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The HTC One X wasn't able to match the staying power and popularity of the Samsung Galaxy S3 earlier this year, but HTC wants a rematch. For the last few months, it's been working out and training hard and sometime this fall, the One X+ will enter AT&T's squared circle to duke it out once again. Will it be up to the task? I'm not sure, but I do know that HTC has a good looking, powerful phone on its hands. This week, I got to hold it in my own hands and the One X continues to impress. This time, as the revamped "One X+."
If you'd like to know everything there is to know about the One X and its capabilities, check out our full One X review. The differences between that device and the one I fiddled around with are minimal and mostly internal. When it comes down to it, if you didn't like the One X, you're not going to like the One X+, but if you did like the One X, and for some insane reason already need a new phone after only six months, then the X+ may be for you. Instead of white, it now comes in black; instead of Android 4.0, it now runs Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), which is much smoother and has some nice upgrades; and instead of an 1,800mAh battery, it now has a 2,100mAh in it, which HTC reps told me boosts battery life by 50 percent. If true, then the One X+ will be a definite contender in the war for a phone that can last an entire day. It will also be one of the first phones to come with Android 4.1 out of the box.
The One X+ has a few geekier (yes, it gets geekier) upgrades. It's capable of high-speed 4G LTE connectivity like its predecessor, but thanks to Nvidia getting its act together, now the U.S. LTE version of the One X+ has a 1.7GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 processor in it as well, which also helps battery life thanks to Nvidia's optimized miniature 5th processing core that handles easy tasks when you aren't using your phone much. Internal file storage memory has doubled from 32GB to 64GB, making this one of the best phones for storage to ever come out. Unfortunately, there is still no microSD option or battery access due to the unibody design. The weight and dimensions of the phone are virtually unchanged aside from a slightly refined coating on the polycarbonate (a really good kind of plastic) shell, that has a better rubbery grippy feeling to it — and yes, "rubbery grippy" is a technical term now.
The One X+ has the same rear camera as before, but the front camera and the camera app have received some tiny upgrades. You can now switch from rear to front cameras without digging into the camera app settings and the front camera is 1.6 megapixels instead of 1.3. Will it make a big difference? Not really, but if you love to take pictures of yourself, it will add some pixels to your face. It is fun that you can now set a timer for the front camera. Again, a small feature, much like the minuscule increase in the size of the onscreen shutter button. Compared to other manufacturers (outside of Apple), HTC's camera app is currently just about the best. And because it has taken photography so seriously and even included an 'ImageSense' chip inside the phone, the One X+ will be one of the best camera phones on the market, no doubt.
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Before I begin, we're still taking people for Saturday's micro-retreat at the Hill Street Center. I think we have four people signed up so far. So there's plenty of room for more. See the link to your right for details. Onto today's rant:
The elections are over and the Good Guys won. Hoo-ray for our side!
Or not…
Just a couple days after the re-election of George Bush I got an e-mail from a friend of mine who said he'd been contacted by a certain editor at a Buddhist publishing house who told him he wanted submissions for a book about the Buddhist reaction to the re-election. My friend forwarded me the pitch. God it was sooooo dire. I wish I'd saved it. It was all soft and sweet and smooshy like a rotten banana, asking contributors to talk about how Buddhists deal with anger, depression, fear, anxiety and feelings of helplessness, and how we can learn to cultivate compassion for those souls so deep in delusion they could support the Bush administration and its policies of evil. My friend was all hot and bothered to contribute. He even sent me his proposed piece. I couldn't get through it, though. It felt too much like wading in a pool of putrefying marshmallow sauce. There was a tremendous urgency to the editor's pitch and writers were asked to contribute as quickly as they could so the finished book could hit the stands as soon as possible. The editor in question never sent that pitch to me, though we are accquainted. Guess he knew better. In any case, the book never came out.
Now, of course, the tables are turned. At least a little. The Democrats have won a slight victory and maybe President Bush's supposed dreams of dictatorship are in danger. I'm sure the folks behind that book are dizzy with elation. But if Dick Chaney beats Hillary in 2008 they can always dust off those old essays, use MS Word's® "replace" function to substitute Chaney's name where it says Bush and get the book out lickity-split.
Out here on the Left Coast, the mood is positively giddy. I saw an interview with Trey Parker, creator of South Park, a year or so ago where he said that the most punk rock thing you could do in LA was to say you think George Bush is awesome. It's actually dangerous in terms of career mobility in the West Coast entertainment biz to question liberal politics in any way. No doubt about it.
When those guys in Saint Paul were briefly considering hiring me on as their new master, I took a look around their place. I saw some fliers pinned to their notice board related to various left wing political causes. And I thought, if they do ask me to do this thing and I accept, all those are gonna have to come down. And they're not gonna like me a whole lot when I do that.
There's a tendency within American Buddhism to equate Buddhism with left-wing politics. It is almost unquestioned that all Buddhists accept pretty much every trendy lefty political idea on the market. The very idea that a Buddhist might be politically conservative seems absurd. But Buddhism is not left-wing politics. It's not right-wing politics either. But that seems to be well understood and as such doesn't need further comment.
In our usual way of thinking there is success and there is failure. When your candidate wins, that's success and you can rejoice. When she loses that's failure and it's time for depression and feelings of helplessness.
Buddhism has nothing at all to do with success or failure.
Enlightenment is not the ultimate success and lack of enlightenment is not evidence of failure.
There is no success or failure in reality. Success and failure are judgments about reality based entirely — entirely — upon what your tiny ego thinks is good for it or bad for it. This is not reality at all. What you call failure may be exactly what you really need while what you call success may be a slippery slide into delusion and darkness. The world out there is not something apart from you. When it changes in ways you don't like, who is responsible? Someone else? Not you? Yeah, right. And when things go the way you want, watch out. See what your own reactions really are. See what they are not.
How come nobody's proposing a book about the Buddhist reaction to the Democratic wins of 2006? How come nobody put out a book about the Buddhist reaction to Clinton's two wins? Elation over success is a much bigger problem in Buddhism than depression over failure. Bad teachers can make you do anything they want by keeping you hungry for success and afraid of failure. Suckers will fall for that every single time. To follow the Buddhist way is to avoid both extremes.
