Security

The Norwegian Star is in port (pier 32), And Fleet Week is coming up. No one is above suspicion.

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Judge Harsh Blues

Nudge a Melody

Another little music app. Nudge acts like an eight voice, sixteen step sequencer. Set up a little melody on the matrix ( right click for a note ), set a tempo, and hit go. Stack your voices, make a canon, or just let it bloop and bleep. Have fun.

Corn Cooked Properly

There are about a million corn recipes. Ten percent of these involve corn on the cob.

• Roasted Corn
• Barbequed Corn w/ Lemon-Chipotle
• Baby Corn Chow Fan
• Corn Oysters
• Grilled w/fancy sauce du jour
• And so on

All these recipes are well and good,but in truth, they are just ways of dealing with corn that's not fresh. Ask any farm kid about corn and you will find two recipes. Having tried both, I can say, with no reservations, that all the others apply only when you don't have a field handy.

• Go to the field at mid-day, shuck an ear, eat it.
• Put a pot of salted water to the boil, go to the field, shuck the corn, run back to the pot and cook the corn (I go for ten seconds, some others recommend as long as a minute), slather on way too much butter, salt to taste, eat it.
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Autumn Festival

Sing Tao Chinese Radio

This weekend was a busy time for both Classic Party and Abby rentals. A fair by the park in N Beach on Saturday, an event by St. Francis of Assisi Church on Vallejo, and the Moon Festival in Chinatown. The ¡Ándele-¡Ándele army was out in force setting up what had to be every white tent, chair, and table in the warehouse. The Autumn Moon Festival was packed to the gills on both days and pretty much spilled into the surrounding area. As usual, a neighborhood event for the family, the kids, grandma, and the neighbors, has turned into a corporate extravaganza. Once, long ago, you had your choice of moon cakes at one of the little shops. A buck and change bought you a sweet bean cake (my personal favorite) or one stuffed with pork or any of twenty others, along with a napkin and the room to eat it. In the new and improved now, you can stand in line at the Safeway exhibit and get a cellophane wrapped package of ten, containing a stabilized high-fructose substance, with genuine oriental flavor, and a shopping bag for use at the other exhibits. Not quite the same, but the secret is that when the weekend's over, the corporations go away and the little bakeshop remains.

Cloud Computing

Introduction to Cloud Computing Architecture

Cat Herding

Thanks: Milk and Cookies

I road managed some bands for a time, the urban form of cat herding.