the rix mix

My old Sony monitor went out of whack when I booted up today, it's displaying in what looks like 3D colors, skewed to orange. All the type is orange. The monitor is even older than the computer, someone gave it to me when the previous monitor on the previous PC died. I don't think the problem is correctable. Fiddled around a bit with settings, but none of the old settings were changed. Everything else works OK, so the monitor's probably on the way out. At least it's showing a viewable screen.
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Conan O'Brien's show doesn't travel well as comedy. He's been in San Fran this week, & like when he went to Chicago, he stands on a stage in a huge old theater & yells out jokes that are only funny to the live audience, which screams at every lame reference to a local landmark. Robin Williams was on the show, of course, along with noted SF celebs Snoop Dog & Randy Jackson - the latter appears on Craig Ferguson only about once a month. The Max Weinberg band sounds better in a big venue, though. Wednesday night they played a really familiar song going in & out of break that had me stumped until I hummed it to myself a few times & identified it as "Spanish Bombs" by The Clash, strange pick. Glide Church Choir & Tom Waits were inspired, theatrical choices for musical performances.