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NPR has posted the entire concert of Dave Brubeck headlining the recent Monterey Jazz Festival -- the 50th anniversary of the event. I didn't go, but it's great to hear. The recording quality is top-notch, the band is incredible and the alto sax player is amazing.
Link to the pop-up audio player is at the top of this page.
I'm really proud to have been a part of this: http://debates.news.yahoo.com
Here's a clip from the event. I'll write more about it this weekend after I've had some sleep.
It was our dumb luck/move that we bought a house in Sunnyvale, which sits under the flight path to Moffett Field. Since we lived in Mountain View previously, we knew the base was still used quite a bit by the military, NASA, and other government planes, even though it's classified by the military as "closed." We didn't know how much it was used until we moved closer. The military flies in and out of Moffett every day -- transport planes, fighter jets, helicopters... you name it. About once a month, pilots seem to be doing training runs -- literal touch-and-go in big planes that circle directly over our neighborhood. It's annoying and probably even somewhat dangerous. But that's just me.
But now it's confirmed that the Google dudes are flying their shiny new 767 over Sunnyvale, and parking it at Moffett.
As a Yahoo, it's painfully ironic that the Google "party plane" is flying over Sunnyvale, which is home to my employer. As a resident NIMBY, it upsets me a little that yet another big jet is flying in and out of town, making noise over my house and city. Truth be told, I haven't yet seen or heard the Google jet, at least that I know of.
Then again, NASA Ames and Moffett have regularly opened up their airfield to aircraft from other companies who do business with the government. And since Google and NASA are in cahoots, then I suppose it all makes sense.
I think what it all really comes down to is that I'm just jealous I'll probably never set foot on the plane.
