HoodedHawk

I went to see Miss Saigon last night at the Warner Theater in downtown Washington, DC. The theater is really elegant, though the seating is quite tight – less room than an airline seat:

The play itself was good, though I’m not a real fan of musicals. Beautiful staging, and obviously gorgeous players. Personally, I enjoyed Chicago (saw that in London this past summer) more, but I was also a lot closer to the stage for that one).

Google Search: the answer to life the universe and everything

Cool. And I just found out that Google has a calculator:

Enter “5+2*2” (no quotes) in a search. Or, even more useful:

Enter “half a cup in teaspoons” (no quotes).

The kids were “Bionicles” this year. Not a lot of neighbors in the apartment complex were participating, so we took the boys over to a local neighborhood. They each managed to collect about a third of a pillowcase’s worth of loot over there…

The pumpkin in the picture above is one we carved earlier in the month. It didn’t last until Halloween this year; got kinda mushy (and green). Next year we need to carve it closer to the end of the month. :)

I’ve not been a fan of Wal-mart after reading about their lousy employment practices and the tendency to put local businesses, well, out-of-business.

But now I can’t stand them, and will be boycotting them. Wal-Mart is building a store right up against the site of some magnificent 2000-year old ruins in Mexico: Teotihuacan. That’s just criminal – and residents believe so too and have filed criminal and civil complaints against the authorities who approved the construction.

See: CNN.com – Fight over Wal-Mart at Mexico ruins:

The Teotihuacan construction site lies less than a mile (1.6 km) from the gated tourist park housing the main ruins and is visible from atop the Pyramid of the Sun that has defined the skyline for 2,000 years.
[from cnn.com]

I went to the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. (right on the National Mall) and with the help of a friend was able to purchase a copy of Frederick Pohl’s new book, “The Boy Who Would Live Forever” and get him to sign it for me. Cool! Pohl is a GrandMaster Science Fiction author. His new book is the fourth in the Gateway series – the first book, “Gateway”, came out in 1975.