The Black Horse of the Blog World

Wow. What do you say skippy, about time I put up a post? Damn straight.

So, today is my brother’s birthday, so I’m just going to say a little happy birthday to him first off. Happy Birthday, there were times we didn’t think you’d make it this far, but hey, we didn’t kill you after all!

In other news, I’m going to Intercon Gazebo in a few weeks! Still got room for one more in the hotel room, so if you are going but haven’t made room plans yet, let me know. It promises to be a lot of fun. I’m not actually planning on doing anything there this time but playing games, rather unlike my own involvement here. Knowing myself though, I’ll probably volounteer for something. 😛

Add in a couple of SCA events (which I hope to take low key), my ragged attempts to get some EMEers together over the summer, my need to write and teach OS X to complete noobs in less than a month, my desire to spend as much time with Amanda as is reasonable and reasonably possible, and it’s starting to add up to a pretty busy month ahead.

Fingers crossed though, I’ll post more regularly.

50 years ago today the journal Nature reported on Watson and Crick’s description of the DNA Double Helix. 50 years and we still have so far to go. Congress has officially declared April 25th National DNA Day, so go out and celebrate. Then again, it is also Arbor Day, so go hug a tree!

So last friday night I had the fortunate opportunity to be drafted into seeing a production of the musical Chess. It was good to see it, but the vocals were too quiet. They could have stood to raise the sliders on all the mikes another 3-4 notches. Maybe it’s because we were close to the pit, or maybe it’s because it was the 7th night of the performance. All in all, it looked like they’d put a lot of work into the acting values, and were making a really good effort on the singing, but had neglected a bit on the production side.

And they did the other second half. A lot of people don’t know it, but there are two different second acts. I’m more familiar with the one they didn’t do, so I missed some of the songs that are normally in the second act. Still, I suppose it depends on which recording you buy. *grin*

For those of you who are interested in hearing the soundtrack, follow the radio link above.

And oddly enough, today I stumbled across a link to rather concise discussion of Bobby Fischer, his rise to fame, and his (still continuing) spiral descent, where he manages to alienate almost everyone. Given his remarks on 9/11/01, it’s no wonder the ches world and the US are now almost as ashamed of him as they were proud of him in the late 60’s and early 70’s. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/12/chun.htm

And of course, now I’m really disappointed that the proposed run of All The King’s Men fell through. Must try again next semester.

Heh. Even I fall prey to the memes now and again. Rather than clutter up my posts though, I’ve added them to the ‘Articles’ section on my main page, since I wasn’t really using it for much else. Just added one on Enneagrams.
<a href="https://lebor.net/article.php?list.0">Take a look!</a>

*Update!* Memes from before the shift are no longer available. They’re not that important anyhow.