A Sondheim show has recouped its investment on Broadway. It’s an odd thing, but though Stephen Sondheim is considered (certainly I consider him) probably the greatest living Broadway composer, and one of the greatest of all time, few of his shows have been financially successful. The current revival of Sweeney Todd appears to be an …
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You think wine is good for you now…
…wait until it comes from grapes with an extra-heavy dose of Vitamin C!
Broadband in space?
It might be in the future thanks to improvements to a sensor that can detect a single photon.
Photo of the Day: Natural and Un
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Progress in pomology
If “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” it’s rather surprising there’s still a need for doctors, considering Canadians consume around 11 kg of apples per person per year. They can choose from a bewildering array of apple cultivars, too (more than 7,500 are known), from the crisp and tart (Macintosh) to the soft …
My future air-yacht
Regular readers of this blog (I know of at least two!) know that I love airships. I’ve never flown in one or even been close to one, mind you, but maybe someday… In fact, maybe someday I’ll have my own airship yacht. It could happen! (Via Gizmodo.)
Advances in apples
If “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” it’s rather surprising there’s still a need for doctors, considering Canadians consume around 11 kg of apples per person per year. They can choose from a bewildering array of apple cultivars, too (more than 7,500 are known), from the crisp and tart (Macintosh) to the soft …
Photo of the Day: First Day of Spring
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The first sentence I wrote today…
Workers install a Blairmore Ring in a Saskatchewan potash mine. (Hey, it’s a caption for the APEGS history book. Whaddya want?)
Two big new posts at The Willetts on Wine
I finally posted two big posts at the wine blog my wife and I maintain, The Willetts on Wine. Both relate to the German Wine Society’s dinner held a couple of weeks ago at which the guest of honour was Rainer Karl Lingenfelder of Lingenfelder Estate. His family has been growing grapes and making wine …
The first sentence I wrote today (well, actually, yesterday, because today was Sunday and I didn’t actually write anything today)…
Karl seated himself in the ornately carved–and therefore, not surprisingly, amazingly uncomfortable–black wooden chair at the head of the table and nodded to the Prime Advisor.
Photo of the Weekend: March on the Golf Course
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My latest live walk and vlog
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