A friend who is a professional singer/bandleader feels quite strongly about not working for free but I've only heard him on about this in relation to club owners and not in the case of sitting in with another musician. I know he pays his band but I don't know if he pays the guest vocalists who occasionally show up.

Cryptonomicon. It's an adventure story (ok - 2 overlapping stories) that geeks out on codes and math. It feels like the best typical example of his books. Snow Crash is fun but it loses the plot. Diamond Age really impressed me but it too kind of falls apart. The Baroque Cycle and Anathem require a few hundred pages…

Cryptonomicon. It's an adventure story (ok - 2 overlapping stories) that geeks out on codes and math. It feels like the best typical example of his books. Snow Crash is fun but it loses the plot. Diamond Age really impressed me but it too kind of falls apart. The Baroque Cycle and Anathem require a few hundred pages…

@truthoid:disqus : I didn't say that I hate anyone because of their views on film. I said that I had no idea that a discussion of The Jerk could make me hate people so much. I would never have suspected that a discussion of that movie (or any other) would inspire such misanthropy within myself. I do suspect that you…

@truthoid:disqus : I didn't say that I hate anyone because of their views on film. I said that I had no idea that a discussion of The Jerk could make me hate people so much. I would never have suspected that a discussion of that movie (or any other) would inspire such misanthropy within myself. I do suspect that you…

I had no idea that a discussion of The Jerk could make me hate people so much.

I had no idea that a discussion of The Jerk could make me hate people so much.

I was right in this show's target and was very excited when it premiered. I don't remember being  disappointed when it was canceled.

I was right in this show's target and was very excited when it premiered. I don't remember being  disappointed when it was canceled.

When this had a one night theatrical release a few years ago the whole revivalist crowd marched out chanting this. It was great.

When this had a one night theatrical release a few years ago the whole revivalist crowd marched out chanting this. It was great.

I bet you're a rocker.

I bet you're a rocker.

I saw Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle cover the entire album twice.

I saw Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle cover the entire album twice.

I remember when the moment when I was a kid that it struck me that Fred Flintstone was Ralph Kramden. It was a hell of an epiphany.

I remember when the moment when I was a kid that it struck me that Fred Flintstone was Ralph Kramden. It was a hell of an epiphany.

I was thinking Drifter's Escape too.

I was thinking Drifter's Escape too.

What about that time Weezer was on Happy Days?