[rkw]

Somebodies here might appreciate this, about the RCA Red Seal series,
http://highfidelity.pl/@main-880&lang=en

Oh dang! If these ship to Ontario, my beer-fund's gonna get emptied... again.

These are regular CD releases on the RCA label (now owned by Sony Music). Look for them anywhere CDs are sold (Amazon, etc). For example:
http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/r/rca63586a.php
https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?label_id=577750&ev=lb&limit=250

 

[ScottFree]

Don`t argue with a fool, people in the distance can`t tell who is who.

And the fool will beat you with experience.

 

[wink]

..

 

[478773]

Right here on the left coast is still not New Year - but taking advantage that Don Julio is still letting me type, Happy New Year to everyone at the best and Shiit-iest thread!

v

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

happy solar new year to everyone.

 

[the finisher]

Well the way I read it I'm 2 months early.
Not a Gregorian calendar fan, the idots could have just shifted the names 2 months so it made sence. Making sense obviously wasn't a modivation here.

But Happy New Year to the readers and OP of this fine thread!

 

[US Blues]

Well the way I read it I'm 2 months early.
Not a Gregorian calendar fan, the idots could have just shifted the names 2 months so it made sence. Making sense obviously wasn't a modivation here.

But Happy New Year to the readers and OP of this fine thread!

Perhaps you have not heard the story of Dennis the Runt (Dionysis Exigus), a semi-literate medieval European monk who talked a less-literate Pope into changing the calendar by 10 days. You see, Dennis figured out that the Earth was created the first week of October in 4004 BCE. The Runt figured that the current calendar had to shift to be in congruence with his calculations. This is why the Gregorian calendar is not congruent with the reality of the Solstice.

 

[HumanFly]

A happy new year everyone!

 

[Ableza]

happy solar new year to everyone.

I prefer to think of it as the arbitrary beginning of a new numbered year according to the Gregorian calendar.

 

[JohnnyCanuck]

Yeah. Happy that

JC

 

[rkw]

happy solar new year to everyone.

Well it isn't a lunar new year, but there's nothing that makes it solar either. A solar new year should line up with a solstice or equinox.

 

[winders]

Does it really matter that the New Year's day the modern world recognizes does not line up with a solstice or equinox? No, it does not. Nor is the January 1st as New Year's day an arbitrary choice.

Julius Caesar picked the day as the first day of the year for the Julian calendar for a couple of reasons. First, because of Janus for who the month of January is named. Janus is the god of gates and doors and faces forward and backwards. Julius Caesar liked the metaphor of Janus (January) being the doorway to a new year. The second reason was it lined up the calendar year with the consular year as January 1st was the day new Consuls took office.

January 1st was picked as the first day of the year for the Gregorian calendar because that day was the traditional first day of the year for all non-religious activities going back to Julius Caesar's time.

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

I support a 13 month calendar

latest yen is the "kse1500" of espresso machines:

https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/rocket-espresso-porta-via-suitcase-espresso-machine

 

[rkw]

I support a 13 month calendar

I didn't know there was such a thing, but I see that it's been proposed and actually kind of awesome.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2014/12/the-world-almost-had-a-13-month-calendar/383610/

 

[RickB]

I didn't know there was such a thing, but I see that it's been proposed and actually kind of awesome.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2014/12/the-world-almost-had-a-13-month-calendar/383610/

Those who get paid monthly would be very happy.