J Larsen

Sorry man, they paid me off real well, and made threats on my cd collection if I said anything...

Chris, is there an interesting story behind how you acquired that record? I've read that there's only one copy known to exist in the world.

THAT's what you were dreaming about as a teenage boy?!?!?

I know what you mean. Part of that may be that Bank One is also now picking up the bill for the Bears charity efforts, and part of it may be the team's recent struggles.

No one had Craig's high stepping running style. Terrell Davis came closest, I think. That style took a little speed away from Roger, but it made him really hard to tackle.

Mny, what I heard on the radio is that the Bears wanted to sell naming rights to their stadium but couldn't for some reason. There was some problem with the contract they had with the City of Chicago. So they opted to sell (actually, to lease) the team name for 12 years.

The one thing this will be good for is a few sports bar laughs. "Hey, who's number 31 on Bears Football, Presented by Bank One?" Of course, as the phenominon spreads the laughs will wear thin.

When I was a teenager I would have said Roger Craig. But of course, I was a born and raised San Franciscan who saw everything in red and gold. Based on legend, video footage and stats, it's got to be Payton or Brown, but I can't figure a way to give a half vote to each...

Have you guys heard about this? I can't decide whether this should get a barfing guy or laughing guy icon! I guess I'll go with the barfing guy, as I'm sure my teams will be soon to follow... http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/sports..._10949587.shtml

Mny, three of his nine bodyguards were arrested. Two were wanted for crimes, and one was a parole violator. The other six bodyguards were detained and released. Snoop Dogg is now facing prosecution, as it is evidently a crime for a felon to have armed bodyguards.

This reminds me of a story from when I was growing up in San Francisco. There were known to be two out-of-town fugitives in the Bay Area. Two Oakland cops spotted men matching the description driving around in a car. They asked the suspects where they were from. When they replied "Frisco", they were immediately arrested on the grounds that no one from the Bay Area says "Frisco". I know, it sounds like a Bay Area legend, but I read in in the Chronicle in about 1986.

Thanks. I'd like to upgrade my scratchy 3 LP set of Sandinista as well, but you sort of get gyped if you order a 2CD set in these deals, as they charge you full price for the most expensive item and their 2CD sets are way overpriced. I used to have every Clash LP, 7" and 10" record. I've found that London Calling, Sandinista and the b-sides to the associated singles are all I really need these days.

Since I know you're all dying to know what I picked up in this sale, here's my list. I actually own about half of these on vinyl or as pre-remaster cds. At about $5.50 a pop, I figured it was a good time for some upgrades. Mose Allison Mose Chronicles v. 1 and 2 Louis Armstrong Satch Plays Fats Black Eyed Peas Behind the Front Black Sabbath Vol 4 Clash London Calling Dave Douglas A Thousand Evenings Bob Dylan Empire Burlesque Duke Ellington Money Jungle Remaster Bill Evans/Jim Hall Undercurrent remaster Stan Getz And the Cool Sounds Woody Herman 1963 Charlie Parker Jazz at the Philharmonic 1949 Thelonious Monk Genius 2 RVG, Genius 1 RVG Radiohead Amnesiac Scolohofo Oh! Wayne Shorter Alegria Koko Taylor S/T Muddy Waters Fathers and Sons, Woodstock Album Weather Report I Sing the Body Electric Yes Yes Album, Close to the Edge Neil Young After the Gold Rush, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, Rust Never Sleeps

You're a wise man. Actually, I really feel no need to have Dylan in hi-fi. Don't get me wrong, I love his music, but it seems well suited to old vinyl, IMO.

Alright Jeff, I have to tell it to you straight. This is getting old. If you have to harrass Aric, do it through the PM system, and leave the Marsh thread alone. This type of behaviour is losing you any sympathy you might have had in the Dex cdr for "jacked" Money Jungle trade fiasco.

Jim, I agree. The thing is that they've manufactured a machine that's really desgined to compete with Sun workstations yet they're trying to market them to the PC audience. I think that could backfire. OTOH, as far as the scientific market is concerned, I think Sun has reason to worry. A fully loaded G5 is very competitive with the new Sunblade workstations in terms of both price and specs. As with Sun workstations, I don't think I can justify having one for my home, but I really want one for my office! I don't think the NSF will feel like buying me one anytime soon, though...

21 cds for $116 is a pretty good deal. Thanks for the heads up.

But would you rather listen to Chet Baker sing than watch Chet Baker box?

I hope this doesn't start a whole big argument, but this sentiment doesn't strike me as a very conservative philosophy! I thought conservatives didn't like the government acting as the "wiser parent" of the citizen.

What? G4s are still awesome. Sell it to me then! I think he was upset about the immenent price drop, which had actually already happened. I was unaware of that. Thanks, Jim. The price drop would seem to indicate that they really are going to market G5s as their main desktop line. Seems risky to me, especially given that there is no laptop on the horizon. I guess with a falling 2% market share, they figure they have little to lose.

Cali, on second thought you *might* not have anything to be upset about. I'm starting to think that the G5s are so expensive that they'll market them as a high-performance line and leave the G4s alone. As I indicated before, the G4 laptops are not likely to come down in price, as for the foreseeable future a G5 laptop is not feasable (if it were an easy problem to solve, Sun would have made sleek laptops a long time ago). Also, the vast majority of computer users don't need 64 bit processors. 64 bit chips have been around for a long time. If PC manufacturers thought that there was a commercial market for them, they would have started selling them by now. It may be that the G4 line gets merged with the iMac line into one low-end "home user" line, and the G5s become the "professional" line. But that's just wild speculation on my part.

They will. It usually takes Apple two or three months after a new line comes out to "find a way" to make the older lines about 25% less expensive. The G4 will definately be staying around for a long time, as the G5s will run far too hot to make a marketably small G5 laptop. Workstation laptops tend to be bulky like those old portable electric typewriters.

I just checked on apple.com, and it turns out that these guys are nearly $9,700 fully loaded. The 8GB of ram accounts for $3,750 of that, and the top-of-the-line graphics processor tacks on about $300 more. The $9700 also includes the cost of a 23 inch monitor, which is another $2000. The least expensive monitor you can buy from Apple is the 17 inch model for $700. If you don't already have a monitor, the lowest price you can get on the dual processor model is $3700. I find the prices a little depressing. I guess it was naive of me, but I was hoping that the 8GB dual-processor model would be available for $5000 to $6000. $3000 computer + $3750 RAM + $2000 monitor = $8750 = way more than I'm willing to pay for a Mac.

I don't know about this. It's going to take at the least a year for that cut to heal before Klitschko can take a chance of anyone beating on it. And Lewis is going to turn 38 this Sept. The earliest I can see that cut healing is 9-10 months if Klitschko is a very quick healer. Otherwise it is a good year before he can even start sparring again. I'm sure that played in to his displeasure at having the fight stopped. A year is a long time to have to think about that "loss".

Agree on all counts. Interleague play is stupid. I'm flying out to see some games at Pac Bell in August. They didn't open it up until I'd moved away from SF. I don't think I'll miss the Stick.