I don’t post pictures of myself very often, but here’s one: this is me singing in Weyburn on Friday the 13th for a Rotary Club fundraising event called Homegrown. Since I’m holding the mike in this slightly fuzzy shot, I must have been singing “I’m Beginning to See the Light.” Most of the others I …
Here’s an interesting article on e-books (and Sony’s new e-book reader in particular) from the Wall Street Journal It’s by Terry Teachout, the WSJ‘s drama critic, and one of my favorite arts bloggers.
The Lord of the Rings musical begins previews on February 2. Here’s an update on the state of the production so far, after almost $28 million has been spent.
Saskatoon’s Broadway Bridge at Night Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. Here’s a photo from our hotel room at the Delta Bessborough in Saskatoon last Wednesday. It was a beautiful (unusually warm, as it has been for a month-plus now) January night. The photo looks better in black and white than it did in the orange-and-white …
This is certainly the first time I’ve seen anything on Canadian politics in New Scientist online: According to a new computer algorithm, Prime Minister Paul Martin, of the Liberal Party, spins the subject matter of his speeches dramatically more than Conservative Party leader, Stephen Harper, and the New Democratic Party leader, Jack Layton. Spin, in …
Via BoingBoing, I found this collection of photos from a recent visitor to the Weyburn Mental Hospital, which I mentioned in an earlier post due to its connection to LSD experiments in the 1950s. I suppose the place is a bit creepy (I always thought the driveway to the hospital in the above photo should …
I got back from Saskatoon yesterday about this time, but I had to hit the ground running and haven’t had time to blog–I had to prepare for last night’s Net.talk (the phone-in computer show I host on Access Communication’s community TV channel), then go to rehearsal for Regina Lyric Light Opera’s upcoming musical brunch, featuring …
Here I am, sitting in the lobby lounge of the Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon, going over my plans for tonight’s Genetics Demystified reading and reception…and, since I have my Audiovox Harrier with me, and since I recently signed up for an unlimited data plan, I figured I might as well blog. We had a pretty …
Well, I’m off to Saskatoon tomor–er, later today (gee, how did it get to be so late?) to promoted Genetics Demystified with a reading and signing at McNally Robinson Book Store. If you happen to be in the area, drop by at 7 p.m.! I might blog some more before I leave (around noon), but …
When I roll out of bed in the morning and stagger to the bathroom, normally stationary walls leap out at me, and an errant slipper becomes a deadly obstacle. Rather than having just awakened from a good night’s sleep, I look like I just came in from a good all-night party. There’s a word—two, actually—for …
Defense Tech points to a story about an entry in the race to build a giant blimp–something that caught my eye, since I love airships and since I’m currently reading Skybreaker, Kenneth Opel’s sequel to his tons-o’-fun Skyborn.
Tablets made from “miracle fruit” have gone on sale in Japan. After you take one, anything sour you eat for the next couple of hours tastes sweet. No, honest, that’s what the story says: One pink-colored tablet is made of three miracle fruit berries, Shimamura said. When people eat or lick the fruit’s red berries, …
