COVID california [mv]

COVID California (c) 26-JUL-2020
Lyrics/Guitars: James Lui
Backing Track: By Bojo of Guitarbackingtrack.com
Bass, Drum, Rhythm Gtr, Keys
LED Lighting by FretZealot
All rights reserved.

Westbound on the 15
Leaving Vegas behind
Plexiglas on the tables
Buffets politely declined
Up ahead in the distance
An agricultural stop
But instead of looking for fruits
Thermographic cameras pop

Checking out at TJ’s
Got my cauliflower rice
Karen comes in screaming
No masks, freedom and vice
Seems like peace and quiet
Are so far away
Yet only six months have passed
Since I heard them say

Welcome to our COVID California
Such a lovely place,
A chaotic space
Masking it up in our COVID California
Any time of year,
You’re not welcome here

Facebook’s full of bullies
Twitter’s gone insane
Newsom’s got himself a recall
Garcetti’s in his own lane
Health officials calling it quits
They can’t stand the heat
Hoping for some better stats
But Rona’s got us beat

Keeping socially distanced
Working from home all the time
Try to vacation out of the State
Find a 2 week mountain to climb
The health commissioners
All showed us the way
We ignored all the warning signs
Just to hear them say

Welcome to post COVID California
Such a lovely place,
An infected trace
Masking it up in post COVID California
Any time of year,
we’re infectious here

Silicon Valley’s tripping
Last year was so nice
“We are all just prisoners here
Of our own device”
Bears, coyotes and cougars
Have replaced the police
Nature’s just taking back it’s land
And we’re just here on lease

Is there a new vaccine
Can there be a cure
Acoording to the internet
You can never be sure
Here in the Golden State
You get what you receive
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave”

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Oracle OpenWorld 2014 Networking Opportunity Events #OOW14

Where I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe) at OOW.  To attend one of these events:

1. You’re registered as an OpenWorld Attendee.
2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host. That means you actually contact the host and ask to attend before OOW.
3. You visit the host’s booth at OpenWorld in order to pick up whatever is required for entry and get to know what the host actually does.
4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – just spend your time at a regular OOW reception the same evening and you’ll still get plenty of party time.

