Posted on December 19, 2017
Tuba Christmas is a national annual concert originally organized by Dr. Harvey Phillips, a legendary tuba player, composer, advocate, and professor, as a tribute to his teacher, William Bell. The first Tuba Christmas concert took place at Rockefeller Center in 1974. Since then concerts have taken place all over the United States (and elsewhere), locally […]
Posted on November 17, 2017
For 10 years now, UCF has put on small winter wonderland during the holidays. The attractions include lights, mucis, ice skating, ice slide, feris wheel, train ride, carriage rides, fake snow, etc. They sell tickets for various attractions, and there are student discounts available. It is currently located near the CFE Arena, and parking is […]
Posted on November 9, 2017
Triple Trip put out an update to spout: monochrome mission, the pixel flying/carving game. Music by yours truly. Arthur Guibert coded it all. Here is a link to the original spout game that this was based on.
Posted on October 31, 2017
This year for Halloween, a few of us attempted the popular Pumpktris instructable. Pumpktris is a version of Tetris playable in a pumpkin 🙂 Nathan Pryor (HaHaBird) created it. Here is his version in all its glory. It got a lot of interest, from other instructables to local news coverage to BoingBoing. Nathan also made […]
Posted on October 31, 2017
For Halloween this year, I donned a Final Fantasy White Mage costume, one that I crafted myself. FYI a WHM looks like this. As a longtime fan of the series, and devout WHM, this was something I’ve always wanted to do. The colored water bottles are potions, and the feathers are phoenix downs. My former […]
Posted on October 18, 2017
Disclaimer: I am OS Agnostic. Please don’t send me hate mail about operating systems. So for the last 4 years I’ve been using this MacBook Pro as my main laptop (OSX Mountain Lion through macOS Sierra). I’ve also run Parallels Desktop for various flavors of Windows, Android, and Fedora. I can honestly say I’ve thoroughly […]
Posted on October 8, 2017
Heard Brown Bag Brass Band tonight at Tibby’s New Orleans Kitchen off Aloma. They are an informal sideline band with a rotating lineup, and they play around town at various places such as Tibby’s, Muddy Waters, Will’s, The Social, and private events like weddings, etc. They are fun and funky, and have that classic New […]
Posted on October 6, 2017
On a UNIX system (using bash, though this probably applies to other shells too), the history command not only displays your shell history for you, but it also comes with a suite of options for manipulating it. Though I’ve used UNIX systems here and there for years, I never really knew about this command, and […]
Posted on September 29, 2017
If you’ve used Python quite a bit, you know that sometimes the module you want to use is not supported in the version of Python you have installed. Sometimes you can get around this by using a different module. Other times you are forced to install and maintain a completely different version of Python. At […]
Posted on September 2, 2017
I saw Chris Hiatt playing in New Smyrna tonight. In the US he tends to stick around the Florida east coast (Daytona, Flagler, New Smyrna, etc.). Overseas he frequents Scandinavia, especially Sweden, having done 20+ tours. He seems to mostly be known as a Stevie Ray Vaughn cover act, having done SRV shows for many […]