Roberta Piket Trio in NYC
Monday, July 26, 2010
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Roberta Piket, piano
Billy Mintz, drums
Yoshi Waki, bass
Location: Miles’ Cafe
Street: 212 E. 52nd street
City/Town: New York, NY
Today
Fall West Coast Tour
September ’09
May 2009 in Cologne and Lviv
Poltva is being distributed by Qualiton in the US.
Do NOT download “XP Anti-virus”
When I logged into my myspace account today I was surprised to get hit by several “XP Anti-virus” popups. This is a fake program that actually infects your machine if you choose to install it.
This was not just a simple pop-ups that went away when I closed it. I actually could not get the pop-ups to stop or the browser to close until I went into the Task Manager and ended the process from there.
This happened despite the fact that I have all Windows and IE7 updates, and my browser is set to reject most popups. (I subsequently changed my settings to reject all pop-ups and when I logged back in there were no popups.)
DO NOT install anything called “XP Anti-virus”, or “Vista Anti-virus”. There is no such thing. (In fact, you should NEVER download any program or file unless YOU initiated the download and you know what you are trying to do.) If you see pop-ups that look like system messages warnings saying that you have a virus and asking you to download anti-virus software, don’t do it. Windows has no such system messages.
I am very disaapointed that myspace would let their code get compromised this way and not do anything about it. This malware has been out for months now. My Space should be responding to security holes in their scripts. A lot of people are going to get infected from logging into their myspace page. Please don’t be one of them!
Hit and Run (literally) by AHL Tone Communications
Driving up the crowded West Side Highway last Friday on a clear and dry afternoon, my car was slightly side-swiped on the driver side above the rear wheel by a commercial van. I signaled the driver (a portly middle-aged man with an unkempt grey beard) to stop but he ignored me. After a mile or so we had to stop at a traffic light. I got out of my car and approached his window. He kept the window rolled up and stared straight ahead. I was able to get the name and contact info for the company that owned the van. I called the company, AHL Tone Communications, which apparently has locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and told the woman who answered the phone that I had just been side-swiped by one of their vans and the driver had left the scene of the accident. She was remarkably casual and unapologetic about the incident. She asked for my cell number and said she’d have the driver call me. Thirty minutes later, still no call. I called her back and she was uninterested in speaking with me further, to say the least. In fact, she hung up on me.
I considered calling the police but decided it was not worth the hour I would have spent waiting for them to show up. So I cut my losses, reported the incident to my insurance company (not as a claim, just for informational purposes), went home and ate Green and Black’s hazelnut and currant dark chocolate.
Live Video of the Roberta Piket Trio
This is the place to find live concert footage of the trio. You can also visit our myspace and jazzvision.net pages, but I will embed everything here so for video of the trio performing there’s no need to look further.
Thanks to Jim Merod for recording us at Soka University last November.
Roberta Piket Trio West Coast Tour 2007: Make Someone Happy:
Roberta Piket Trio West Coast Tour 2007: Shmear (by Billy Mintz):
Roberta Piket Trio West Coast Tour 2007: Billy’s Ballad (by Billy Mintz):
Roberta Piket Trio West Coast Tour 2007: My Friends and Neighbors (by Roberta Piket):
Roberta Piket Trio West Coast Tour 2007: If I Loved You:
Geeky and Grumpy
Reading over my last post about my web hosting issues, I had to laugh. I have another life apart from music, a company called New York Geek Girls. The name was originally tongue in cheek, but now I have to acknowledge I really am a geek! Who but a geek could rant so passionately for three paragraphs about mail server issues?
Or maybe it’s not my geekiness that inspired those railings. Truth is, I have a low tolerance for stupidity, illogic, and hypocrisy in general. Just today, I wandered into my beloved Park Slope Food Coop, where I have been a member for over 15 years now, and I became irritated at a series of consecutive assaults on my senses. Those who know me are aware of how enthusiastically I expound on the Coop’s fantastic quality, prices and ideals. So I am sure I will be forgiven for grousing about 1) the silliness of having the blank classified ad forms and the bin where you deposit the filled out forms on opposite sides of the store (forcing me to navigate through a thick mass of humanity several times due to my unfamiliarity with the process) 2) new brands of baby spinach and field greens in hard plastic containers that are not recyclable and take up lots of landfill space 3) people who stand immediately behind me near the avocados and talk loudly into their cell phones, thereby creating the annoying sensation that a perfect stranger is speaking right into my ear. (I don’t care if she was eight months pregnant, as Billy pointed out.)
These three things happened within minutes of each other. It seems I simply cannot navigate the constant offensive barrage that has become modern life. Does anyone else feels this way? Am I the only one who walks out of a cell phone store because I simply cannot STAND the loud horrible mindless drone of corporate-created urban pop music?
Or am I just getting old?