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Thanks for the link. It's amazing in this day and age that they have made a going concern of this label.

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How tough? Any photos? Good to hear that he will be around for another year. Used to work for Ghaddafi

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That's a really interesting collection--all those prole music-making devices and then the Newton. How did he come by the book? Thanks for asking. I wish I knew. There's a bit of documentation, but nothing that would give me a clue as to how he came by the book or why. It wasn't like he was a collector or a Newton junkie. Just one of those really odd little mysteries that will never be solved. Although I have no intention of letting either the book or the uke go, I've often wondered which of the two is more valuable. The book is in good condition (considering its age) while the uke is near mint. Reputable booksellers are asking 2800.00 and up for decent copies of the 4th edition. The 4th was the last edition to include changes by its author. It's not as rare as you might imagine--there are five or 6 copies available on the web. That's a really interesting collection--all those prole music-making devices and then the Newton. How did he come by the book? Thanks for asking. I wish I knew. There's a bit of documentation, but nothing that would give me a clue as to how he came by the book or why. It wasn't like he was a collector or a Newton junkie. Just one of those really odd little mysteries that will never be solved. Although I have no intention of letting either the book or the uke go, I've often wondered which of the two is more valuable. The book is in good condition (considering its age) while the uke is near mint. A lot depends on condition, completeness, binding, etc but at a guess I would think the Newton would be more available. However, Newton's Opticks was published in 1704, and the 4th edition came out in 1730, so I am a little puzzled by the 1600s date you've given it. Wikipedia gives useful information: Newtown Oops...I meant 1700's. Condition-wise, it's all there. The fold out illustrations and everything. Binding is completely intact and in good shape. I would be a little more aggressive in pricing the book than Brownian Motion. Complete and original condition, certainly upwards of $5,000 (see link below) and if a particularly nice copy, it should do very well at auction (Sotheby's, Swann, etc)., perhaps quite a bit more than $5000. I was in the book trade for many years; you don't see copies every day! It's odd how books fall into and out of people's hands. I recall being in the hinterlands of Illinois, cows and barns all around, and a guy offered me incunabula! Book Prices

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That's a really interesting collection--all those prole music-making devices and then the Newton. How did he come by the book? Thanks for asking. I wish I knew. There's a bit of documentation, but nothing that would give me a clue as to how he came by the book or why. It wasn't like he was a collector or a Newton junkie. Just one of those really odd little mysteries that will never be solved. Although I have no intention of letting either the book or the uke go, I've often wondered which of the two is more valuable. The book is in good condition (considering its age) while the uke is near mint. A lot depends on condition, completeness, binding, etc but at a guess I would think the Newton would be more available. However, Newton's Opticks was published in 1704, and the 4th edition came out in 1730, so I am a little puzzled by the 1600s date you've given it. Wikipedia gives useful information: Newtown

This one looks to have gone OOP already. That's a pity. Unlike most of these boutique boxes this one strikes me as one that deserves a permanent availability. Price has already more than doubled

I don't think that's any doing of Al's. The gangbangers identify with the logo, because they actually are pirates in the unglorified, un-Disney-fied sense of the term. Most of the knuckleheads don't know the first thing about football (or much of anything other than being complete assholes). They wear Raider gear because the other brainless gangbangers do, they like wearing black, and they're among the most unoriginal, personality-less people in the world. Just win, baby. RIP, Mr. Davis. As an old, long time Jets fan, I've been eyeing the Raiders since the AFL, 1960s. Al always invited and welcomed the Bad Boy image. He understood that thugs wore the uniform. It certainly did not bother him, and it seems that he and the team reveled in that anti-social, thug life persona. Yes, as you point out, many real football fans are good folks. But that is not the image associated with the team. I thought this was an interesting article: Raiders and Gangs BTW, remember the whole debacle of moving the club from Oakland to SoCal, then back again. Al at his best/worst.

Thanks for the link and review. I saw Roscoe in June. He didn't strike me as frail, but perhaps I didn't notice, or maybe Time is playing its usual tricks. I love Roscoe's music, and I love the fact he is never content and is always challenging expectations.

An outsized personality, which could be fun at times in a grande guignol sort of way, but definitely not a nice guy. Not surprising that his team was and is favored by gang bangers.

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I respect Jobs for bringing Apple from also-ran to a pre-eminent position in the PC/PDA market. No doubt about his genius for giving us what we did not know we needed, from iPOD to iPAD. I am typing this on my Apple laptop. But......I have some qualms about the near-canonical status being accorded to Job. He changed our world, but has it been for the better? He certainly advanced the "amusing ourselves to death" process. I look about on the Metro, and most people are immersed in their smart phones, usually iPhones, or listening to their iPods (already mostly obsolete). They are usually playing games on the device. Totally atomized individuals. I often think that the extravagant attention paid to Apple products is like an attention deficit disorder for the true issues of our time. Obsessed with toys, games and gizmos, we have often lost contact with what really matters. Tim Leary said "tune in, turn on, drop out." Something like that can be said for the effect of these Apple toys. I don't know if we can blame Jobs for that, but he was astute enough to make the most of it. Edited to correct my atrocious typing.

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