Steve,
I feel compelled to respond to last evenings performance. It is amazing to have such an assemblage of educated talent in one space. The music was important and superbly performed. It is apparent to me that you need to perform this in front of a larger venue. The music deserves it. Great work Steve! And thanks for letting me be involved.

Heck, thanks for being involved! Thanks also for your kind words…. my blog entry for today doesn’t reflect sufficiently the enthusiastic positive energy from every musician involved last night as well as most everyone in the audience. Many many deserved compliments and expressions of gratitude were flying around. The evening was totally a success in my eyes. My comments today are me continuing the usual process of reflecting, evaluating and learning from my own performance and experience.

I agree that this music (and especially all of the excellent musicians) deserve a better venue.

Today I am in recovery mode….. takes me a while to bounce back…. Heh.

Catching up on my sj reading, your last reunion pic was perfectly timed, somehow to make me laugh out loud. This, incidentally, is planning week for me, too. Good luck! The cathedral library is hard to work with…

It is apparent to me that you should remember an old saying. If it is worth doing it is worth doing well.

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check ur email….

I understand the issue. I am biased and I understand my bias. It is made from experience, knowledge and maturity. I have changed my views as conditions have changed. No one source of information is enough to make it “knowledge”. A validation process must occur and each of us assess through our own bias. Everyone has a bias even the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The issue is for the individual to use “thoughtful consideration and factual assessment” to determine belief. I do not think that any one source of information is validation of knowledge or belief.
You have your biases as do I. I may disagree with someones point of view, as they may disagree with mine, but the society that we live in has freedom of expression which I contend makes us a better society. It is with civility that we interact and understand the other point of view.

I’m definitely for civility, that’s for sure.

Well, with the current legal prohibitions that are being implemented against commentators to be careful in what they say. Apparently, this is not the blogger issue, only the comment section and can only be a problem if the blogger does not offer up their site info. to investigators. So I have nothing to say. Have a nice day.

Not exactly sure what you mean by “legal prohibitions.” I’m not aware that commentators are being warned to be careful in what they say. What does that mean, I wonder? The sites I linked in in this entry are not blogs, but news sites and sites that link in other news sites. And most comment sections that I read online are moderated. Commentators have to at least provide email addresses or contact info. Comments of people who “flame” or express themselves inappropriately are quickly removed often after they are flagged by other readers. This is true of the New York Times comments as well as the local paper, the Holland Sentinel website. What sites are you finding that comment sections behave in the manner you describe?

This was a problem that I heard from a website guru. He was commenting on the recent legal case which was brought by a (I think) company regarding posting of information on the internet by a person not happy with the product or service. This was ruled as defamatory by the court and has resulted in potential liability issues for anyone commenting on any bloger’s website. I was sort of tongue in cheek about this issue. It like trying to stop the Niagara falls from falling.

This is fairly true around Internet blogging. Was listening to some legal talk radio the other day and the lawyer stated that if you blog regarding “you will get ripped off if you go with this company” you are susceptible to legal recourse as opposed to blogging “I got ripped off by this company”. Of coarse it is all relative….nes pa? Davidj

Wow. Did a little googling on this and could not find any news reports about actual lawsuits in this area. I did find what looks like a good info page about the issue.
http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/overview

I have been contacted by people unhappy with my copyright violations. But they quieten down when I simply remove what bothers them. My quasi-son-in-law Jeremy the lawyer is frustrated I let them bully me in that way, but frankly I don’t care that much. Jeremy insists I could string them a long and wear them down.

I did a little more creative searching and did find a bit of evidence of some suits. Most pending and most old. FWIW

I am not sure why your wife is interested in this vehicle. Maybe it is the size. It seems to fit a woman’s size of vehicles. So I should not say any thing else. Right? right! Have a nice day!

Dude. YOU have a nice day! Eileen has been lusting for a mini for ages. I am definitely trying to get her to indulge herself, since she rarely does that and I am MISTER self indulgence…..

Great Car! Is she going to let you ride in it? I am assuming that she will not let you drive it. It is a manual transmission, right?

6 speed manual…. Eileen prefers a stick. She will let me ride in it and drive it…. Heh…. I am so happy that she has a car she wants!

Steve, I read you every day and treasure all the insights and links. Sorry I don’t converse more, but lurking is so deliciously lazy!