Latest Kennedy Center development: A House panel voted to rename the opera house the "First Lady Melania Trump Opera House" which has Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) seething: . "The Republicans have now given the president six times the normal amount of money to run the Kennedy

Gm daily bread . Little bundle

One of music history’s most important compositions:

Boards of Canada did a song "The Smallest Weird Number", 70. A "weird number" is abundant (sum of its divisors > the number) but not semiperfect (no subset of divisors adds up to the number). 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 35 add up to 74, but no subset sums to 70. The next one is 836.

G.H. Hardy once visited Ramanujan in the hospital, riding in taxicab 1729, a number he found "rather dull." Ramanujan disagreed, noting 1729 as the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. Imagine that level of command over something.

When speaking of the great Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician G.H. Hardy put it beautifully: “Every positive integer was one of his personal friends.” I feel the same way about music, like every note on the horn is one of my friends.

The “8th Grade Shop Table” was a huge deal at my middle school. 6th and 7th graders would see the 8th graders carrying them proudly through the hallways and home on the bus, knowing you’d make one when you came of age. Was a fun project, involved the woodworking skills you

Made a bread for a friend recently and the next day she brought me some fresh pesto made with basil from her garden. Tastes great on my bread, my first in over a week, on the side of this delightful chicken salad my wife made me, atop a table I made in shop class in 8th grade.

Gm daily bread . Back in the bakery with an overexuberant Zimzag

Growing up in and around NYC made me think I’d seen it all, but then I got to school in Los Angeles where my dormitory custodians were named Jesus and Elvira and I thought it was the funniest thing in the world. This country has all kinds of cultures, takes awhile to grasp.

The recording studio I work at most often has 3 sets of bathrooms, one is at the top of a flight of stairs, I go up there on every break even if I don’t need to. Also I park at the back of every parking lot on errands. Going to the gym isn’t enough, you need these habits.

Boston Symphony is the latest group to launch an app that explains the music to you in real time, during the concert. It might help educate the audience, but imagine the demoralization as a musician, looking out at a sea of people buried in their phones instead of just listening.

Back at work, tan enough to blend in with my H-1B homies.

Profile pics from ‘21, ‘22, ‘23, ‘25 (missed ‘24 because knee surgery kept me out of the ocean). Was still in bad shape in ‘21 following a very difficult year, detoxed too far in ‘22 but feeling more like myself than I have in awhile this last year. Feels good.

Just went through the list of accounts I follow (to clean out some dead wood) and realized how many cool and interesting mutuals I have. Some huge accounts follow and interact with me which is great, some others haven’t discovered me yet but they will. This is a great website.

End of a beach vacation is the ideal time for a #NewProfilePic, I pretend my hair looks this good year round.

Exchanged encouraging words with fellow 3-girl dad at roadside Starbucks as he chased snack wrappers and half-colored drawings flying out of his minivan sliding door while his wits-end wife changed a diaper. Wished each other well on our respective sojourns home from the beach.

Great musicians rarely desire it; they come by it naturally.

Heading home

Gonna miss this