Thursday, February 11, 2021

Wildlife of Russia: Music - Bagpiping - Piobaireachd - Piping lessons on Scottish small pipes * * Piping lessons with Ian weekly pretty much starting in two weeks, if my finances improve? Would be good ... And another piping student? Would rather play in person to explore some things. And would rather also teach my society and information technology course and global university again this autumn when WUaS might have 150 undergraduate students :) and perhaps teach Yoga again ... All in a WUaS Yoga hall music lab Robotics' laboratory in part in Canyon? ;) * * * Genes - family - SGKMacLeod family history * nd for genealogy ... Would likely or like to get started however with this conceptually GREAT IMAGE - Swiss Army Knife mRNA - https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/05/1017366/messenger-rna-vaccines-covid-hiv/ since we're in the middle of the genetic engineering revolution, and re genealogy too * * * Jerry Gabay - Hugh Thomas introduction, some whistle-blowing


Music - bagpiping - Piobaireachd

Sounds good, Taylor! Good playing - staying a bit focused on Piobaireachd technique ... 

Leading up to mediative expressiveness with lovely lyricism ... 

Crunluath a Mach building IN Desperate Battle too ... 

Prior to finding lovely Piobaireachds that help illuminate embari+ (a Piobaireachd fingering movement in Cantaireachd, almost Scottish Gaelic :)) ...

... as well as Crunluath Fosgailte and Crunluath Breabach  (also Piobaireachd fingering movements)

Musical cheers, Scott


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

11:25 AM (10 hours ago)
to Taylor
Taylor, 

I enjoyed the Sandy Boys' tunes ... melody esp. ... interesting to explore further. And thanks for the resources. 

Enjoyed, too, the Light music in the Dysart and Dundonald album in general which you shared with its pipe band version of a 'mensural' or measured or with beat The Desperate Battle Piobaireachd...

Re mixolydian scales and bagpipe chanters, see below re pentatonic scales. Also the SSP A chanter with D major key sheet music, and the SSP D chanter with G major key sheet music, may be pragmatic ways of accurately noting and play these scales with sheet music, but they may not be theoretically correct ways of characterizing the 9 note mixolydian scale on the bagpipe chanter. 

Re Myxolydian scales and bagpipe chanters, see below re PENTATONIC scales.

Here again are some great helpful Desperate Battle of the Birds to learn further the Piobaireachd uniquely beautiful nonmensurality yet with pulses ... 'playing with waves'  (which may be my next book of poetry's title)

John Burgess
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
AAA
(and I've understood that this piece is called only "The Desperate Battle" - so am glad to see it called here "The Desperate Battle of the Birds" re the ambiguity of musicological traditions, and re ethnomusicology).

Kenny MacLean
The Desperate Battle- Piobaireachd
BBB
(have blogged about this one before - and he won the Gold at Oban in around 1972 :)

Donald MacLeod
The Desperate Battle Of The Birds
CCC



This recently popped up on Twitter:

The bagpipe plays three pentatonic major keys ...


Seeking further to develop helpful language for understanding the music we play ... And how do Pentatonic scales relate to the Mixolydian scale of the 9 note GHB SSP bagpipe CHANTER? ... And in making music ... ?


And re Pentatonic scale and bagpipes ... From Tim Cummings ...


Re Pentatonic too ...
What musical key does the bagpipe play in?

"Please note that the pentatonic mode is notes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8 (i.e., do, re, mi, so, la, do) in any major scale. Any and all these notes are prominent in many "Celtic" tunes.

The sharp-eyed, knowledgeable reader will note that there is a G# missing in some of these scales. Bagpipe staff notation contains only two sharps - if any at all are noted. The reason is that the tuning of High G is an issue in that the pitch doesn't quite conform to a convenient category in Western music. It's typically tuned higher and G and lower than G#. Seamus MacNeill (Classical Music of the Highland Bagpipe, 1968, BBC) suggests that the proper pitch of this note is intended to maximize the number of pentatonic modes that can be played on the instrument ..."

See you next Thursday! :)

CHEERS, Scott
https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/



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Hi Ian, 


See you in about 40 minutes, - and just so we're literally on the same page, here's the Desperate Battle from Book 7 of the Piobaireachd Society, and the last 3 double-pages from the College of Piping's Yellow Tutor Piobaireachd Vol. 4 (Rev Ed.)  ... with the Crunluath A Mach (and Glengarry's Lament for this), and Crunluath Fosgailte and Crunluath Breabach.