• OOW Welcome Event, Sun 7-8:30p, Yerba Buena Gardens
• IOUG Member Appreciation/Embarcadero/IBM/DatAvail, Sun 6-8p, Johnny Foley’s Irish Pub
• Oracle Partner Network AfterDark Reception, Sun 7-10p, City View Lounge (Metreon)
• OOW OTN Tech Fest, Mon 7-9p, Yerba Buena Gardens (Empire of the Sun)
• Kaygen Cloud Apps Reception, Mon 5-8p, Consulate Rm @ Ritz Carlton
• CSS/DSI Engineering & Construction Reception, Mon 5:30-7:30p, Spanish Suite @ Clift Hotel
• TruGlobal CA, Mon 6-8p, The View (Marriott Marquis)
• DataIntensity CA, Mon 6-9p, W Hotel
• Zensar CA, Mon 6:15-9:30p, Osha Thai Restaurant and Bar (3rd)
• Redstone/Fishbowl Solutions WebCenter CA Reception, Monday 6:30-8:30p, Old Mint, Mint Plaza
• ADI Strategies CA, Mon 6:30-9:30p, Hard Water Bar
• InterRel CA, Mon 6:30-9:30p, Waterfront Restaurant
• YesSQL! Celebration of SQL and PL/SQL [CON9027], Mon 6:45-8p, Moscone S 103
• Sunera Tech CA, Mon 7-9p, Zero Zero
• Oracle Global CA, Mon 7-9p, Roe Restaurant
• IT Convergence CA (1 of 2), Mon 7-9p, Piperade Restaurant
• Performance Architects CA, Mon 7:45-10p, Bluestem Brasserie
• BizTech CA, Mon 8-11p, Johnny Foley’s Irish Pub
• Keste/Oracle Finance/Intel PowerDown CA, Monday 10p-2a, Velvet Room (Clift Hotel)
• ODTUG Oracle Forms Community Meetup, Tue 4:30-7p, Chevy’s (3rd)
• Excel4Apps/More4Apps/02Works CA, Tue 6-8p, Fang Restaurant
• RDX CA, Tue 6-8p, Luce Wine Restaurant
• Quest Member Appreciation/Rimini St/Elire/Velocity/ArcTools/Canon IIS, Tue 6-8:30p, ThirstyBear Brewing Co.
• Kaygen/Oracle MDM CA, Tue 6-9p, Americano Restaurant (Hotel Vitale)
• Oracle Linux CA, Tue 6-9p, St. Regis Hotel
• CSC CA, Tue 6:30-8:30p, 620 Jones
• Mythics CA, Tue 6:30-8:30p, Slide
• OOW CX Central, Tue 7-9p, Yerba Buena Gardens (Capital Cities)
• SuneraTech CA, Tue 7-9p, Pier 40 (Bay Cruise)
• IT Convergence CA (2 of 2), Tue 7-9p, Piperade Restaurant
• Hitachi Client & Partner Reception, Tuesday 7:30-9:30p, Temple Club (aka Ki)
• CSS, ApexIT, DSI, & Velocity, Tuesday 7:30-11:30p, Slim’s San Francisco (Conf Room Pilots)
• RedHat / JBoss, Tues 8-11p, 46 Minna
• Keste Cigar Bar, Tuesday 9p-2a, Cigar Bar
• CSS, ADI Strategies Agribusiness CA, Wed 4:00-6:30p, Bluestem Brasserie
• IT Convergence Happy Hour, Wed 4:30-6:30p, Bubble Lounge
• OOW Appreciation Event, Wed 7:30-12:00a, Treasure Island (Aerosmith, Macklemore & Lewis)

Visit all those vendors and make them feel welcomed this year!

The 2013 List of OOW Events

The 2012 List of OOW Events

And OakTable World is back again, at the Creativity Museum (this year, no pre-registration required).

Agenda:

http://www.oraclerealworld.com/oaktable-world/agenda/

Agenda for Oaktable World 2014, located at Creativity Museum, is

time	Monday Sept 29	Tuesday Sept 30
8	(8:30 am) Mogens: welcome	Carlos Sierra: introducing edb360 tool
9	Riyaj Shamsudeen: in-memory internals	Kent Graziano: Worst Practices in DW Design
10	Chris Antognini: Indexes: Structure, Splits and Free Space Management Internals	Tanel Poder: Hacking Oracle 12c
11	Martin Bach: A deep dive into HCC internals and mechanics	Jeremiah Wilton: Oracle on EC2: You’re doing it wrong
12	ted talks	ted talks
1	Jonathan Lewis:Calculating Selectivity	Connor McDonald: clone db
2	Greg Rahn: The Current State of SQL + Hadoop	Frits Hoogland: Profiling the logwriter and database writer (with version 12.1.0.2 update)
3	Kevin Closson:SLOB – For More Than I/O!	Alex Gorbachev:  Anomaly detection on performance data
4	Toon: Why DBMS’s Still Lack SQL Assertions Support (A polite excuse)	Karl Arao: Capacity Planning: SLAs, KPIs, Headroom, Expiry Date

Ted Talks between noon and 1pm

Monday	Tuesday
Eric Grancher: using ASH to understand IO issues	Jonah Harris: network protocal hacking making Oracle talk with MySQL
Jonathan Lewis: Breaking Exadata	Jonathan Lewis:Parallel Execution Plans
Jonathan Gennick: Seven Secrets in Publishing	Kent Graziano: Data Vault 2.0: using MD5 hash for change detection
Cary Millsap – The most important “trick” of performance instrumentation	Alex Gorbachev: DevOps
	Kerry Osborne: How to Hire World Class Oracle Dudes and Dudettes

Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Networking Opportunity Events

Where I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe) at OOW.  To attend one of these events:

1. You’re registered as an OpenWorld Attendee.
2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host.
3. You visit the host’s booth at OpenWorld in order to pick up whatever is required for entry.
4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – just spend your time at a regular OOW reception the same evening and you’ll still get plenty of party time.

