Sweet science

’Tis the season for peace and love and carols by the fire and decorated fir trees and all that sort of thing. ’Tis also the season for candy: candy canes, fudge, toffee, peanut brittle, bon-bons of all kinds. A lot of it is store-bought, but a lot of it is made from scratch. As Grandma …

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The first sentence I wrote today

She and her mother were in the second load to be ferried to the shuttle.Words today: 1,406Total thus far: 18,532Percentage completed: 15.4

Photo of the (Yester)day: Beauty and the Beast kickline

From Darla Biccum (one of our cast member)’s Facebook page, here we are rehearsing Beauty and the Beast yesterday. This is the end of Be Our Guest. I’m the tall fellow on the right who has bravely taken off his dust mask to sing. Today we did cue-to-cue of Act I, and this show being …

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The first sentence I wrote today

She and her mother were in the second load to be ferried to the shuttle.Words today: 1,406Total thus far: 18,532Percentage completed: 15.4

Photo of the Day: The New Persephone Theatre

We moved into the new Persephone Theatre today. It was certainly an interesting experience, since construction continued unabated while we checked spacing for Beauty and the Beast on stage. Dust hung so thick in the air that, as you can see in the second photo below, many of us were wearing dust masks most of …

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The first sentence I wrote today (well, technically, yesterday, since I’m posting this after midnight, so sue me)

With Hansen’s image gone from the vidscreen, Karl Rasmusson turned to the man to whom command of the Holy Warriors had defaulted.Words today: 992Total thus far: 17,126Percentage completed: 14.3 Not too great a total today, either. I expect more tomorrow, though, since I don’t have to be at rehearsal until noon.

The first sentence I wrote today

But there were precautions they could take against that possibility. Words today: 504Total thus far: 16,134Percentage completed: 13.4 An embarrassingly small total today–I got a late start. I need to pull up my socks!

Book sites

Here’s this week’s CBC Web column… *** Books make great Christmas presents…at least, the right book does. But with so many books out there, how do you find the good ones? Well, the World Wide Web is a good place to start. There are hundreds of good book sites on the Web. In fact, there …

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The first sentence I wrote today

Richard Hansen looked at the man who had appeared on the vidscreen in response to his request to speak to The Avatar.Words today, plus a few from Sunday I didn’t blog: 2,139Total thus far: 15,630Percentage completed: 13 So here I am back in Saskatoon for the last week of rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast …

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Cars that drive themselves

This evening in the car my six-year-old daughter, Alice, commented out of the blue that she wished our car could drive itself. “I’d like that, too,” I said, and explained that scientists were, in fact, working on cars that could do exactly that, thinking of the Grand Challenges for driverless cars held by the Defense …

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The first sentence I wrote today…

Unlike his predecessors, Karl Rasmusson, Third Avatar of the Body Purified, did not claim to talk to God directly.Words today: 1,403Total thus far: 13,491Percentage completed: 11.2

Aurora Award nominations open

This year’s Aurora Awards were just barely handed out, but nominations are already open for next year’s, to be presented at KeyCon, the annual SF convention in Winnipeg (which I hope to attend for the first time ever next year!). Also note that the Auroras have a new website, a considerable step up from the …

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