Someone came by ‘my’ desk and said, “Oh, you’re listening to music!
I mean you’re listening to good music. That’s Cohen, isn’t it?”
Pause. “I don’t know of a composer named Cohen.”
“Oh. Then it’s . . .” Long pause. “Who is it?”
“Gershwin.”
“Oh of course. There is a Cohen, though, who wrote that cowboy thing?”
Pause. “Are you thinking of [Aaron] Copland?” [spelling corrected 2006]
Much later it occurred to me that (if memory serves) the original Aaron was the first kohen.
From Rational Review News Digest:
If you’re a Free-Market.Net member, there’s a good chance that RRND isn’t reaching you. So, this isn’t really a note to Free-Market.Net members, but a note to RRND readers who know Free-Market.Net members. FMN turned their email aliasing system off, in order to effectively get rid of aliases which had been created (and which were acting as a conduit for spam), but aren’t used. Ask around – if you have friends who aren’t getting the email they expect, it may be because they didn’t catch this development and get over to FMN to turn their email aliases back on.
I too have a FMN alias which, what d’you know, I’ve never used.
I got a chuckle out of this note from one headhunter to another:
. . . [Anton] has temped for us and does a good job. He is the type who comes in and works, not one who socializes. If that fits with their needs, he might be the one! . . .
If?! – From what the second headhunter said, I may not be stylish enough.
Google too is afflicted by spam. (Link from Gordon Joly.)
In today’s paper, a rare coin minted in New England.
Bonhams expects their sixpence to sell for around $33,200 to $41,500.
Those numbers struck me as a bit fishy; a bit of juggling, and I conjecture that the pound is at $1.66.
Twenty years ago I made a lot of tapes to play in the car. When I was reminded of their existence a couple of weeks ago, I hadn’t heard most of these tapes since that first car died in 1989.
Curiously, among these tapes is one that I’m sure I had not heard before; I certainly did not record it. It sounds like the Bobs (rather than e.g. the Nylons, another group who cover pop songs a cappella) singing Happy Together, In My Room, Duke of Earl, Green Fields, Moondance, Papa was a Rolling Stone, I Wish, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Till Then, as well as something about Martians on Earth disguised as monks to the tune of Also Sprach Zarathustra and a tedious bit of glurge about the collapse of Stalin’s empire.
Does anyone recognize such an album?