Looking forward too to checking out your Rules for Piobaireachd in some of these regards too ... 


Thank you, Scott


and eventually checking out light music too :) re

- https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/track/honey-in-the-bag-j-scott-gk-macleod



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Wed, Feb 10, 3:30 PM (1 day ago)
to Ian
Ian, 

in terms of recordings to learn from, am also on these 'pages' - 



John Burgess
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
https://youtu.be/Mmxp3btwXzs
(and I've understood that this piece is called only "The Desperate Battle" - so am glad to see it called here "The Desperate Battle of the Birds" re the ambiguity of musicological traditions, and re ethnomusicology).

Kenny MacLean
The Desperate Battle- Piobaireachd
https://youtu.be/sVJG2pUw3gY
(have blogged about this one before - and he won the Gold at Oban in around 1974 :)

Donald MacLeod
The Desperate Battle Of The Birds
https://youtu.be/r1w9J2atyHw

Cheers, Scott

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- Scott MacLeod



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Ma, 

Piping lessons with Ian weekly pretty much starting in two weeks, if my finances improve? Would be good ... And another piping student? Would rather play in person to explore some things. And would rather also teach my society and information technology course and global university again this autumn when WUaS might have 150 undergraduate students :) and perhaps teach Yoga again ... All in a WUaS Yoga hall music lab Robotics' laboratory in part in Canyon? ;)

Love, Scott

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Ma,


Interesting too that Patti and Taylor for example have taken a number of trips in the last year ... Why haven't I traveled much I wonder? India in 2013-2014, Harbin weekly through 2015 or so ... With book published then ... Some trips north to Oregon, and PA too, since then... Could the mentally ill NG have something to do with it - and re past 20 years of unethical / harmful actions (how many murders even?)? ... 

And how to begin traveling again ? WUaS is gradually growing ... Maybe travel will be ahead with this ...? Peter Bothe in Bremen has interesting positive father energy (although he's not) .... but we're not in touch these days that much ... and I didn't travel somehow I'm communication with him ... And Larry hasn't facilitated travel for me ... And WUaS still isn't financially operational to begin to cover costs ... I think I'll have to begin traveling again on my own initiative ... 

How my wonderful mother to begin traveling again? A ladies' group question? (After house and wife, And together with my wife to be and solo too?) Tempus fugit ... Yet Desiderata too ...  https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html ...

Sending 💕 love, Scott




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Genes - family - SGKMacLeod family history

Hi Mark,


Thanks. Can't seem to add Francis Earnest MacLeod's hints and photos to my tree. It says try again repeatedly, which I've done before too. Seem to be blocked repeatedly from connecting with Uncle Franny with his Boston accent and just a few years at Harvard ... before he becomes an avatar bot such that we might even speak with him interactively about family history as this iterates and improves. Some similar issues with Benjamin Lincoln re software (re Benjamin Chadbourne misnomer) ...maybe a realistic virtual earth for history and genetics will aid in this veracity-seeking and coding in genealogy software! 

So cool to learn so much from it 😊 as I do -and your explorations herein are so great and helpful ...thank you!

Regards, 
Scott


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Scott,

Would you want me to try to figure out the problem? One option, I think, is for you to click on the Share button, when looking at your tree, in the upper right:

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Then, click on Shareable Link and toggle my role to Editor. Create and copy the link and send to me via email.

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Mark



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Thanks, Mark 

... Will check it out ... Was on a smartphone (not 'large' laptop screen) when doing this ... But I would rather facilitate a single realistic virtual earth for everything that would fix such problems in the truth-seeking interoperability .. and in a realistic virtual earth for genetics ... And for genealogy ... Would likely or like to get started however with this conceptually GREAT IMAGE - Swiss Army Knife mRNA - https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/05/1017366/messenger-rna-vaccines-covid-hiv/ since we're in the middle of the genetic engineering revolution, and re genealogy too. Will check out what you suggest first (since I was able to save Ernest James MacLeod's picture on smartphone, but then not Francis's in the same interface). 

Thank you,
Scott 


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Wed, Feb 10, 3:01 PM (2 days ago)
to Mark
Mark, 

I went in, in a different way, on my smartphone and found Francis Earnest Macleod, then a photo of Francis (not from Jen MacLeod), and was able to save it. Are you a main 'repairer,' of Ancestry .com since you know so much about it, when it seems broken, Mark? 



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Mark MacLeod

Wed, Feb 10, 3:02 PM (2 days ago)
to me
Geez, I don't know if I'm a repairer but I use Ancestry a lot!

