Tag: music
Deep Ellum Arts Festival 2005
April 5th, 2005, No Comments
I spent most of the day Sunday wandering around the Deep Ellum Arts Festival looking at paintings and sculptures by regional artists. Since our office is now in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, the Arts Festival was within walking distance. I took a few fuzzy photos of the arts festival with my little JB1 [...]
Gecko to music conversion using 3 bit tuples
February 21st, 2003, No Comments
I was driving home from work recently after a particularly stressful day when some random synapses fired in my brain (or perhaps just burned out from stress) and an idea formed. Standard diatonic musical scales have eight notes, a power of 2 that can be represented by a 3 bits. We’re used to thinking of [...]
Sousa, Meat Paddles, and Clones
July 7th, 2002, No Comments
I’d better catch up on news before I start falling too far behind. For the 4th this year, Susan and I went to a an event up in Frisco. It was held at the Hall Office Park near the Texas Sculpture Garden. We saw the best fireworks we’ve seen in quite a few years. Prior [...]
Buying Camera Gear From eBay vs Camera Shows
May 4th, 2002, No Comments
Busy day. Spent the morning mowing and edging the yard. We had lunch in Grapevine on the way out to a camera show sponsored by one of our clients. There was some interesting stuff to see at the camera show including non-photography items like two light sabers and an old Star Trek type one phaser. [...]
Rain and Music
April 17th, 2002, No Comments
Yesterday afternoon there was a huge thunderstorm that brought along quite a bit of hail. I decided to hang around the office to make sure all the servers made it through the storm. We took to a couple of small power hits, neither outage lasted over 5 minutes, and the UPS’ saved the day again. [...]
Music and Pneumatic Launch Vehicles
March 15th, 2002, No Comments
I think I’ve finally got the last of the zlib double-free fixes installed on all our Linux and Solaris boxes here. I had much more fun last night. Susan and I went to the Clandestine performance at Poor David’s Pub. They sounded great as always. Today’s mail included another issue of .NET magazine. Yick. Why [...]
Where do they get those Dr. Evil Suits?
March 11th, 2002, No Comments
Susan and I attended the Symphony this weekend. Nothing really amazing to report. Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D major, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor (I loathe piano concertos…), and Haydn’s Symphony No. 101 in D major. Jesús López-Cobos was guest conductor. Like many conductors he dressed like a James Bond villain. [...]
Philip Glass Ensemble in Austin
October 15th, 2001, No Comments
Susan and I have been back in town for a few days after a week in Austin to hear several live performances of the Philip Glass Ensemble. I’ve been meaning to post a summary of our adventures and here it is. We left for Austin on the 2nd, opting to drive rather than fly. It [...]
