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Re: THE WITH IT AND HAPPENING ME
« Reply #90 on: August 11, 2009, 10:35:28 AM »

Loved the kitty pictures and video from yesterday, DR LAURA.
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« Reply #91 on: August 11, 2009, 10:36:23 AM »

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« Reply #92 on: August 11, 2009, 10:37:27 AM »

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« Reply #93 on: August 11, 2009, 10:41:29 AM »

That kinda looks like DR Sandra's grocery store dance.
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« Reply #94 on: August 11, 2009, 10:52:00 AM »

Good morning, everyone.

I, too, had a bad night. I had a flare-up of a very worrisome problem. This time, DR Laura, I will ask for any HHW vibes our DRs can send. And now I must see if my doctor can fit me in for an unscheduled appointment.

Thanks!


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« Reply #95 on: August 11, 2009, 10:56:50 AM »

Most wonderful good thoughts to DR Jeanne
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« Reply #96 on: August 11, 2009, 10:58:26 AM »

As for the Topic of the Day....

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How fast do you jump on the new electronic trends? For example, when did you get your first record player and what kind was it?
My parents had a big console one too, but I believe they finally dumped it when we moved to Connecticut. They did buy a Panasonic (I think) system: receiver/cassette player, turntable, speakers.  -Which I eventually "took over". -I've always wondered exactly when my parents stopped listening to music, well, at least to records considering they had a nice LP collection.  But that's a discussion for another day.  In any case... That Panasonic (I think) system provided years of musical service. I finally gave it away during one of my college moves.

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When did you get your first CD player?
My brother, Don, had a JVC model that he bought early on.  I eventually purchased a Sony 5-Disc Changer at Circuit City in 1986. It still works (I think), but it's currently in storage somewhere in my parents' house.

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Your first VCR?
My Dad did but a BetaMax machine early on. However, the one machine I remember was the JVC model with the big colorful buttons and the top-loading mechanism.

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Your first laserdisc player (presuming you got one)?
N/A

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Your first DVD player?
I think it was a Philips model purchased sometime ???

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Your first mp3 player or iPod?
My brother, Don, gave me an original iPod Shuffle (the stick of gum). I bought a 2nd Generation iPod Nano, it was one of the (RED) ones.  Alas, I left that one on a plane.  My brother then gave me another iPod, an 80GIG one.  I like it, but don't use it as much as most people think I would, should.

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Your first car phone?
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Your first cell phone?
Fall of 1999 - right before I went on tour for the first time.  In fact, I bought two of them.  I didn't want to run up long distance bills between me and Steve while I was bussing and trucking around the country.

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And your first Blu-Ray player and widescreen TV?
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« Reply #97 on: August 11, 2009, 10:59:27 AM »

I have a corded phone as well, in the bedroom. Unfortunately the phone jack in that room does not work.

Must get the Comcast guy to come and fix that one of these days.


Why do you have a phone in the bedroom, if the jack doesn't work?

Ummm....

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« Reply #98 on: August 11, 2009, 11:01:47 AM »

I am glad folks enjoyed the kitten photos and video. They are a lot of fun.
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« Reply #99 on: August 11, 2009, 11:03:20 AM »

My first record player I got for Christmas in the early 1950s.  It was pink and blue plastic.  It was a "kiddie's" player. 

My next was a hi-fi I got in the early 60s for Christmas. 

My first stereo I bought in the Navy in 1971 or so.  It was a portable unit with detachable speakers.  It met all my needs in my "barracks environment."

I also went the 8-track route.  Oh, my, yes.  M-o-o-n, that spells 8-track cassette deck.  I had three or four different ones over the years, all the way through 1977.  My mom still has a component unit that was mine back then.  I had a portable unit she and my dad left (along with my Italian wicker chairs) at their lake house when they sold the property in 1989. Sigh.

My first serious turntable was part of a component system I bought at the Army/Air Force Exchange in 1973.  I bought a Pioneer receiver and a Pioneer PL-50-A turntable...still a remarkably beautiful thing.  Sadly, it's impossible to find a belt for it, but as late as 1983, I was offered a bundle for it by a guy at a store that sold all sizes of turntable belts.  I can't even remember the speaker brand.  They weren't one of the big names, but they were highly rated and served me beautifully for more than a decade.  In fact, I'd still be using them had they not been stolen from my villa in Naples, Italy, in 1988. 

In the late 1980s/early 1990s, I had a small Sony component system with turntable.  I just wasn't going to invest more money into equipment that could be gone when I came home from work.  This was, still, in Italy.

