I have no special gift, I am only passionately curious. –Albert Einstein
Wired News: Stop Trying to Persuade Us
A fascinating article by Wired News, Stop Trying to Persuade Us gives a quick glance at a PBS Frontline show, The Persuaders, airing tonight. It is also interesting to note that there are eight ads (4 images, 4 text) on the page of this article.
The Wizard of Oz
Last weekend we all saw The Wizard of Oz performed by the Woodbridge Young Peoples’ Theater. They did a fantastic job. Some of the musical numbers got a little confused, but all in all, they did quite well. And they even had a real dog performing as Toto.
Bush and Kerry are cousins
Well, kinda. Ninth cousins twice removed or something like that. (dead link removed 2013-07-07)
Today’s element is …
Krypton – Kr
Idiot for Congress
Wow, I only just got my first piece of political candidate spam for this election cycle. It only had 166 email addresses listed in the To: field. And I only received four copies of this garbage. I guess I know who to vote for now: the OTHER candidate!
Sarah McLachlan – World on Fire
Wow, what a video. Check it out at WorldOnFire.ca.
Spitfire Grill Review
Last Friday night my family saw the Spitfire Grill at the Lazy Susan Dinner Theater. The show was quite well done. The audio quality of the Lazy Susan still needs a lot of improvement, and the rainstorm did not help at all. I wonder if the actors should have stopped performing when it was obvious that no one could hear them at all? Probably not, but there were several significant gaps where no one had any idea what was happening on stage. We did change our seats during the intermission to a seat to the far stage left, but on the main level, and the audio was much easier to hear. But visually, we lost a lot of the stage, mainly because the stage at the Lazy Susan is very wide and only 10 feet deep.
National Zoo Photographs
I just posted 20 photographs from the National Zoo.
Twenty Years
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.” Robert Anton Wilson