"The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra consists exclusively of vegetable-based instruments, although where necessary, additional kitchen utensils such as knives or mixers are employed."

This is some absolutely amazing stuff.  Do check out the MP3's.

Somewhere up in heaven Frank Zappa is nodding his head and smiling.

"After the concert, the stage is left to the cooks who then work the instruments into a tasty vegetable soup, which the audience and musicians consume together."

The twins go on a trip to the local children's museum and learn all about the five simple machines:

• the lever
• the pulley
• the inclined plane
• the cuisenart
• the salad shooter

(Photos by Mommy.)

Web site news:

I've just finished a serious update of my ARP Synthesizer Resources page and my ARP Patents page -- a number of broken links have been fixed or removed, some lame links have been removed, some new resources have been added, I've added pat2pdf links for the patents, removed the Espacenet links, rewritten some of the patent reviews, etc.

And I've started a new format for those pages, replacing the old parchment look with something more modern that Carson, Jai, Kyan, Ted, and Thom would approve of.

(In the process of developing the new look, I discovered huge color inconsistencies between Macs, Windows PCs, Linux, CRT's and LCD's in the light orange/yellow/biege area.  It's amazing how a warm sandy beige on one platform can become an appalling cold greenish yellow on another.  So I'll probably have to tweak the colors a little in the near future.  Is there any hope for color consistancy on computers?  Yeah right; this is the industry that can't agree on something as basic as a newline character.)

Updated the BayProg page a couple days ago.

Updated my Synthesizer Resources page just now.  (And boy, did it need it; lots of references had moved or disappeared.)

And now that the Christmas madness is over, I'll be able to write more posts here.