Kevin Bresnahan

I got an E-mail from AUM Fidelity this morning announcing a new "LP only" release of the David S. Ware Quartet's "Live in Vilnius". Only 1000 copies will be pressed. Their last LP release, William Parker's "Petit Oiseau", sold out pretty quickly, although that was only 500 copies. I listened to some samples of the band at an earlier date and it's not my "cup 'o tea", but I thought I'd pass it on. The link: http://www.aumfidelity.com/NBLP4.html Kevin

I think that's one of the reasons I like that album so much. Less clutter It's much easier to hear Grant's contributions. ?? Grant is not on "Another Workout".

DSL modems do die on occasion. I know several people who had connection problems and it took a new modem to fix it. The ISP could also send a reset commend to it. Sometimes it just gets bunged up. Also, is this computer connected to the DSL modem directly or are you connected through a router or wireless network? If you have a direct connection, how is it made? On some DSL modems, you have the choice of USB or ethernet. Ethernet is faster. Kevin

Not many PCs support more than 4 GBs of RAM and if you're running Windows XP, it won't let you do much with anything over 2 GBs. Rule of thumb is Windows XP, 2 GB RAM - Windows Vista, 4 GB RAM. BTW, for Dan's case, 504 MB of RAM is not enough and it is a very unusual number which makes me wonder how it got there. Also, having only 20 GB of space on a 114 GB hardrive (another weird number) means that it is getting rather full. I would recommend getting an external hardrive and getting a lot of that stuff off your main drive to make it run faster. Lastly, you should consider de-fragging that drive, however, be warned that de-fragging almost 100 GBs of stored data will take a very long time. Kevin

I don't know how long they'll be grandfathered in - the government sold the frequency spectrum to cell phone providers for 4G network transmissions. Once those cell phone towers start transmitting, any TV broadcasts will mess with them. Later, Kevin

What a crappy start to a birthday! It's raining cats & dogs out there this morning. Maybe my first present will be to go back to bed... nah. Gotta go out there in this mini-hurricane. Later, Kevin

Most digital broadcasts are in the UHF band. Therefore, with a set-top digital tuner (free from Uncle Sam), "rabbit ears" should be all you'll need. There will be less need for the extendable antennae from here out. I installed a gov'ment approved free digital STB for a friend of my Mom's and she got way more channels than before and every one came in perfectly. She was ecstatic.

This is not a unique event at Blue Note. People seem to forget about the fiasco with Wayne Shorter's "The Soothsayer". They fixed that one after it had been out for years and never told anyone about it. I had to buy a copy every now & then until I got one with the fixed CD in it. Kevin

Michael - Any chance this music was recorded? Any chance you might want to offer CD-Rs of this recording for sale? Other people are doing it and it seems to be a pretty good way to make a few bucks. I'd buy it.

I finally got a chance to see this yesterday and while it was very enjoyable, the inconsistencies and incredible leaps of logic were tough to swallow. The whole sequence on the snow planet was just too contrived and too unbelievable - even for Star Trek. It's great that this movie will start us down a path to more movies because I'm a die hard Trekkie. Kevin

I have had this on CD for many years and it's slowly become one of my favorite Dex dates. I really like Hampton's contributions on bone as well as by providing 3 of the tunes. I wish I got it for $8.99. Kevin

Lon, believe it or not, my first street bike was a Honda 400F as well! They called it a "Supersport". The wildest thing about this similarity is that they only made a few of these bikes and they only made it for 3 years. Pretty funny. They're a bit of a collectible today. What is everyone wearing for riding gear out there? I have 3 jackets, two leather and one mesh. Surprisingly, I find myself grabbing the mesh jacket all the time. Even when it's cold, it's warmer that the leather. Unzip the liner and it's much cooler than the leather. I bought a Joe Rocket Phoenix 4.0 (they're up to 5.0 now). I paid only $100 last year. Considering what they're getting for leather jackets, a bargain. My bike crossed over 1,500 miles a few weekends ago and it's like a new bike again. It's even smoother than before. Quieted down too. I am really digging this bike.

It's still goofed up. Should I change my time zone or is there a fix coming? Kevin

I sent several E-mails to Horace's site admin and never heard a word back. It has been hijacked for several years. NoScript's Firefox add-on stopped some trojan virus from getting loaded the last time I visited there. In fact, if you visited there recently, I would recommend an anti-virus scan and anti-malware scan immediately.