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Fix bug #446632 - Do not refer to the official store for CD/DVD stuff
update google search-fu, bug 445190
Fix bug #427860 - Use /etc/portage for make.conf and make.profile. Old location (/etc) is still supported, this is a heads up (new default)
Fix bug #384117 - Refer to the more recent SATA device scheme instead of older IDE
Add information on --with-bdeps as per discussion on gentoo-dev
Fix bug #382457 - Update all references to outdated /etc/modules.autoload.d
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Ten Yale student-athletes were honored today, as the Ivy League released its list of those selected for Academic All-Ivy recognition in spring sports. Eligible student-athletes include all starters or key reserves on officially recognized varsity teams that have maintained a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
Jeff Dawson, the senior captain of the men's tennis team, was a second team All-Ivy selection in the 2009 season, playing primarily at the Bulldogs' No. 1 singles position. The St. Charles, Ill. native was a member of the recently graduated class of 2009, leaving New Haven with a degree in Political Science.
Second team All-Ivy and All-New England defender Will Gano (Summit, N.J.) represents the Yale men's lacrosse team on the Academic All-Ivy roster. Gano, the Bulldogs' Defensive Player of the Year, graduated last month with a History degree.
Another recently graduated senior on the list is Brandon Josselyn, the 2009 Ivy League Pitcher of the Year and a first team All-Ivy selection. Josselyn, a resident of Hanson, Mass., went 5-3 with a 4.29 ERA and 51 strikeouts in 56.2 innings as the ace of the Yale rotation. Josselyn, a Humanities major, was also co-recipient of the Martin I.J. Griffin Award as the Bulldog baseball squad's top senior scholar-athlete.
Graduated senior Mikkel Krenchel (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) was a member of the Yale lightweight crew team's No. 5 nationally-ranked varsity eight. The Bulldogs' lightweight crew took home the Durand, Vogel and Joy Cups in the 2009 spring season. Academically, Krenchel earned a degree in Sociology.
The lone Yale junior to make the list was golfer Ben Wescoe, who won the individual ECAC Championship this season. Wescoe, who will captain the golf team in 2010, was also an All-Ivy selection for his performance at the Ivy League Championship. The La Jolla, Calif. resident is a History of Art major.
Softball team captain Megan Enyeart, a Goleta, Calif. resident, appears on the list for the second time in her career. She was an All-Ivy honorable mention this season, and earned first team laurels in 2006. Enyeart, who graduated with a degree in Architecture in May, is Yale's all-time leader with 40 career doubles. She batted .306 with three home runs and 30 RBI as a senior.
Christine Glandorf (Boston, Mass.), a member of the women's crew Varsity Eight boat that won the Eastern Sprints and the Ivy League Title in 2009, earns Academic All-Ivy laurels as a recent graduate with a degree in History. Glandorf and the Bulldogs most recently finished third at the NCAA Championships this past weekend.
Another recent graduate of the History department, Janet Kim adds an Academic All-Ivy distinction to her five career First Team All-Ivy selections. The 2008 Ivy League Player of the Year, who resides in Palisades Park, N.J., was a four-time first team honoree as a singles player and a 2008 first team selection as a doubles player.
Natasha Spackey, the third 2009 team captain on the list, represents the women's golf program. The recent graduate from Humacao, Puerto Rico, who earned a degree in Political Science, finished 20th at the 2009 Ivy League Championship to help Yale to a second-place finish.
Rounding out the list is women's lacrosse star Jenn Warden, a recent graduate from Edgemont, Pa. Warden led the Bulldogs with 43 goals in 2009, the third-highest total in the Ivy League, en route to All-Ivy and All-Northeast Region laurels. She graduated with a History degree as a member of the Yale Class of 2009.


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Earlier today Nokia took the stage to show off the Lumia 1020 and some exclusive apps. Those apps include the likes of Path, Flipboard, Panagraph, Oggl Pro, and Vine. No, we weren't watching some special live stream where they announced Vine, but they did. Details after the break.
Head on over to the press release that Nokia released and read this beautiful snippet:
"Hipstamatic showcased Oggl PRO, an exclusive application for the Nokia Lumia 1020 offering the most advanced smartphone camera controls for their creative community. It was also announced that popular applications Vine, Path and Flipboard will soon be available on Windows Phone."
So why didn't Vine get announced on stage? We're not sure. Could it be a typo in the press release? Maybe. We'll be sure to find out what the deal is with Vine. But you might get an official one sooner than you think.
Ninja update: The Windows Phone Blog is saying the same thing. That Vine is coming to Windows Phone. We'll find out if this a Lumia exclusive or will be available for all devices.
Update: We can confirm Nokia is working with Vine on the app. No info on dates for release or exclusivity, but it is on the way!
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The Cambridges return to the birthplace of their love
St Andrews!
It's so lovely, St Andrews. We were there for 3 days last year to shoot pre-footage in advance of the royal wedding. When I came home I told Jacek we should live there for a while -- the dogs would love it, he could golf every day, and I'd eat haggis all the time. It's a life goal. And if you're looking for a travel destination, I highly recommend it.
So here they are, Prince William and his Catherine, back at St Andrews last night for a fundraiser. As we all know, this is where they met, where they were friends first, until she modelled in a sheer dress in a charity fashion show and there began the road to the throne. Will said as much himself during his remarks.
Kate is wearing a recycled Temperley. She'd previously worn it to the premiere of War Horse last year. What premiere will they attend this year? It has to have a British connection.
You know what upcoming movie has a British connection?
Les Miserables.
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This is exactly what I told the car people to do, but for some reason they took the liberty of hooking my car up to the FREE 27 POINT DIAGNOSTIC ROBOT (note: I did not ask for the robot) and shortly thereafter came into the waiting room with the lugubrious mien of someone about to inform me that my car had rectal cancer. Because apparently my car also had a (something something) leak, which was important because the (something) fed water to cool the engine (something something), not to mention that the (something) was missing four (somethings) requiring the whole works to be replaced, not to mention that steering (something) was totally jacked up and in sum, my car was destined to explode into a thousand fiery pieces unless I shelled out $3,500 to get all that stuff fixed.
Leave aside the fact that I just came in to get my tire changed. Also leave aside the fact that we bought this car used (though in excellent shape), so the total of the repairs proposed was more than a third of the price we paid for the car itself. Finally, apologies for the totally hackneyed "girls don't know nothing about cars" routine that I am personifying here--lots of ladies know a lot of stuff about cars, including how to change their own flat tires, but please forgive my stereotypical hand-fluttering in the face of impending automotive maintenance because I really, really know nothing about cars, INCLUDING HOW TO DRIVE ONE until about four years ago.
The mechanic left me with the price quote in that I'll let you have a minute to compose yourself way, saying that if I wanted to get everything fixed I would probably need a loaner to drive home so he would go ahead and get that for me. (He then added, with a tone of infinite largesse, that the loaner would be provided to me free of charge.) After unfreezing myself, I went to chase after the guy, because given that I had detected absolutely no problems with the driving and reliability of the car aside from, you know, the flat tire for which I came in, so barring any immediate safety concerns I would at least like some time to look over the diagnostic report and get a quote from a second car repair company.
