Fri, 23 Feb 2007
Last year
This year
But now it’s all melted away. So I guess Feb 22nd is the day it snows up here.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2007
There’s something about Feb 22nd
Well today is the 22nd again. It’s been a really dry year without much rain and only a couple of weeks of cold weather. But today, it started to snow again.
What is it about this date that makes the snow fall? We’re suppose to get a few days of this storm so it may be a white winter after all.
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Wed, 07 Feb 2007
Just a quick reminder, Tomorrow, Feb. 8th, is the slow jam at Music & More. We’ll be starting at 7:30 pm. I hope to see you there.
Why do people believe weird things?
Here’s a great video of a speech by Ted Shermer discussing skepticism and a general freethought point of view.
Why do people believe weird things? It sometimes seems odd to us that people believe such bizarre, delusionalthings with no proof at all. When we were at the Mandolin Symposium last year at UC Santa Cruz they were also hosting a symposium on dowsing. "Dowsing!? " Are you kidding me?
UC Santa Cruz didn’t think that maybe, just maybe, hosting a dowsing convention might reflect negativly on the university’s credibility? That’s amazing.
These people would tell us that they could use dowsing to tell them everything from how to fine underground water sources to which foods are most needed by their bodies.
What I found interesting is that there were probably 3 or 4 times as many signs around campus leading the dowsers to their seminars than there were leading the mandolin players to their seminars.
You’d think the dowsers could find the seminars without the signs wouldn’t you?
In any case, there are quite a few more videos at ted.com which discuss all sorts of interesting ideas and research. If you feel the need to hear some really bright people discuss thier work in a clear and consise way then go spend some time at Ted.com
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Sun, 04 Feb 2007
Slow Jam has moved from the 2nd Tuesday to the 2nd Thursday of the month. This upcoming Thursday (Feb 8th) is the 2nd Thursday of the month and we’ll be having our jam at Music And More at 7:00 pmWe moved the jam so we wouldn’t be conflicting with the every Tuesday jam at "The Wild Chicken" in Loomis. I hope to see you at Music & More this Thursday.
Friday night we did the "Open Mic" night at Lake Of The Pines Music. A lot of the kids who take lessons there played songs on guitar or piano. Then the folks who work there got together and did a song. Then I played a couple celtic tunes, one of which I compleatly messed up. Oh well, sometimes stage fright is still an issue even when you’ve been doing this for 30 years.
Then I invited Sean and Michael up to play a couple of Django tunes and it went really well. We really had a big sound for just an acoustic guitar, a mandolin, and electric bass.
The next performance of "The Swing Band With No Name" will be on Feb 18 at the Pioneer Methodist Church in Auburn. We’ll be playing at 2:30 as part of the Music for Humanity concert. All proceeds go to benefit Habitat for Humanity and the Interfaith Food Closet.
Speaking of "The Swing Band With No Name" we’re considering calling ourselves either "The Hot Club of Auburn" or "The Hot Club of the Sierras." It’s a reference to Django’s band "The Hot Club of Paris" which is where Gypsy Jazz really got it’s start. We’ll see. I guess it’s a better name than “"Poultry In Motion"
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