Tales from the Technoverse

Category: Entertainment

  • A Wonderful Nobel Peace Prize Candidate

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    Evidently the winner or winners of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday. This award, which at least in my opinion, does always recognize someone who has taken personal risks to demonstrate their commitment to peace and fundamental human rights, this year if awarded to Malala Yousafzai, would be given to someone who…

  • Maryland Renaissance Festival – Still Great

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    So yesterday, Saturday, Ellen went to NYC to provide moral (and physical) support to Miriam to help with her apartment move from someplace in Brooklyn to some other place in Brooklyn (you can tell how well I know Brooklyn).  BTW, among other things Ellen spent five hours (FIVE HOURS!!) with Miriam and Miro (Miriam’s roommate)…

  • Movie Review: Ballad of a Soldier

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    I finished watching Ballad of a Soldier earlier this week, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ballad_of_a_soldier/. Ballad of a Soldier per Rotten Tomatoes, was “the first Russian film to score an American success during the Cold War era”. It was released in 1959. The movie has a relatively rare 100% rating in Rotten Tomatoes, one of the reasons why I…

  • Federal News Countdown, the Nationals, and the Maryland Renaissance Festival

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    FEDERAL NEWS COUNTDOWN As many of you know (assuming that there is in fact a ‘you’, that is people who read this), I am fortunate to be asked back by the evidently non-discerning, but always interesting and entertaining, Francis Rose to be on his show the Federal News Countdown, http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=155. I will be on tomorrow,…

  • My First Facebook Video

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    In late 2011, Ellen and I were talking about what we might do for New Year’s, to be honest not my greatest time of year. I am not particularly a social person, or at least a party social person. Richard Cohen, a Washington Post columnist who used to write a humor column and now attempts…

  • Iron Man 3 (Spoilers)

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    I suspect the subset of the Earth’s population which includes the intersection between those who read this blog and those who want to see Iron Man 3 but who have not yet done so is an empty set, but just in case I have warned people not to read further. We see my older daughter,…

  • The Magistrate

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    Last night, Ellen and I attended our first “live” event at a location different than the event itself. We had seen advertisements for these often at movie theatres, often for opera performances. This one, seen at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Harmon Hall came about almost by accident. I received an email from the Shakespeare Theatre that…

  • Word Processing

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    “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”  “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – –…

  • Performing Versus Entertaining

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    Over the last month or so, we had the pleasure of going to performances by Kristen Chenoweth and Patti LuPone. The first we saw at Constitution Hall, the latter at Strathmore, a facility near us in Montgomery County, MD. We were on the side at Constitution Hall and in the second row of the Orchestra…

  • Follow Your Passion

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    I have learned over the years that doing things that you are passionate about is very important. This was brought home to me earlier this week when I had lunch with a long-time friend of mine who I worked with during my time at Sun Microsystems. We were comparing job experiences and she remarked that…