Dad Goes to Outside Lands in San Francisco

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

The generations collide yet again as Dad gets down – way down – while attending The Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco with Son. Dad references Woodstock to which Son is lost. Heck, Son wishes he was really lost – away from Dad and “his moves!” Of course, everyone knows that I’m NOT That Dad, though I did happen to attend Outside Lands. Enjoy The Best of Outside Lands 2013, a 12-minute highlights video and A Taste of Paul, short clips from Paul McCartney’s nearly 3-hour opening night performance.

Teen Love, Outside Lands, & Getting Older

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Featured guests:

Pastor Drew Sams for “Spiritual Talk.”

Kelli Smithgall for “Single Parent Talk”

Today’s radio show is inspired by this week’s “A Dad’s Point-of-View” column Teen Love. We will also talk about my recent trip to The Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco!

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Best of Outside Lands, 2013

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

The Outside Lands Music Festival this year was simply fantastic. I took hours of video and you can pretty much get a complete feel for the event in this short 11 minute 45 second compilation of clips, people, and more. I kept all the music clips to well under the “fair use” limit so it’s pretty fast paced and, hopefully, YouTube will LEAVE ME ALONE since I was fully legal as far as I understand. You will see clips of the best concert of the festival – Paul McCartney – as well as others of Surfer Blood, Band of Horses, The National, Gary Carter, Jr., Young the Giant, Jurassic 5, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Head and the Heart, Phoenix, Hall & Oates, Vampire Weekend, Willie Nelson, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

A Taste of Paul McCartney at #OutsideLands, 2013

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

Paul McCartney, at 71, put on a flawless nearly 3-hour show on August 9, 2013 at The Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco. This is just 3 minutes of clips – and EACH clip that has music is shorter than 15 seconds so YouTube – LISTEN TO ME – don’t hassle me about the rights! This should be completely legal and I’m NOT making money from this – just sharing an awesome experience with my friends! When he did “Live and Let Die,” the place went absolutely wild – see it at the end…

What Did You Do This Summer at #DadChat

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

Remember when you’d return to school, after summer, and the teacher would ask, “What did you do this summer” and you had to get up in front of the class and answer? That is what we’re doing at #DadChat this Thursday, August 15 from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. PT/9:00 – 10:00 p.m. ET and I’M going to be the teacher — asking you what YOU did this past summer (and what your family did)!

I might have a couple small prizes this week, too – so be there to find out and perhaps win one!

Teen Love

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

Most of us have plenty of stories of our first love, teen love, and many love stories later on in life. Being the father of two teen boys, I’ve witnessed their social lives, lived a bit vicariously through them, and been reminded about how we all must find our own way. We all must learn our lessons. And, we as parents really can’t and shouldn’t overly protect our children from these valuable lessons. Hopefully, if we’ve raised them right, they will make the right choices and decisions. To me, that’s part of the ongoing serial drama of being a parent!

Evolution of Technology: Adding and Subtracting

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

Professor Weber leads off our look at adding and subtracting – math – and the devices old and new that we employ, in this edition of the Evolution of Technology blog series which is co-written by Professor David E. Weber and myself.

We often use the term technology as a catchall shorthand reference to the microprocessor-driven devices (notebook and desktop computers, mobile telephones and smart phones, tablets, iPods and more) we use for work, play and management of our lives generally. The basic purpose of the chips in the hearts of those devices is to perform calculations. Therefore, to think in terms of the evolution of technology is to a significant extent to think about the evolution in tools used for calculating.

I Left My Heart at #OutsideLands

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

What a glorious job of illustration by VoogDesigns and Michael Vgood for our 94th Because I Said So comic. While this is always completely fictional, I do happen to be in San Francisco right now and we’re going to be attending the #OutsideLands Music Festival for the next three days! Stay tuned for our Kickstarter campaign for our forthcoming commemorative book honoring the first 100 comics! You can learn how the Because I Said So comic is put together each week!