Michael J. Huson
san_francisco, ca
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- Member since: 2007-04-17 00:00:00
- Last log-in: 2007-07-21 00:00:00
- Events: 23
Events:
Billy Bob Thornton
Where: Slim's
Date: 2007-09-05 20:00:00
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Hailing from Texas, Billy Bob Thornton is Academy Award Winner and musician.
Red Meat
Where: Cafe Du Nord
Date: 2007-08-25 21:30:00
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Red Meat provides hillbilly swing from the Bay area. Big Smith is a fantastic blues band from Springfield, MO, comprised of five cousins and a great sound.
Y!RB Brain Jam: Andreas Paepcke (Stanford)
Where: Yahoo! Research Berkeley
Date: 2007-04-20 15:00:00
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Free and open to the public - it would be helpful if you mark attending/watching above. Followed at 4pm by Social Jam with drinks and refreshments. Twenty Questions to Name That Bird With Aswath Manoharan, YuanYuan Yu, and Jeannie Stamberger ABSTRACT: We constructed EcoPod, a PDA-based tool that helps skilled amateurs identify plants and animals out in the field. The tool is intended for biodiversity census activities. EcoPod asks its user questions about the organism that it is deployed to help identify. Users may attach evidence to each answer, and they may register uncertainty with their decision. I will describe EcoPod and then move to a specific problem we needed to solve in its design: The tool should ask as few questions as possible so as to optimize the user experience. We use well-known decision tree and information gain theory towards this optimization. I will sketch this approach and show how we use historic species observation data to optimize typical usage patterns. BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Andreas Paepcke is a Senior Research Scientist and director of the Digital Library and BioACT Projects at Stanford University. His interests include user interfaces for small devices, novel Web search facilities, and browsing facilities for digital artifacts that are difficult to index. With his group of students he has designed and implemented WebBase, an experimental storage and high speed dissemination system for Web contents. His work on small devices has focused on novel methods for summarizing and transforming Web pages, and on browsing images on small displays. He serves on the editorial board of the ACM TWEB journal. Dr. Paepcke received BS and MS degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Previously, he worked as a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratory, and as a research consultant at Xerox PARC.
Civic Berkeley Teach-In: Navigating the Maze: Lessons We’ve...
Where: B Tech Academy
Date: 2007-04-19 19:00:00
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Civic Berkeley sponsors a teach-in on the basics of how our city government works. All over Berkeley, citizens now face the same challenge: getting our elected and appointed officials to respond to legitimate community concerns. On April 19, speakers from eight different neighborhood groups will describe their particular issue, what their group has done, what worked and what didn’t. Their 5-minute presentations will be followed by a moderated general discussion. Civic Berkeley is a new organization dedicated to reviving Berkeley’s tradition of government and politics that are open, accountable and informed. This forum is our first event. We seek constructive dialogue leading to more effective community action. The meeting is in B-Tech Academy's Multipurpose Room, which is wheelchair accessible. For more information, call (510) 273-2496.
Paul Van Dyk
Where: 1015 Folsom
Date: 2007-04-28 22:00:00
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Description He's back, and only 1015 has him. The world's most popular DJ, Mr. Paul Van Dyk returns to San Francisco on Saturday April 28th for a special 4-hour set. MAIN ROOM Paul Van Dyk(Set Time 12am-4am) Taj Dirty Hertz VIP ROOM Pat Allen DJ Mita Vahid DJ Flame CIRQUE LOUNGE The Dirty Duo Turbine Ismael Rodriguez Shawn Yapa Cyber Joe Mystere ULTRA HIP HOP LOUNGE eHash (Vinyl Circus/Beatbasher) Mike Marvel (B-Side Records) DJ Intensify (Team Rockstars) DJ NuBelle (Divas of Style Entertainment)
Comedy Intervention
Where: Crest Theatre
Date: 2007-04-20 19:00:00
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Ingathering Marketing Company proudly presents a comedy show guaranteed to cure your blues – COMEDY INTERVENTION! Friday, April 20 2007 Doors Open 6PM / Show Begins 7PM Featured Comedic Therapists: Dan Gabriel Andrew Norelli Kevin Young $25 Advance Ticket Purchase $30 Night of the show RESERVED SEATING Tickets can be purchased in advance or on the day of the show from the Crest Theatre box office (Hours: Mon - Thur 4:30PM – 8:00PM, Fri - Sun 12:30PM – 8:00PM) Online ticket purchase available: www.thecrest.com www.myspace.com/comedyintervention www.tickets.com Group rates are available. Call (888) 213-9359 for information.
