cooking up ... bass strings?

So Alex told me about a trick to revive old bass strings. Apparently, part of the reason why they sound 'dead' after a while is due to all the gunk that gets caught in between the windings of the outer layer. Therefore, cooking them in water can help! (Obviously it doesn't change how the material itself wears out).

After boiling it in water for a while, and adding a dash of assorted spices, drying it out and restringing, it made a very significant difference in the sound (Not quite new, but much closer to new than before!)

Another term, another convo...

Robin's convo, Nov 2010. Congrats!

Meat N-gons

because we are nerds; because we can. proudly presenting:

meat n-gons! (where N = 1, 4, 5, and 6)

First snow of the year

The first major snowfall for the year. Also happened to be the day I decided to go volunteer at the sailing club. A nice, but somewhat chilly day out.

We cleaned out underneath the kayak racks, and here's the fleet in their temporary holding place while the racks were being cleaned. The UBC lasers and vanguards are in the background

Laptop Orchestra Concert

First concert of UBC SUBCLASS. Recital Hall in the music building. The best part was the colourful stands that Dr Bob ordered just for the event:

There were some puzzled looks as we waltzed them around in the corridoors of the music building... Here's an on-stage shot with the stand in action:

The concert went very well with no technical difficulties (the kind that is well known within this community). Here's a video clip of our piece.

MAGIC Demo Day

Annual magic demo day. The cookies were good :)

Never too old to...

fly a kite!

it was a gorgeous late fall day, and we did not want to let it go to waste. we went to the fields of Eric Hamber Secondary (a block from our place) and had some fun running around the field while high school kids were looking at us wondering if we were old enough to be hanging out there.