17 June 2007

Caveat Emptor

Fun weekend - on-again, off-again, on-again DCI Webcast (and 2 wins for my boys with an incomplete show), good times (and good food) with the better half, as well as hanging with Holly and Kelly at Corkscrew, checking out Regressive Memory at Fitzgerald's, and several hours camped out at Cafe Artiste... inexorably throwing myself at drill.

Speaking of which:

I am going on vacation this week (Thursday to be precise) and am planning to take that time to actually have a vacation... something I have not really had since 1999.

Seriously.

In pursuit of that elusive goal, I will not be accessing the Internet whatsoever. Even though I will be in San Francisco, haven of the 'net, I won't on my phone, not on my laptop, not via a public kiosk, nada, nothing. I will still be working on drill, but my good old Airport card will be getting a much-deserved rest.

No e-mail, no blogs, nothing.

If you really need me, chances are you have my cell number.

Just as an informational note to my blog reader(s) - both of you.

With that, I bid you a fond adieu. Perhaps I will get the month-and-a-half-in-the-offing Pittsburgh blog up before we leave for the left coast. We'll see... :)

Currently reading:
The Creative Habit - Twyla Tharp

(if you are at all creative, buy this book - it will be the best investment in happiness you have ever made - many thanks to Marc Martin for recommending it to me.)

12 June 2007

Simply Amazing

Langham Creek High School Symphonic Band
Texas 5A Honor Band Concert - Feb. 2007
Equus - E. Whitacre



Mind you, these are high school students.

Kudos beyond description to Scott McAdow, Gloria Ramierez, and the private lesson staff at Langham... incredible doesn't even approach an accurate description...

Wow.

Sad news...

Read this today - very sad.

Mr. Wizard was a staple of my youth - feeding an early (albiet misguided) interest in the physical sciences. In truth, I just really liked it when things blew up.

Which is why the A-Team was high on my viewing list about this same time.


Peace be with you, Mr. Wizard...

01 June 2007

WTF?

Ridiculous doesn't even begin to describe this one:

Tricksy tricksy, Darfur...

You want us to stop calling all that populace-pruning "genocide"...

so you threaten to take away Coke.

Brilliant...

Bloody brilliant.

Darfur Threatens to Cut Off World's Supply of Coca-Cola - Consumerist
Denying Genocide in Darfur -- and Americans Their Coca-Cola - Washington Post