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Mid August Festivals

2008-08-17T23:13:25Z

My daughter and I picked up my mom and went up to the Fresh Paint Festival at the marina on the Everett waterfront Saturday. It was nice, plenty of interesting art - several painters were interesting, some very good glass work, and an old friend ...

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Bumbershoot is coming

2008-08-07T04:19:51Z

Bumbershoot is at the end of the month in Seattle, anybody planning on going? I'm experimenting with audio blogging, I plan on trying to do some simple stuff from the festival and getting it posted in near real time. Videos and photos will take a...

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Experimental audio blog via Unity Connection

2008-08-07T03:43:47Z

Since I'm an employee of Cisco and I'm using and mentioning Cisco products, I should be clear: the views, comments and (hopefully) insights found here are purely mine, not Cisco's. No official or corporate views or policies will be expressed here,...

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Dry Wells, Birds & Boats

2008-07-09T04:30:29Z

Spent a week at the cabin in Dungeness. Left Tuesday after work, worked remotely from the Sequim public library and Hurricane coffee on Wednesday and Thursday, took Friday and Monday off. Friday the weather was beautiful so that was sweet. The ca...

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Lowest Tide and the Diffusion of Life

2008-07-09T04:19:27Z

Went to the waterfront in downtown Seattle in late spring for the lowest tide of the year, -3 feet. Took my lunch break from my job at Cisco in Belltown and walked through the sculpture park and down to the water front. There were some volunteer...

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University of Washington School of Art, Master of Fine Arts 2006 at the Henry

2008-07-09T04:16:53Z

Odd puppet like thing hanging from wires that moved around. First time it looked vaguely like a horse or a dog, didn't do much for/to me. Later after circling around through the works and losing Dana, I circled back and looked in again and it mov...

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R. Crumb at the Frye

2008-07-09T04:10:08Z

Took Carina & Grandma Helen to the Frye to see the R.Crumb exhibit. Crumb did seminal counter-culture comics, or graphic novels as they are called now. From Mister Natural to Shuman the Human to some pretty sick and twisted stuff in Zap! comics h...

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Nearly Summer

2008-06-21T01:29:55Z

It's been an interesting, somewhat challenging year. Driving home one day I saw my kids on the front porch as I I pulled in. Ben was in his underpants. What was that about? They stepped out into the front yard and as I got out of the car Carina s...

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Singing in the Choir

2008-02-08T03:06:20Z

I've been singing in the church choir since December and it has been interesting. I sang in choirs back in High School and at the University of Washington, but that was a long time ago. I started just in time for Advent, and during Advent they us...

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Favorite books of 2007

2008-01-03T01:22:31Z

I read many good books last year, some of my favorites: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin A wonderful book on a couple of my favorite subjects, music and the human nervous system. Pretty t...

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