October 29th, 2004 - 7:00AM

Ok so on Monday, you know how I went to the Interpol concert right? Well, Eric, Mandeep, and I argued over the pros and cons of the upcoming Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP. I was on the side of the PSP and Eric/Mandeep on the side of the DS. Anyways, one of the biggest cons for the PSP was battery life/cost. At that point, rumore put it at only a few hours of play plus a price of about $300. Well fear not, the rumors have been shattered by official news from Japan.

Key things from the article

  1. $179-$199 in US Dollars
  2. 4-6 hrs life
  3. Coming out 12/12/04 in Japan
  4. Region-free games!!!

Hopefully they'll come out with Katamari Tamashii (more accurate than Damacy...bastardization of the Japanese) on the PSP. THat would do it for me.

"PSP features an integrated high output lithium-ion battery that provides a play time of between 4 and 6 hours for game titles and continuous 4 to 5 hours for video viewing." These numbers, according to SCE, were determined with the system's luminance set to maximum (180 cd/m2) and minimum (80 cd/m2), volume set to half the maximum level, headphones used instead of speakers and wireless LAN not in use (note that the maximum luminance value rises to 200 cd/m2 when playing through AC power)."








I went to Sacramento yesterday and picked up a Canon S60 that I bought from a guy on Craigslist. Excellent camera. It'll be small enough to sneak into shows and use at parties (so I don't look like a total freak when I pull out the PREDATOR). It's not going to take the place of the PREDATOR (my Sony 707) entirely because it doesn't have all the filters and night vision and manual settings among other things but it'll be good when I don't need all that (which is most of the time)



October 27th, 2004 - 9:00PM

Hehe, Margaret got sent to Arlington, Texas just outside of Dallas for this week. What a coincidence that both of us went to Texas this month.

I really need a small camera so I can sneak it into shows kinda like how I did with my old Canon.

Yesterday, I was invited to an APC event at the Microsoft Technology Center in Mountain View. Went with Lih-Chern and had a blast. Got a tour of their datacenter which was impressive (but nothing compared to the Pixar datacenter/processorcenter). I asked them why they didn't use a raised floor for increased airflow and they told me that per floor, it's a million dollar expenditure. They did however use an APC air blower at the bottom of their SAN rack, which makes sense cause it's their biggest source of heat. It was cool getting an inside look at how Microsoft is helping their partners test configurations using their Virtual Server software. They had like 70 different server images running off of 2 servers for one client. Very interesting stuff. Their main guy took me back into the server room and pulled out the air blower unit so I could see just how much air was being pulled through. Pretty impressive product from APC. APC was hosting dinner at Faz but we ended up going to Darda Seafood instead of going. I tell you, the Knife Cut Lamb Noodle Soup is something sublime.



October 26th, 2004 - 9:40PM

Ahhh...I forgot to add that last Friday was Make Your Own Taiwanese Food (MYOTF) night with TSA. Lots of fun and good food. There was mi fun, Taiwanese style fried chicken, dumplings, oyster pancake, mochi. All handmade. Wendy kept plugging me with food so I actually ended up being full instead of being hungry like the last time I went to a MYOTF (years ago). Steve kept running back and forth, helping out everywhere and being the best an intern can be. There was impromptu singing table...a Taipei culture quiz...just a lot of fun.



October 26th, 2004 - 7:08AM

I know I know...where are the updates? WHat happened? Well, coming back to work was what happened and it was a whole lot of just doing stuff. I'm going to continue where I left off with the San Antonio trip and then try to cover as much as I can...

So, I had actually went on Food Network to find good places in San Antonio to go to. Two places came up, The Pig Stand and Mi Tierra. Turns out the Pig Stand is an architectural food find and Mi Tierra is one of the best open 24hrs places in the US. As you can see, this picture is of me in front of the Pig Stand on Presa St. The Pig Stand claims to be the nation's first drive-in and was built in 1926. The actual pig building was used by the waitresses to put in their orders. It was about a mile from the convention center and humid as hell but it was worth it. As I was about to pack up and leave, the manager of the place actually came out and said Hi. She was nice enough to open up the building so I could take pictures of the interior. The insides were filled with pigs and had a pig carrying the sign "Welcome Food Channel". She even gave me a postcard to take home. :-)

So this is the first picture of Boudro's. They make the guacamole table-side which is similar to how House of Prime Rib makes their salad table-side. It was really good but some people said that they made better guac.