Ten minutes later, he returned with the loaner. I told him that I'd like to hold off on repairs until we could get a second opinion. He looked at me for a beat, then called to the back workshop, where I assume my car was being fed through an MRI. "Yeah, the customer wants to hold off on the repairs. Uh huh. Oh. Really? Wow. Did you already...oh. OK." He turned to me. "They already started working on it. They took the water pump off the (something something) already."
"Already? Can they...you know, put it back?" More phone conferrals. The mechanic then told me that they could indeed put it back, but that I was lucky because they hadn't taken the (something) off the (something) yet, because (something something) antifreeze everywhere!
"I would like my car back please."
Any hour later, it was returned to me, with the new tire, which was the only thing I wanted changed in the first place. The following morning, Joe took the car to a AAA down the street from us, where they hooked the car up to a FREE 36 POINT DIAGNOSTIC ROBOT--nine more points than the other robot!--and found very little wrong with the car at all. (Joe brought the service list and the quote from the first place so he would know what to ask them to check extra carefully.) They replaced some of the missing (something somethings--like some kind of a bolt) and swapped out another (something that was dirty), but in all the bill totalled $500, which, while still a lot for a car that I wasn't intending to have serviced at all, is a far cry from the $3,500 that I was originally quoted.
And now here's the question for you. How much of it was bad luck of the draw at that first car place, and how much of it do you think is the fact that I (know-nothing-about-cars lady) took the car in to the first place, and Joe (know-little-about-cars-but-looks-like-he-does man) took the car in to the second place? Unfortunate happenstance, opportunism, or a little of both?
(Aside re: the post title. I love NPR as much as the next PBS-pledge-drive-canvas-tote-lugging-to-the-farmer's-market liberal, but there are two shows that I could never, ever get behind despite the fact that everyone else loves them dearly. One is "Car Talk." Those braying Boston accents! Why not just sharpen a pencil in my ear? And the second is "A Prairie Home Companion." Not only is it aggressively folksy, but it actually isn't funny at all, and you get the sense that the people in the audience will just laugh at anything just to show each other how cultured and good-humored they are. Bah!)
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I also know nothing about cars, but I've had to bring mine in on occasion. I am always wary of car mechanics for EXACTLY the same reason why you are, and normally I make my husband bring the car in for that very reason. But then, last time he brought in my car, they told him we needed thousands of dollars in repairs, and he just had it done- so who knows, maybe they're pulling a fast one on him too. But then, I had to bring both of our cars in for inspections (at different times, a few months apart) and both passed with flying colors.ReplyDelete
So I have no idea what is going on- maybe my car did need thousands of dollars in repairs. I don't think they were going to let it pass inspection anyways- but hey, the car is 12 years old. It probably needed a little love. In the past, my husband has asked the mechanics to show him what was wrong, but if you don't know what you're looking at, I don't see how that would help. I wish that there was some magic way to just KNOW if these people are lying to you or not... but hey- maybe people feel that way about their physicians too!
(Fortunately, I am a surgeon, so if I tell somebody they need their appendix out, they're usually happy that there's a solution to their abdominal pain...)
I also know nothing about cars, but I've had to bring mine in on occasion. I am always wary of car mechanics for EXACTLY the same reason why you are, and normally I make my husband bring the car in for that very reason. But then, last time he brought in my car, they told him we needed thousands of dollars in repairs, and he just had it done- so who knows, maybe they're pulling a fast one on him too. But then, I had to bring both of our cars in for inspections (at different times, a few months apart) and both passed with flying colors.ReplyDelete
So I have no idea what is going on- maybe my car did need thousands of dollars in repairs. I don't think they were going to let it pass inspection anyways- but hey, the car is 12 years old. It probably needed a little love. In the past, my husband has asked the mechanics to show him what was wrong, but if you don't know what you're looking at, I don't see how that would help. I wish that there was some magic way to just KNOW if these people are lying to you or not... but hey- maybe people feel that way about their physicians too!
(Fortunately, I am a surgeon, so if I tell somebody they need their appendix out, they're usually happy that there's a solution to their abdominal pain...)
Okay, please know that I have done my breathing exercises, counted to 10, gone outside to look up at the sky and appreciate the insignificance our trials and trivialities, and come back down to earth to hammer out the most toned down response I could possibly modulate without breaking the keys off this tired (but very trusty) old laptop.ReplyDelete
Michelle, I adore you, but you are what the previous generation would call "a mark". Half of running any successful business involving cars is smelling people like you (er, us?) a mile away. While I admire your generous optimism and willingness to believe that perhaps this was just bad luck, or random robot badness, I must de-lurk myself to diminish your faith in fellow human beings by just one more increment.
Most repair shops rip people off. Especially women people. Intentionally. Like, as a business model. It's not a tired old stereotype. They really *do* still work that way. This goes double in The South. Raise this to any exponent for people on whom they detect eau d' Car Ignorance.
That they tried to screw you is, sadly, normal. That they began work without your authorization is potentially actionable, and perhaps cause for concern. If you haven't already done so, it might be a good idea to have the AAA people look at the parts that the first place dismantled to make sure that everything was put back together correctly. I have quite a few car people in my life, and some of the stories they've told about other shops would toast your earballs right off yer head.
Much as it pains me to concede that you (maybe) needed rescuing, I'm glad Joe was able to bring it in to AAA. I've been super lucky to have car people around to take care of my stuff in the front driveway. During the few times I've had no choice but to hire a shop, I learned real fast that putting on the Bitchface and using the Dad Voice are absolutely required if I want both my car and wallet to come home with me unscathed.
I'd like to blame this all on The South, but I'm pretty sure that the car repair business is like this everywhere. The only thing that seems to have changed is that men and women are now equal opportunity marks.Replies
I agree - and I do know something about cars. However, I will get scammed if I bring in the car myself (it's happened, was an emergency, cost thousands of dollars (more than the car was worth) AND still didn't fix the problem). We usually use someone here in our small community that we know who depends on us for repeat business. You need to find someone reliable and stick with them.Delete
- Anonymous2:51 PM
It's you being female. I know a lot about cars and it is done to me all the time. I only take my car to one guy who I know will not annoy me with the you're a woman so you know nothing crap. The dealers are notorious for this because that's where they make the majority of their money and almost all of their profit.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:33 PM
I am female and because I drive a lot (40-50,000 miles/year) I have had to learn quite a lot about cars. Find a local mechanic you trust and give him all of your business. My mechanic knows my cars well and makes a pile of money maintaining them. He's good about keeping track of routine work so I can plan ahead and his prices are fair.ReplyDelete
Car Talk is one of the best radio programs ever and the hosts are brilliant. If you tuned in occasionally you might learn something.