Since then, I have built a new system of various types of equipment, primarily Sony, but with a Pioneer CD burner and a Toshiba VHS-to-DVD recorder.  My turntable was made in Eastern Europe and has a glass belt-driven turntable.  It's quite interesting.

I never play cassettes any longer, but I have a cassette deck in my component system along with a Sony laserdisc player and a Sony 200-CD Carousel player.  Add to that my Sony BD player, my Toshiba HD-DVD player and my Panasonic plasma HDTV (37-inch) and the world is quite sweet.
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« Reply #100 on: August 11, 2009, 11:05:37 AM »

P.S.  I also have Sony Surround system in my living room keeping me fully "in tune", as it were, with all the sound fields being offered up to 5.1CH and DTS.
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« Reply #101 on: August 11, 2009, 11:06:59 AM »

ps:  DR JoseSPiano - your food porn is sometimes just astonishing!!         :o      And congratulations to Skip!      :)

Aw, Thank You, DR DAW.

*Great food is always more photogenic. ;)

If you'd like to see the rest of last night's meal, just CLICK HERE.


Wow!  That Chateaubriand looks faboo!
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« Reply #102 on: August 11, 2009, 11:08:17 AM »

DR LAURA I think you asked this question last night.

On the bottom left of your Facebook page you will see the word "Applications"....clicking on the two people standing together will take you to a list of the groups you are a member of.
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« Reply #103 on: August 11, 2009, 11:15:12 AM »

I am really bad about brand names.  I just don't pay attention, or don't remember.  I assume my record player when I was a kid came from Sear's, as most of the stuff from my childhood did.  My mom being a single parent, female teacher in the 50s and 60s did not provide for a lot of luxury.

Interestly, I still remember that my used black and white TV was a Sylvannia; and I know the TV in the bedroom is a Magnavox.  Other than that I am pretty clueless.
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« Reply #104 on: August 11, 2009, 11:21:51 AM »

I was looking at flat screen TVs at Costco yesterday.  Am I correct in assuming that the plasma TVs are less expensive, because they have proven to be less dependable?
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« Reply #105 on: August 11, 2009, 11:23:06 AM »

Thanks, JRand. I think Jane asked the question. I believe I have removed myself from all applications and groups, except one.
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« Reply #106 on: August 11, 2009, 11:23:38 AM »

My first CD player was a Sony portable that I bought in 1984 when I came to the Bay Area (from Indianapolis) to report to USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70).

I was here about three days before we pulled out to sea for reactor trials.  A month later, we were getting ready to participate in an exercise called RIMPAC (for nations that rim the Pacific) and I was in the Navy Exchange stocking up on stuff I thought I might enjoy having.  And there it was:  This portable player complete with a rechargeable battery pack.  I bought it and "one" (1) (count it, ONE) CD.   That's all there was of interest to me in a very small assortment of CDs.

Happily, at the end of the exercise we pulled into Pearl Harbor for four fun-filled days of R &R.  I took all four days off (leave, as it were), got a hotel room, and explored Waikiki.  Someone told me about a nice shopping center where there were a great number of good retail stores and so I boarded a bus and ventured out of Waikiki.

At this shopping center, I found a Sharper Image store.  Therein, they were selling a nifty pair of Bose Roommate speakers.   Ahah! I mentally exclaimed.  Something to make my portable CD player even better.  I bought those puppies then and there.  And after that, I was in a music store (what I called, at the time, a record store) and found several more CDs to purchase.  Chief among them, for my taste, was "Sunset Boulevard: The Classic Film Scores of Franz Waxman".  At first glance, it appeared to be a CD issue of one of the RCA "Classic Film Score" series from the 1970s with Charles Gerhardt conducting the National Philharmonic.  And, it was...sort of.  But it was expanded with a few more selections.   I hoped more of that series would be found in other bins, but...alas...there were no more.  The one I got was the first issue.  When it was reissued, it was a repeat of the original program on LP without the extras (or so I've read).  At any rate, the CD sounded glorious on my Roommate speakers. 

The CD market was very slow getting things out....but somewhere along the way, it exploded.
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« Reply #107 on: August 11, 2009, 11:26:25 AM »

DR Jeanne, I wish you the very best in a full restoration of health and vigor.
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« Reply #108 on: August 11, 2009, 11:29:52 AM »

No, DR TCB, you are not correct in your assumption about Plasma TVs.

Plasma TVs have been, for the most part, MORE expensive because they have the best pictures and best color saturation of all the flat-screens.

