Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" - "Iain Macleod Award Feature in Old Fettesian Newsletter," "We spend every summer holiday on the West Coast. My son, at Edinburgh University, took up chanter at school and I tried again. It’s very difficult and I admire you keeping up the bagpipes," Am continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 here+ - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html - and potentially with Google's Bach Doodle AI for bagpipes and TensorFlow for visuals * * * Some pretty good Grateful Dead jams - "5 Hour Grateful Dead "Jam Only" Compilation 1971-1983" ... but they left out all the good stuff like the parking lot scene, and dancing at the concerts themselves ... but we can do this in a realistic virtual earth for AI and music too ! :)



Thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" :


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Attachments10:38 AM (1 hour ago)
to George, George, George, Janie, Andrew, Yuen, s, Scott, OFA
Dear Mr. Henry Gray, (and Mr. George Preston),

Thank you for your email. I was glad to find a recent update online on the The Iain Macleod Award here - http://fettescommunity.com/uk/fettes/uploads/files/Final%20Fettes%20OFA%20Newsletter%202018.pdf (more about this award here - https://issuu.com/fettes_college/docs/fettes_ofa_newsletter_2017 - too) - with great photos too of my Kimmerghame Housemaster, Mr. George Preston, with computer terminals, on its very first page. I attended Fettes College in Edinburgh in 1977-'78, I think, when I studied English, History and Geography (and Scottish Higher Maths) in the 1st year 6th form. 

And thank you for this "The Iain Macleod Award" award, as well. While adventurously traveling to the wind-blown Isle of Mull in April to camp out was part of this, I'm glad to write about aspects of my whole year in Edinburgh for this as well. 


1. Year you received the Iain Macleod Award: 1978

2. Where you went/what you did (in brief): Adventurously traveled to the wind-blown Isle of Mull in April to camp, and studied A-Levels for a year in the 1st Year 6th Form at Fettes College while living in Kimmerghame House in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Yuen Lok Mok was my study mate, and Andrew Lownie and I were in the Fettes College pipe band together - both above).

3. What you do now: am A) President, Professor, Founder at CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki multi-lingual World University and School; B) Developing my Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project further as writer / ethnographer / poet / realistic virtual Harbin / Earth / Universe coder for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

4. A picture of yourself (either now or back then!): Am including a recent photo at Stanford University with regards to my first book, but will ask my mother for a photo or two from '77-1978, and seek to email them to you at some point too.

Thank you. 

All the best, Gordon 
Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III
- Free-to-students' ~200 online Universities planned emerging from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - in their main / official languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (and planning for all 7,111 living languages with machine learning and translation +); planning too to offer online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. MIT OCW-centric degrees in each of all ~200 countries
- Scotland World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland - 





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Iain Macleod Award Feature in Old Fettesian Newsletter

Dear Scott

I hope this finds you well. I am writing because this year’s Old Fettesian Newsletter will include a feature on the history of the Iain Macleod Award and some of its recipients. According to our records, this means you!
Traditionally, the report that each recipient produces following their trip would be published, but last year’s recipient, Evan Li, has postponed his trip, meaning no report.
In lieu of this, I would be incredibly grateful if you’d like to be a possible part of this feature. If so, please reply with:
1. Year you received the Iain Macleod Award
2. Where you went/what you did (in brief)
3. What you do now
4. A picture of yourself (either now or back then!)
I cannot guarantee all replies will see publication but all are appreciated. I look forward to hearing back from you.

Kind regards,
Henry Gray
Old Fettesian Co-ordinator
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Fettes College Development Team
Carrington Road, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH4 1QX



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On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 8:48 AM Old Fettesian Association <OFA@fettes.com> wrote:
Iain Macleod Award Feature in Old Fettesian Newsletter

Dear Scott

I hope this finds you well. I am writing because this year’s Old Fettesian Newsletter will include a feature on the history of the Iain Macleod Award and some of its recipients. According to our records, this means you!
Traditionally, the report that each recipient produces following their trip would be published, but last year’s recipient, Evan Li, has postponed his trip, meaning no report.
In lieu of this, I would be incredibly grateful if you’d like to be a possible part of this feature. If so, please reply with:
1. Year you received the Iain Macleod Award
2. Where you went/what you did (in brief)
3. What you do now
4. A picture of yourself (either now or back then!)
I cannot guarantee all replies will see publication but all are appreciated. I look forward to hearing back from you.

Kind regards,
Henry Gray
Old Fettesian Co-ordinator
Fettes College Development Team
Carrington Road, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH4 1QX
Andrew Lownie

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Andrew Lownie

10:50 AM (1 hour ago)
to me
Dear Gordon,

Very good to hear all your news. I remember fondly our trips up town.

Best wishes, Andrew
From: Scott MacLeod [mailto:sgkmacleod@gmail.com]
Sent: 02 April 2019 18:38
To: OFA@fettes.com; George Preston; George Preston; George Preston; MacLeod, Janie; Andrew Lownie; Yuen Lok Mok; s m; Scott MacLeod
Subject: Re: OF Newsletter & The Iain Macleod Award


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Dear Andrew, 

Thanks very much for your best wishes, and likewise. I stay tuned to your Twitter profile - https://twitter.com/andrewlownie -
- periodically.