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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Feb 10, 2021, 3:15 PM (2 days ago)
to Mark
Thanks for being there, Mark! :) 

Piobaireachd lesson at 4, after creating my first Scottish Small Pipes' album in December 2020 (with 3 on the way), so this is where my focus is now, and a realistic virtual Harbin too, as well as CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch (...as software for genealogy identity narratives too and re genes develops and grows, and possibly regarding WikiTree integration???, for 7.8 billion people, brainstorming-wise, with Ancestry ... ?)



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Jerry Gabay - Hugh Thomas introduction, some Quaker whistle-blowing

Hi Jerry, Hugh, Ma, Ed,

Following up on these photos of Hugh, Ed, myself, which I just shared - https://photos.app.goo.gl/6E8GUDW4W6f6aVBJ8  - and finding this Oregon Live newspaper article which surprised me. Are you by any chance still alive Jerry (am not sure you'd answer this anyway:)?

On the off chance that the reports of your death are greatly exaggerated - https://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=jerry-gabay&pid=195728424 - I'd like to introduce you, Hugh and Ed to one another. Hugh's a friend (see his photo again) from my high school years (in different high schools in Pittsburgh) who is now a Professor of Medieval History at the University of Miami (with a Yale BA and a Yale PhD) and whose father was the senior editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for decades, where his sister Lillian (with a Swarthmore BA, although not a Quaker I think), was its city desk editor, for decades too, but a year or two ago moved to Houston to become a deputy editor at the Houston Chronicle. Ed is a Kaiser Permanente physician MD, and friend (I played bagpipes at his wedding around the year 2000), who went to UC Santa Cruz as an undergraduate, and UCSF for his medical degree (after working as an acupuncturist for a few years between), and who went too to Lick Wilmerding high school (high achieving high school in SF), and is a SF native. Jerry Gabay, as I've written before is a lawyer, a member of the Society of Friends, I think, and a Stanford graduate from the early 1970s, I think, and has a University of Oregon Law degree but perhaps not immediately after Stanford I think too. Jerry, were you actually born in Turkey, and moved to Arizona even in your teens (contrary to article above), if I remember correctly? And Jerry's also a former Navy Seal, whose house is close to the Quaker Meeting in Portland, Oregon, and with whom I stayed for a couple of nights a few years ago, had a fantastic bicycle ride around Portland, and met some interesting friends of his on that visit as well. (I saw Jerry again 2-3 years ago when I was north visiting Reed, - and, at a meal, with Quaker Carl Thatcher,... who was also, like Ed, on the WUaS Board for awhile). Have you gone 'under the water,' metaphorically, Jerry, underground that is, and regarding the Internet media sphere surface - and could that Oregonian article be giving you 'cover' even? And could you be even looking into questions of the illegal sex trade and even atrociously with minors and kids in the Quaker Meeting in Portland, and even all along the west coast, from Seattle to SF (where I was a whistleblower in 2017 - how many others of us might there be?) to Santa Barbara to San Diego and to the east coast (internationally, possibly, even???) somehow, - and as a lawyer, a former Navy Seal, a Stanford graduate, and a Quaker (and perhaps not caught in the networks of people who could be even perpetrating such 'atrocities' - strong word, ... and is this all about 'criminal gangs' going through the throes of defeat regarding 'drying up source' post-Covid-19 ? ??) and so documenting and learning further about these potential illegal situations or cases (which could even go back as far as Joel Bean, a founder of Pacific Yearly Meeting in the 1930s or '40s, and from which PYM Yearly Meeting, the new-at-the-time North Pacific Yearly Meeting split from, around 1980, - and in which I think I participated in its first gathering while active in the Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland)? 

Hoping you're still with us, Jerry (no bounceback from your email - and like I don't get a bounceback from Sunheart's email, who may have died this past autumn near Harbin Hot Springs - due to foul play, I wonder? - and about whom I spoke about at the end of my 12/18/2021 UC Berkeley talk in video recording here - 
SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rjAgHoN1uE4JcuGPiVnvDibpA0Fd4StA/view
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html - and I've since withdrawn from the UC Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group for at least 6 months, re concerns about its ethics and the harm Nelson Graburn seems to have directed toward me over the years (am not sure why?), and even possibly murders by NG, UC Berkeley E...... Professor of A....... (including Sunheart??? ... and you if you're not alive?) ... and could such POSSIBLE murders re TSWG also possibly be illegal sex trade related, but of a different kind than among 'Quakers'), and that you're alright, Jerry. Please let us know if you can (and please let the Oregonian know that they got some facts wrong in your Obit :)) - and I hope you all can meet each other in person at some point, post Covid-19 pandemic 'clean up' >>> with 5 hypothetical news' items here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html from 4/1/2020 with more thinking about covid-19 pandemic throughout blog before and since then. 

