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webbone

Life is Music -Ennio Morricone (greatest film composer of all time)

About Me



Sr. Electronics Engineer (professional video products, embedded control systems, H2 fuel cell controllers)

Professional Keyboard player, though I haven't yet completed a solo CD (appear on over 25 others though) - used to play with Charlie Peacock back in the 80's

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A friend posted this quote on a programming forum recently and I found it beautiful and wanted to share it:"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." (Helen Keller)

My Interests

Food, Cooking, Travel, Fine Art (avid collector), Disneyland, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Digital Video formats, Photography (music is my life, so I don't list it as an interest)

I'd like to meet:

Jesus Christ, Quincy Jones, Bela Fleck, Rembrandt van Rijn, C.S. Lewis, Ennio Morricone, Russell Ferrante (at the piano preferrably), J.S. Bach (at the organ preferrably), Charlie Peacock (at the piano, preferrably with a bar of 2/4 floating in the arrangement)

Music:

Yellowjackets, Charlie Peacock, Weather Report, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Joe Zawinul, Alison Krause and Union Station, Ennio Moricone, Sophie B. Hawkins, Brent Bourgeois, Mike Roe, 77's, PDQ Bach, J.S. Bach, J. Brahms, R. VaughanWilliams, Carlos Cacalacas, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, Frank Zappa, and many many more

Movies:

The Mission, A Trip to Bountiful, Babette's Feast, Kindergarten Cop, Mary Poppins, The Majestic, The Incredibles, Meet John Doe, Monsters Inc., American Beauty, The Prestige,... too many to mention (and own too many as well!) www.imdb.com is the bomb!

Television:

24, Numb3rs, The Shield, House M.D., Iron Chef (original), Monty Python's Flying Circus, Dick Van Dyke show, Northern Exposure, Wonderful World of Disney (esp. the 60's and 70's when growing up)

Books:

Anything by C.S. Lewis, "Blue Like Jazz" by Donald Miller, "Stranger in a Strange Land" by R.A. Heinlein, "A Reasonable Faith" by Tony Campolo, "Understanding Physics" (3 vol.) by Isaac Asimov Enjoy today's Dilbert!

Heroes:

Carol Aust - listed here since there is no "ARTIST" category, and her work illuminates the entire world, not to mention the quiet and special places in the universe! Though online images don't do her justice, www.carolaust.com is a good start!

My Blog

Night Owls....are you one?

I know that I am - always have been since at least college days... Part of it is the musician in me.... you need to be a natural night owl to really survive in that world! Part of it is also having sp...
Posted by webbone on Wed, 23 May 2007 01:18:00 PST

So-called Startup Companies

Anyone out there ever work for a "startup"? I have, repeatedly... and being the loyal (perhaps too loyal) company man I have been burned by this repeatedly... One would think I would have learned a le...
Posted by webbone on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:22:00 PST

Music

Music is the ultimate reality... or the ultimate reflection of an immediate reality...or a past reality (I confess, I am no songwriter... thus I cannot provide more insight into past/present/future re...
Posted by webbone on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:30:00 PST