- Anonymous5:26 PM
There was a recent sensationalist undercover news program about this very issue. They discovered that (shocker), women are indeed taken advantage of by mechanics. I usually make my husband or dad at least call the mechanic if they can't be there to help me in person. Sad, but true. I would also be an easy mark. New cars are so computer-dependent that most people don't really understand what goes on under that hood.ReplyDelete
Also, I laughed out loud about your NPR comments. I find the Boston accents kind of charming (I'm from the Midwest), but I CAN NOT tolerate A Prairie Home Companion. Was that ever entertaining?
- Anonymous5:54 PM
Performing any service on your car beyond what you specifically authorized (the tire) is not something a reputable shop would do.ReplyDelete
Michelle, You are a woman. I consider myself (gasp) a feminist, and I would NEVER EVER EVER EVER take the car to the mechanic having learned the hard way more than one time. We are targets. I am so proud of you that you stood your ground and took the car elsewhere to get it looked at.ReplyDelete
Joe may get screwed over too, but it's going to happen less often and ergo cost you less in the long run if he just handles the car stuff.
- Anonymous7:04 PM
I've always wanted to listen to Car Talk. I've never ever wanted to hear A Prairie Home Companion. I'll never hear either, being deaf, but Car Talk has always sounded pretty interesting.ReplyDelete
I'm based in the UK and provide admin support for the regional Trading Standards department. I can assure you that the first garage was trying to scam you, probably because you were a woman and they thought they could browbeat you into accepting the repairs without question but also because they thought they could get away with it. I don't know if you have a US equivalent of Trading Standards, but that first garage needs reporting to someone.ReplyDelete
Oh my. I went in to get an oil change before going on a short road trip in January (and did that only because I needed washer fluid) and spend 150+ dollars on some sort of belt. Which was promptly wasted when I totaled the car 90 minutes later on icy roads. I was so mad and decided never to do spur of the moment repairs again. I know it was just 150 dollars but still!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:12 PM
If you're feeling ambitious, you could report them to your Consumer Protection Office. (http://consumer.georgia.gov/) If they've received a pattern of complaints against the same repair shop, they may take action. You could also report to the Better Business Bureau, but that's not necessarily going to do anything.ReplyDelete
Everyone who is saying this was because you are female and look young and the rest of it - they are absolutely, totally right. I could give you horror stories of my own experiences - most of which happened because I decided not to heed the advice of my mechanic grandfather and car dealer mother.ReplyDelete
You *need* to file a report with the Better Business Bureau - what they did, taking the pump off without getting your signature? That's actually straight up illegal. It's like operating without a signed consent form.
I would try to find a good, old fashioned mechanic, preferably one who has been in business for at least fifty years. I know it seems like the old guys would be more sexist and likely to overcharge you, but people don't stay in business doing that! The mechanic I had in college was the nicest guy for these things, and he was Jim Bob the Third...his granddad had serviced Model T's.
I'm so sorry you had that experience.
That was very ambitious of them to go for $3500 on a 9000 dollar car! God bless them. Maybe you would have been more gullible if they only "discovered" $1500 worth of work.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:28 PM
I also recommend reporting them to the Better Business Bureau. I have never had a mechanic start work on my car without my explicit approval first, even if they are recommending phony repairs. I am a proud, staunch, feminist, and I call my husband to ask about any "computer recommended repairs" before I agree to anything (as he somehow knows intuitively what is crap and what is necessary, I swear that information is engraved on the Y chromosome). I laughed out loud about your Prairie Home Companion comment, I cannot STAND that show and do NOT understand why it has persevered or why so many people love it.ReplyDelete
It's def. because you are a female! I'm a single female living in a city far from family. I routinely call my mechanic uncle any time I need something done to my car. He gives me a run down of what to say and ask for in these situations.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:56 AM
I think it is less the gender of the customer and more the ethics of the repair shop. At the dealership, there is always "upcoding", while my neighborhood auto repair shop reads the robot read of "cold start error" as a red herring that deserves nothing more than a reset button unless it happens again in a short period (and doesn't charge me more than my usual oil change and check).ReplyDelete
I think the scam was for a higher dollar figure and more blatant because you're a woman, but that a dishonest shop is dishonest for everybody. I don't think the fix is to ask a man, it's to find an honest shop.ReplyDelete
Ask friends/neighbors/staff for referrals. For an older car you really don't care whether it's a Toyota shop or not - you want an independent mechanic whose customers feel some loyalty. Fixing cars is not so hard that you need a specialist.
