If I had a nickle for every time someone in a science fiction story “opaqued the windows” at the touch of a button, or did something equivalent, instead of drawing old-fashioned drapes, I’d…well, I’d have quite a few nickles. Now electronic drapes have become reality. UPDATE: Technovelgy.com has the lowdown on an early SF reference …
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For the first couple of decades of my life, I didn’t know what yogurt was, nor could I understand why anyone would eat it. For a large swath of the world, this probably would have marked me as a barbarian, because yogurt has been eaten and enjoyed for a very, very, very long time. In …
From holyoffice: “The time has come for some kind of crib sheet for the confused and frightened, a handy, easy-to-use reference guide for identifying some of the key denominations, terms, and concepts in Christianity.” Which he then goes on to provide. Hilarious!
“Sting to Release Album of Lute Music.”
A tender and touching moment (literally) from Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of Candide over the weekend, as I, playing the Governor, make my feelings known to Maximillian (played by Jeff Sawatsky), convinced as I am at this moment that he is a girl. No, really. (Photo by our director, Robert Ursan.)
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As a teenager I was quite Mulderish regarding the spaceshippiness of UFOs, but the older I get, the more skeptical I get. Thus reports of strange glowing vehicles skimming a northern Saskatchewan lake mainly make me think, “What the heck would alien spaceships want with a northern Saskatchewan lake? Pickerel?” But, nonetheless, northern Saskatchewanians are …
Maybe…just maybe…it’s simply because you have more of this bacteria in your gut than they do. It’ll be interesting to see what further research reveals.
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We’ve had two performances of Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of Candide, in which I play Voltaire/Pangloss/The Governor/The Host/The Sage. Both were great successes–the audiences loved them, laughing and applauding throughout. Her Honour Lynda Haverstock, Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan, was present for opening night and highly complimentary backstage after the show. There are still three shows …
