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Mo Pair and I trading songs at Momo’s happy hour Thursday. Here’s the audio of the show recorded on my little Olympus LS-1 by Maile’s along with a video and pics she shot below. See the whole set at Flickr.
Weekend In Arlington For Jody's Graduation
My wonderful lil bro-in-law Jody just graduated from U of TX at Arlington (outside Dallas) and is going to continue on as an asst. coach to the track team he’s been running for. We had a great weekend celebrating. Below are a few of my favorite shots. For more visit my Flickr photostream.
The proud and happy family
The silly and goofy family
The graduate
Jody gave us all (with the track recruits) a great tour of campus
Maile, Ellyn, and J, walking on the moon
Maile, with Fall colors, in a car window reflection
Travis Heights Art Trail
Thanks to all the neighbors, friends, and art-seekers that stopped by this weekend. It turns out I was the lone musician on the trail. We had dozens of visitors and beautiful weather. The greatest part had to be the guy who showed up having recognized my name with information about how to collect $730 of mine that the state has from a job long ago! And I was happy having sold a dozen CDs. As Maile suggested, god bless her, it all goes straight into the fund for the next album.
A few youngsters stopped by and tried out my little guitar. One eager young player attempted an Old McDonald/B-I-N-G-O medley (and confused himself).
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When no one was around I recorded myself singing Room 304 on the porch (for all the people who couldn’t make it).
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I snapped this shot with my new G1 Google phone of Maile stretching out some thread on the porch.
Jim's Bday Dinner
Mom put together a wonderful 90th bday dinner for her dad in Dallas along with an historic slideshow of Jim’s life. I caught a lot of what he had to say about the old times.
Jim talking 1 (1mb, 1m)
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Jim talking 2 (7mb, 7m34s)
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Jim talking 3 (22mb, 24m)
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Jim taling 4 (59mb, 1h4m)
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The next morning we met at La Madelaine for breakfast.
VizThink 12-2-08 Sunni Brown
Sunni Brown tried out the presentation she needs to make next week in Chicago tonight with us at Austin VizThink.
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mp3 [1hr, 15mb]
She led us through some basic concepts for helping to visualize and draw.
I worked on a constant challenge of mine: How do I capture and catalog my thoughts.
When I drew the lower-right hand pic of an empty journal at the end of the day, I was half-intentionally referencing the image below, which I found while volunteering with Peter Mears at the HRC many years ago. It’s always stuck with me; it hung inside my closet door for a long time.
