Forgive me if this is redundant. I did a "find" search and couldn't find anything quite like it. Please point me in the right direction if it already exists.

Here's my quote, [from So What Happened etc.] to get us started, if interested:
"I heard vibraphonist Dick Sisto tonight at the jazz concert, and he fucking rocks!
I have never heard such lyrical playing on that instrument. Subtle, rythmic, melodic stuff. Lovely.

I am used to Charlie Shoemake's bebop [he loves Charlie Parker], which is often playing every-freaking-note at a high rate of speed. [this is probably not fair, he can allow silence, but he tends to high speeds and lots o' notes.]
So two vibraphonists, who also played piano in their own styles, while listening well to each other, backed by a fine bass and drum. Ahhhhhh....The contrast was remarkable, educational, and satisfying.

Now listening to the second cd Sisto gave me for selling his cds. I will play these a lot.

link:http://www.dicksisto.com/pressclips.asp

ps, just checked the gigs thread and think it is best I post here. Maybe I should have started a new thread? What did YOU learn today? Must research if it already exists. Sounds like a fine one, to me."

Join me as you can.

I am still unsure what the thread is about. Sounds like the "What are you listening to today" thread...

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I have never heard such lyrical playing on that instrument. Subtle, rythmic, melodic stuff. Lovely.

That's what I learned, today. Just sayin'.

Tomorrow, it could be crow behavior observation. Or something from human interaction.

I learnt to wipe dry the notches on café ashtrays - a cig soaked through from water used to wash it is not good.

I learned that wishful thinking is not going to clear up clogged arteries.

Not today, more like thursday; but i learnt that Steven Seagal actually plays music next to making visual abomination movies. I feel oddly compelled to find out just how bad it is.

Observed some behavior of birds of prey I hadn't seen before on Saturday evening. It was dusk here (about 8:30 pm) and it was raining quite heavily. While driving home from Copenhagen I saw 1 owl and 2 hawks all perched much lower than they normally do (on low fence posts). I'm wondering if they perch lower when it rains. I've never observed the behavior at dusk before.

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Not today, more like thursday; but i learnt that Steven Seagal actually plays music next to making visual abomination movies. I feel oddly compelled to find out just how bad it is.

I bet it's that pseudo-blues crap that movie stars like Kevin Bacon and Bruce Willis are so fond of.

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Originally posted by Fashionpolice:
Observed some behavior of birds of prey I hadn't seen before on Saturday evening. It was dusk here (about 8:30 pm) and it was raining quite heavily. While driving home from Copenhagen I saw 1 owl and 2 hawks all perched much lower than they normally do (on low fence posts). I'm wondering if they perch lower when it rains. I've never observed the behavior at dusk before.

Maybe they're all nearsighted, and perched lower so as to have a better view of the fieldmice. Were any of them wearing corrective lenses?

I don't know if you mean that you haven't observed that behavior in owls specifically or birds of prey in general, so this may be irrelevant. We get hawks around here, and I've seen them perch as low as 30" off the ground, on a chain link fence. No weather involved.

Hmmm...odd... I've never seen hawks or owls perched that low before. When I suddenly saw 3 on the same evening, I thought I saw a pattern.

Can you say apophenia?

working in the math lab, i learned you can not only log students in and out of the computer system, you can also terminate them....

Just to add my novel observations on raptor behavior. I watched an Osprey yesterday afternoon being harrassed by a couple of Ravens and finally turned the tables on one of the unsuspecting Corvids and pursued it through the fields long enough that I could almost swear I saw a worried expression on the Ravens face. I've always suspected there were limitations to how much guff an Osprey would take from a Raven or a Crow but this was the first time I've seen those limits demonstrated.

I learnt that thousands of years ago people had a lot of time on their hands so they did lots of sculptures. Since then, everyone has been an art critic.

I love watching birds of prey. Sparrow Hawks tend to take a low perch, and I think barn owls do too. Both like to skim hedgerows, although the Sparrow Hawk tends to zig zag, scaring birds out from one side and catching them the other, while the barn owl glides.

Among my many trivia haunted activities, I was a raptor watcher for a while, and found big differences in behaviour among those birds with an ending in British as -hawk.

Generally, those raptors that specialize on hunting ground prey, such as kites, goshawks, eagles, perch high, while those who hunt birds, such as sparrowhawks and falcons, often perch low, as they do not actually hunt from a perch, unlike the others.

Just teenage interest, so do not consider this as authoritative.

Falconidae vs Accipitridae, actually.

José

In North America our Kestrels used to be called Sparrow Hawks but I've learned recently that a European would think I was reffering to something more along the lines of a Sharp-shiined hawk or a Coopers Hawk if I spoke of a Sparrow Hawk. Our Kestrels are Falconidae while our Goshawks, Coopers hawks and Sharp-shinned Hawk are Accipitridae.

My Grandfather was Welsh and always corrected anyone who would compliment him on his English accent. Do the English call their Kestrels and Merlins Sparrow Hawks? It was an Englishman whom recently I learned of these differences.

InDesign 3: On a page with multiple placed PDFs, it uses the fonts from the first PDF when printing all other placed ones on the page. So if you have font subsetting in that PDF and it is missing letters, later PDFs on the page could have "holes" in their words... in other words, never allow font subsetting in your print-quality PDFs!

I learned that the chap I sold a motorcycle to last week fell off and damaged it with 24 hours of taking delivery.

The bike was the one I rode for the first 15 months after getting my licence, and it was in immaculate condition despite being 8 years old. My parting words as he rode away were "take good care of it".

Silly bugger.

I learned that missing a week and a half of aikido is not a good idea.

And I met someone (boyfriend of one of the aikidoka) who actually claims to study ninjitsu. Made a mental note not to make fun of that...just in case.

Then again, I could always bone up on the topic.