Durham Bulls vs Tampa Bay Rays
Mikado 2010
In case anyone was wondering what I was doing this past weekend, this was it! I had a wonderful weekend playing in the pit orchestra for the Durham Savoyards production of Mikado and am very much looking forward to next year's production of Princess Ida.
This video gives a fairly good overview of most of the production, except that for some reason it doesn't show any shots of the orchestra! :-)
Mikado Rehearsal
This is a video from last night's Mikado rehearsal at the Carolina Theater in Durham. The Durham Savoyards will be performing this show this weekend starting tomorrow (Thursday) night! I will be in the pit playing string bass and my wife Janell is in the stage chorus. I really like this clip since Janell is the person front and center at the beginning of the clip and it does a very good job of showing what she looks like with all her makeup, wig and costume (which is peach with teal trim).
So, if you're in Durham, NC this weekend, please come see our show!
STS-125 Hubble 3D Movie
I've often wondered just whether some movies that come out in IMAX format are worth paying extra for IMAX. This movie, however, is definitely on my list of movies I want to see in IMAX. When the astronauts of STS-125 recently went up and repaired the Hubble Space Telescope they took with them an IMAX 3D camera. This movie shows what they did and the view should be breathtaking! I'm definitely looking forward to seeing it!
Consumer Alert - Pringles
My wife on (Internet) TV
They misspelled my wife's name (there's no "e" on the end), but otherwise this is pretty cool! My wife Janell has been volunteering recently as a docent at Duke Chapel giving tours and one day recently after she had given a tour a camera crew showed up! They were making a video for Raycom Sports to show before the Duke vs MD basketball game. She took them all through Duke Chapel and even got permission to take them to the top of the Duke Chapel tower! Anyway, here's the video.
(And here's a direct link in case the embedded video doesn't show up: ACC Road Trip Video: Duke vs MD part 1.)
Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid Concept gets 78 mpg
At 78 miles per gallon and a top speed of 189 miles per hour, this looks very nice. (even though I'll never be able to afford one!)
Google's experimental fiber network
Would you like a gigabit fiber connection to your house? Google wants to offer it to you. They're looking for communities and individuals to nominate locations for them to put up experimental gigabit fiber networks. Find out more by reading their blog post and nominate your community!
Local Traffic Reporter goes for Grammy
One of our local traffic reporters decided to mix it up a bit while doing the traffic earlier this week. :-)
Contests
Though the training's taken years
It wasn't the winning alone that
Was worth the work and the tears.
The applause will be forgotten
The prize will be misplaced
But the long hard hours of practice
Will never be a waste
For in trying to win
You build a skill
You learn that winning
Depends on will
You never grow by how much you win
You only grow by how much you put in
So any new challenge
You've just begun
Put forth your best
And you've already won. -- W.A. Clennan (Originally about Tae Kown Do, I believe, but applicable to Odyssey of
the Mind which I've been working on a lot lately.)
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