1: 3:30 Rocket Rider's Prayer (Savitzky) 2: 2:45 High Barratry (Savitzky/Trad.) The company now known as The SCO Group was once called ``Caldera.'' I'd always wondered why it was named after a kind of gigantic crater caused by the collapse of a magma chamber. 3: 2:15 The World Inside the Crystal (Savitzky) My first _serious_ computer song. You can always tell the programmers in the audience. They've been there, and they know. 4: 4:00 The River (Savitzky) 5: 3:40 The Merry Man and his Maid (Gilbert/Sullivan) 6: 3:06 The Toolmakers (Savitzky) 7: 4:41 Ferret Went A-Courtin' (Savitzky/Trad.) 8: 1:54 The Owl and the Pussycat (Lear/Trad.) 9: Cryptographer's Anthem (Savitzky/Trad.) 10: 4:33 The Little Computing Machine (Savitzky/Trad.) A song of seduction, obsession, and madness. Written while listening to Golden Bough singing "The Black Velvet Band" and wishing I could afford an Apple ][. 11: 4:20 The Programmer's Alphabet (Savitzky/Trad.) My first computer song, based on various sailors' alphabets. 12: 2:39 The Rambling Silver Rose (Savitzky) Very loosely inspired by Cindy McQuillin's songs of spaceships, spaceport bars, and hard-drinking, independent-minded women. 13: 4:45 The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of (Savitzky) I wrote this for my father a few months before he died; he went to grad school with Isaac Asimov, and introduced me to folk music, computers and science fiction. 14: 4:18 Keep the Dream Alive (Savitzky) Written in 1986 shortly after the Challenger blew up on takeoff. Revised, unfortunately, for Columbia in 2003. 15: 4:00 Ship of Stone (Simpson) In my opinion the best filksong ever written. If one of the songs we're singing now is still being sung a thousand years from now, it will probably be this one. total: 50:26 in 15 tracks (1 untimed)