Hugh, are you much in communication with Lillian? Please wish her and your Mom, Jean, my best as well. 

Friendly greetings, Scott

Thinking further about a unfolding in the now realistic virtual earth for history (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER), Hugh, and journalism too, and may blog about this today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/history:)

PPS
I mention exploring bringing Sunheart alive again with artificial intelligence and machine learning in the very last slides of my UC Berkeley TWSG talk here - 



-- 
- Scott MacLeod



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Hi Jerry, Hugh, Ma, Ed,


Following up on these photos of Hugh, Ed, myself, which I just shared - https://photos.app.goo.gl/6E8GUDW4W6f6aVBJ8  - and finding this Oregon Live newspaper article which surprised me. Are you by any chance still alive Jerry (am not sure you'd answer this anyway:)?

On the off chance that the reports of your death are greatly exaggerated - https://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=jerry-gabay&pid=195728424 - I'd like to introduce you, Hugh and Ed to one another. Hugh's a friend (see his photo again) from my high school years (in different high schools in Pittsburgh) who is now a Professor of Medieval History at the University of Miami (with a Yale BA and a Yale PhD) and whose father was the senior editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for decades, where his sister Lillian (with a Swarthmore BA, although not a Quaker I think), was its city desk editor, for decades too, but a year or two ago moved to Houston to become a deputy editor at the Houston Chronicle. Ed is a Kaiser Permanente physician MD, and friend (I played bagpipes at his wedding around the year 2000), who went to UC Santa Cruz as an undergraduate, and UCSF for his medical degree (after working as an acupuncturist for a few years between), and who went too to Lick Wilmerding high school (high achieving high school in SF), and is a SF native. Jerry Gabay, as I've written before is a lawyer, a member of the Society of Friends, I think, and a Stanford graduate from the early 1970s, I think, and has a University of Oregon Law degree but perhaps not immediately after Stanford I think too. Jerry, were you actually born in Turkey, and moved to Arizona even in your teens (contrary to article above), if I remember correctly? And Jerry's also a former Navy Seal, whose house is close to the Quaker Meeting in Portland, Oregon, and with whom I stayed for a couple of nights a few years ago, had a fantastic bicycle ride around Portland, and met some interesting friends of his on that visit as well. (I saw Jerry again 2-3 years ago when I was north visiting Reed, - and, at a meal, with Quaker Carl Thatcher,... who was also, like Ed, on the WUaS Board for awhile). Have you gone 'under the water,' metaphorically, Jerry, underground that is, and regarding the Internet media sphere surface - and could that Oregonian article be giving you 'cover' even? And could you be even looking into questions of the illegal sex trade and even atrociously with minors and kids in the Quaker Meeting in Portland, and even all along the west coast, from Seattle to SF (where I was a whistleblower in 2017 - how many others of us might there be?) to Santa Barbara to San Diego and to the east coast (internationally, possibly, even???) somehow, - and as a lawyer, a former Navy Seal, a Stanford graduate, and a Quaker (and perhaps not caught in the networks of people who could be even perpetrating such 'atrocities' - strong word, ... and is this all about 'criminal gangs' going through the throes of defeat regarding 'drying up source' post-Covid-19 ? ??) and so documenting and learning further about these potential illegal situations or cases (which could even go back as far as Joel Bean, a founder of Pacific Yearly Meeting in the 1930s or '40s, and from which PYM Yearly Meeting, the new-at-the-time North Pacific Yearly Meeting split from, around 1980, - and in which I think I participated in its first gathering while active in the Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland)? 

Hoping you're still with us, Jerry (no bounceback from your email - and like I don't get a bounceback from Sunheart's email, who may have died this past autumn near Harbin Hot Springs - due to foul play, I wonder? - and about whom I spoke about at the end of my 12/18/2021 UC Berkeley talk in video recording here - 
SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rjAgHoN1uE4JcuGPiVnvDibpA0Fd4StA/view
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html - and I've since withdrawn from the UC Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group for at least 6 months, re concerns about its ethics and the harm Nelson Graburn seems to have directed toward me over the years (am not sure why?), and even possibly murders by Nelson Graburn, UC Berkeley Emeritus Professor of Anthropology (including Sunheart??? ... and you if you're not alive?) ... and could such POSSIBLE murders re TSWG also possibly be illegal sex trade related, but of a different kind than among 'Quakers'), and that you're alright, Jerry. Please let us know if you can (and please let the Oregonian know that they got some facts wrong in your Obit :)) - and I hope you all can meet each other in person at some point, post Covid-19 pandemic 'clean up' >>> with 5 hypothetical news' items here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html from 4/1/2020 with more thinking about covid-19 pandemic throughout blog before and since then. 

