The year the Pacer came out the wholesale price for flat glass went up considerably... it affected the glass industry across the board for years. (...another one of those useless pieces of information I'm stuck with <g>)

The first 24 minutes of this video shows most of the lens building process at the Sigma factory in Japan. They have more robots than Star Wars and still employ a huge cadre of technicians and line workers... pretty amazing stuff.
https://youtu.be/DyhmDfA5-u0

Butterfly Estates in downtown Fort Myers on Fowler is a neat place to visit... and when you're done with the butterfly greenhouse you can grab a sandwich at the attached cafe or load up on some fudge <yum!>

Don't forget Lee Sklar

I recently ran into a similar situation with a new SST 500Gb drive.. folders that I copied from my HD showed up with 2 different sizes assigned... the actual folder size and "size on disk", the latter of which ran from 2 to 3 times the actual size. Turns out the SST was formatted exFAT which apparently allocated full blocks to ones which were otherwise partial. After reformatting the SST to NTFS things went back to normal and my files/folders reported actual sizes, not "size on disk". This tidbit turned up on one of the WD forums, as it seems to be most common on WD drives.

Me too... this is like getting rid of the directories on your C: drive.... no folders, just a list of 50,000 files... makes no sense at all.

Is that like standing in front of the open refrigerator and asking yourself "am I hungry or am I thirsty...???"

They have "Amazon Day" delivery now (if you want it) where they'll cut you a break on the shipping if you opt to have multiple orders dropped off the same day. For me it's Wednesdays, but I suspect it may be different in other areas. Not a bad deal.

Great shot! How many miles of rope must there be on that ship??

If I recall correctly, unless you run it from the command line as Administrator I don't think the "normal" format (that appears in the drop-down when selected from the GUI) wipes the rest of the drive, it just erases the index and then checks its integrity. Running it from the command line lets you add switches that will force the writing of zeros to every sector which takes longer but truly eliminates all earlier data, making the drive truly unrecoverable.

Wow, these images really take me back to my childhood. While I didn't spend a lot of time in the camera store, I did spend parts of 4 days a week at Old St. Mary's church, about 7 blocks further south, singing in the Paulist Choir from when I was aged 9 thru 13. On Saturdays, after rehearsals were finished about noon, I'd roam the Loop, spending lots of time at the museums in Grant Park, and many of the stores along Wabash and elsewhere, especially Lyon & Healy, a great music store, around 400 S Wabash if memory serves. Seems like a lifetime ago (which it kinda is.....) Thanks for sharing the great photos / memory joggers.

I saw that when it came out, going to watch it again. Rick has certainly created an amazing channel.. I really enjoy the live interviews (not to mention the part-by-part analyses he does with ProTools)... particularly notable were the ones that featured Larry Carlton (wow!), Pat Metheny (wow! again) and Tommy Emmanuel (holy moly!!!). That's not to take away from any of the others, as they've all been excellent.

I heard all that!! Speaking of prolific session players, back in the day (70's-80's) it had to be The Section, which I was led to when I started following Lee Sklar. I had all of their albums as well as those of most of the people they backed. I don't recall when my focus went from albums of particular bands over to seeking out individual musicians in the liner notes and picking up the albums by whoever they were working with, but that "tree" started a long time back and allowed me to find some incredible recordings that I otherwise wouldn't have heard.

When it comes to Jeff, though, he had the unique ability to create and then work a phrase in such a way that you'd never tire of his communication. Rick Beato put it really well in his recent video with Tim Pierce honoring Jeff's career when he said (and I'm paraphrasing) "Jeff never bored you with the musical equivalent of 'run-on sentences'." Makes perfect sense when you listen to his playing with that thought in mind. He was an amazing artist who's going to be sadly missed by his millions of fans.

Thanks for the reminder... I recall seeing that video several years back... memorable partly because of Tal's seemingly effortless performance of that bass part, which, to the uninitiated sounds pretty simple, but when you consider the control and strength required to do something like that for an extended period without missing a beat (while wearing a huge smile, no less) the performance is truly quite remarkable. And of course, there's Mr. Beck doing what he's always done best... masterful!! Loved it, adding it to my faves. Thanks again.