Noticeable things about my good mechanic:
- leaves blatant cosmetic problems unfixed, and sometimes undiagnosed
- he has a taste for after-market and used parts
- has a huge stream of real work, doesn't look for trouble
- when he gives me free stuff, it's stuff I couldn't possibly not want, like wiper blades, or topping up my fluids
- small stuff that doesn't have a parts cost comes for free
- his yelp reviews are spectacular, with a lot of specifics about work that he explained didn't need to be done, and stuff he did for much less than expected
- sometimes I talk him into more work than he first suggests - stuff like "well, if this battery is at the end of its life, how about you just swap it now, rather than having me need another jump-start in a few months"
- he is meticulous about getting my approval before doing work - if he had to take things apart to find the problem, he will call me while my car is taken apart, and have me approve what he's going to do about it
LOL Sounds like the anesthetic equivalent of using Precedex and Remifentanil when Morphine would suffice.ReplyDelete
I don't know about Joe's experience, but I am certain your experience was that mechanic trying to take advantage of you (a woman who knows nothing about cars) (as proclaimed by you, I'm not, like, calling you names or anything!) You were very smart not to let them make the repairs and to insist they give your car back. A good and fair mechanic can be hard to find. I won't repeat what Camilla wrote above, but that is my advice exactly. I have an honest mechanic, which sometimes means that things are fixed as they break (instead of the mechanic presenting me with a laundry list of thousands of dollars of things that are about to break/need to be replaced), but he's quick, he finds parts for cheap, and I don't feel taken advantage of. He's always always always busy, with a parking lot full of cars to be worked on, which also is an excellent sign.ReplyDelete
P.S. agreed that they should never start work on the car without having presented you with the estimate and gotten your approval to make the repairs. I would've punched that guy, or at least wanted to punch that guy.ReplyDelete
- Heidi11:09 AM
Gah. A Prairie Home Companion is just painful. I'm sure Garrison Keillor is a lovely person and all but his voice makes him sound like a total creeper pervert.ReplyDelete
NEVER, EVER, EVER let the mechanics at the tire shop fix your car, especially if it isn't broken. I kid you not they tell every female that walks in their door their car is in need of major repairs. And by the way, my brother just replaced the water pump on my car. We got it at Auto Zone for $8.45 and it took my brother 45 minutes to do it. Find a mechanic that you trust and if anyone tells you your car needs repairs tell them that you will take it to your mechanic. Having run a limousine service in Atlanta, I know several of them all over the city and will be happy to give you a recommendation if you'd like.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:11 PM
Such mistrust among the hens. Maybe it was not the mechanic attempting to scam the helpless female - the robot was the authority in this story. Perhaps, it is a faulty or aggressive diagnostic program rather than attempts to rob the women of all their gold coins. People here are so easy to play the role of victim and disregard that it could have been a simple case of computer error.ReplyDeleteReplies
You are deluded. That was clearly a scam. It happens all the time. The last time I had to replace a tire at a shop other than the one I normally use the guy told me that I couldn't use an S tire on my car. I had to have a T tire. When I looked him in the eye and told him that I never drive the car on a race track and if he wanted my business he would put the tire that I specified on my car. After that I told him not to hook it up to the diagnostic machine. He knew that I was not going to play.Delete
- Cara4:52 PM
Absolutely agree it was due to being a woman. I used to despise having to deal with car repairs, until I found a reputable, honest mechanic that fixes what you need and tells you that "well, you could fix this too...but it can wait" and provides a price for what it would cost. Get a referral from someone you know. For a regular oil change I go the random Jiffy Lube or such and always, ALWAYS they say my car needs such and such and when I take it to my regular mechanic it's a false alarm. Sheisters I say!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:54 PM
On the other hand, my husband took our Subaru to the dealer for an oil change and they told him it needed over $3000 worth of work (head gasket). However, before they even got back to us with an estimate, a guy from the SALES department called to tell us he heard we had a lot of repair work needed and we should talk to him about a new car before putting the money into the old car. Ha! We took it to a local shop, they kept it for 3 days, ran every test they could and said they found nothing wrong with the head gasket. That's after we took the car to them specifically so they could do the repairs (for $1800), and they didn't want to take our money. That's the shop we go to from then on!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:56 AM
SIgh. I too have experienced all sorts of scam efforts and once actual (expensive and dangerous) fraud in the repair itself. Unfortunately, the laws in my state at least (Maryland) are so weak that even if you can prove the fraud/malfeasance, if the garage reimburses you, the case is considered closed and no report is filled with the consumer protection bureau. So they just pay off the 'squeaky wheels' and go on their merry way. There are reputable mechanics out there, and the commentators have good advice on that. I would not mess around with anything but a good mechanic--too much hassle and time consuming to go to Jiffy Lube or even the dealer once your warranty is expired. Ask around your kids school listservs and I'll bet you can find someone trustworthy. What a pain, huh! Doesn't it make you miss the subway...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:14 PM
Oh man....this is scary.ReplyDelete
I'd second the idea to find a good independent mechanic. I try to only do the dealer when I am under warranty. That can be hard when you only have 1 car and you depend on their rides to work or loaner cars.
- Anonymous1:04 PM
Just as effective as a BBB claim--maybe even more effective---is to go online and post your story to a big reviews website such as Yelp or Google.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:49 PM
Update please. Although it would no doubt be an inconvenience, there is value in doing something to try to help prevent this from happening to others either through direct punishment or by establishing a record for the future.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:04 PM
Sadly, even when I am sitting at the dealership waiting for the vehicle service to be finished, I have had to institute a policy of "don't talk to me, call my husband". I have found this also works really well with plumbers and A/C repair people, even when I am home with them --"Call my husband!" I thought I was a feminist and independent, but I have been scammed too many times.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:04 PM
I drive Toyotas and they are remarkably reliable cars. Yet the local dealer, with whom I've traded for 15 years and have bought two cars from, tries that crap on me on a regular basis. And it has gotten worse. I'm convinced that during the lean years (before this summer, when car sales finally surged again), car dealers figured this was the way to make money ... rip people off on enormous repairs. Very frustrating. Sadly, I've seen them pull it on men and women. They hand you this elaborate report, like it's a grail and you should be grateful they are saving you from imminent death in an exploding car ... yet half the report is expensive fabrication. At times, "private" mechanics can be worse, with less accountability, so I take my chances with the dealer. But it's a no-win proposition. And it sucks.ReplyDelete
- Constance12:06 AM
The fact that you went into a shop to get your tire changed, along that you were a young looking Asian woman, probably had a lot to do with getting scammed. And yes, I agree with everyone that said you were getting scammed, not just a flukey diagnostic computer mistake.
It sounds like after you got a flat tire, you (or Joe?) replaced it with the spare aka donut tire. You're right in that you shouldn't keep a donut tire on your car longer than necessary and should replace it with a new full size tire sooner rather than later. You can drive on a donut just fine around the city, but you don't want to go highway speeds on that thing. When you (now general you, not specific Michelle you) get a new tire, the shop has to put it on your rim, but there shouldn't be any issues in putting the new tire back on the car yourself. When I got a flat tire, I replaced it with the donut, took the flat (just by itself, not the entire car - I drove my boyfriend's) to a tire shop, bought a new tire and had them swap it out with the flat on the rim. Yes, a shop has to do a wheel alignment, but it's not a do-or-die type of maintenance and I put it off until I had to take the actual car into a shop for something unrelated.
Basically, I hate that some repair shops will automatically look to take advantage of women on car related issues, so I deliberately learned as much as I could about cars so I wouldn't be so easy to prey. Incidentally, I learn a lot from listening to Car Talk. As a teen learning to drive, my dad made me learn how to change a flat on my own and how to change the oil before letting me get my license. It was mostly so I wouldn't throw money away (either having to call a tow truck or paying a premium to have someone change your oil), but also partly because he didn't think being a girl exempted me from knowing these things.
Learning just a little about cars and how to do some basic things- even if it's the routine maintenance stuff - can save you a lot of money. Seriously.
Ugh. I read this and then my car wouldn't start the next day. I hope I have better luck than you did!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:48 PM
Totally unrelated, but can we please have a post sometime soon regarding the difference you've noticed so far with raising Nina versus the boys? It must be such a great experience to raise a daughter and I would love to hear about it. She is SO adorable!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:04 PM
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Agriculture is king in Montezuma County. And the people making a living doing it are getting a bad deal.
