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Welcome to Relief Valve! My goal in creating this is to build a virtual square where I can talk with people about what is going on in their worlds to share experiences and ideas that might help all of us get through these unprecedented times.
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Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Annie Choi is the owner of Found Coffee, a specialty coffee shop in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles which recently celebrated it’s sixth year in business despite the pandemic!
Prior to being an entrepreneur, Annie worked in television post production on notable shows such Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Project Runway: All Stars.
She loves telling stories and has a passion for gathering community.
On her days off, she enjoys traveling, cuddling with her pup, Frankie, going to other coffee shops, and reading non-fiction literature.
Find her at: http://www.foundcoffeela.com
Or on Instagram: @foundcoffeela
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Al Pimentel grew up in a family of musicians.
By age 12, music became his passion and he decide he wanted a career in the music industry.
Thru high school he performed in several small venues from Santa Monica to Venice Beach and started teaching part time during the summer.
He completed his formal musical studies at El Camino College, where he studied both Jazz and Classical saxophone.
Besides teaching, he can also be found playing not just Jazz, but other popular styles of music all over Los Angeles.
Want to see one of those on-line performance we talk about, check out his performance of the theme from “The Mandalorian” released for “May the fourth be with you”
And some of his other performances with his band “The Candy Bomber”
https://www.facebook.com/TheCandyBomber/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnlUNzT-sIgtSkXrs4Wx0Xw
And learn more about his teaching at:
http://www.sunsetlearningstudio.com/our-teachers.html
https://justplaysax.wixsite.com/alpimenteljazz
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Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Adam Bunnell is a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in multiple coffee startups.
He currently is the owner and operator of Hustle-N-Dough, a small batch donut company that serves handmade donuts- and Adam's own roast from a food truck in all four corners of Los Angeles.
Keep up on where to find the truck on his Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/hustlendough/
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Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
W. Curtis Preston is a specialist in computer storage, backup and recovery and has been a consultant and analyst in the industry for many years.
He’s the author of 3 O’Reilly books with a fourth, “Modern Data Protection” being released in May.
Currently the Chief Technical Evangelist at Druva, a cloud-based data protection company, You can also find his works in publications like Network World and in the “Restore It All” podcast from his website, Backup Central.
https://soundcloud.com/restoreitall
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/modern-data-protection/9781492094043/
Wednesday Mar 24, 2021
Wednesday Mar 24, 2021
Alyson Rochlin is a Student at California State University Long Beach in Southern California where she is studying Music Education and Performance.
She has been studying flute since she was 11 years old and has since learned to play eight instruments as part of her education studies.
She teaches privately to help support herself through college, and works in the Pit Orchestra for the Encore Theatre Company in Los Angeles’s South Bay where she has played Reed 1 in productions of Annie and Matilda During non-pandemic times.
Oh, and she is also my daughter!
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Scott "Skottie" Miller is a Technologist focused on operational tactics and long-term strategy around High-Performance Computing, Storage and Networking as it relates to Computational Visualization for feature length animated films.
A graduate of California State University at Fullerton, he spent 11 years in Aerospace before landing at The Walt Disney Animation Studio where amongst his many achievements, he helped build the first all CG Pipeline for the movie Dinosaur.
He moved over to Dreamworks Animation in 1999 where he still is a Vice President and Technology Fellow and one of the smartest people I know.
See the fruits of his labors at https://www.dreamworks.com
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Born in Nashville, Dara McGarry worked at Disney Feature Animation for 14 years before trading her mouse ears for a bowler hat.
She moved to London in 2010 to work as an Artist Manager at Double Negative, a Post Production, Visual Effects and Animation studio. ( https://www.dneg.com )
Besides traveling around Europe (when that was a thing), seeing theatre on the West End, and historic sites around the UK, Dara also was a regular at the story telling event, One Track Minds, which recounts stories of songs that changed your life.
She became a British Citizen in October 2020.
https://www.facebook.com/daradactyl
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dara-mcgarry-6a75512/?originalSubdomain=uk
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Tommy Williams is a professional musician from Long Island, New York.
After honing his skills on guitar, bass, keyboards, songwriting and arranging, he began his professional career at 17 on the New York club circuit. He soon landed the position of guitarist, keyboardist and Musical Director for ‘80’s teen-pop star DEBBIE GIBSON, touring the world and appearing on her first three albums (including lead guitar on the #1 hit “Lost In Your Eyes”).
Tommy is a member of the band THE HOOTERS , where he provides vocals, guitar, mandolin, mandola and keyboards, playing to sold-out concert and festival crowds around the world.
When he’s not on tour, he teaches and performs weekly live webcast on Facebook Live.
https://www.facebook.com/Tommy-Williams-42057517974/
https://www.hootersmusic.com/tommy-williams
https://www.facebook.com/quarantinekeys
ONE OF US / TIME AFTER TIME - The Hooters (Kiel, Germany 6-17-11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4VP6OxrvN8&feature=youtu.be
The Hooters - Give The Music Back (with Tommy Williams guitar intro) Ocean City NJ 7/18/17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K0oN17_gy4
The Hooters "And We Danced" @Epcot 11/07/2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ3g8H8GX2U
Follow up on the Relief Valve feed for some of Tommys tracks from his album Two Hundred
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Tommy Williams is a professional musician from Long Island, New York.
Listen to his profile and Interview at the top of the feed...
In this bonus episode, enjoy 3 cuts from Tommy’s solo Release “Two Hundred”
https://www.tommywilliams.net/music
Track 1 - Two Hundred
Track 2 - I don’t Want to Cry Anymore
Track 3 - Where Are You Now
All Music / Rights Reserved by Tommy Williams
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Greetings Relief Valve Listener and Happy New Year!
Back in September 2020, during the third interview on the podcast, I spoke with Edward Branley. (https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-m9ky7-e9ebc5)
Edward is a writer, teacher, historian, and computer nerd. He is the author of six books on the history of New Orleans as well as several Young Adult fiction novels.
He also teaches computer classes on high-end topics such as Converged Computing Environments, High-Availability, and Enterprise Storage Management.
When Edward and I chatted last year we had a fun conversation about our humble experiences in the pre- and early-PC era of computers. We also spoke about what it is like looking for a job right smack in the middle of a pandemic. It was great stuff, but it didn’t really fit in the amount of time available for the episode, so it landed in the cutting room.
I’m releasing here for you all as a bonus while I’m working on finding more folks to chat with for 2021, so I hope you enjoy it !
Have a safe and happy new year and wear your damn masks !
You can find out more about Edward at his websites:
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You can learn more about Jeff Rochlin at https://jeffrochlin.com/
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