Steamboat Willie Goes Public
The mouse that captivated the hearts of children and adults is finally entering public domain. It has been 100 years since Disney created...
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Digital Rabbit
Dec 312 min
Ending the Year on a High Note, a Low Note…Actually ALL the Notes!
San José Chamber Orchestra has a concert each year to mark the end of the old and the start of the new. Held at 3:00 PM, it provides...
Digital Rabbit
Dec 30, 20233 min
2023 Reading List: The Books That Kept Me Engaged All Year Long
For the past few years I’ve had a goal to read 52 books a year. This year I managed to read 57 books. Many were hefty tomes, like Barack...
Digital Rabbit
Dec 30, 20234 min
Shen Yun Revealed: A Mouthpiece for Li Hongzhi and Falun Gong
The colorful ads for Shen Yun Performance (https://www.shenyun.org) company have been popping up in the San Jose area for more than a...
Digital Rabbit
Dec 25, 20232 min
Celebrating Women in STEM: My Top Haiku Picks from Chatty's Poetic Musings on Women Scientists
I started using ChatGPT sometime ago as my primary search engine. It summarizes a large amount of information and presents it to me...
Digital Rabbit
Dec 23, 20231 min
The Beauty in Chaos: Embracing Randomness in Music Can Lead to a More Expressive and Unique Sound
Since the beginning of October I've been writing music using Sptitfire audio modules. (See At Sea: Composing Music While Sailing to...
Digital Rabbit
Jan 10, 20233 min
Retrospective 2022: Music
Music, music, music. What can I say? My friend Alan says “Music is my life’s blood.” I agree with him. But that can take the form of...
Digital Rabbit
Jan 9, 20232 min
Retrospective 2022: Exercise
I continue to strive for 10,000 steps per day. I took this image on the night of December 24, but it still represents this year’s...
Digital Rabbit
Jan 8, 20232 min
Retrospective 2022: Entertainment
Entertainment covers a lot of ground. In this post I will ignore any streaming binges or serials that I’ve watch this year and instead...
Digital Rabbit
Jan 7, 20232 min
Retrospective 2022: Community Service
Community work isn’t something I’ve written about since I’ve been doing retrospectives. Dut my activity is picking up so I thought I’d...
Digital Rabbit
Jan 6, 20233 min
Retrospective 2022: Photography
I spent a fair amount of time this year on photography, both taking workshops and capturing images. I started the year with an Equatorial...
Digital Rabbit
Jan 5, 20233 min
Retrospective 2022: Travel
This year we are back to pre-pandemic travel. Most of our travel was by car, to places in California, but we also went to Seattle three...
Digital Rabbit
Jan 4, 20232 min
Retrospective 2022: Presentations
I was invited to give two presentations about past travel, the first for the Georgia Photography Club, a member of the Photographic...
Digital Rabbit
Jan 3, 20233 min
Retrospective 2022: Books
My reading list reflects gifts I’ve been given, places I travel to, things I want to learn, book reviews I’ve read, and a few books I’ve...
Digital Rabbit
Jan 2, 20232 min
Retrospective 2023: The 365 Day Project
The Photographic Society of America (PSA) has a 365 Day Project for photographers to submit an image a day for a year. PSA supplies a...
Digital Rabbit
Jan 1, 20231 min
Looking Back on 2022
Since 2019 I’ve begun each year by writing about my accomplishments. I find that looking back on all the things I’ve done over the past...
Digital Rabbit
Oct 13, 20223 min
Let the Tweaking Begin!
Now that I've declared my piece, Transitions, "finished", I am solidly in the tweaking phase. I brought each section as audio files into...
Digital Rabbit
Oct 8, 20224 min
Drawing the Double Bar Line
One of my hopes in life has been to write a piece of music for orchestra. I got a very late start in life learning anything significant...
Digital Rabbit
Oct 7, 20221 min
Vasona Park in Infrared
Vasona County Park is a favorite for those who live in or near Los Gatos. The Los Gatos Creek trail, which runs through the park, is...
Digital Rabbit
Oct 1, 20222 min
Seeing the World in a Different Light
Photographers can be gear-hungry people—upgrading equipment as better technology evolves. This often means that old cameras lie around...
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