Hugh, are you much in communication with Lillian? Please wish her and your Mom, Jean, my best as well. 

Friendly greetings, Scott

Thinking further about a unfolding in the now realistic virtual earth for history (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER), Hugh, and journalism too, and may blog about this today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/history:)

PPS
I mention exploring bringing Sunheart alive again with artificial intelligence and machine learning in the very last slides of my UC Berkeley TWSG talk here - 


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Dear Hugh, Rob, and All, 

Thanks so much to Hugh for your email response re the following pictures - https://photos.app.goo.gl/6E8GUDW4W6f6aVBJ8 - and hi Jean, Ma, Lillian, Ed, Ann :) ...  

Good to be in communication too here, and re other recent emails, Hugh, (to Rob, you, and all, for ex.). 

Just added some comments to these photos - https://photos.app.goo.gl/6E8GUDW4W6f6aVBJ8  - and learned that Jerry Gabay seems to have passed away in 2020. Curiously, he was a navy seal, and I think this obituary may be somehow partly false, since it omits this information - https://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=jerry-gabay&pid=195728424 - although I only knew him very little, as a Quaker in Portland Oregon, and with Turkish background, in a Quaker Meeting there I was attending from 1979-1987 or some. (I worry a little about this passing, since it could have been, with his Turkish heritage especially - and his integrity too - racially motivated even somehow!). I've added the comments to the pictures below, and invite you too to add comments - another form of social media ! :) 

Some of these pictures are from Pittsburgh, with a good one of Hugh! Some are of Stanford, and one is of the ridge across Indian Valley where I lived in Canyon 94516 for 12 years until fairly recently (staying in a 'safe house' now, I'll call this, just north of Berkeley).

Please add comments, all, if so inclined, - as a new form of social media :)

Thanks again for your email, Hugh!

Regards, Scott


Dear Hugh, Ma, Jerry, Ed,

 

Some photos of you and related from 2014-2015 + 2021. Not sure who the person is, or what what the algorithm is, in Google Photo, that chose these - 

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/6E8GUDW4W6f6aVBJ8 

 

Some are from Pittsburgh PA over Xmas, including the bench remembering my father in Mellon Park in Pgh. Others are from Portland, Oregon, I think (Jerry?). And others are from the SF Bay Area.

 

Fond regards, Scott



1
Hugh Thomas, Jean Thomas, Jane MacLeod, Scott MacLeod Xmas (2014? 2015?) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


2
Scott MacLeod and Jerry Gabay in Portland, Oregon. Jerry is a member of the Religious Society of Friends / Quakers, Multnomah Monthly Meeting, in Portland, near, I think, where we took this photo; Jerry is also a Stanford, and University of Oregon Law alumnus, and has recent Turkish heritage.

His house where I stayed as a guest for a few nights is near the Multnomah Monthly Meeting Quaker Meeting, and which I attended from about 1979 to 1987 when I was a student at Reed College (and after).


3
Xmas time ... visiting the bench, with my mother (who's taking a picture), in remembrance of my father, Gordon K MacLeod MD (1929-2007) in Mellon Park near 5th and Penn Avenues in Pittsburgh PA 15208, near my parent's home.


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The bench in remembrance of my father, Gordon K MacLeod MD (1929-2007) in Mellon Park near 5th and Penn Avenues in Pittsburgh PA 15208, near my parent's home at Xmas time.


5
That's not my nose ... something in the camera's software? Why? ... Not sure where this photo is taken, but that information is probably in the provenance of this photo :)


6
The bake shop in Berkeley where I got a birthday cake to celebrate Wikidata's 4th birthday cake in 2016 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/10/cocoa-bean-wikidata-birthday-party.html - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events -


7
My parent's living room in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1974-2020+?) at Christmas time.


8
A food co-op? Don't know - at least it has bins for bulk foods (which are much more environmentally friendly, and cheaper, re packaging, for example, and wholesome too!:)


9
Monterey CA I think.


10
Stanford University - a dormitory I associate with the Grateful Dead.




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- Scott MacLeod




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