But...they don't sell as well and, thus, are being phased out by most manufacturers.  Which is a pity beause the glories of BD are even more glorious on plasma sets.

They do have a shorter life expectancy than sets which can be replenished by changing a bulb inside.  Plasma has gas which cannot be replenished.  When the picture dies, the set is worthless.  But they have an excellent track record.
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« Reply #109 on: August 11, 2009, 11:32:57 AM »

No, DR TCB, you are not correct in your assumption about Plasma TVs.

Plasma TVs have been, for the most part, MORE expensive because they have the best pictures and best color saturation of all the flat-screens.

But...they don't sell as well and, thus, are being phased out by most manufacturers.  Which is a pity beause the glories of BD are even more glorious on plasma sets.

They do have a shorter life expectancy than sets which can be replenished by changing a bulb inside.  Plasma has gas which cannot be replenished.  When the picture dies, the set is worthless.  But they have an excellent track record.


Thanks, Ron.  That is the very reason I have not bought a flat screen, because I have no clue as to what I am looking for when I go shopping.
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« Reply #110 on: August 11, 2009, 11:41:54 AM »

Indeed!!  A very very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our very own DR singingnymph!!!!!    :D

DITTO!! ;D
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« Reply #111 on: August 11, 2009, 11:46:16 AM »

Thanks DR LAURA....yes it was DR JANE who asked.....
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« Reply #112 on: August 11, 2009, 12:05:09 PM »

Speaking of new technology, I am about to get a new high end home theater system for our family room.  I would appreciate recommendations.  I think I will get a Samsung television, as I loved the one I had for just a couple of weeks before I stupidly traded it in for this lame Sylvania I've had since.  But I could especially use recommendations for the home theater surround system--I want something that will provide lossless sound up to 7.1.
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« Reply #113 on: August 11, 2009, 12:21:22 PM »

And speaking of last night...

Here's the trailer for the new movie musical, Clear Blue Tuesday.  DR Julie was/is one the producers of the movie - and that accounts for some of her errant and truantness.

The movie will be premiering here in NYC on September 10.  It features a great bunch of Broadway and off-Broadway actors, who also happened to write their own music for the movie too.  There is a Fan Page on Facebook if you'd like to find out more about how the movie was made, the whole process.

As for the title of the movie, it refers to September 11, 2001.  The movie then covers six subsequent Tuesdays in September.
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« Reply #114 on: August 11, 2009, 12:26:04 PM »

OK... Time to head outside for a bit to find out just how hot it really is today.  I'm suspecting most of the heat is just hype.

Laters...
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« Reply #115 on: August 11, 2009, 12:39:25 PM »

Vibes for DR Jeanne. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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« Reply #116 on: August 11, 2009, 12:46:42 PM »

And speaking of last night...

Here's the trailer for the new movie musical, Clear Blue Tuesday.  DR Julie was/is one the producers of the movie - and that accounts for some of her errant and truantness.

The movie will be premiering here in NYC on September 10.  It features a great bunch of Broadway and off-Broadway actors, who also happened to write their own music for the movie too.  There is a Fan Page on Facebook if you'd like to find out more about how the movie was made, the whole process.

As for the title of the movie, it refers to September 11, 2001.  The movie then covers six subsequent Tuesdays in September.

How did they manage to find six Tuesdays in September?
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« Reply #117 on: August 11, 2009, 12:49:17 PM »

And speaking of last night...

Here's the trailer for the new movie musical, Clear Blue Tuesday.  DR Julie was/is one the producers of the movie - and that accounts for some of her errant and truantness.

The movie will be premiering here in NYC on September 10.  It features a great bunch of Broadway and off-Broadway actors, who also happened to write their own music for the movie too.  There is a Fan Page on Facebook if you'd like to find out more about how the movie was made, the whole process.

As for the title of the movie, it refers to September 11, 2001.  The movie then covers six subsequent Tuesdays in September.

How did they manage to find six Tuesdays in September?


Oh!  Okay, it was over seven years.  That makes more sense.
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« Reply #118 on: August 11, 2009, 12:54:12 PM »

Is the Kindle only available through Amazon?  Are there other products like the Kindle?
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« Reply #119 on: August 11, 2009, 12:57:18 PM »

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is coming along.....it really is a funny play, although I am still a bit put off by the whole idea of two little old ladies murdering a dozen old men.

There's nothing like the reality of a killer like John Wayne Gacy to spoil the fun of the fantastic ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. Wasn't there a serial killer in the 1980 working Route 70 out of Indianapolis?
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