Robert Owen — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap
Horn player musings of creation – from the second performance. Warm-Up Warm-up is a strange place. Nothing officially counts, yet everything matters. Notes are tested, breath is measured, confidence negotiated quietly with physics. It is preparation, but also possibility. Looking down between my feet during warm-up, I saw it again. New universes. Not fully formed. Not confident. Small clusters and … Read more
Program notes for a universe formed during intermission – Performance night one. Observed shortly before intermission. Note the presence of the creator’s feet for scale, accountability, and mild judgment. At first glance, skeptics will say the image above is just a spill.Condensation. Gravity doing what gravity does. A little gross, maybe inconvenient, but ultimately meaningless. That theory collapses under even … Read more
Crazy thoughts? We all have them from time to time. But this weekend, I had a doozy. Sitting in rehearsal with The Symphony of the Mountains for our side-by-side concert of Movie Music with area high schoolers, I was playing along when—like all brass players must—I needed to empty my slides. (“spittious-accumulatious” for the uninitiated.) I looked down at the … Read more
Day 23 Here ya go… More interesting. Well, not really. But, it is definitely nicer to look at! Our Tulips have reached a decent size. We get more and more of these each year. Coming soon, I’ll have MANY more interesting pictures! The entire Network Engineering Team will be going to Wrestle Mania Soon. So, that will count for interesting … Read more
Many years ago when I was in College, in an overly stagnate Orchestral rehearsal (I think we were waiting on a violin “sectional” to end or something like that), the story below started taking shape. This “little ditty” was composed by myself, a fellow Hornist, and a Clarinetist. Now, I don’t remember which of us wrote which section, this paper … Read more
Interesting Math adventure. Today, while having lunch with my parents at Litton’s, Barry Litton (the owner) posed a scenario that I had a hard time wrapping my head around. It was this: Barry: If a man came to your home and said, “I’d like to work in your yard everyday for the next 31 days. All I ask for is … Read more
When Vista came on the scene one of the new features I thought was pretty cool was the new Snipping tool. It’s a really useful little utility and for the most part it’s great. In Windows 7, the tool is still there (no improvements that I can see). But, one of the things about this little utility that bothered me … Read more