Kudos to Theatre Rhino for getting a nice mention in the Chronicle's SF Gate for their current production, Family Jewels: The Making of Veronica Klaus. The Chron is notoriously fickle and doesn't show up for a lot of local theater events. Many productions and theaters aren't reviewed simply because the Chron doesn't even send a reviewer. It's a coup to even get a bad mention. The show has to be special to get a good mention!
I find it especially disconcerting to have to pigeon-Indian my way through my customer service request when I'm calling an iconic American institution. But, "Phyllis" at Smithsonian magazine was not a native English-language speaker. It kinda feels like everything is for sale and we're even outsourcing our culture.
I am not a big fan of the self-righteous sport of publicly answering "What would Jesus do?" to a host of modern issues. Too obviously spiritual thought is glaringly missing from the self-serving pronouncement that follows. But, I did find myself wondering this morning "What would Muhammad do?" I am no student of Islam. But, I have a feeling that a prophet of any stripe would be in a state of dispirited weariness. I am no prophet. But, I am in a state of dispirited weariness.
I guess if I read that Scrapbook offers "Full integration with your LiveJournal" enough times, I'll get it. Even if big words sometimes puzzle me. The latest version of Semagic got me to figure it out. The version change notice touted the ability to copy an image to the PC clipboard and paste it into a LJ entry. (Semagic first saves it on my disk and then points to it as file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Galen/My%20Documents/file2.png . When it's uploaded, the image URL gets changed to a Scrapbook URL. ) I haven't figured out a way to view all my LJ post pictures in [...]
Irresistible quotations about our modern Aaron Burr
Thanks to fuzzygruf for mentioning his difficulty getting a hotel room for this year's squaredancing convention in Anaheim. After reading his warnings, we snagged rooms this morning for June 28 through July 4th. Already some of the dates available when fuzzygruf called yesterday were gone (June 26 and 27th). When Hollis tried the 800-number (800 228-9290) this afternoon, the 28th and 29th were not available except at the rack rate of $450/night. They also were booked on the website. Hollis wound up calling the hotel directly and prevailing on them to give her the convention rate of $112 for all nights... but, she is a [...]
It is a criminal offense to use the Internet to "incite subversion," or to "divulge state secrets"... The laws "safeguard the security of the State and the public interest." I can almost hear Vice President Chaney's voice argue that the President has the Constitutional authority -- and the moral responsibility -- to vigorously enforce these reasonable security steps in the War Against Terror. Except, of course, these are statements from a 2000 position paper from the Chinese National People's Congress on the Internet. The Wall Street Journal Monday included them in a feature on a program called Freegate which allows Chinese to surf [...]
Who knew? I found out when I received email about it from my church's headquarters in Boston. Unitarian Universalists were lead plaintiffs in the Massachusetts case that legalized same-sex marriages there. The denomination's general assemblies have come out in favor of marriage equality, and our ministers do lobbying for the issue around the country. The denomination's president, Rev. William Sinkford, is on the Human Rights Campaign's Religion Council. His essay on "Whom God Has Joined Together" is available on the HRC's website as part of the week celebration. Still, I didn't know there was a week for marriage equality. I bet the cards are [...]
Google Video is featuring Why Macs Suck by Hunter Cressall. Great fun.... especially for those of us who have been pummeled about the head and shoulders by Macophiles ever since they gave up beating the drum for their Betamax players.