Down the table at Maxine's Quail and Dixon's Shrimp. I ended up drinking more on this trip than I do in a year. Kinda surprising. I think you just drink more when you're not the one paying for it. If you buy me a drink, I won't often turn you down. I guess that's the way it goes. Hehehe. Still, it's not saying much cause I still only had 1 cocktail a meal. Can't handle much more cause those margaritas were large.

Imposing face of nighttime Alamo. I think I like nighttime Alamo better than daytime Alamo.

The next group of pictures were taken on the last day in San Antonio. This Japanese guy and girl representing APLAR (Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology) needed help emailing pictures from their camera to people in Japan. Of course, they go to the Exhibitors booth, where Darcy implored me to help them out. Although I was really off-duty and had a whole day planned, I went ahead and helped these strangers. When I brought out my Vaio, they were like "Ohhhhh.....Vaio...." and then my memorycard reader...."Ohhhhhh....." Hahahaha...it was pretty cool and they were able to send the email. Pretty lucky people to have caught me cause I doubt there were that many people there with all the stuff to get it done that quickly. Each year a different country is picked to represent APLAR at ACR. This year was Japan. They were so happy about getting it done, it was pretty cool to help them out.

Those white flecks are gnats mating above flowers. They cluster together and swarm about moving really rapidly. Pretty scary cause they move as a pack from place to place.

This is the awesome front entrance of the SBC company building. I love the work that was done to get it to look like this.

One guy stopped me while I was taking pictures of the Johnny Appleseed figure and said,"Take my picture" while he posed. I did so and was about to leave when another guy flies out of the building and says,"Yo...take my picture too!" Then he started telling me about the building and how it seeks to help people get back on their feet from drugs/alcohol/living on the street. He was really happy about taking a step in the right direction and wanted me to take a picture to show people back home a guy working on being a better citizen. Pretty heartwarming stuff. Good luck man!

The next four pictures were taken at the Portal San Fernando where they had this really great garden with lots of beautiful plants.

Inside this really cool church The San Fernando Cathedral. It houses the remains of Bowie, Crockett, Travis although that's not even mentioned in the CVB guide. I guess they didn't want people crowding the church looking at the container.

Outside the Spanish Governor's Palace. Ehhhh....the Spanish Missions in California were more interesting I thought.

Mexican Wrestler Masks at El Mercado :-D

El Altar De Mi Tierra...Mi Tierra is this famous 24 hr Tex-Mex place in San Antonio. I didn't eat there on the last day due to the fact that I was "scheduled" to have lunch at Texas Land and Cattle and I didn't want to spoil my appetite.

The O Henry House. O Henry is one of my favorite authors just for writing the short story "Gift of the Magi". I love that story.

20 oz at the Texas Land and Cattle Steak House...they call it the Bossman or Cattleman cut...something like that. I got a little cocky when the server came around and asked if I could finish it. Unfortunately, I think my stomach is tuned to consume 16 oz steaks. The extra 4 oz was really impossible. The really good thing about TXLC is that they do not mess around with fat. Outback steaks come out with a good hunk of fat.

Manmade waterfall along the Riverwalk. Very Disneyland.

On the American Airlines Safety Card...look at the expression on that guy's face. Then look at the woman behind him. Kinda like Chinese Ghosts (jiang hse).

My two new toys. The new revised PS2 and my new laptop. My laptop with a cellular connection has been the ultimate roadwarrior's companion. It's so cool being able to check directions/movies/everything on the go. I totally relied on it during my trip to San Antonio when my wireless connection at the hotel would go down. Too bad it's so expensive.

Moose-monkey has found a new friend. Awwwwww so cute.

Size comparison...Katamari Damancy has taken over my life. That and Donkey Konga. Pics up later...my best on Katamari is 823m on the Make a Moon Level (which is where you end up picking up islands/giant octopuses/clouds/typhoons/rainbows. Donkey Konga is the game where you plug in Konga drums into the Gamecube and play along with music. Kinda like DDR but easier for people to pick up on it. You can get 4 people to play at the same time. When I got it, the cashier person was totally raving about it and how great it was.