That's the assessment of Ken Meter, a food systems analyst and president of Crossroads Resource Center, based in Minneapolis. At a conference titled "Focus on Food: Local Food as a Foundation for Economic Stability," he said that farm and ranch operations across the country - Montezuma County included - are not reaping the full benefits of their labor due to indebtedness and rising input prices.
Locals gathered at Koko's Conference Center Thursday to hear Meter's diagnosis and discussion about how the county can bridge the gap between producers and consumers. Currently, nearly all agricultural product grown locally is exported out of town. Only 1.2 percent is sold directly from farmer to consumer. There are positives - that number is growing rapidly (doubling in the last 15 years), and is three times the national average. The first Cortez community garden sprang up two springs ago, and area schools doubled their local offerings in 2012, to 6,000 pounds. But on a macro level, it is still dismally low, Meter said. The overwhelming majority of food is still trucked in from elsewhere and sold in supermarkets.
The status quo is giving farmers and ranchers a raw deal, Meter said.
The most productive agricultural year on record was 2011, measured by total revenue. But any potential gains in profit to farmers are lost because prices for fuel, fertilizer and machinery continues to climb.
"Each time (farmers) have started to earn a little money, input prices rise accordingly," Meter said. "Cash income is lower, in real dollars, than what farmers earned in 1929."
"They're earning $91 million less today than 40 years ago, despite the gains in productivity," he added.
Meter studied different socioeconomic factors to get a better handle on the Montezuma County food economy.
The county's 25,442 residents take in $865 million in total income, or about $34,000 per capita. However, one-third of the population lives below the eligibility threshold (185 percent of the federal poverty line) for assistance programs like food stamps and low or reduced-price school lunches.
Of the 1,123 farms in Montezuma County, on 704,000 acres, 47 percent consist of less than 50 acres. A farm was defined as any enterprise selling more than $1,000 of product per year, meaning it includes everything from mechanized, high-volume commodity operations to tiny "hobby growers."
"If economists focus only on big farms, you miss almost half (the picture)," Meter said, adding that small-scale plots can adapt more swiftly to changing market forces - and palates.
Forage crops for livestock - like hay, oats and alfalfa - are the biggest moneymaker, at $12 million, followed by cattle ($8 million), ornamentals ($2 million), and grains, oil seeds and edible beans ($2 million).
The county has 22 vegetable farms, yielding approximately $247,000 each year, and 61 fruit farms, yielding $879,000.
For a food system to be sustainable, Meter argued, it needs to be less of a linear supply chain and more of a "food web", where growers, processors, distributors and consumers are interconnected. Perhaps the most important link is grower-consumer.
Seventy-eight county farms took part in direct sales, totalling $311,000, mostly through farmer's markets in Cortez, Mancos and Dolores and community-supported agriculture deals, where consumers buy a farm share before the growing season and receive a box of fresh produce each week in return.
Meter envisions a future that expands on such set-ups and is less reliant on petroleum. With its isolated location, Montezuma County would be acutely vulnerable to a price shock or disruption in oil supply.
To be sustainable, he said, a food system must address four principles: health, wealth, connectivity and capacity.
The health and wealth components are straightforward. Poor diets are a leading cause of obesity, heart disease and diabetes, and treating them drives up medical costs for the whole of society.
"(Nutritious) food is the first line of defense to staying out of the hospital," he said.
Wealth, too, is obvious: If farmers are not making a stable living off the land, how many will stay with it?
The second two points are less tangible but no less integral.
Food is a magnet, Meter said. People gravitate toward it and connect around it. They form bonds and share stories by cooking and eating together. He described how his ancestors left Bohemia - now the Czech Republic - in the late 1800s and how following generations have used food to remember their roots.
"World War II destroyed all the old buildings. The language is forgotten. All we have left is the recipes," he said.
Finally, for local food to work, consumers need skills to prepare it. Too often pots, pans and utensils are replaced by the quick ease of pre-packaged meals and a microwave.
"One hundred years ago most people in this county could take a pig from a live animal to pork if need be," Meter said. "We've gotten dumber, even though our food is prettier, with more bells and whistles, and packaged nicely."
A sweeping paradigm shift is needed, he argued.
"The current system is failing on all four counts. Health problems at great societal expense, wealth for some at the expense of others, we're growing more disconnected from one another and dumber about food preparation."
If much of his talk was sobering, Meter ended with a note of optimism that Montezuma County, and the country, are moving in the right direction.
Local food advocates are hoping to keep the momentum going.
"Five years ago, if a conference like this were held, you'd have nowhere near the attendance," said Tom Hooten with the Colorado State University extension office.
LiveWell Montezuma, a cosponsor of the conference, will release a food assessment in April based on survey responses from 40 producers and almost 600 consumers. The report will include a summary of edible foods grown here and barriers to distributing them locally.


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The 65th Conference on World Affairs opened Monday with the traditional procession into Macky Auditorium, which has been renamed "Ebert Hall" for the week in honor of longtime participant and film critic Roger Ebert.
Ebert died Thursday after a long battle with cancer.
"No one spent more time in this hall than Roger," CWA Director Jim Palmer said in his opening remarks.
Prior to the keynote address, attendees observed a moment of silence while putting their thumbs up in the air in honor of the critic's signature gesture.
Ebert attended every CWA between 1970 and 2010 except 1995, when there was no conference, and in years when he was recovering from surgeries related to illness.
University of Colorado Chancellor Phil DiStefano took a moment to honor Ebert, "a superstar of this conference."
"Ebert once joked that at a time when famous speakers can pull down $10,000 to $25,000 to speak, this (the CWA) would seem like an offer they could refuse," he said. "But they don't. They do it in the name of education, enlightenment and civic engagement, and all of us are beneficiaries."
The hall was a packed house Monday morning, with every seat filled to hear a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith, who spent 26 years with the New York Times covering six American presidents. He covered the Vietnam war from Saigon and the Cold War from Moscow.
Smith quipped in his opening remarks: "Thank you to the conference organizers who put off the snow until tomorrow."
In his address, titled "Who Stole the American Dream?" Smith said the middle class has lost its political power.
He cited Earth Day demonstrations in 1970, when nearly 10 percent of the American population demonstrated, and said seven major pieces of environmental legislation were brought forward within a year, including the Clean Water Act and amendments to the Clean Air Act.
"They were all signed by that great tree-hugging environmentalist Richard Nixon," Smith said, tongue-in-cheek.
The reason? Smith said the public was outraged about what was happening to the environment, and the nation's leaders felt they needed to respond.
"There was a connection between Washington and the people and it was absolutely vital, and we've got to go restore it," Smith said.
Smith also told the audience that American homeowners in the late 1980s owned 70 percent of the value of their homes.
