+1 for Woody Guthrie

#COTD

Can you add your name to the MS Word dictionary? 

As a private music instructor, I’ve been using Skype for online trumpet lessons. It works well enough, and having control over the microphone settings is a real plus. These apps all tend to boost soft sounds and tamp down loud sounds, but Skype gives you the ability to take that limiting out of the loop, and get…

All fine arguments in favor of single-spacing, but consistency is perhaps more important. As long as Word is making sure you do all of one or the other, you’re good. 

Stirling Moss on What’s My Line? in 1958.

Meanwhile, in France....

“It looks like a seahorse and sounds like a canned fiddle. One, alone, gnaws at a funny bone, but six, ranging from a little one, with the voice of a deflating rubber bladder, to a paternal one that croaks like a musical bullfrog, are too much for any audience.”

Sounds an awful lot like CFIT.

Hear hear!

I wouldn’t say I’ll be missing them.....

Shoot him in the legs. 

That is an exceptional photograph. 

I don’t think I’ll ever get over Macho Grande....

Status and toys. My wife and I went looking for a replacement for our 2003 Odyssey. The salesperson could only talk about all the electronic whizbang gizmos and couldn’t answer basic questions about the powertrain. 

Watch that hand, buddy.

His music ones are always spot on and, as a professional musician, absolutely appreciated. I’ve never read Larson’s bio, but he must have played in band as a kid or in college. 

My son’s high school team played against a team last Friday that fielded a one-armed center. He played well. It will be interesting to see if he can play at the next level.