Too bad I got there before you and bought all the good stuff. I am lucky to have Jack's place close by. I'm sure as the weather gets better, I'll take a motorcycle ride down on a few Saturdays. Kevin

I have this one. In my opinion, it's the best digital version out there and $15 is a great price, especially since it's sealed.

There is more than one TOCJ catalog number for these titles. Maybe it would help to list the number? Kevin

By comparison, Harley's shake a lot. No other bike company is using that shake as a selling point. As to the amount, it depends on the bike's year and model. The problems I had with the shake was that the rear-view mirrors were useless at highway speeds. The shake gives people fits on longer rides. There also the usual problem with all bikes of having parts staying where there supposed to be. Vibration is not a good thing in most cases. Personally, I hated the shake. I liked the ride and the seating position, but that wasn't enough to get me over the shake. Thank god I saw that random Victory commercial last year. They don't run commercials too often. I was all ready to buy a Kawasaki or Honda V twin, but I wanted to buy a US bike. I even put my name on the re-born Indian's mailing list. Then their price list came out. $30K! Big Dog? Cool looking but no way I'm riding a Mastiff for hours. And they are hot, hot, hot. I made the right choice for me and I can highly recommend it. I am really liking my Victory Kingpin. This weekend, I put almost 500 miles on it, driving the length of Massachusetts and back again. Yesterday for the ride home, my 71 year old mother hopped on the back. I hope I can ride 200 miles when I'm 71. She said it was a nice ride - the new Mustang helped for sure, but it is a very smooth rider. Kevin

That reputation is well earned. The ones that I've sat on were as hard as a rock. If I wanted a hard seat, I would simply stick with my stock Vic seat - it's pretty stiff. Be warned that Corbin's up for sale and are rumored to be on the verge of bankruptcy. In the past few weeks, there have been several false alarms about them closing shop. They also have a reputation for truly atrocious customer service, so you better hope that you don't ever need them. Quite honestly Lon, if you hadn't already ordered a seat from them, I would recommend against it. People on line are complaining about them left & right. Their delivery time has gone through the roof. You should see if you can cancel the order. There are a lot of guys out there mod'ding seats and I would look into that if Mustang isn't for you. Spencer's Seat Mods are very inexpensive and are highly regarded. BTW, I bought my Mustang two-up seat used from eBay. I bought it for my wife, not me. I was more than happy enough with the stock Vic seat. She wanted a more comfy ride with a tall backrest. This Mustang seat has that. Kevin

Here's my Dad on his 1951 Indian 80 cubic inch Chief. This is on display in the Springfield Museum in the Indian section. I hope to ride it someday. I just don't know if I can handle the left hand throttle, right hand spark advance, left foot clutch and right side stick shift. I miss ya Dad, Kevin

What a farce. Seriously. This decision is a complete joke. Somewhere Walt Disney is laughing his ass off. In this case, it ain't Disney, it's The Beatles. Everyone knew this was coming when The Beatles approached public domain. Anyone who thought otherwise was kidding themselves. Their recordings generate millions of dollars. Millions of dollars get politicians attention.

I am going on my first long ride on my new Victory Kingpin this weekend. I just put a Mustang seat on it today. I'm really loving this new bike. Smoooooth. Kevin

When was the last time you ran disc clean up and defragmented your hardrive? Both of those things should be done every now & then. Easiest way: Put the cursor over the start button and press the right button - select "Explore" and click the left mouse button. In Windows Explorer, find your C: drive. Right mouse click that and click "Properties". Click the button labeled "Disk Cleanup". If you haven't done this or not done it in a while, it will take a long time. After cleanup, click the "Tools" tab in the properties window. You'll see a "Defragment now" button. This will also take a long time, no matter if you've done it recently or not. BTW, a good free program to clean up your PC is CCleaner. The best thing about it is the registry cleaner. It will clean out any unused registry keys. If you still have problems, the next step involves editing the registry to stop all the crap that's loading at start up. Try these easy things first. Kevin

Deep used to go on about this date but I was never able to find it. He gave me the impression that it was well worth finding. Kevin

Foster's Epic dates are in print on vinyl if you look. I've never picked them up because his style seems too one dimensional to listen to in a trio setting for a whole LP, never mind two whole LPs. Maybe I should pick one up just to see what he did? Kevin