So after I got back from San Antonio, I went with Margaret to get tickets for next weeks Jazz Festival where they show a 3D movie and a live jazz band plays the sound track. Should be pretty interesting. Apparently, a lot of other people thought so too cause it's almost sold out. On Sunday, Lih-Chern, Chris, Lori and I went to the Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festival. Totally free but I prepaid for VIP parking so we woudln't need to walk a long way from the entrance. You still needed to pay for regular parking so all I did was upgrade. Pretty good deal when there's a lot of people. Got it through Ticketmaster. Anyways, I was mainly there to hear David Benoit, the jazz painist who Eric and I played with during high school when he was a guest conductor and we accompanied him on a few of his songs. We also got to hear a Grammy award winner Regina Belle who was really good.

Yesterday was pretty crazy cause when I got home I didn't expect to have much planned but I ended up going to the Interpol concert at the Warfield with Eric, Mandeep, and Cynthia. That was pretty nuts since the Warfield is such a great venue compared to crappy places like the one that the Cardigans played at. There were 3 bands, Hail Social (out from Philly as they liked to say), Secret Machines, and Interpol. As the bonds went on, they god less melodic as Eric pointed out. Hahahaha. I liked Social a lot, Secret Machines scared me, and Interpol was just so fun to look at. Those guys were pretty cool. Eric said that one of them looked like Crispin Glover and he totally was right. Scary cool. A few people in the audience had the Interpol look too...red tie...black clothes...dark black hair. THe lead singer reminded me of Bono's cover picture from Rattle and Hum and the lyrics were in my mind very REM-ish. What was funny were the clouds of smoke drifting up every few seconds from the crowd. Just at their tour list...they're going to Europe!

I got a Screwdriver there and that's supposed to be a 2/5 ratio...2 parts vodka...5 parts OJ. Except this person went almost the other way...I could barely taste the OJ, it was that strong. Whew..."lucky" it was a small glass.



October 19th, 2004 - 12:08PM

This is an update for the last 2 days. Tonight is Boudro's...and I'm going to try to do some sightseeing tomorrow.

Fried Chicken and Mac and Cheese at the ACR "cafeteria". I haven't had Mac and Cheese since forever. It's not usually something that I go for. I think Church's chicken is much better still.

Hooray. Gout. There was this huge thing here about Vioxx cause all the major drug companies are here. They even had a special session on Vioxx to answer questions.

Cute baby!

Some nice doctor gave Maxine and Darcy each one of these. I took one cause I needed it after recovering from downing a particularly potent margarita. I seriously just crashed in bed...setup my laptop and everything...fell into bed and slept with the tv and lights on. At least I made it to the bed right?

Great prime rib steak at Zuni. Chipotle horseradish sauce and it felt like they had massaged black pepper into every part of the meat. To die for. Seriously good stuff.

Richard pointing to his enchilada

The Alamo at night

Yummy appetizers at Ibiza at the Hilton. Megan, Anita, and I went here before we went to the President's Reception at the McNay Art Museum. Had Spinach/Artichoke dip and Vegetarian Quesadillas. Good stuff! I also had a large Strawberry Margarita here. Man, I've drunk more on this trip than I do in a year or something. It's always the best around dinner time cause you get to hear all the juicy gossip that you wouldn't hear otherwise. Hehehe

ACR/AHRP Ice Sculpture at the McNay Art Museum. This was a gala put on by the associations for VIP people. Very much more upscale and classy than the Sony E3 party.

Sushi chef at the President's Reception for ACR...I loved the sushi AND the fact that they didn't skimp on portions. HUGE pieces.

Shrimp Cocktail. Huge shrimp. Nice and crisp with a lot of flavour without being wet.

Duck and Roast beef....simply divine...really high quality stuff.

Yep yep, duck and beef. The beef was done very differently than what is usual.

Tables were all lit nice with blacklights. Handheld long exposure so excuse the fuzziness

Sushi plate...

Meat and Shrimp plate. The shrimp were SOOOOO good. The white tuna was too. Those are Maxine's fingers in there.

In the gallery...there was no flash photography and no pictures of the traveling exhibit (Picasso). Before I took pictures, I asked one of the docents what the rules were. When I started taking pictures though, one of the docents practically ran to tell me "No flash" and then after that "No pics of the traveling exhibitis"...he was so out of breath that I was actually finishing his sentences for him.

