The Outsider's Inside View post#007 - Time and Space

I've got one week until I give a seminar down the hill for the astronomy department's Radio Astronomy Lab seminar series. I spent most of today preparing that at home, though I did get to drive into Oakland so my son could get his arms x-rayed. He broke his left wrist while biking at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia last summer, and his break made him a good candidate for a bone density research project. He's happy to be taking part since he gets gift cards for Target as compensation for taking part.

The talk's going well, and it's good that I have most of the week to concentrate on it. ALFA observations are pretty light this week, and the processing of existing data is going pretty slowly while I wait for more data to be copied onto ewen. Poor ewen's frozen up a few times in the last week, so I really hope it gets the RAM upgrade it so desperately needs. Matt has to fix my workstation so it doesn't freak out when the time change happens this weekend, so that means my SETHI jobs will once again have to be restarted. Like I said, good thing I have something else to fret about.

Picked up "Trance-Fusion" by Frank Zappa. It's going to be in my car stereo for a month, I think. Just delightful. The only concert I've seen since moving to the Bay Area was Dweezil's Zappa plays Zappa show at the Warfield in SF, and it was amazing. Still hope I can see Sleepytime Gorilla Museum/Secret Chiefs 3 later this month.

ps- baCk in the late '60's i had the sheer pleasure of meeting and 'hangin' with 'The Mother's of Invention' (Franks Backup) in Los Angeles - and i definitly didn't get any sleep during the three day hiatus - 'wild bunch' they be too say the least . . . and quite a different type of individuals - it was fun.

ps- baCk in the late '60's i had the sheer pleasure of meeting and 'hangin' with 'The Mother's of Invention' (Franks Backup) in Los Angeles - and i definitly didn't get any sleep during the three day hiatus - 'wild bunch' they be too say the least . . . and quite a different type of individuals - it was fun.

Cool. I never did get to see Frank perform (major bummer) but I did play this video game music award ceremony gig a couple years back. Dweezil was also performing at the event. It was weird looking above my music stand and seeing his face about 15 feet away in the front row.

- Matt

Picked up "Trance-Fusion" by Frank Zappa. It's going to be in my car stereo for a month, I think. Just delightful. The only concert I've seen since moving to the Bay Area was Dweezil's Zappa plays Zappa show at the Warfield in SF, and it was amazing. Still hope I can see Sleepytime Gorilla Museum/Secret Chiefs 3 later this month.

Thanks For the Post Kevin . . .

ps- baCk in the late '60's i had the sheer pleasure of meeting and 'hangin' with 'The Mother's of Invention' (Franks Backup) in Los Angeles - and i definitly didn't get any sleep during the three day hiatus - 'wild bunch' they be too say the least . . . and quite a different type of individuals - it was fun.