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DinOR,

I'll keep that in mind when I'm in a warmer climate. Right now, it's Eurotrash techno (blah, IDM, if you will) with bits of postpunk mixed in.

darn,

It's almost nappy time, and I've only had one drink.

I was too old to go clubbing when I was 21...cigarette smoke makes me sick for a week afterwards.

astrid,

No worries. Contrary to it's "pop" image Surf Guitar finds it's roots in Flamenco and is actually quite dark, mystical and definitely ( I'm reluctant to even say) of paegan influences. The very word "staccato" wasn't fully defined until the introduction of surf guitar several centuries after it's introduction.

TN (from quite a ways back),

I wonder if the HB’s coordinate their buybacks.

If they do so explicitly, it would be collusion and expressly illegal.

However, if they all send their CFOs and financial management to the same East Coast B-Schools, where they all read the same Dixit textbook on game theory, then they all know how to behave when one starts buying back.

DinOR,

Intriguing. Maybe I should pick up a CD or two, at least on an obscure Flamenco band (still having trouble buying anything more popular than the Beatles...)

Randy,

Good point. I do wonder though, wouldn't the lack of diversity amongst the CFO population eventually lead to them committing the same mistake and going (metaphorically) extinct at the same time? Also, would two years of biz really be enough to permanently subsume human nature?

For as much as I used to bitch about the negatives (california) after a year and a hellish muggy summer down here I may return. One of things I did run into was a distrusting attitude from the locals here. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I still have my california plates on my vehicle. There is little to do culturally almost no amenities aside from Charleston. It is a tad too slow and behind the times for a metropolitan like myself. This is my second foray in twenty in the south it is not a right fit for me affordability withstanding.