Had a wonderful evening last night at Upstart Theatre's production of Macbeth (well, what better play to see on Halloween?). It was interesting to watch another actor play the roles I'd played in the GRADS production, particularly when he told me that he'd also played Big Daddy in the GRADS production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a role I'd considered ( Read more... )

I've just read this story about a possible new recording material, and remembered this one about an intelligent washing machine... and I can't help thinking someone should remake Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape while it's still sf.

The file summary function on my Mozilla Thunderbird program became corrupted yesterday when I defragged the computer. Attempting to fix this today has deleted my entire Inbox without correcting any of the irritants (Get Mail button doesn't work without drop-down, automatic check for mail doesn't work at all, counters are getting into imaginary ( Read more... )