Tag: dso
Chickens, Kittens, and an Opossum
October 1st, 2001, No Comments
We spent a fairly quite weekend doing some work on the lawn. Susan did some weeding and I trimmed some dead branches from one of the trees. Saturday night we went to the Dallas Symphony. This week it was Wagner’s Overture to the Flying Dutchman, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, and a work for Orchestra and [...]
Life Slowly Returns to Normal
September 17th, 2001, No Comments
Saturday the DPRG held Roborama 01.b as planned. There were a few interesting new robots competing as well as a couple of records broken but, overall, I think attendance was down a bit due to the terrorist attacks. The events for walking robots were delayed a few weeks and may evolve into a seperate contest. [...]
Deep Ellum Arts Festival 2001
April 9th, 2001, No Comments
Last week was another busy week. Lots of Perl and a smaller amount of C programming. More progress on robots.net. The robomenu is now working. The robomenu is a database of robots with photos and descriptions. I’ve only managed to get about half the records into the database (they were originally static pages) but it [...]
Music and Robots
March 12th, 2001, No Comments
I had a nice quiet weekend for change. Nothing really interesting to report other than a DSO concert on Saturday. Two Prokofiev pieces – first the Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Opus 19 and second the music used in the Russian films, Ivan the Terrible parts 1 and 2. Interestingly, they had decided [...]
The 1945 Firebird Suite, Instead of the 1919, in 2001
January 28th, 2001, No Comments
We braved the cold weather and rain last night to hear the 1945 version of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite at the DSO. This was the first time I’ve heard the piece live and it was quite impressive. Even when you know exactly what’s coming the dynamic range and volume of a live orchestra can still catch [...]
Flying Lizards and Other Music
January 22nd, 2001, No Comments
I finally managed to obtain one of two out of print Flying Lizards CDs that I’ve been trying to get my hands on for while. I won an eBay auction for their first, self-titled CD last week and it arrived today. It’s the first time I’ve heard their stuff in years. Now if I can [...]
Rocks or Pointed Sticks
October 10th, 2000, No Comments
Yikes! Over two weeks since I’ve posted any news… Don’t worry, I’m still alive. And nobody has missed much anyway. I worked a lot, spent a few days not working because of allergies or the flu or something, the Dallas Symphony season has started (the first performance was great the second one not so great). [...]
Airbills Take to the Air
June 2nd, 2000, No Comments
Wow, the weird event of the week just occured. We got a call from someone in the office building across the street saying that there were NCC FedEx airbills blowing around in the street. We looked out the window and the street was covered with paper for about a block in both directions. A few [...]
