William Don Carlos Author, Bagpiper, Fiddler, Tenor Favorite Links

William's Favorite Links

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Music

The 7 Pipers Band ... the band here in Tucson, Arizona.

Scottish Smallpipes by Hamish Moore. He made my set.

The Piper's Gathering ~ North America's premier alternate piping event!

The Celtic Arts Foundation produces The Winter School. I found it to be an excellent experience.

The Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming is also another fabulous school that I enjoyed attending.

The Willie Clancy Summer School. Hey I'd like to go there... wouldn't you?

Nigel Gather's Traditional Music Pages are a terrific resource for Scottish Music.

Parlor Songs is where I discovered an incredibly beautiful song "Macushla" and there are many other gems hidden here.

Click here for Jazz Fiddle Radio on the Web.

Books/Cinema

The Lord of the Rings An awesome piece of celluloid.

Other Wonderful Diversions

Here's a site for folks like me from the Church of Christ who crossed the Tiber to find the real thing had been there all along... These are some other good ones: Catholic Answers and EWTN. I love to attend the Latin Mass at St. Gianna's Oratory. It is something truly unique and awesome in Tucson.

I love Roman History and this site pretty well sums it all up. The bigger they are the harder they fall! Or do-it-yourself with a cool game called Ceasar III or as of Fall 2006 Caesar IV.

Long live Ray! It really could be a Fantastic Voyage. Some interesting ideas about better health no matter how long you've got. I enjoy thinking about some of the ideas of Ray Kurzweil.

Another source of great things to think about are the videos you can watch from TED.

You gotta hope there are never mushroom clouds on the horizon but it is always nice to know something in advance about the enormous blast effects. This is an unforgettable site.

IF it does happen, might as well just light up a fat one of these: CAO Cigars are some of the best.

I love Giant Squids and Colossal Squids,Check out the pictures of a live Architeuthis and and a dead Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, respectively. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet, Act I, Scene V

I love Congo African Grey parrots, Psittacus erithacus and Hyacinth Macaws, Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus.

I am also interested in orchids. The Tucson Orchid Society has a nice site. These videos from Orchid Web were useful and informative with respect to basic care.

You can find me on Hotfrog here.