From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Liquid nitrogen ice cream – the 32nd flavor?

August 26, 2009

I subscribe to the Google Open Source Blog and was a little surprised to see a video of my uncle at Google’s fourth annual Science Foo Camp making ice cream… Using liquid nitrogen.
If Baskin Robbins won’t take it on as their 32nd flavor, maybe he could sell the idea to Ben & Jerry’s under [...]

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Bobby McFerrin demonstrates pentatonic scales

August 19, 2009

After having so much fun playing with my “jazz-funk ensemble of doom” last Sunday I was reminded of this video I found earlier in the month. It’s Bobby McFerrin demonstrating the universal appeal of pentatonic scales:

My band has a unique, unspoken way of communicating the direction we want to take the song in when [...]

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Live in Portland? Come see my band on Sunday!

August 14, 2009
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Once upon a time, I had a band. It was a great band. At least, I thought it was. We had a terrible habit of never recording or writing down any of our songs, which essentially forced us to memorize the tunes or lose them. And they weren’t just melodies over [...]

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