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Bipolar Caravan

This is an aural experiment I did one day, playing alto and tenor and recording to my laptop with a CAD E100 microphone and Mackie preamp.

The effects were created in Audacity.

Trip and enjoy.

http://www.socci.com/bipolarcaravan.mp3

My Piano

I’m not a professional pianist. While the saxophone is my main axe, and the one I used to earn a living with, lately I’m more at home on the piano. When I return to the saxophone, the things I’ve worked out on the piano are there for me. My chops get a little rusty – [...]

Our Nuclear Arsenal

Ben from Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream for TrueMajority.org

Haiti

Haiti

First of all – you can help right NOW by text message the word HAITI on your mobile phone to 25383 to make a $5 donation via the International Rescue Committee.

Second of all, I feel so helpless. I want to be there digging, or passing out bottles of water, or cleaning porta-potties or SOMETHING… anything [...]

Flying Over Bukavu DRC, Landing at Kamembe Airport Rwanda

Flight To Cyangugu, Rwanda Kamembe Airport Flying over Bukavu, DRC

When The Quiet Is Too Loud

I made a trip to Africa recently. I work in technology an engineer and network manager for a humanitarian organization with a large, well funded program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was sent to spend a week in Bukavu helping to set-up some IT equipment and do some troubleshooting.

I’ve been on the [...]

A Letter From Rudyard Kipling

(I’d like to add, this advice to his 12 year old son could just as well apply to a daughter on becoming a woman)

“Letter to the son” by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But [...]

How Is Your Geography?

Take A Stand – How Your Voice Can Be Heard

I received an email from Michael Moore today. Well, maybe not a personal email (although I did meet him and shake his hand once). I signed up to his mailing list back when he was giving his Slacker Uprising movie away for free online.

The email I received today is titled “15 Things Every American Can [...]