• OOW Welcome Event, Sun 7-9p, Yerba Buena Gardens
• OEM Reception, Mon 5-8p, 5th Flr, Hotel Palomar
• IOUG Member Appreciation/Embarcadero, Mon  6-8p, Southside Spirit House
• Redstone / Fishbowl Solutions WebCenter Reception, Mon 6-8p,  Old Mint, Mint Plaza
• Noetix, Mon 6:30-9p, Annabelle’s B&B (Mosser Hotel)
• Oracle Utilities CA, Mon 7-10p, The Grand Cafe
• BizTech CA, Mon 8-11p, House of Shields
• Friends of Pythian, Mon 8-12p, The W Hotel
• Deloitte Global Alliance, Monday 8:30-11:00p, Bently Reserve
• Delphix Cafe, Tue 10A-8P, B Restaurant
• Key Perf Ideas, Tuesday 3:30-5:30p, ThirstyBear Brewing Co.
• Quest Member Appreciation, Tue 6-8p, ThirstyBear Brewing Co.
• Trevera CA, Tue 6-9p, The Hidden Vine
• Data Intensity CA, Tue 6-10p, Penthouse, Fairmont Hotel
• Dell/TOAD Party, Tue 6:30-9:30p, Tonga Room, Fairmont Hotel
• OEM Enterprise Manager, Tuesday 6:30-10p, Lucky Strike Lanes
• Hitachi Client & Partner Reception, Tuesday 7-10p, KI Nightclub
• CSS, ApexIT, DSI, & Velocity, Tuesday 7-11p, 1015 Folsom Nightclub (Conf Room Pilots)
• RedHat / JBoss, Tues 8-11p, 46 Minna
• Titan GS, Wed 5:30-7:30p, Jillians
• LoadSpring VIP Social, Wed 6-7:30p, The View Lounge (Marriott)
• OOW Appreciation Event, Wed 7:30-12:00a, Treasure Island (Maroon 5, The Black Keys)
• OOW It’s a Wrap, Thurs 4:30p-6:30p, Yerba Buena Gardens

Unlike last year, there isn’t a specific Music Festival OOW program. Most of the effort is going into the America’s Cup race before the OOW program.  So visit all those vendors and make them feel welcomed this year!

The 2012 List of OOW Events

Momoiro Clover Z – 5th Dimension Countdown…

Because it’s out, now, on iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/5th-dimension/id633919099

DIRECT JAPAN

… 4 days before the most awaited J-Pop album of 2013 gets released!… 

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Momoiro Clover Z – Kimi no Ato (キミノアト) Lyrics (translated to English)

ももいろクローバーZ  – キミノアト ( 歌詞) Original lyrics here: http://idolyrics.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/kimi-no-ato-%E3%82%AD%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8E%E3%82%A2%E3%83%88-lyrics/

Romajii version here: http://www.nautiljon.com/paroles/momoiro+clover+z/kimi+no+ato.html

Thinking of You

I didn’t want to leave
Thoughts of you make my chest (heart) pound
I love you and I love only you
Forever, I believe, I love you

I felt feelings for the first time as the rain begin to fall
You were like an multi-colored friendly umbrella

Am I courageous? Or my answers important?
If time taught me anything
You and your smile were always (there)

To find someone like myself to love
I didn’t know such a day would come
Words cannot express, hold me now
With colored tears, I love you

I think about the same wind that blows every season
Who would have known it was calling your name?

