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Here's what a full-grown one looks like

I heard those aren't real diamonds! Well, I only have the one without the "diamonds" and I'm pretty sure it cost me way more than $1500.

15 hundred bucks is a hell of a lot cheaper than going out and collecting all those the regular way!

No problem, but I have to say that my goal was just to capture the music so I could play and listen on an mp3 player. Not too concerned about audiophile quality since my ears have gone "lo-fi" long ago, but I did want it to record "cleanly". Few years ago I bought a Numark hundred-dollar USB turntable. It came with software to do just that and it worked well enough. I'm sure there's better software out there now. I forget what software I used to convert the CDs but I think that capability is built into most OSs now, or at least packaged with computers.

Thanks! Nice live perf by Willie and Merle. Forgot about his old Telecaster. But I did eventually find Lucky Man. I was sure I had it on CD somewhere (which means it would be on my phone) so I searched by "song" and found I have 2 copies. One from "From the Beginning - Greg Lake Retrospective" and the other from "The Return of the Manticore" collection. Listening to these albums now.

Dadgummit! I've got my entire digital music collection (17479 songs) on my phone. ...but I don't have ELP's "Lucky Man" or "Pancho & Lefty" by Merle and Willie. I don't even have it by Townes Van Zandt. Guess I'll have to start digitizing more of my vinyl collection. Very time-consuming. Good thing is I get to listen to them all while recording.

Dam ..another I never got to see.

Never got to see these guys live. Must've been a great show. Yeah, I guess it's just a hard thing to understand.

Actually written by Greg Lake at 12 yo! Didn't know that. Emerson added the Moog at the end (in Coreece's link). I always thought it seemed out of place in that song.

RIP Keith Emerson. "No money could save him So he laid down and he died"

Hey, I didn't write the Constitution. They have not done nothing. They pretty much said no "consent". They just haven't dropped the hammer. They are not required to give advice and consent for any appointment. But, saying they will not consider an appointment sounds like advice to me. So, doing nothing is equivalent to not consenting if consent is required to approve an appointment. Well, if I was a Senator, my "advice" for him would be to pick a conservative Justice. Maybe even suggest a specific person. I might then vote for "consent". Yours is the same argument as President Obama's "they refuse to act, so I will" comments re: gun control, etc. Not "acting" on a proposal can be an action which that side supports. Not everything needs a specific "action", depending on viewpoint or ideology ...and almost in every case, certainly not an action by the opposition who has a very different view of governance.

The Senate is not Constitutionally duty-bound, compelled, or otherwise "expected" to "consent" to ANY appointment by the President. Neither are they required to consider (or even acknowledge) any appointment. As far as "advise" goes, (unless they cave) it seems they have already done that ....to wit, no appointments will be considered until after a new President takes office. They are doing their Constitutional "job", just not the way you would have it. Another definition of "lame duck" could be a President who doesn't have support of Congress through the end of his service. But the President must abide by the Senate's "advi(c)e and consent" clause. The President may make a recess appointment "if a vacancy occurs during a Recess of the Senate". Doesn't apply here if you decide to follow the Constitution "as written".

Well, only partially. I'm sure that as a civic-minded citizen of Chicago he certainly would have voted, and I'm guessing at least one of his votes was for Daley. Possibly, but possibly not. He lived and worked in the Hyde Park neighborhood, which being liberal had a very strong anti-Daley streak (neither Daley was remotely liberal). Yes, posted that in the spirit of humor. Actually, I think Pres. Obama would have been more ideologically aligned with Rev. Jakes than Daley in the relevant election. Daley (both) seemed to be more interested in retaining sheer power rather than in any particular ideology. And he derived that power by playing to a liberal-leaning base, whether he really believed or not. I think he just as well would have courted conservatives if he thought that would have elevated his political power. He was expert at playing his constituents ...and he got to use everyone else's wealth to do it.

Well, only partially. I'm sure that as a civic-minded citizen of Chicago he certainly would have voted, and I'm guessing at least one of his votes was for Daley.

Good Grief! .....which is it with you guys!?!

#black rockers matter Once they go black, they never come back.

Try "Wilhelmina" if you can find it. I think it was the flipside of "Something......". Maybe not, I just have the album. Also, Tom Petty did a pretty good cover of "Something in the Air". Guess we gotta get used to it.

Probably not a lot of folks on here know who he was, but I wore the LP "Hollywood Dream" out back in the day. Still listen to it once in a while. Dam. ....we getting old!

Around here they are all "clips" whether they're mags or clips. Aren't you from central Fla.?

I wonder how he gets that clip to work in that revolver!?? The kid doesn't have to have a real gun... a 15 yo kid here lost his life last weekend after he shot a 19 yo security guard in the face with a pellet gun. His peers who were with him at the time also had "fake" guns.

Do I REALLY need this watch? Ramen noodles aren't so bad. I'll pack that for you cheap! Lessee, ...if I buy an old camper I could live on the DZ and make a pretty good living as an instructor!

Yep, this same bacteria convinced me to quit eating raw oysters for a while. Then I realized that they're just plain nasty, even without the bacteria. I do like them breaded and fried, Italian-style, though. I don't know if vibrio infections are relatively "new" here or just newly identified and tracked. So it's vibrio in saltwater and the amoeba in fresh water here. (At least you can see sharks and gators!)

Well "pipe dream" means opium. A case of what my old boss would call "mental masturbation." Yeah, that's why I specified "bong" rather than pipe. ...that causes more late night conversations about life, the universe and uh, ...everything.

Because we have mass. There's not enough energy at our disposal to get going that fast, much less the ability to harness it. Maybe sometime in the distant future, when we understand the relationship between relativity and quantum physics, we could start thinking about "warping space-time". But, I do think it's possible that some brilliantly insightful revelation could occur at any time. But my comment was really about the (IMO) ridiculous "model" of what a vehicle with such capabilities "might" look like (based on what?). It also might look like a 1948 Henry J that would move through hyper-space by sucking in large amounts of purple drank and farting cherry blossoms and moonbeams.

Looks like someone's pipe dream ....and by "pipe" I mean "bong".