Have you heard Brighde Chaimbeul from Skye on the Scottish small pipes - 
- at all?

Fond regards, Gordon




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Andrew Lownie

12:34 PM (8 minutes ago)
to me
Dear Gordon,

We spend every summer holiday on the West Coast. My son, at Edinburgh University,  took up chanter at school and I tried again. It’s very difficult and I admire you keeping  up the pipes.

Best wishes, Andrew

From: Scott MacLeod [mailto:sgkmacleod@gmail.com]
Sent: 02 April 2019 19:16
To: Andrew Lownie
Subject: Re: OF Newsletter & The Iain Macleod Award


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Dear Andrew, 

Many thanks. 

Am continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 here+  - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html - and potentially with Google's Bach Doodle AI for bagpipes and TensorFlow for visuals. The planned tune list is in a blog post within the above.

Is your son continuing to play chanter or pipes while at the University of Edinburgh?  

Best wishes, Gordon



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- Scott MacLeod 



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Andrew Lownie

2:02 PM (10 minutes ago)
to me
Dear Gordon,

Alas not. Now a boxer.

Best, Andrew


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Dear Andrew, 

Thanks for letting me know. Have created a blog entry about "The Rt Hon Iain Macleod (Mo 1927-1932) Travel Award for interesting and unusual projects" - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html - with some interesting related Scottish Country Dancing music-thinking at its conclusion. 

Best, Scott


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Dear Andrew, Mr. Gray, and Mr. Preston, 

With regards to "The Rt Hon Iain Macleod (Mo 1927-1932) Travel Award for interesting and unusual projects" (the Iain Macleod award which promotes travel with objectives), I've created a blog entry here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html - with some interesting related thinking with Scottish Country Dancing musician friends at its conclusion. I've also included some of my and Andrew's recent correspondence. No mention yet about this award here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Macleod. Thank you. I think my mother would be pleased, and on her birthday today. 

All the best, Gordon

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Dear Mr. Henry Gray and George Preston, 

This is great, thank you!

My year at Fettes College in Edinburgh inspired me, when I was studying in Munich at LMU and through Reed College in 1981-1982, to come back to Scotland to study piping there. For this, I got a ZIS grant / stipendium, and took a workshop with the great piper, Duncan Johnstone, and wrote a paper, entitled something like "Piping in Scotland," about this as well, which should be in the ZIS library at Schloss Salem - https://www.zis-reisen.de/start/ - still. I may seek in German to inquire at some point about how I could read an online version of this or similar. 

Sincerely, Gordon 


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Hi Bruce, Patti and Barbara, 

Very nice to see you yesterday evening ... may head to the colorful, wear-sunglasses-only, tie-die, Hawaiian shirts and kilts' Santa Cruz Scottish Country Dance in Aptos on Saturday - https://www.rscds-sf.org/events/parties.php. Who knows, but may Scottish small pipe a bit beforehand as well. 

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Hoping you get much needed rest Patti, and that your find back pain relief, Barbara! Here's a Harvard article on Yoga for back issues - https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-safe-way-to-do-yoga-for-back-pain. How do somewhat regular gentle twists while lying on your backs (and other gentle consistent poses) help for both inner scapula and back issues, Barbara and Patti?  


Warm regards, Scott

Continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 here+  - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html ...



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Hi Patti, Bruce and Barbara: 

This just in from Jim Spohrer and re AI and "Honey in the Bag" CD - 
https://twitter.com/JimSpohrer/status/1113103928080678912 ... how to add a uniquely interesting and creative visual component to "Honey in the Bag" with TensorFlow? (am a Google baby here ... re both Bach Doodle AI and TensorFlow visuals :) ... 

- Scott

These are some pretty good Grateful Dead jams - "5 Hour Grateful Dead "Jam Only" Compilation 1971-1983" ... 
https://youtu.be/Y4TW70xVkmU - but they left out all the good stuff like the parking lot scene, and dancing at the concerts themselves ... but we can do this in a realistic virtual earth for AI and music too ! :) ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Grateful%20Dead ... 

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O my goodness: just received an award today from Fettes College in Edinburgh, Scotland (which I attended for a year in 1977-'78): 

With regards to "The Rt Hon Iain Macleod (Mo 1927-1932) Travel Award for interesting and unusual projects," (the Iain Macleod award which promotes travel with objectives), I've created a blog entry here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html - with some interesting related thinking with Scottish Country Dancing musician friends at its conclusion. (I've also included some of my and Andrew's recent correspondence, whom I remember from that time - in the Fettes College pipe band, for one. No mention yet about this award here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Macleod). think my mother would be pleased, and on her birthday today. 

It contains some ongoing envisioning re upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD as well ... :) (The Dead - and the the '60s & '70s - generated some of the most interesting musical visuals I know of). 

Musical cheer, Scott


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Saraca asoca (the ashoka tree): Thank you for the Fettes' "Iain Macleod Award," @andrewlownie & I played in @FettesCollegePB & his son took up chanter @EdinburghUni Continuing to envision my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' CD in 2020 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/saraca-asoca-ashoka-tree-thank-you-for.html ~

- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1113202319032586240






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