Closeup of pointillism, this was a Pisarro instead of a Seurat (which was what I automatically assumed).

Waterlilies by Monet. The next time I go to France, I want to go to Musée de l'Orangerie instead of just the Louvre so I can see the circular room of water lilies. That and also the Musée d'Orsay. The Orangerie is so small, they don't even have a website.

The Cellist by Chaim Soutine

Fabulous palm tree in the courtyard

Fountain in the middle of the courtyard

Great looking trees. Love the leaves.

Spanish steps with great tiling

The Mushroom Bar. Like 8 different kinds of mushrooms. Lobster mushrooms, Enoki, Wood Ear...

CMR group pic. That's me, Maxine, Leroy, Megan, and Anita.

Pretty good Don Quixote statue.



October 17th, 2004 - 10:37AM

Best lunch EVER. Ate at the Luciano Ristorante Italiano in the Rivercenter. Their ribeye was especially juicy. Watched "House of Flying Daggers" while I was there. The resolution is a bit low cause I used the laptop camera to take a picture.

For dinner, we went to Paesanos, one of the places on my list (I made a list of places to eat at on August 10th). The whole group has reservations to go to Boudro's already so all I need to plan is to get people to go to either Fig Tree or Texas and Land Cattle. Fig Tree is kinda outrageously expensive so I may have to go there on my own. Paesanos was awesome

Huge Calamari appetizer at Paesano. This wasn't a small plate. It was huge calamari. I loved the spicy sour sauce they had.

Great Ravenswood Amador County Zinfandel. Great wine, everyone loved the woody flavour.

CMR peeps. Had a lot of fun that night cause Darcy was telling a lot of the newcomers her story about moving to 5 different rooms. I've been sharing pictures of my China trip where Jiuzhaigou is definitely the most liked.

I took a leave from meat dishes and got fish! I almost never get fish but it was the special and I hadn't had Seabass in such a long time. The Seabass was in a mango puree with tomatoes and crushed almonds. Also on a bed of spinach lasagna (without the red sauce). It was REALLY good. The seabass was just perfect.

On the way back to our hotels, we saw this place that had a museum purporting to be the worlds's biggest collection of horns. Lots of stuffed animals and they weren't the polyester kind.

Horns on the roof as well. Pretty interesting decorations.

This building had a pretty interesting history behind it. Me and Darcy passed by and noticed it because it was the only club on the way to our hotels. Richard saw it cause it was next to his hotel room and had the Star of David on the upper windows. Anyways, last night I took pictures, and today I checked out the history of the place. Apparently, it was built as a gym by Germans around the turn of the century. Then taken over by the Army, and now its an "open" club which means that straight and gay people go there.



October 16th, 2004 - 10:37AM

ACR's staff breakfast. 10 different ingredients for the omelette!!!

Here's how my omelette turned out. Salmon on top. Prosciutto, sausage, ham, bacon, chicken, dried tomatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers, onions inside. Yeeeeee haaaaa (cause I'm in Texas)

Rivercenter river-side. I usually have my lunch here listening to the Brazilian band. Yesterday I had a NY steak at Tony Roma's. Very indulgent.

This is right in the middle of the convention center. These people are actually having their lunch on the boat. Pretty neat. There's a movement within CMR to do this one of the days.

Mariachi band. We had a band roving through the restaurant we ate at playing loud music. I thought it was pretty cool but everyone else were like "Oh no!!!". But I think they secretly liked it.

Dinner at Michelino's Ristorante Italiano. We ate outdoors so we had a nice trellis or something like that above.

I got Angelhair Frutti de Mare which was interesting because I've never had angelhair pasta in conjunction with Frutti de Mare. Also, the absence of mussels (lots of scallops though) and the addition of bell peppers. Still the dish was pretty good and creamy.



October 15th, 2004 - 12:53PM

The place that I'm staying at, the Hampton Hotel has free breakfast which isn't continental. They had biscuits and gravy yesterday and today they had sausages. Lot better than the hotels I've been to in the past. This morning I went to the ACR Staff breakfast where they had chefs making omelets.

