The Bis Key Chronicles

Egan's Ballard Jamhouse is presenting two of Dave's groups just a few days apart, and I hope you can make it.  This intimate venue is a great place to play, and hear, music:

Trio Real - Saturday August 9th

Groove-oriented jazz tunes featuring:

• Devin Lowe (bass)
• Brad Bohl (drums)
• Dave Anderson (alto & baritone saxophones)

Hear sound samples at http://www.myspace.com/trioreal

Saturday, August 9th, from 11-12 pm, Egan's Ballard Jamhouse, Ballard, 1707 NW Market Street, $6.  21+ to enter. This new group features talented young bassist Devin and a swirling cauldron of Brad Bohl rhythms, as we perform originals and other material with a raw, experimental and funky sound.  We're adding the big, bad baritone sax to the mix.   Full food and drink menu.  http://www.ballardjamhouse.com/

Dave Anderson Quartet - Tuesday August 12th

Jazz originals and modern standards featuring:

• John Hansen (piano)
• Evan Flory-Barnes (bass)
• Adam Kessler (drums)
• Dave Anderson (tenor & soprano saxophones)

Reviews available to read at http://www.daveandersonjazz.com/music_press.html

Tuesday, August 12th, from 7-8:30 pm, Egan's Ballard Jamhouse, Ballard, 1707 NW Market Street, $6, all ages.  This dinner hour set brings the quartet back where it started, with special guest Evan Flory-Barnes on bass (found a cool YouTube Video about Evan).  Full dinner and drink menu.  http://www.ballardjamhouse.com/

Also, I'll be at the Triple Door with partner-in-crime James Baumgart...

JB/DA Duo - Friday August 8th

Friday, August 8 JB/DA Duo with James Baumgart (guitar), Triple Door Musiquarium, no cover, 5:30-8 pm, Downtown, Seattle.

Hope to see you out!
best,

Dave Anderson

In the NYT this morning:

"In its drive to go green, the technology industry has so far focused mainly on big targets like corporations and especially computer data centers, the power-hungry computing engine rooms of the Internet economy.

Next come the hundreds of millions of desktop and laptop personal computers in households worldwide."

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It's amazing how many people don't realize how much a computer monitor requires. I'm hard pressed to walk away from mine without putting the machine in sleep mode. At work I notice some monitors on when arrive early in the morning, hours before the owner will start using the computer.

"The potential savings in both dollars and pollution is huge, analysts say, when the estimated one billion PCs in use globally are taken into account. The research firm Gartner estimates that 40 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions resulting from information technology and telecommunications are attributable to PCs. Data center computers account for 23 percent, and the rest is attributable to printers and telecommunications equipment."

Is this an ah ha moment for you?

We are having so much fun with little Amelia, our new German/Aussie Shepherd mix 8-week old. You might remember we rescued here at the Woofstock festival. I hear my brother Andy has a new pure breed puppy so I'm throwing down the gauntlet, let's see pictures.  ;o)

Here are a couple of close ups; this dawg is NOT afraid of the flashing camera. Can you say prima donna? She looks almost like a beagle if you aren't looking too closely. She will be about 50 pounds full grown if not a little bigger.

Amelia is still trying to get used to the whole collar thang. But she loves stealing Macy's mouse. Then when Macy comes running, and she does, Amelia jumps her and the wrestle. Okay, are you puppied out yet?

This stuff fascinates me. I thought I would share it with my blog posse. You kind of intuitively, okay maybe that's just me, believe this to be true and they go and prove it. Way cool...

"Turns out, it is a small world.

The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication.

With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances." 

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