The Dean

There is a huge difference between Normal and High bias. I was a TDK fan back in the day.

Blood Sweat and Tears was the better and more influential band, for jazz-horn influenced rock, IMO. Chicago had a few good tunes, but by and large were pretty lame, IMO. BS&T kicked ass.

I guess nobody bothered to look at Chris Johnson's stats his first year in the league.

Dolphins got screwed? I'm good with that.

Would we be subject to watching "Friendlies"?

Stop encouraging him!

Transfer that tape before it totally craps the bed! You can still get TDK cassettes for a reasonable price, I think.

I'd go back and INVENT something well before it was actually invented. Something big/dramatic. Maybe launch the Pocket Fisherman on the world in the 1800s.

I'd love to see the magic that went into that accounting.

Wow, very tough OK, based on my mood today: Amnesia Moon, by Jonathan Lethem Actually recommending this because I loved this book, but it has been years since I read it. I would like to reread it soon. PK Dick fans might find this interesting. Videodrome Cronenberg's best movie, IMO and maybe James Wood's most interesting performance. Captain Beyond The best progressive hard rock album ever made. There I said it. This was inspired by Joe's excellent recommendation of Masters Of Reality. Bobby Caldwell gives a virtuoso drum performance on this disk.

Marshall Tucker was always an underrated band, IMO. They were slapped together with the other "Southern Rock" groups of the day but were clearly superior to most of them. Yes like many bands their later albums were substandard, but they had quite a long run of quality output. Here's an example:

From the article: I thought that very thing. RIP Walking Men.

Sort of like Polar Bears with Alaskans, right?

That's $1 Million less than Escom paid for it in 2006. I wonder if if the next owner has a better business plan.

Awesome. I just used it to download launcher pro.

How about a link to your show?

This comes immediately to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak8suW-JBzE

I see your point, but still you go to law school to learn the law. I know several people who graduated from law school and do not practice law. Two of them never intended to do so. I almost went that route myself. The point being, you go to school to learn, not train for a specific job. I think this guys mentality is the biggest reason he is still unemployed. He seems like a mook. Who wants to hire a mook?

Bingo! He didn't go to a vocational school. He went to a University.

OK, I finally joined the smartphone world. (Well, I used to have a Palm Treo, but that doesn't really count, IMO.) I picked up the Samsung Intercept from Virgin Mobile. No contract. My plan is $40/month. Unlimited text and data and 1200 anytime minutes. It's my business phone so that is more than enough talk time. With unlimited minutes the plan is $60/month. The Good: The slide out keyboard is fantastic. I really couldn't live without it. Google Voice Search is shockingly good. Great Wifi connectivity. Call quality is pretty good. No dropped calls so far. (VM uses Sprint's network. My personal phone is AT&T, so that gives me pretty broad coverage between the two.) The plan is hard to beat. I don't text much, but I use gmail all the time and browse the web a bit. The Bad: Touch screen has some delays from time to time. Pretty minor so far, actually. But can be annoying. Battery life could be better when connected to Wifi or with Bluetooth activated. Not really too big an issue for me, as I really only use Wifi at home so I can recharge easily and rarely use bluetooth. Haven't needed to use the car charger yet...the phone has lasted the entire day. That's fine for me. Touch screen is a finger print magnet. It's a low-mid-range Android. I'm sure the camera isn't the best, but I don't really use it. No idea if it is a good music player as I don't use it for that. The stock calendar kind of sucks for scheduling appts. (I guess it isn't horrible, but it should be much better, IMO.) I am on the lookout for a better Android app. Please feel free to recommend. The Ugly: Since there is no contract, you pay for the phone. $249.99 at Target. Was surprised when they gave me a $20 prepaid Target gift card...so that was nice. I changed from AT&T Go Phone because the plan was bad, the phone sucked and the signal in my house wasn't good. Well, Sprint's signal at my house is even worse. Fortunately I have a fairly cool work-around using Google Voice. But Virgin Mobile doesn't support conditional forwarding or allow me to use Google Voicemail. So there are a few little glitches to work out. Can't transfer the contacts from my old AT&T Go Phone sim card to my computer. Looks like I will be hand transferring my phone book this weekend. Anyway... I am now using Dolphin HD as my browser. Is there anything better right now? And, as I mentioned, I need a good scheduling/calendar app. I am still getting to know the phone and probably have barely dented what it can do. I am learning better and faster ways to do things all the time and hopefully that will continue for the foreseeable future.

Did you get them THIS past summer? If so, I will be very encouraged. I haven't seen them in a year or two. I've been doing some web searching looking for a local distributor and have come up empty so far. I more or less stopped drinking RR when AB bought the brand and closed the Latrobe brewery. But I make an exception for the "Little Nips". I won't drink Corona or Coors (or Coors Light) from any container, though.* * Given a choice of another kind of beer.

"Peta Has Forced Countless Women To Fellate Vegetables" Outstanding!

You have no idea what was discussed. Care to backup your assertion with any credible support?

As good as their beers are, I think I like Flying Dogs' beer names and label artwork (by Ralph Steadman!) just as much. I will have to try Raging B word. I love a good Belgian IPA.