Yesterday, I had lunch at the Riverwalk and got an Original Orange Juice from Orange Julius. I loved those when I was a kid. Yesterday was pretty interesting because the computers we were supposed to have were sent to San Diego accidentally instead of San Antonio. Crazy. Everything worked out in the end though

After work, me, Richard Ozer, and Darcy had dinner at this place on the Riverwalk called Rio Rio Cantina. I had reservations about eating at a place that was more Mexican than TexMex but thankfully it wasn't that bad. Here's a pic of people opposite from where we were eating. A mariachi band had just performed. You can see one mariachi guy leaving on the left. This whole place really is what I'd expect a Southern city to be. In fact, Richard made the joke that he expected someone to start singing "Yo ho yo ho, a pirate's life for me." This place really is Pirates of the Caribbean. You've got people eating next to a river which has overhanging trees and boats inside the river with people looking around.

I ordered a full rack of ribs. Man, when it came out I was really impressed with the size. A guy next to our table came up and asked me if it was good. Boy was it. Usually I hate having BBQ sauce on my meat cause its almost always too much. This time, although it was too much, I almost didn't mind cause it was so good. That's my hand next to it for size comparison. Got a small Strawberry Margarita too which was enough for me.

Afterwards, we went to the ACR Staff Party that was being held on the 19th floor of the Marriott. The above pic was taken from the outside area (can't say it was a balcony cause the outside area was bigger than the inside suite...it had multiple tables and lounge chairs). This party was catered and all and had a "Margarita Man" machine.

My new laptop gets comments wherever I go. Old man waiting for an elevator who said it was amazing and commented that it probably had more memory than his desktop. A professional looking guy who said that his company got 3 of them recently. The 3 gals next to us at dinner who saw me pull it out and started talking about it (it really is a PC iMac...very eye-catching and sleek). People at the convention...hmm...plus I made this really nifty wallpaper of one of my favorite pictures which people are really digging. It's of the Pearl Shoal Fall in Jiuzhaigou. I'll try and have it downloadable at some point.



October 14th, 2004 - 11:14AM

I'm in San Antonio setting up for the ACR (American COllege of Rheumatology) conference. It's nice and muggy here with surprise/freak thunderstorms. There were a few flash flood warnings here last night. It'd be hot and sunny one minute and then it'd be pouring the next. Reminds me of Taiwan. Anyways, the Alamo was somewhat smaller than I expected but still it was worth the visit. I love having a river run by everything. Very cool.

Had lunch at the Lonestar Cafe yesterday and had pork chops. River ran right by, it was very picturesque. I have a cellular internet connection for now so I was able to communicate with HQ while eating lunch, it was great. I'm adjusting to the 2 hr time differnce still (while still reeling from the jetlag from last week). Richard says that you need 1 day per hour difference. If so, I should just now be adjusting which is kinda true but this 2 hr difference again might screw it all.



October 12th, 2004 - 10:38PM

This day was pretty exciting for no real reason. Just kinda happened.

I guess it got prepped to be that way cause I'm off to San Antonio tomorrow early morning (try waking up at 4:30AM) for work. Pretty much just setting up the network there and making sure things run ok. Anyways, this last week and Monday/Tuesday of this week have just been really hectic, full of emotional upsets and upheavals that I'm surprised I haven't gone off the deep end yet. I managed my workload that had accumulated during my trip in China pretty well plus the fact that I had to prepare for this San Antonio trip.

A lot of today was spent on the laptops/cellphones for all 3 conferences happening at this time. We've got conferences in LA, Las Vegas, and San Antonio and everyone wants laptops/cellphones. Pretty crazy stuff but me and Andrew managed ok.

Had a pretty big group for lunch...Me, Andrew, Andrew's friend, Margaret and Holly. We had 4 beef noodle soups from the Taiwanese noodle place and I got a watermelon juice (no boba). Treated everyone (except Holly, who brought her food) since my trip is being expensed so it was no big deal. Looking forward to getting good food and good times on this trip. Apparently, CMR has contacts with restaurants/clubs in San Antonio so we're getting special treatment.

Didn't make it out of work till almost 7PM since there was still so much that needed to be taken care of (I'm taking a total of 3 computers with me...a server...and 2 laptops...security checkpoints will be a pain). I had to rush though cause I needed to return the MediaGear Flash-HD to Go that I used on my China trip because it had problems with Memorystick Pros plus wouldn't act like a hard drive without power (something that laptop drive-based devices shouldn't have a problem with). Anyway's, after I returned it, I went around looking for an mp3/video/pic player like the Archos player. Fry's didn't have it but it did have the Sony/iRiver/Creative offerings that I had read about already. However, none of them really made me interested in the $500 price tag so I moved on. Into the laptop section. By the time I left Fry's, I left with a new Sony laptop...oh the craziness.

