new street date. I read something about it on Lynch's site, but can't find it now.

The August date is correct.

This was a pretty good hardbop show. I do have to say, though, that the food at the Jazz Standard is VASTLY overrated. Two things New Yorkers don't know *shit* about: 1) BBQ 2) Mexican food. All the top-rated places I've been to in either category have ranged from thoroughly sucking to just making the lower end cut-off of "mediocre".

I'm checking out Rashied Ali at the Jazz Standard tonight. Saw him at Tonic a few months back and it was a pretty good set.

Is that one of the ones where a little mechanical arm pops out and flips the tape around when it has gotten to the end of the first side? I used to want one of those really bad, back when a substantial portion of my collection was in cassette format.

Obviously, but I don't think Mosaic is going to tell you that.

That does not seem plausible to me, but that is a gut reaction. In any event, when I was a vegan it was for environmental reasons (primariliy but not exclusively energy efficieny/global warming issues) rather than concern over animal deaths (of which I have very little). While I met many vegans who were "animal rightists", I also met a great many who shared my views.

I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the earlier selects start hitting running low, particularly as these were widely distributed to retailers. Then there are always the sets that time out vs. selling out - that is obviously muh harder to predict.

Indeed.

Some of us also find ebay to be a bit of a pain in the ass. I'd rather take less money for my cds (or even give them away) than deal with selling different items to different buyers, waiting for payments, individually packing each item, going to the po, etc.

I believe the court said that it wasn't the vegan diet that killed the baby, but rather the fact that the parents were hardly feeding it anything at all. I had some roommates who were forcing their cats to be vegans which I found appalling (and I was a vegan myself at the time). I snuck 9 Lives into the house and fed them late at night in the bedroom. The roommates could never understand why the cats liked me so much. They ran to the door whenever I came home and followed me around all over the house, while hardly giving my roommates the time of day.

Drambuie on the rocks.

Warre's 20 Year Tawny.

A fairly inexpensive Cotes du Rhones (I actually don't believe in spending a lot on CdRs) - Roger Perring Cuvee Prestige - went great with my lamb chops.

Never mind - don't want to be a party pooper...