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David Ocker

I work as a computer Music Engraver

Someday this sentence will be a link to an explanation of music engraving.

I use the SCORE Music Engraving Program and Sibelius.

Music that I've written is published by Leisure Planet Music.
Click here to find my musical biography, and other things, including
the program notes to Thomas Pynchon, His Pavane and Galliard.

From 1977 till 1984 I worked for composer Frank Zappa

Read my 124K online interview with the alt.fan.Frank-Zappa newsgroup

Read the program notes which I wrote for his Francesco Zappa album - in spite of the typos I really did write this.

Information about natural phenomena - like a fish and a jelly - which are named after Frank Zappa
(both Leslie and I have bit parts in this story)

Our first moments of wedded bliss.

A wedding cake Leslie decorated - for someone else.

Leslie Harris

Leslie is a Marine Biologist.

Her speciality is indentifying Polychaetes (or marine worms).
She is the Collections Manager of a huge collection of worms at the
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

Here are some wonderful pictures of worms she took on Guana Island in the British Virgin Islands.

Leslie bought this stove. It sits in our garage. She hopes to refurbish it to a usable condition.

Pasadena, California

Information about Pasadena.

The weather right now.

The weather forecast.

Live web camera in Old Pasadena.

The air quality right now.

The freeway traffic right now.

The latest area earthquakes.

Bad news about the future of L.A. Earthquakes.

Here's a satellite picture of Pasadena.

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