A familiar scene just like in the old movies
Every wish not to say goodbye
Even though the bus leaves tomorrow

I told myself I ought not to
Just think (tell my heart) it’s a lie
(Although)Sorrow is as constant as the rain
My voice will always say, I love you

When the (departing) bell rang
I came running out-of-breath to you
With a smile, still crying with a smile
What did it mean?

I hid my feelings as you left
Thoughts of you make my chest (heart) pound
I love you and I love only you
Forever, I believe, I love you

Momoiro Clover [+Z] MomoClo ももいろクローバーZ

A haunting version of Saraba, Itoshiki Kanashimi Tachi Yo (サラバ、愛しき悲しみたちよ, “Farewell, My Dear Sorrows”) (Music Box version by Orgel Sound):

My own MomoClo YouTube collection:

Like this ever needs an explanation. it’s MomoClo!

My particular favorite tends to be もリフだョ 全員集合(Morifu Dayo! Zenin Shuugou …because to me, it shows off their versatility.)

Why? They’re weird. Cute. Songs steeped in tradition. Able to parody themselves. Dance like P90X done for 2.5 hours straight, in costumes. The backing arrangements are exotic, symphonic and listenable on their own. The lyrics actually mean something (usually.)

Try a read of this wiki article covering just a smattering of this group’s unique traits: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/MomoiroCloverZ

Most uniquely – where else do you find passionate fans overseas in Paris, France able to totally support 5 teenage girls performing a capella due to a power-failure mid-concert? (Orange Note – オレンジノート)

2012 Orange County Interfaith Music Festival Photos

Some collected images of this monumental event – with Great Thanks to all who participated and attended!

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This year’s united gathering of spiritual organizations for the sharing of music, spirit and faith was generously hosted at Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana, California. With an audience of over 800 community attendees, this free annual charity event is hosted each year to foster sharing of cultural beliefs and demonstrating the commonality and unity among all the religions of the world. This year, with the theme of Reaching Out Through Music, attendees enjoyed performances and presentations from representatives of Judaism, Hindu, Baha’i, Sikh, Anglican, Catholic, Mormon, Muslim, Zoroastrian and Shinnyo-en traditions followed by a reception for individual dialogue and cultural exchange.

Our group assembly for Havah Nashira

With our Audience at top of show

Before the show begins

Shinnyo-en Los Angeles Chorus

Shinnyo-en Los Angeles Taiko

For those on Facebook: more photos from our PR representative Karin Rogers:  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3896489453036.2136667.1303091248&type=1

2012 Orange County Interfaith Music Festival – 11/11/12 @ 7p

November, 2012 – Santa Ana, California
8th Annual Orange County Interfaith Music Festival – 11/11/2012 – 7 p.m.
Temple Beth Sholom, 2625 N. Tustin Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92705
This year’s united gathering of spiritual organizations for the sharing of music, spirit and faith will be generously hosted at Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana, California.

One of this year’s most rewarding projects – it’s free admission for everyone – Enjoy!

2012 Music Participants:
Anaheim Mormon Chorale
Baha’i Faith Vocal Ensemble
Poor Clare Missionary Sisters
Center for Spiritual Living (Capistrano Valley)
Shinnyo-en Buddhist Temple
International Institute of Gurmat Studies (Keertan)
California Zoroastrian Association (CZA)
Temple Beth Sholom

November, 2012 – Santa Ana, California
8th Annual Orange County Interfaith Music Festival – 11/11/2012 – 7 p.m.
Temple Beth Sholom,  2625 N. Tustin Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92705

This year’s united gathering of spiritual organizations for the sharing of music, spirit and faith will be generously hosted at Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana, California. With an expected attendance of over 1,200 community attendees, this free annual charity event is hosted each year to foster sharing of cultural beliefs and demonstrating the commonality and unity among all the religions of the world. This year, with the theme of Reaching Out Through Music, attendees will enjoy performances and presentations from representatives of Judaism, Hindu, Baha’i, Sikh, Anglican, Catholic, Mormon, Muslim, Zoroastrian and Shinnyo-en traditions followed by a reception for individual dialogue and cultural exchange.

