As my birthday present, I had requested that Christian get us tickets to Macbeth at Lincoln Center, since it was starring one of my favorite actors, Ethan Hawke. We succeeded and planned a whole evening in the city for last night ( Read more... )

Christian was just at Best Video, our local video rental (the last one in CT), and he came across this comic. We are local celebrities!

Last night Christian and I had a rare planned night of high culture. We went to the Long Wharf Theater to see Kathleen Turner star in The Killing of Sister George. Neither of us had ever seen the play before or the movie, so we knew little of what to expect, other than it was a dark comedy about an alcoholic lesbian name June Buckridge who plays ( Read more... )

My first appearance in the New York Times

Awesome!

The scary thing is, one of my senior colleagues at another college saw this article this morning before I did!

Weather.com has purchased Weather UndergroundYou can add this to my list of companies I liked that then got bought out by a competitor who changed the business model and (usually) ran the original company into the ground, screwing the loyal customers. Some other examples from this list that I can recall ( Read more... )

We did all of our holiday shopping this weekend. We consciously decided to keep the presents rather small this year and so we've been getting books and scarves and other presents. Today we walked through downtown New Haven and stopped in the Yale Bookstore (= Barnes and Noble), where we encountered several gift ideas. In the bestseller's section ( Read more... )

Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, born in da Bronx = Anne Bancroft

What famous actress, deceased within the last ten years, originally was named Anna Maria Louisa Italiano and was born in da Bronx?

Answer in 2 days.

Leslie Nielsen died. :( Surely we must be serious.

From here (NSFW):Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner images are immediately destroyed after passengers pass through new x-ray backscatter devices have been proven fraudulent after it was revealed that naked images of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.
UK ( Read more... )