The Sound of Silence: Sailing to the Open Ocean
Sailing is the most silent way to travel. With sails up, the swoosh of the wind is all you hear. Our friend Bill is a former sailboat...
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Digital Rabbit
- Mar 6
- 2 min
A Trip to the Orchard
Today, the Guana orchard grows some of the food served in the restaurant. But the man who first started it was a naturopath and primarily...
Digital Rabbit
- Mar 6
- 2 min
Hiking the Pyramid Trail
Guana Island has 12 miles of trails, but from what I can tell, guests rarely hike them. There are many reasons, the chief being that most...
Digital Rabbit
- Mar 4
- 2 min
Kayaking, Snorkeling, and Super Yachts
Guana Island is private, but anyone can land on the beach as long as they stay below the high water mark. Although Guana has many...
Digital Rabbit
- Mar 4
- 2 min
Glen is My Copilot
A 7:00 AM wakeup time in San Juan is equivalent to 3:00 AM in San Jose. After a very quick breakfast, we dragged ourselves to the airport...
Digital Rabbit
- Mar 3
- 1 min
The First Day on Guana Island
We spent our first afternoon on Guana Island enjoying the shade of a very long needled tree on the beach. I think it is an Australian...
Digital Rabbit
- Mar 3
- 4 min
The Journey Begins: In Search of Paradise
Guana Island advertises itself as a true paradise, one of the last pristine places in the British Virgin Islands. But getting there from...
Digital Rabbit
- Feb 11
- 2 min
Exploring the Beauty of the Dusky-Footed Woodrat Trail: A Wildflower Walk
I had high hopes of seeing the eponymous animal of this trail. But woodrats are more commonly seen in the evening or at night. Daytime...
Digital Rabbit
- Jan 2
- 1 min
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...
Digital Rabbit
- Dec 31
- 2 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, 2023
- 3 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, 2023
- 4 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 29, 2023
- 1 min
Can animals comprehend the implications of Artificial Intelligence? A conversation among forest creatures.
The title of this post is generated by an AI provided by the Wix platform and edited by me. The cartoon was created by Leonardo AI after...
Digital Rabbit
- Dec 28, 2023
- 2 min
Navigating the Challenges of Mixing an Orchestral Composition in Logic Pro
Over a year ago I finished an orchestral composition that I'd worked on for a few years—Transition. (See Drawing the Double Bar Line.) To...
Digital Rabbit
- Dec 27, 2023
- 6 min
The Rise of Humanistic AI: In the World of Ai Pin and ChatGPT, Siri is Just a Dog
With the current focus on AI as to whether it is beneficial or not, I recalled Tom Gruber’s TED Talk from April, 2017, How AI Can Enhance...
Digital Rabbit
- Dec 26, 2023
- 2 min
When Creativity Meets Technology: Exploring the Art of Coaxing a Character From an AI Artist
Leonardo AI is my go-to choice when I want to create a single image on a particular topic. After a few tries with various prompts, I...
Digital Rabbit
- Dec 25, 2023
- 2 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, 2023
- 1 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
- Nov 1, 2023
- 1 min
The Walkway of Wishes
On a cliff outside of Nagato City and on the Japan Sea, a local fisherman built a torii gate in the hopes that Shinto kami would provide...
Digital Rabbit
- Oct 26, 2023
- 2 min
Kaiseki: At the Crossroads of Food and Art
When I worked at Apple, Steve Jobs talked about making products that were at the crossroads of liberal arts and technology. The idea is...
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