Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: "Bloomberg Financial" Interview - "Programmers" GOING AWAY Date: 15 Jan 2026 03:42:27 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <34W8R.1832162$Lzl2.1147336@fx15.iad> <10k2mog$29ube$4@dont-email.me> <10k2tls$2c5rs$1@dont-email.me> <10k31j1$2d84u$1@dont-email.me> <10k5apc$32hfm$6@dont-email.me> <10k65l5$3bodd$2@dont-email.me> <20260114111053.000027cc@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net R99PzmscIE9CnoNNwc9HDAp4atvXf/XeiR32pjZhZViXHbel08 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RIfcLpUcz3urXpdha5Dkg0u0REM= sha256:PXHHOdc/eKTrLQTT8mrOKfHIlLqClRoIPdRImC2rJpE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81137 On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:10:53 -0800, John Ames wrote: > Jazz is something I appreciate more for the influence it's had on the > rest of the world than enjoy in raw form. It was a key ingredient in the > cocktail that birthed progressive rock; without that initial shot in the > arm from jazz by way of King Crimson, it might never have gotten beyond > just sounding like the Moody Blues. Likewise, original-flavor Chicago > (before Terry Kath died and the DX7 ruined them) owed a whole lot to > jazz. I don't much care for progressives, take that as you may. I'll make an exception for 'Whiter Shade of Pale' if that is progressive. I still don't know what some of the words in the lyrics are and I certainly don't know what it meant but with a little good weed who cares? I just played it on youtube and had a flashback sitting in my Plymouth on a hot July morning in '67 getting ready for another day at my summer gig in the NYS Dept. of Edducation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GielMXWQlbw No not Procol Harum -- a little Mary Hopkin.