All are invited to attend and enjoy the diverse forms of musical expressions of spiritual unity through voice, music and sound!  Attendees are encouraged to bring a packaged staple or canned food items for donation to the Orange County Food Bank to help feed our community in need. The annual Orange County Interfaith Music Festival is produced and supported by the Orange County Interfaith Network (http://www.ocinterfaith.org) Our generous co-sponsors this year include: O’Connor Mortuary, Karen Child Family Foundation, Shinnyo-en Buddhist Temple, Central Orange County Interfaith Council, and the Interfaith Council of Garden Grove,, Stanton and Westminster.

Our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/416047301790319/425963157465400

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Networking Opportunity Events

Where I can keep track of the special events (note: these are not “parties” as so many people are misled to believe) at OOW.  To attend one of these events:

1. You’re registered as an OpenWorld Attendee.
2. You’re either a prospect, customer, or goodwill contact for the host.
3. You visit the host’s booth at OpenWorld in order to pick up whatever is required for entry.
4. Do not just show up at the event and attempt to “crash” it – just spend your time at a regular OOW reception the same evening and you’ll still get plenty of party time.

• OOW Opening Reception, Sunday 7p-9;30p, Yerba Buena Gardens
• Keste Excellence Reception, Sunday 5:30-8p, Ducca (Westin Hotel)
• IOUG Member Gathering, Monday 6p-7:30p, EVE Lounge
• NetApp Customer Appr A’s vs. Rangers Baseball, Monday 6-10p, O.co Coliseum (Left Field Loft)
• Friends of Pythian Appreciation, Monday 8-11p, The W Hotel Lobby
• Deloitte Global Alliance, Monday 8:30-11:00p, Bently Reserve
• Oracle NAS ERP Services Reception, Monday 6:30-8:30p, Hotel Vitale (5th)
• Keste eXtreme Party, Monday 10p-2a, Velvet Room (Clift Hotel)
• Key Perf Ideas, Tuesday 3:30-5:30p, ThirstyBear Brewing Co.
• interRel Consulting A’s vs. Rangers Baseball, 4-10p, O.co Coliseum (Left Field Loft)
• HP Bay Cruise, Tuesday 5:30-8:30p, Pier 40 (Cabernet Yacht)
• Quest TOAD Gathering, Tuesday 6:30-9p, Cartoon Art Museum
• Noetix, Tuesday 6:30-9p, Annabelle’s B&B (Mosser Hotel)
• OEM Enterprise Manager, Tuesday 6:30-10p, Lucky Strike Lanes
• RF-Smart & JDE Alliance, Tuesday, 6-9p,  Kuleto’s Italian Restaurant
• Zanett Solutions, Tuesday 6-9p, Spa Terrace (6th Fl, InterContinental Hotel)
• Oracle Business Analytics (Accenture), Tuesday, 7-9p, The Regency Center
• CSS & DSI, Tuesday 7-11p, Biscuits & Blues (Conf Room Pilots)
• Hitachi Client & Partner Reception, Tuesday 7-10p, KI Nightclub
• Oracle WebCenter Reception, Tuesday, 6:30-9:30p, Ballroom B (Palace Hotel)
• Keste Cigar Bar, Tuesday 9p-2a, Cigar Bar
• OAUG Appreciation Event, Weds 6:00-8p, Weinstein Art Gallery
• OOW Appreciation Event, Weds 7:30-12:00a, Treasure Island (Pearl Jam & Kings of Leon)
• OOW It’s a Wrap, Thurs 3:30p-5:30p, Yerba Buena Gardens