Richard Thompson Band
Where: Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco
Date: 2007-09-07 20:00:00
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Doors: 8:00 pm | Show: 9:00 pm $29.50
FREE SF Chamber Orchestra “The Devil Made Me Do It!”
Where: Brava Theater Center
Date: 2007-04-20 20:00:00
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The Devil Made Me Do It! -Stravinsky & Villa-Lobos Benjamin Simon, Conductor -Joel Ben Izzy, Narrator The Mark Foehringer Dance Project/Sf Featuring Katherine Wells And Brian Fisher For what would you sell your soul? Infinite riches? Power beyond imagining? The love of someone you desire? Let our music beguile your ears, as our lovely dancers enchant your eyes, and our spell-binding narrator weaves his story around and around you. String quartet movements by villa-lobos and stravinsky’s miniature masterpiece, “the soldier’s tale” (“l’histoire du soldat”) frame this theatrical presentation from the “dark side”!
SEAN + Atomic Bomb Audition + Hacksaw to the Throat + Times ...
Where: 21 Grand
Date: 2007-11-17 21:00:00
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The Atomic Bomb Audition SEAN (stunning Seattle-based grindcore duo; free-jazz drums and processed keyboards...really quite good; just played with Aleuchatistas in Seattle; they have shared bills with Don Caballero, Green Milk from the Planet Orange, Sun City Girls, etc.) myspace.com/seangrindcore Hacksaw to the Throat (Metal Blade recording artists from Oakland; their last show ever!) hacksawtothethroat.com Times of Desperation (more Oakland grind) myspace.com/timesofdesperation
Jimbo Trout and the Fishpeople
Where: Bottom of the Hill
Date: 2008-02-05 21:00:00
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Jimbo Trout and The Fishpeople perform original and traditional American music as well as renditions of songs by Hank WIlliams, Johnny Cash, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and others. Enjoy an evening of bluegrass and honky-tonk music.
Marcia Ball
Where: Mystic Theater
Date: 2008-03-05 20:00:00
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Marcia Ball is at home playing roadhouse rock, jump-blues, R&B, ballads and deep soul. Her singing/songwriting are matched by piano playing that is both effective and eclectic.
Lawrence Lessig Final Free Culture Talk
Where: Stanford University
Date: 2008-01-31 13:00:00
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Creative Commons founder and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig is giving his final presentation on Free Culture, Copyright and the future of ideas at Stanford's Memorial Auditorium on January 31st, 2007. After 10 years of enlightening and inspiring audiences around the world with multi-media presentations that inspired the Free Culture movement, Professor Lessig is moving on from the copyright debate and setting his sites on corruption in Washington. Lessig is giving a final talk at Stanford University on the subject, and it is being recorded for the upcoming feature film "Basement Tapes". Please come and give Professor Lessig our appreciation and for a last chance to witness this enlightening and provocative presentation. Free Admission! Guests will also be treated to a sneak preview of some upcoming scenes from Basement Tapes, and re-mixed work from the Open Source Cinema website.
Vibrafolk
Where: The Larkspur Cafe Theatre
Date: 2008-01-26 20:00:00
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After 20 years of focusing instrumentally on drums, Larry the O finally promoted his vibraphone, long a "second" instrument, to its own position of honor. Having realized the close similarity between the ranges of guitar and vibes, and discovered how splendidly guitar finger-picking patterns sounded on guitar, the O proceeded to disregard both his classical and jazz training to forge an unique solo act: Vibrafolk. Featuring only his vocals and vibraphone, Vibrafolk tackles folk tunes from the traditional to the modern, occasionally straying into jazz, jam band territory, or just plain weirdness. Vibrafolk fearlessly explores the range of folk music from the plaintive to the wistful to the sharp-tongued.