By 2009, that figured plummeted to 40 percent, with the value of homes shifting to Wall Street banks and wealthy investors, Smith said.
American homeowners lost $6 trillion before the housing bubble burst, he said.
"We're not talking about trickle-down economics," Smith said. "We're talking geyser-up economics. ... This is the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of America. It moved from ordinary and middle-class people to wealthy banks and investors."
The conference continues through Friday, with more than 200 panels and events that are free and open to the public.
Palmer said the conference is trying to achieve a new mix this year, with 40 percent of the panelists being conference first-timers and the other 60 percent repeat guests.
"We're aware that the conference is aging," Palmer said. "We want to make sure that we're involving not just new participants but younger folks with different perspectives."
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The TransWorld SNOWboarding TransAm Tour charged through its 10th birthday with reckless abandon. This year, the tour was presented by Skullcandy, and the usual suspects were part of the gang as well. Feature sponsors were given the opportunity to submit a feature design that would be taken by the park builder and incorporated into the mini park to build in a fashion that would be representative of not only the sponsor design, but also of each resort's park personality. As per always, Luke Mathison and the Waterville Valley Park Crew kicked off the tour with their rendition of how the design should look. Skullcandy already sponsored Waterville Valley, so it was easy for Mathison to take the Skullcandy sound tube he had been using on hill and incorporate it into the build. It was the most hit feature at the first stop of the tour and with good reason. Mathison and the crew set up the sound tube so you could handplant or flip over it, or you could hit it from the side and jib to your heart's delight. It was fun to watch, and Waterville proved why they are a Skullcandy-sponsored resort.
The next stop was one to remember, as the tour stayed east and touched down at Mountain Creek, New Jersey. Jersey was not as dirty as expected and covered the event day in the purest of white snow, leaving eight inches of fresh powder to slide through at the first drop in. Marc Tremain and the Mountain Creek Park Crew thought they would add their own touch to the Anon Optics rail design. They set up the Anon rail at a vertical angle and built a quarterpipe at the end of it. Riders could ride up one side of the quarterpipe and air out or handplant over the vertically set rail. They could also ride up the rail and redirect back into the quarterpipe landing. Mountain Creek kept the action live and spirits high with fresh snow and a setup that packed enough punch to give Snooki a black eye.
The third stop put us smack dab in the middle of this fine nation and the spawning grounds for some of the best rail riders known to man. Powder Ridge, Minnesota, sits out in the middle of a farm field and serves the twin cities with nonstop rope tows and urban rail setups. Michael Wiener and the Powder Ridge Crew stayed up all night long to build what would be a raw version of their urban assault on the TransAm. The Giro down bar setup had wooden stair steps on either side and a chain-link fence closeout that had riders jumping over the fences or from one down bar to the next. They kept each trick strictly for the streets and kept the riders coming back with a feature that was never before seen in Minnesota or on the TransAm Tour. Wiener proved that his mountain and staff might be small, but their hearts and creativity were big.
Jeremy Cooper and the Park City Park Crew had one goal in mind this year, and that was to get the trophy for best park, after last year's near miss. Cooper changed the TransAm park building game last year and had NorthStar and Bear scrambling to one-up his showing. This year proved to be no different, as he once again sculpted snow like a true artist with a Coal Headwear feature so real you could have checked it for a pulse. The head made of snow had a rideable mustache, nose, eyes, and a Coal beanie on top. Riders were gapping over the nose to the rim of the Coal beanie and jumping back into the transition on the nose. The head even had dreadlocks coming out the back, and the Rastafarians were in full approval. He took another shaped snow beanie and set it up on its side to be hit like a hip. Cooper and the crew were hungry for the title. They even sculpted one of the best mini pipes in the country with rails and pole jams littered throughout. The High Cascade Snowboard Camp mini pipe never looked so good, and the riders proved the transition was there to stay for quite some time after the tour stop.
The scene and story was the total opposite at North Star in comparison to last year. Last year, the park was buried under three feet of snow, and Mike Schipani and the crew had to dig out what they had already built. This year, Schipani had to turn on the guns and bring his own storm to the TransAm build, as the snow wasn't exactly piling up the way it had the previous year. Either way, they built an awesome park with a Zumiez living room feature complete with big-screen TV and that famous Zumiez orange couch. The icing on the 10th birthday cake was a huge window frame to down-box that riders could jump through as they cruised through the living room setup. Schipani was thinking along the same lines as Bear's Clayton Shoemaker with a feature you could actually ride through. Shoemaker took the title last year with a ride-through bear head made of snow. Schipani also pumped up the riders with the Muscle Milk mile-long rail that was set up on the deck of the mini pipe. If you could get to the end of this flat rail, you deserved a muscle-building Muscle Milk for such a gallant effort.
Finals once again kicked off at Bear Mountain, and by kicked off, that means punted to the moon. Shoemaker and the Bear Mountain Park Crew started their build a week ahead of time and built what will stand to be the greatest mini park ever made. It was a huge skate bowl made of snow that had two tunnels through it. Riders could shred through the tunnels and hit the transition inside the bowl, or they could just jib the rail inside one of the tunnels. The rippers could also ride the deck of the bowl that was littered with rails, some of which took you over the death-defying gap above the snow tunnels. He took the Coal headwear to the next level with a smoke-breathing double-headed dragon. One of the jibable Ride Snowboards smoking barrels sat in the mouth of the dragon and could be ridden as an option in the gap jump up and over the dragon's head. The words on this paper right now cannot and will not do this build justice. Take a look back at the pictures and video as proof why, once again, Clayton Shoemaker and the Bear Mountain Park Crew are deserving of this year's TransAM Premier Resort Award. Congratulations to Shoemaker, and thank you for once again setting the bar high for the mini park of mini parks!
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Most people can see *constructive* criticism for what it is.
Given I praised 5 of the 8 matches, I don't get how anyone would conclude that this was the worst show ever reading my report. Unless they just read the last paragraph, which I suspect is all you did.
"Little or no detail" would be saying UFC is going to suck twice without even a single word or line explanation as to why. I assume you just don't watch UFC, which is a pretty lame reason to conclude an individual show is going to suck.
And of course, given you've misrepresented just about everything I said, it's worth pointing out I didn't say fans are "not willing to say something stinks." I said they "aren't as willing" as East Coast fans, and I think that's a pretty hard proposition to argue with.
Overall, I think that's a positive, given the flip side of the equation I already discussed. But I don't see why apologists need to defend sub-par efforts. The SoCal Uncensored board seemed as down on this show as they have been any PWG show in a while, and rightfully so.
