Happy Birthday to Alan Parsons, a brilliant musician, composer, producer, audio engineer, and educator. His accolades include a Grammy and the Order of the British Empire (OBE) honor. Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Parsons was involved with the production of several albums, including the Beatles' Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and the eponymous debut album by Ambrosia in 1975. Parsons's own group, The Alan Parsons Project, as well as his subsequent solo recordings, have also been commercially successful. He has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, with his first win occurring in 2019 for Best Immersive Audio Album for Eye in the Sky.

During the holiday season, there is a dramatic increase of banks foreclosing on gingerbread houses.

Testing ‘Rubber Soul’ pressings like . . . Vinyl disc manufacturing was (and still is) a non-exact science. The physics of the medium demand close inspection and random statistical sampling at all stages of production. In the end however, it is well worth it. The Beatles recorded their sixth album, Rubber Soul which took the group in a new direction. Rubber Soul was recorded 56 years ago. Watch a short video regarding Rubber Soul: Dec 3rd: https://youtu.be/l34_8OQW-Ds

Heavy duty guitar stand, will not tip and hugs guitar, made with 3/4 PVC: 6 "T's", 6 "elbows", 8 "end caps", maybe 4 "no-slip-grips", and some pipe foam. Black Krylon "Fusion" spray paint (or just use black PVC pipe (which, IMHO, is not as easy to work with...) and PVC cement.

What Happened on Nov 2nd: What’s Noteworthy on This Date: A Day-by-Day Listing of off-beat, fun holidays, birthdays and historic events, and special funny, random & weird events What Happened on Nov 2nd: https://youtu.be/qGlgXMSs5oA

What Happened on Nov 1st: What’s Noteworthy on This Date: A Day-by-Day Listing of off-beat, fun holidays, birthdays and historic events, and special funny, random & weird events What Happened on Nov 1st: https://youtu.be/rkHSvEeWliY

What Happened on Oct 31: What’s Noteworthy on This Date: A Day-by-Day Listing of off-beat, fun holidays, birthdays and historic events, and special funny, random & weird events What Happened on Oct 31: https://youtu.be/VnbCPiQNJKw

Throwback Thursday (42 years ago): I designed this “Sun Songs” record label for a good friend of mine.

Today at Nordstrom’s noticed they are in full Christmas mode. These are the holidays that precede Christmas: Halloween, Daylight Savings time ends, U.S. General Election Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Advent, Chanukah, Pearl Harbor Day, Winter Solstice and Christmas.

Checkout Peter Max design on this Norwegian Cruise ship. Peter Max personally invited me to two of his exhibitions. I have one of his works autographed. I was trying to create an initiative with both Peter Max, Hartmut Esslinger (Founder of FrogDesign) and me. The two mammoth egos couldn’t work together

During our walk encountered a Halloween lawn decoration of a spider about the size of a VW Bug (Pun intended)

During our walk encountered a Halloween lawn decoration of a spider about the size of a VW Bug (Pun intended)

"Meanwhile, inside the box, Schrödinger's cat plans its revenge."

"Saturn, Moon and Jupiter with it's Moons in a single photo."

"Saturn, Moon and Jupiter with it's Moons in 1 capture."