Warning, cat blogging ahead – that’s what Seth Godin calls a blog that talks about one’s cat, kids, etc..

Busy week – lecturing with post grads at Stanford University’s CCRMA, then due west to Neil Young’s 1500 acre ranch

where we toured his studios and master tape archives – later listening to 24 bit / 192 kHz masters of CSNY, Buffalo Springfield, and myriad solo works with Neil’s engineer, John Nowland.

Neil uses our gear for recording, mastering, and live shows. It was goose bumps all around as we sipped great local wine while listening to decades of deeply embedded memories in first generation sonic realism. I was given a treasure before we left: a 200 gram all-analog LP of Living With War with tunes like The Restless Consumer, Shock and Awe, and Flags of Freedom:

Have you seen the flags of freedom?
What color are they now?
Do you think that you believe in yours
More than they do theirs somehow?

………

In the crowded streets
In the big hotels
In the mosques and the doors of the old museum
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
Try to remember peace

……..

Thousands of children scarred for life
Millions of tears for a soldier’s wife
Both sides are losing now
Heaven takes them in
Thousands of children scarred for life

……..

Don’t need no terror squad
Don’t want no damned Jihad
Blowin’ themselves away in my hood
But we don’t talk to them
So we don’t learn from them
Hate don’t negotiate with Good

……..

Let’s impeach the president for hijacking
Our religion and using it to get elected

I had a chance to show Daniel (12) around the Stanford campus a bit. He’s very bright, and our public school system is boring him to tears. We’re seriously thinking about Stanford’s on-line high school.

It was Big Game weekend (Berkeley/Stanford) – the main fountain was died dyed florescent Cardinal red and “Cal Sucks” T-shirts were everywhere. Here’s Dan at the Rodin sculpture garden, and some other shots of campus.

Here’s where I was lecturing – “The Knoll” built in 1915 as a campus residence

In Max Matthews’ lab at CCRMA with grad students using Dan as a test subject on their latest experimental audio interface design

The next day I took Daniel to the Big Game –Stanford beat Cal 20-13 in an upset. Who can forget college football’s #1 greatest moment: the last play of the 1982 Big Game, known simply as The Play. If you’ve not seen it, go now and enjoy sports entertainment at its very best. The Stanford band member who gets tackled in the end-zone is now a successful S.F. venture capitalist.

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