I've loved this laptop ever since I saw it and after I saw the sale sign, I was sold. Well, I have 15 days to return it but its looking pretty good right now. Anyways, it's about time, since my computers were so outdated it was kinda embarrassing having them. Coming home, pulling up Pricewatch and finding out that you still got a better deal made it all even sweeter.



October 12th, 2004 - 6:41AM

The Raccoon. It's a drift water collection vessel operated by the Army Corp of Engineers out of Sausalito. Me, Margaret, and Holly went on it to participate in California Coastal Cleanup Day a few weeks ago.

The collection area where driftwood collects. The way the boat works is pretty neat. As the ship goes along, a lookout at the top of the ship spots driftwood and directs the captain towards it. The ship basically runs over the wood so that it goes into the front of the ship where they have a collection grid where water can pass through the middle of the ship but wood can't. When the day was done, the Raccoon had collected quite a bit of driftwood. The next two pics probably help clarify how it works...

In order to liberate the plastic bin, a HUGE hole needed to be dug. It was up to me and Margaret plus the "help" of the little kid shown here to do so. It might not look like it in the picture, but it was a pretty big hole.

Margaret seems to be having problem lifting it...hahaha...actually it was pretty light.

Stranded Jellyfish

The team is highly successful.

The Taj Mahal Houseboat

Turkey Legs

Those legs were huge. Both of us didn't end up finishing it.

This is a section of the Bay Model. I had never even heard of it before. It models the water/tide/salinity/current of the Bay Area water system. This was all created before computers were available. The shore closest is the East Bay. You can kinda see the Bay Bridge to the far peninsula (San Francisco) and then the Golden Gate bridge in the upper right.

Lotsa food for my going away party

Check out the ingenious fan setup. It's sitting on rolls of toilet paper.

Yumm...Yumm!

This is one of the coolest billiards pics I've ever taken.

This is the second. Mind you, this was done with a longer exposure without a tripod. I'm surprised it came out so well. Of course you can hardly tell due to the downsampling of the image.

I went to the World Cyber Games 2004 which are being held in America for the first time ever.

Gameplay is viewed on the huge screens above although with Halo you could watch the TVs themselves.

Back of a converted Scion xB

Has all 3 systems plus a PC

The outdoor stage was showing music video mods where game characters sang and danced to popular songs. We saw Sims 2 characters acting out the entire "Stacey's Mom" music video. Great stuff.

Fatal1ty was there again although this time playing Doom 3 Multiplayer. I didn't feel like getting beat again.

Look at this Bentley Continental GT we saw outside near Civic Center. MSRP $149,900. It's not supposed to even be released yet. 
5,998cc W12 twin turbocharged
552bhp @ 6,100rpm (560PS/411KW)
650Nm torque @ 1,600rpm (479lbft)
198mph maximum speed
4.7 seconds (0-100kph in 4.8 secs)

The church that my orchestra performed in was really cool. Lots of stained glass and I loved the ceiling.



October 7th, 2004 - 5:10PM

Found this to be amusing. Still I love the song so gotta represent...I must confess I know the lyrics to this song.



October 6th, 2004 - 7:03AM

The position of helping me out at work has been posted over at Craigslist. If you feel qualified and up to it, feel free to send me your resume at achou a+ cmrus d0+ c0m

After looking over the initial pool briefly, I have a few words to say...



October 6th, 2004 - 7:03AM

Yes, I am alive and well and back in SF! Those two weeks were amazing even if I did get sick the last few days and suffered the worst headaches I've ever experienced. I'll try to post stories about my trip but I think the best thing to do would be to create a new section just for the trip.

Anyways, I arrived at around midnight on Sunday. Went to work on Monday...had symphony practice that night for 3 hours. FUN FUN FUN!!! Anyways, we're having our first concert this season this coming Sunday (the 10th) at 3PM in Oakland. We're playing Hector Berlioz's Overture to Benvenuto Cellini, Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite, and Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 (in G).

The address is St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 114 Montecito Avenue, Oakland

Yahoo maps direct link

Admission is free so just come cause the Dvorak is great.