Thanks. I actually understand how this was done. My brother is quite adept at this as well and uses it all the time. I don’t really have a use for this skill, but it doesn’t look hard to me.

pact? Just call me Faust

Take comfort in knowing that at least you will always have a home in sunny warm California should you decide to go homeless….that is…..as long as I have a home.
=^)
David

Awww. Thank you dude!

The dude gladly and thoughtfully abides by the unwritten laws of offspring dutiful considerations…..
=^)
David

I like the chart. It makes me feel better. X x love you! X

You and me both baby. Thanks for reading. Good to hear from you! Love from Dad

Makes a lot of sense to me. We’ve only been downtown a couple times to the Thursday night thing. It was always too crowded and loud for me, and I get exhausted in those big public event-type environments, though theoretically it should be great for kids, and we could bike there easily in the summer with the kids. I would have liked to have experienced it in the early days, before it became codified, and regularized.
Liked the pic of you and the combo of guys.
Want to get together to read the duet sometime in a couple of weeks?

I’m glad to see you mention Zuckerman. It’s fun to read a book so recently published about all this stuff, eh? I was lucky enough to meet Zuckerman and some of his colleagues when I visited the MIT Civic Media Center earlier this year. Was so refreshing to meet academics that understand, critique, and BUILD tech in the context of real-world issues of equity and justice.

Steve,
I certainly understand your point, but am torn in my feelings about busking because of some of my own experiences with it in London and Ireland.

At the Cliffs of Moher, there was a single tin whistle player that piped as the winds whirling off the Cliffs carried the haunting music all over the area setting my memories of the last days in Ireland to wonderful musical ones. A similar experience set the Tube in London firmly in my memory, too. But it is hard to hear the music sometime and can give a circus kind of experience too.

Zuckerman is both teaching me background that I hadn’t put together and also giving me some tools to understand my own relationship to and use of information mostly via the Internet. Thank you again for giving me this ebook.

Great memories! I think “circus” sums it up well. In addition I find that people more and more think of live music in terms of music they listen to normally, that is, music that comes out of a machine of some sort. They lose the idea that music is being done by living breathing human like themselves. I think this leads to people ignoring musicians and treating them much like a speaker box or someone who is doing something that is very easy and inconsequential. This is not malicious on their part but reflects a paucity of understanding on what music can be.

New Orleans struggled with this most of my life as the areas around Jackson square were way more lucrative than most of the city, and also emblematic — causing a quality concern. The city had elaborate maps and charts of daily usage, usually making it two tarot readers between musicians and performers, and clearly designated badges and spot numbers. Nobody happy, but less fighting.

The road to Hell, and all that. What a shame. I love surprise musical encounters. I used to ride my bike on the flood control channel here in San Diego. It’s a long stretch of mudflats where all kinds of birds hang out, on the San Diego River where it’s about to dump into the ocean. Once in awhile, I’d ride by a trumpeter or a drummer or a clarinetist, practicing along the waterway. If it somehow became organized by the city, those happy accidents would lose all of their charm.

I’m curious about your google terms & conditions thing – did you have to untick a box that was already ticked? I followed your link and clicked another link – and it took me to a page where my box was already unticked…. I wonder if this is because I’m not accessing my account from America?

x

I’m really sorry Mom’s so unhappy… for what it’s worth – I vote for quit! life’s too short to work for assholes as they say (not that I know this is the exact issue… I haven’t spoken to her lately.) 🙂

love you both!
x

Who knows? It’s not too big a deal for me. I just know if I see my picture online for an ad I will be uncomfortable with it. Love from Dad

Yeah, this is not a happy time for Eileen. Doing what I can to ease it for her. She meets with someone from work today to talk about this process. I hope she is feeling more and more confident about quitting and also less stressed as she sees the light at the end of tunnel. Love from Dad

Margaritas rocks. We should go there together sometime.
And we can have you guys over again soon, since then we’re all having fun AND saving money!! 🙂 (and maybe eating up all the crazy amount of veggies we still have left from our CSA… As long as you like to eat vegetable soup)
Yeah, concert was a little long yesterday, though I enjoyed it.
I liked Craig’s quote. Vogel always said, no one complains if your concert is too short. Leave them wanting more, instead of the opposite.

It would be fun to visit Margaritas together. Also, we’d love to come over. We could bring something.

I’m planning to play a Biery (Jim) organ composition soon from his Rendez a Dieu suite. It’s a charming little capriccio which I have somehow managed to register on my organ.