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Happy Birthday John! I'll buy you a beer or three on Saturday.

I wish you have a really good one, you remaster master

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I'm here helping out at the Symposium Acoustic room (the Venetian) or I can be found aimlessly wondering the halls.

Have a great one fellas! Cheers!

From Harpers. Yearly Review Two thousand seven hundred twenty-two days after U.S. troops crossed the Kuwaiti border into Iraq, U.S. combat operations there officially ended. The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan turned older than the Soviet Union

My new Droid rocks the boat. My iTouch feels a bit dated now. Will my iPad, yet to arrive on this New Year's eve day, feel just ordinary as the New Year's dawns tomorrow? Five years hence, will Apple feel like Microsoft, and Microsoft like National Cash Register? Has Apple just introduced us to the new millennium, only to find themselves running to catch up after showing everyone else how to do it?

You carry your years well, Brian. Have a great one! Cheers

Happy birthday you "football" lover, you! Cheers!

Hope you had a great one Steve! Looks like it was a fun party. Cheers!

Happy birthday to you! Wishing you a good year ahead.

Hope you have two times the fun of the rest of us Christmas celebrators Ric and Guillaume! Cheers!

Congrats! Have a happy birthday!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!! Have a great day with your family and friends!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Don Van Vliet, a/k/a Captain Beefheart, RIP - New York Music - Sound of the City Thanks for all the great art Don. Sad day.

Have a good one, eh! Cheers

My Sister who lives in Arlington (a few bolcks from Metro) called me today asking for help moving tomorrow, so I'm heading down to help (basically watching the movers). I'm going to stay at least through Saturday morning, so that gives me all day Friday to sight see. My last time in DC was in the early to mid 90's (visited the Holocaust Museum shortly after it opened), and I haven't been to the Smithsonian since the 80's. Where should I go? there was a burger place back in the 70's (Bon Appetite - President Ford use to send Secret Service agents there to get take out. When I was younger it was the air & space that drew me, now perhaps the National Gallery suits me …

I am so out of touch with technology that it is a little disappointing, I need a little help from you tech savvy folk. I need to set up a workstation to view DICOM images from a database and would like a laptop to drive this thing. I have a pair of EIZO monitors which use a DVI input, I have a decent size storage bay ( up to 9TB ) which negates the need for a large drive but I would prefer 7500rpm +- 200GB onboard. It seems to make sense to go with a quadcore processor and I need to keep the budget at $2500 I have found a few laptops which meet most of the requirements but none of the graphics cards seem to support DVI. Is this technology being phased out ? I k…

I always find this day sad, but this year is more poignant to me due to the 30th anniversary attention, etc. Growing up, I lived on the 22nd floor of the building next door to the Dakota. We saw John and Yoko with some frequency. I later went to grammar school with their son. They were unpretentious, unassuming, and decent. And for the most part, it appeared that most in the neighborhood gave them at least some space. I was in my PJs getting ready for bed the night John Lennon was murdered--I was 8 years old. I heard the shots. I didn't know what they were--amazingly I had never heard gunshots even in NYC through the 70s. They went "crack!" not that enhanced ec…

Todd! Hope you had a great 46th yesterday while we were marveling that Dave Brubeck was 90. May you be as healthy and productive as he has been over these last 44 years. Cheers!

He's 90 today. Put on a CD and raise a glass.