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Books

Aidan’s Darcy trilogy

I have finally finished reading Pamela Aidan’s Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy. I promised that I would post something here when I finished, so here are some thoughts. NOTE: I’ve made an effort to minimize the number of spoilers but this IS a review (of sorts); there are bound to be a few extremely mild spoilers.

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Technology

My Newest Firefox Extension

I just stumbled upon this by accident. Hyperwords 3.6 allows you to highlight a word in a (Firefox) browser/tab and a menu automatically pops up. This menu gives you tons of choices as to what to do with the highlighted text, including a multitude of searches (google, social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace) and […]

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Books

Reading

The Indiana Daily Student ran a review of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Tuesday and I completely forgot to post it. You can find it here. I was playing around in my LibraryThing account and discovered a cool widget that I will have to put on the blog. Until I do, be it known […]

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Life Theatre

Aftershock

I had an appointment with my doctor this morning to stock up on allergy-related prescriptions. I am NOT going to suffer this year. The opening weekend of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf went very well. We had a good sized-house opening night and received great feedback from folks after the shows. There is a review […]

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Music

TOP is 40

Happy birthday, Tower of Power. I was delighted to find some vids on YouTube of the band in its early days. For comparison:Knock Yourself Out, 1973. Check out Lenny’s suit!Knock Yourself Out, 2006. Featuring the original rhythm section (Garibaldi + Rocco + Chester) w/Santana. What is Hip?, 1973ish? White tails and limbs akimbo.What is Hip?, […]

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Books Theatre Voting

Taxing Times

Sorry to those I have been neglecting! Russell’s job is keeping me busy. Yes, I know, I’m not sure how he cons me into it either. People seem to think that we have co-founded Starrynight Productions. Folks, I have my own career to worry about. That is all Russell. He has done all of the […]

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Life

Why?

The mouse-over text reads: It’s like the squirt bottle we use with the cat. xkcd.com

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Life Music Theatre

Rachmoninov is so Emo

I kid. On with the post! It’s been a hard month, culminating in a pretty draining week this week. I’ve barely seen Russell, who is either rehearsing for Woolf, in production meetings for Willy Wonka Jr., keeping up with Reva stuff, or working two part-time day jobs. Oh and Starrynight’s season needs to be beefed […]