Every Day – OOW Music Festival Concerts

• American Steel Sunday, September 30 | 9:00 p.m. Mezzanine
• Macy Gray Sunday, September 30 | 8:30 p.m. Yerba Buena Gardens
• The Crystal Method Sunday, September 30 | 10:00 p.m. Ruby Skye
• Candelaria Monday, October 1 | 7:00 p.m. Yerba Buena Gardens
• Jimmy Cliff Monday, October 1 | 8:30 p.m. Yerba Buena Gardens
• BluesMix Tuesday, October 2 | 8:00 p.m. Slim’s
• The English Beat Tuesday, October 2 | 8:00 p.m. Minna Alley
• Joss Stone Tuesday, October 2 | 8:30 p.m. Oracle Square (Union Square)
• Afrofunk Experience Tuesday, October 2 | 10:00 p.m. Slim’s
• The Hives Thursday, October 4 | 5:15 p.m. Yerba Buena Gardens

…and lots more

Oracle OpenWorld Music Festival Venues

How do you like your live music? In an intimate bar, an energized club, a laid-back gallery, jamming outdoors? The Oracle OpenWorld Music Festival has them all, so take your pick and enjoy the shows.

• 111 Minna
• John Colins
• Mezzanine
• Minna Alley
• Oracle Square (Union Square)
• Ruby Skye
• Slim’s
• Yerba Buena Gardens

Feel free to post your own additions in the comments. 

Having quick fun with Reaper and Jamstix

So here’s a fun thing that took me all of 10 seconds to learn – Send the Jamstix output to another track (#2 shown here), recorded as audio and MIDI (on the original Jamstix track #3), then send the MIDI output from #3 to another VSTi (in this case Coyote WT/GM2 DXi on Track #1), and play both back panned hard right and left, with additional MIDI coming from the live play TriggeriO.

Have to admit – this was a LOT easier to learn quickly than when I was fiddling with Cubase 5 trying to learn it sufficiently for 2 months to do something like this.)

Kind of wish PowerTracks 2011 had support for Jamstix (self-generating VST instruments don’t work well in PT – www.pgmusic.com). But at least (working the other way around) Band-in-a-Box drag-and-drop works fine with Reaper, so getting those basic song templates in to be worked on is still very easy.

And a minor thing, it took me a few more minutes to figure out how to open a multi-track MIDI file correctly in Reaper. My initial instinct to drag-and-drop it into a track resulted in very odd looking squished MIDI stuck into a single track.

View -> Media Explorer

What we really wanted was under View -> Media Explorer (which allows you to navigate to the desired MIDI (or whatever) file:

 

Imports of multi-channel MIDI should look like this (allowing the natural splitting of channels into separate tracks – and synchronizing the tempo setting at the same time):

Then it looks like we’d expect in a plain sequencer:

DAW Reaper 4.14 with Jamstix 3.30 VSTi

Finding out that Reaper 4.14 (whether 32-bit or x64-bit version) works with Jamstix 3.30 (another latest release) on Windows 7 64-bit, only completely when Run As Administrator is checked for Reaper.

Without Administrator privileges, Jamstix produced MIDI output, but was unable to load its own sound engine and stayed silent (though if routed to EZDrummer, you could hear the drums fine).

Still evaluating the merits of running 32-bit DAW’s (shown below – more VSTi’s recognized):

Versus 64-bit Reaper:

In both cases, I’m testing sending a 2nd MIDI stream from Jamstix to drive the EZDrummer track (to use the EZD sound kits).
Reaper is available at www.reaper.fm

Jamstix is available at www.rayzoon.com

MTC’s Christmas Variety Show Extravaganza

 

MTC’s Christmas Variety Show Extravaganza!!!

Metamorphosis Theatre Company’s biggest and brightest stars take the stage to bring you a holiday show that is so much fun, you’ll want to share it with the whole family! You can’t miss this holiday extravaganza! Dec. 14 – 17, 2011 at 7:00 pm at the Fremont Centre Theatre!