CrownBariDad

I may have missed it -- but which AI? Something commercially available or home grown? I just got a ZDNet article about: Can AI analyze videos? Short answer: Claude -- no, Gemini -- yes, ChatGPT -- sort of with some tweaking. In this article's case, the author was testing to see if the AI could understand what was going on in the video, often with little or no audio and no text context Of course, the author just wanted to see some basic AI understanding -- not any subjective comparison between videos in an artistic sense. I just thought it was interesting this topic and the ZDNet article hit at the same time.

Many years ago, Spirit did a unison flag drill sans brass. The snap and pop of the flags was music all unto itself!

Troopers just listed show rep on Facebook: "After the lies and deception from the disheartening 'leaks' on Reddit. We have determined to come clean. We have decided to unredact the files. The 2026 show repertoire is as follows: - "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath - "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner - "Medea: Dance of Vengeance" by Samuel Barber - "The Night Window" by Thomas Newman - "Extreme Prejudice" by Tim Snyder - "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" by Roger Waters and Pink Floyd - "Adagio for Strings" Samuel Barber Thank you for your attention to this matter. HLD" ~ Michael Gough, Commanding Officer, Troopers Command https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DJjbBmXVt/?mibextid=wwXIfr

The Wife got to play one of those on a trip to Austria last year. A JaxState bass trombonist traveling with the group did pretty well on it.

So can we look forward to Rondinaro '26 video game where we can pit corps of different eras against each other?

OT: So -- who has had more staff turnover: DCI or NFL?

Thank you much for everything you've done for us and the Drum Corps community!!!

We used to always wait until Thursday morning to get Prelims tix. We could always find seats in the blast zone. Sadly no more unless you sit there for all 3 days.

If DCI is TRULY "Music's Major League", then this is the ONLY way to do it.

You'll have to ask Dr Jones for one since he purchased them all. I'm sure he'll oblige. One CAN have too many snakes.

Ok -- gonna show my ignorance/laziness: Is this BAC's first top brass and percussion awards? I know they got best color guard a few seasons back. If that's true, I'm not sure why more isn't being made of this.

For the years we've been at Indy, we're there for the performances. We'll watch the early Prelims to see corps we won't see in Semis. We'll skip the later corps at Prelims to go downtown to one of our favorite restaurants (Harry & Izzy's) for dinner. We've been known to help out on the food truck. We don't sightsee. Indy is for the corps.

Crown's Age Out photo on Facebook shows about 40 as best as I can count. Some comments on the post says they counted 52 coming out for the Age Out ceremony.

Hmmm ... it seems in past years you could take a particular agency "out of rotation" if they posted inappropriate ads. Browsing activity/demographics: I try to keep blocks on these "hottie" type ads as they serve no useful purpose other than drive revenue to the agency. I would have expected a slew of Depends, arthritis, and memory ads. 🙂 Thx!

We're sorry but our entire inventory of snakes were recently sold to the Dr. Indiana Jones Research Center for Imagined Phobias. Sincerely, PC Staff.