Thursday 05/16/2024
This morning I attended a talk by my neighbor Lennie (Madeline). Lennie moved about the same time I did. Her career was mostly in librarianship, for a long time managing a piece of Stanford’s library system. At CH she has made herself central in the community, just entering her second year as president of the resident association, and managing the content of ResWeb, our in-house website, which she has made much more rich and useful. That was the subject of her talk, just a walk through ResWeb showing us what was there.
I spent some time working on some AV questions, like how to share the screen of an iPhone with the Zoom Room systems that are in five of our public spaces. And why there have been complaints of Zoom audio being too low. No answers but I learned a lot.
At 1pm I met with Mary to practice yet again the “Old Fashioned Wedding” number. As former chorus director, she gave me good pointers and helped me understand the correct timing. Since it is basically a duet where each voice is singing a different song, getting the timing right is important for it to sound correct, and funny.
After a casual supper in my room, I drove down to CHM to attend an event, a preview of an upcoming PBS “Nova” episode on data sharing, and how everything you do online is harvested by corporations. They showed the first 20 minutes of the episode, then there was a panel with several experts who are interviewed in the show. (info including a youtube link)
Another thing I did was to write to the contact point for the Keller Sisters, the music act I’d seen most recently in April (Day 5.135). Late in the day Sheryl Keller wrote back, saying the price of their 3-person concert was $300, which I thought extremely reasonable, so now I have to answer. I’m not sure what dates to suggest, so I fired off emails to Kay and to Pam, event managers, asking advice.
Codgerville 