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I will be at Thursday's day game against DC this week. Gio Gonzalez is the probable starter unless there's a rain out between now and then. Love weekday day games!

I don't see why the university wouldn't make the players "free agents," free to go to other football programs on scholarships if possible, or else honor their scholarships and let them attend Penn State like non-athlete students. I don't know how well they'll do without the help they would have gotten through the football program, but that's another issue. They cannot just go back to business as usual because of their commitments to the current players, imo.

Thanks. I will give that a try, if I can understand the video. It sort of assumes I have more knowledge of the starting point than I really do, as is often the case with technical manuals. I might try a DOS command, ren (for rename).

Thanks! That's what I did, but there are hundreds of songs now with .ptl. I wonder if there is a way to delete .ptl in a batch rather than one by one. (Enjoyed your recent picture of what makes you smile)

When I bought a new computer and transferred Amazon mp3 files from the old one to the new, it looks like many, but not all, of those songs now end with a .ptl extension and iTunes cannot play them. Files end with .mp3.ptl, that is. I found that if I renamed those files to have a .mp3 extension by deleting the .ptl extension, iItunes was able to play them. Is there a way to rename all the files I have that now have the .ptl extention? And by the way, what does .ptl mean? All I can find through Google searches is Path Too Long.

Civil suits against the university for neglectfully endangering those victims?

New Orleans Wanderers, Perdido Street Blues http://npmusic.org/PerdidoStBluesRingtone.mp3 New Orleans Bootblacks, Mad Dog http://npmusic.org/MadDogRingtone.mp3

Richard M. Jones, Good Stuff http://www.npmusic.org/GoodStuffRingtone.mp3

The opening of New Orleans Wanderers, Perdido Street Blues!

Where did you hear that Ruiz is going to catch R.A. Dickey? Yadier Molina is the best catcher in baseball today, so I thought he would be the one.

Much preferred the throwback 1924 uniforms we wore Thursday night to the current one! The thing is, in Washington, the loudest mouths are the few fans of the 1960s second franchise Senators. Their nostalgia is for THAT team. So they argue that we in 2012 should be remembering and paying homage to DC's baseball history with the curly W and stuff I really can't stand, yet they invariably exclude the original Nationals and especially the Washington (Homestead) Grays, our greatest baseball history! For the likes of Jim French, Eddie Brinkman, and Ron Hansen! Pitiful!

People will be mortified that they ever used a lower case i before a capital letter as in iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac, and the newest substitute for library school, the iSchool. Oh, and CNN's iReporters!

Illinois Jacquet

Bunk Johnson Baby Dodds Cab Calloway Miff Mole

A Face in the Crowd!

Shazam! What a career! Loved his storytelling for Opie, like Romeo and Juliet, or his little chats with Barney. (Winkin'll tell Blinkin', and Blinkin'll tell Nod, and Nod'll tell Barney, and Barney'll tell you!)

I like this group, too, the Foghorn String Band. They play "both" kinds of music: AM and FM (American music and French music!) http://foghornstringband.com/2010/11/16/foghorn-trio-tours-alaska/foghorntrio-3428-3/ I caught them backing up Jesse Lege and Joel Savoy doing Cajun music! Red Stick Ramblers. More swing country, less Cajun than you would think. My Suitcase is Always Packed. http://www.redstickramblers.com/music.html (The leader, Linzay Young, even played a prominent role in the boucherie that Tony Bourdain visited on the Travel Network food show, No Reservations!)

Oh God, the family around the dinner table! That was hilarious!

South Carolina Broadcasters are three people playing guitars, fiddle, and banjo. Great old time singing! (Great name, reminding me of Da Costa Walz' Southern Broadcasters) This is how they do the Delmore Brothers' Take Away This Lonesome Day. I had to play it over and over again! http://scbroadcaster.bandcamp.com/track/take-away-this-lonesome-day This one is a duet of David Sheppard and Ivy Lindley Sheppard.

I liked both Jerry Lewis and Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor. Trading Places was another good Murphy movie.

Glad to see that Ian Desmond, DC shortstop, was named as a reserve to the NL All Star team. Very deserving.

I am still partial to 1960s slapstick like Flim-Flam Man and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Just about anything with Peter Sellers. More recent movies I thought were funny include Groundhog Day and The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou. The Crimson Permanent Assurance short.

Jimmy Reed? Big influence in Louisiana. Paul "Little Buck" Sinegal with Clifton Chenier's band and later C.J. Chenier.

Yes, thanks, I meant noise reduction.

No. 959 came in this week! Glad to see that quite a few of the Fletcher Henderson titles do not match my Hendersons from Joe Bussard 78s. Somebody said sound reduction can be overdone, which is true, but my Joe B stuff is pretty mossy at times. I appreciate the remastering on the Henderson tunes I have heard before.