Press Conference
Where: Moscone Center
Date: 2008-02-19 00:00:00
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The organizers of GDC ' 08 and Emotiv cordially invite you to witness the exclusive unveiling at the Moscone Center, Action Theater.
California Poet Laureate AL YOUNG author event
Where: Booksmith
Date: 2008-03-18 19:00:00
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AL YOUNG reading & booksigning for "Something About the Blues" Tuesday, March 18 at 7:00 pm Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration from the blues. Something About the Blues uses the form as a theme throughout 100 new and previously-published poems. These works evoke the cold, hard city, love gone wrong and blues music itself. California Poet Laureate Al Young is the author of more than 20 books including Heaven: Collected Poems 19561990; Mingus Mingus: Two Memoirs (with Janet Coleman); Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs; and the novels Snakes, Who Is Angelina?, and Sitting Pretty. A popular reader and performer, Young lectures worldwide on literature, music, creativity, and African American culture. This Booksmith sponsored event will take place at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco). For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com If you can't attend this event and would like to order a signed copy of the author's new book, please email or phone our store.
Outsourcing Summit Reception
Where: The Moscone Center San Francisco
Date: 2008-02-19 00:00:00
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This reception is open to all Outsourcing Summit Attendees.
The Books Inc./Center Book Group discusses Mayra Montero's "...
Where: LGBT Community Center
Date: 2008-03-19 19:00:00
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Books Inc. in the Castro in association with the SF LGBT Center is pleased to announce our next Book Group selection: Dancing to Almendra by Mayra Montero. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mafioso's in this intoxicating story of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love. Review Quotes: "I devoured it with absolute delight, and I'm looking forward to reading it again, and to reading anything Montero might come up with next."--"The New York Times Book Review" "Montero exploits true crime, romance, family drama, cabaret, and even danzon. . . . Her new novel is a hell of a song."--"San Francisco Chronicle" Mayra Montero is the author of a collection of short stories and of eight novels, including "The Messenger, The Last Night I Spent with You, "and "Captain of the Sleepers," She was born in Cuba and lives in Puerto Rico, where she writes a weekly column in "El Nuevo Dia" newspaper. * * * Our next Book Group meeting is Wednesday, March 19 at 7 PM at the Three Dollar Bill Cafe at the LGBT Center, 1800 Market St. (@ Octavia). As always, I'd like everyone to come with any observations they may have as well as at least one question to pose to the group. Also, please come equipped with any title suggestions for our next joint venture. Hope to see you there. The Center/Books Inc. Book Group is free and open to everyone. We encourage inclusiveness and promote diversity. We meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month. * * * Books Inc. is a locally owned and operated independent bookseller with 10 locations in California. Books Inc.’s origin dates back to the Gold Rush Days of 1851 when Anton Roman struck it rich in Shasta City, California and set himself up in business selling books. That small bookstore was moved, bought, sold, burned, rebuilt, renamed and became Books Inc., as we know it today, in 1946. Today, with 10 Stores and 200 employees, Books Inc. serves as a shining example that independent bookselling can survive and prosper, even if we must dance among the elephants. This Event is Free at the Three Dollar Bill Café within the SF LGBT Center Sponsored by Books Inc. 2275 Market St. San Francisco 94114 For Questions:415.864.6777 or on the web at www.booksinc.net and www.myspace.com/booksinccastro
Retribution Gospel Choir
Where: Bottom of the Hill
Date: 2008-07-08 21:00:00
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Retribution Gospel Choir features Alan Sparhawk of Low and Mark Kozelok of Sun Kil Moon.
The Sagrada Soiree
Where: DNA Lounge
Date: 2008-06-12 20:00:00
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Vau de Vire & Boomtown Productions present THE SAGRADA SOIREE $150 per person; $250 for two. A fundraiser to rebuild the temple for Burning Man 2008! This special early evening portion of the event includes a lavish cornucopia of edible treats, exclusive performances and presentations, special drinks, conversations with the artists, silent auction, and more!