How Computers Work
Pure fun, work-safe picture which explains a lot. How Computers Work
Photos of the Pack
Our youngest dogs, "the puppies", turn 11 in August. (Their aunt Audit is in the picture above.) There's nothing like having your children age to make you feel old... or at least that's what my mother told me when I was approaching my 30th birthday. We used today's rare sun in the backyard to update our family portraits. The photo below on the left was taken 7 or so years ago. The one on the right is from this afternoon. Full-sized and more pictures of the red Ozdachs, the black and tan Ozdachs, redozdachs, and ozdachs are behind the cut. Thanks to Ken for being [...]
“An Inconvenient Truth”
Roger Ebert has gone all out praising Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times column. I have been vaguely aware of the documentary and put it on my "kinda want to see it" list. Ebert's mention of it makes me bump it up to "will see". "In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film", says Ebert. Powerful enough to catch my attention. What really grabbed me? The frothing hate comments heaped upon Ebert, liberals, and anyone not drinking the no-nothing [...]
Squaredancing Convention Email
Just received email from the Wish Upon a Thar organizers:Marriot and Clarion Hotel Reservations ... Yes, both hotels are now full. Need to share a Room? The Wish Upon A Thar roommate BBS is up and running. Login at the upper right of the convention home page (www.wishuponathar.org ), and the link to the Roomshare Bulletin Board will appear in the login space. ... Only registrants of Wish Upon A Thar can access this bulletin board.
A Fiery Welcome Home
Shortly after we arrived home from Oregon Tuesday we smelled smoke and saw clouds of it billowing over a neighbor's house a few backyards over.After a moments hesitation over which of our many phones was the closest to grab and dial 9-1-1, I listened to one round of "we're sorry we're busy, please do not hang up" before describing the situation to the answering dispatcher. Geoff heard fire engines arriving and left to see what was going on.After a quick conversation with the eventual live dispatcher, I grabbed my camera. It looks grim, eh? More Disaster Pictures
The Importance of Being Earnest
Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde The farce at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this season relies on word play instead of physical humor and timing. Still, the company manages to over-act and put on stuffy English accents to keep alive their tradition of doing b r o a d comedy. There's not much to say about this good production of a clever but well worn play. It was good to see Kevin Kennerly as Algernon in a break from his murderous roles of past years (Booth in Topdog/Underdog and Levee in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom). [...]
Intimate Apparel
Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Intimate Apparel by Lynn NottageI got teary-eyed watching Esther Mills and Mr. Marks appreciate the swath of fine fabric, Yes, their unrolling of a piece of cloth was that emotional, complex, and full. I didn’t feel manipulated. There were no “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” sniffling heart-string tugs. It was just that what wasn’t being said on stage — what couldn’t be said on stage — was just that potent. Intimate Apparel’s surface story is easy to tell. The play is about a mid-30’s single Negro seamstress of women’s undergarments [...]
A Number
San Francisco, CA American Conservatory Theatera number by Caryl Churchill It's not about cloning! It's about a father and 20 sons, 19 of whom who were cloned in a desperate do-over attempt at parenting by a drunken, failing father whose wife had committed suicide and left her husband and their two-year-old son. It's about intense dialog tensing between the father and sons 30-some years later. It's about nature vs. nurture (or lack thereof). It's about men -- the only two actors are male, and the story unfolds in the very male den of the father (Bill Smitrovich as Salter). All of [...]
Sleaze with Insight and Wit
Former San Francisco Mayor, former Speaker of the California Assembly, and therefore formerly the most politically powerful man in the state, Willie Brown entertained a good-sized crowd at the Commonwealth Club last night. Billed as his annual speech on political trends, Willie put on a face-paced, witty, informative, and satisfying liberal tour de force which kept us snickering, smiling, and nodding knowledgeably for the entire hour. He touched on national, state, and local politics, and scattered gems of insight along with sugary left-wing candy prophesies that had us smacking our lips for more. He sees the national Republicans in disarray. Acknowledging that [...]
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