I'm not exactly Mr. Negative when it comes to PWG. But god damn, what is the point of writing an evaluation of a wrestling show if you aren't going to judge it based on the merits of the show relative to other shows put on by the same promotion?
I felt my report was more than fair, and I have no obligation to provide friendly window dressing to sugar coat a mediocre effort from a great promotion.
bford24 wrote:Who cares that Todd sucks at reporting the truth about the show? I rather listen to people complain about the price going up to 20.
A three-year-old sees where it's going. What I brought up was why in the hell Tornado would agree to a match where Sky is so obviously setting him up. It makes Tornado, the face, look like an idiot.
Oh yeah, I'm sure you watch a lot of UFC. After all, UFC has produced some awful shows. Like take 2005, where UFC shows got a collective 1,604 thumbs up, 110 thumbs down and 187 thumbs in the middle from Observer readers. That's some awful programming right there. And not only that, it's laughable to suggest a UFC show might be good.
No, it's not. I said the fans here aren't as willing to say something stinks. You said that I said they won't say something stinks, and then explained that sometimes they do.
And then you once again said that nobody is unwilling to speak their minds, when I never said that. Your description of the difference between east coast fans and SoCal fans is completely in agreement with my assessment.
Stop putting words in my mouth!
This "real opinions" distinction is BS. There was no criticism from you of people just saying "kickass show." It was only when the criticism came in that all of a sudden had to be justified.
It's a total double standard over the amount of time and effort people need to spend deconstructing an indy show. If you praise it, that's fine. But if heaven forbid you criticize, you better come with a treatise backing your opinion. Because lord knows there are tons of people out there providing pages of analysis over live independent shows that aren't available on tape.
I don't go to every PWG show with a pad and pen to take notes. I don't go to them as a reporter. I go to them as a 2L taking a break from my busy schedule, and to have fun. The reports I write up are just passing along the information on the show to Dave, because I've been lobbying him for more PWG coverage for over a year now. Sometimes he runs them, sometimes he doesn't. Mainly I'm just pointing out the shows are out there, and are good. And believe me, that type of publicity helps PWG. I get e-mails from people asking about what PWG DVDs to order all the time, and getting PWG mentioned when you mention ROH has been a big goal of mine. But you can't have it both ways, accepting "that was a great match," and rejecting "that was a disappointment."
You're also mixing up two issues. Before you were reprimanding me for not being constructive, which is an issue of bias, and just being negative for the sake of being negative. Now what you're arguing isn't an issue of constructive criticism. It's an issue of depth of analysis.
You're asking from me something completely different than what I'm doing, and I'm sorry, it's a lot more fun watching a live show than writing down move for move. The type of report you're asking for just isn't done for many indy shows. You're talking about tape reviews, but that's a completely different animal. You can go back and forth, and you have time to analyze and go back. To compare that to live indy reports is absurd. If you want detailed blow-by-blow accounts of PWG live events, do it yourself.
Those are completely different reports than what I did this weekend, because there my priority was writing up a report. Here my priority was watching a show, and I don't have to apologize for that. You're comparing apples and oranges. I'm capable of doing a much more detailed analysis, but I would rather just sit back and enjoy the show.
JayJay wrote:FYI (and for anyone who didn't catch it), Phoenix Star was legitimately knocked out following Dragon's curb stomp. The finish was rushed (and the match was to go a lot longer than it did) due to that fact, leading to the botched finish as all participants were struggling to get somewhere with the match and not kill whatever they had going.
Props to Zokre and Dragon for improvising on the fly in a bad situation. I'd like to see anyone do any better.
I'd be more worried about what appeared to be a bad bump during the Joey/Bosh match with the powerbomb into the side of the ring.
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Goodbye Oscar Peterson
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Oscar Peterson 1925-2007
Sometimes you're just not ready for a particular artist or a piece of music.
That was my first experience with Oscar Peterson. I wasn't ready for it. The sound was simply overwhelming. Too many notes. Pianistic pyrotechnics, at least to my inexperienced ears. My comfort zone at that time was the lilting sway of Red Garland, the impeccable touch of Wynton Kelly, the lonely lyricism of Bill Evans. Basically, any piano player that Miles Davis endorsed.
And Miles was less than kind when it came to descriptions of Oscar Peterson. "Nearly everything he plays," said Davis, "he plays with the same degree of force. He leaves no holes for the rhythm section."
So I ignored Oscar Peterson for too long. But neglecting Oscar wasn't easy, and it didn't last. He was a prolific performer, and he began to creep into my peripheral vision more and more. He was everywhere. Ella and Louis - check. Diz and Getz - check. Prez and Lady Day - yup.
I kept getting closer to the source. In 2000, I worked on Jazz From Lincoln Center with Ed Bradley. We recorded a "Duet on the Hudson" from the Kaplan Penthouse in New York. Ray Brown and Monty Alexander. I interviewed them both for the eventual radio show. Ray Brown talked about the great duet record with Jimmy Blanton and Duke Ellington. Then the conversation turned into an Oscar ceremony - his admiration for bassist Oscar Pettiford, and his longtime association with pianist Oscar Peterson. Monty Alexander started in about Nat Cole, and eventually landed on Oscar Peterson.
I remember a moment during Martin Scorsese's THE BLUES series a few years later. During the episode that Clint Easwood directed, "Piano Blues," Ray Charles gave a ringing endorsement to Oscar Peterson's skill, one that I'll allow you to discover for yourself. Let's just say it contained a fairly colorful phrase that the FCC would not consider "family-friendly."
Anyway, I owe thanks to Brother Ray for redirecting me to the Oscar Peterson Trio. I dug into those classic recordings of Peterson, Ray Brown, and drummer Ed Thigpen. Boy, do they swing (I know that word is highly charged, so I don't use it lightly). I still haven't heard all of those trio records. But the trio recording NIGHT TRAIN, THE SOUND OF THE TRIO, LIVE FROM CHICAGO, WE GET REQUESTS, VERY TALL, TRIO +1, and the bushel of songbook records are a still a joy to visit.
One session that comes to mind is the date that the trio recorded with the master arranger Nelson Riddle. They sounded so restrained, or better, so composed. All that finger-breaking technique at Oscar Peterson's disposal, yet he plays some of the most unadorned piano I ever heard him play. The B side of the record ends with Benny Goodman's classic signoff - Gordon Jenkins' "Goodbye." Great stuff.
Oscar Peterson signed off recently. He played music for a living. He played himself, for us. I'm glad I discovered that.
Goodbye, Oscar Peterson.
December 27, 2007. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: Digital Life, Discovery, Diversions, Jazz Osmosis, Riff, Uncategorized, WBGO Community Events
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