Hamilton.

My opinion is that it is a good thing, and it deserves the accolades it has received. It kept me entertained throughout.

The Kennedy Center Opera House is a large venue and I was seated in the second to last row of the highest (3rd) balcony. Even so, during the quiet parts of the performance, you could hear the footsteps of the actors on stage, and they were wearing soft dancing shoes. I love seeing stuff live and in person.

Very cool glatt!


Post whoring of my own:
I moved Griff the Younger into Boston this week. I am now an adult.

Congrats!

OK now, this is ridiculous. Five posts up I posted about the MacCoins that came out on August 2nd. Today on a lark, I checked for them on eBay. There were over 490 listings!

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

I wonder how that looks from outside the culture? Cuz from the inside that looks completely nutz.

FIFY:D

If ya were from Alf's home planet, that's be a Melmac, Melmac world.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I spent a good portion of the evening crying at videos of colorblind people putting on their special glasses for the first time? I mean, it's a "the world is beautiful and contains joy" kind of good-crying, but also I'm kind of doing it because I know I would be crying anyway, so I might as well redirect it toward a positive reason. Anyway, life sucks but at least there's this:

It gets better, they tell me.:yelsick:

Retro photo
 

I thought this was brilliant. The cast of the upcoming movie titled Wonder Woman 1984 recreating The Breakfast Club movie poster from 1985.

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My wife's new years resolution was to take advantage of as much free stuff offered in this area as possible.

It has paid off well for me. Last night we saw Romeo and Juliet performed downtown at the DC Shakespeare theater. It's a really nice place with Broadway performers and top notch theater actors doing the performances. I read the play in high school and really couldn't get into it at all, but to be honest, these actors made it much more enjoyable than I expected. I actually had a good time. Classy place.

It's worked out well for me that she made this resolution. We saw Branford Marseilles with the Army Blues Band a few months ago, and a local band at a small local neighborhood amphitheater. I missed out on seeing the national fireworks from a new skyscraper when she went because I was backpacking.

It has rolled over into paying for reduced price performances by doing lottery tickets at local venues and seeing more live music. We saw Something Rotten at the National Theater a couple months ago for really cheap.

And then we have been paying full price for some stiff too, like Hamilton, and the Avett Brothers at Wolf Trap.

This whole resolution to see live performances has been really good. And most of them have been very affordable or free. I know DC may have more to offer than most cities, but check out what your location offers. You may be surprised.

Gal Gadot. I would climb that like a mountain.

I recommend Synetic Theater, when it comes to DC-area theater. They have wide variety in their offerings. One thing they are doing is working through Shakespeare, and doing it without any dialog. The 14th, Richard III, is next year. They also have a fair bit of childrens' theater (which appears to be the bulk of their current schedule).

Well, it removes an entire level of difficulty. So, there's that, I guess.

It adds another level, though. Telling a story without words is a challenge.


It does bring up the philosophical question of whether it really is Shakespeare, since all we have of him is his words, and many of his plots were repurposed from older tales.

Jesus Christ, when I said that I got a shitstorm from that chick in San Francisco. :facepalm:

I've got a wretched cold but I don't get them that often so I have no cause to complain.

That said, it's a pain in the arse which, I think you will agree, is an unusual symptom of an upper respiratory tract infection.

That's what causes ya to feel shitty.

Feel better, Mr. C.:comfort:

Thank you!

It seems to be on its way, I'm pleased to say.

The only worry is that both Dad and I have flu jabs booked for Saturday morning and they won't do them if you have a cold.

I should be OK by then but my main concern is that if Dad gets it, not only will he have to wait for his jab, it will be a major concern given his generally frail state of health.

Yet another thing to worry about. :eek:

Work have provided me with a second screen. It s small maybe 14 inches and square .. I shit you not. I don't know where the hell they dug them up from but they're dotted about the office now.

Mine has a sticker on it confirming a PAT test and dated 2013


I assume when they closed down a department in one of the other branches it freed up a bunch of old equipment.

I mean - don't get me wrong, i appreciate the extra screen, it really is useful, but like every time I look to my right it's like I tripped and landed in 2005. I keep expecting some errant Crt monitors to show up.

Most of the trademarks I work on are for companies you never heard of. (They need trademarks too.) But there's the ramen noodle company you have all seen in the stores and some high end French luxury goods houses you might be aware of. Stuff like that. Nothing really too interesting.

Today, however, I renewed a trademark for a famous rock and roll band that sings about stairways to heaven. :D

But it's just paper shuffling.

I haven't seen the ramen noodle company I know the name of in stores in quite a while. When I see ramen in stores, I always notice that it isn't Nissin, but never make a note of what it is.


I guess Nissin had a strong trademark game, but not so much of a shelfspace game, at least in my local supermarket.

In the stores around here, if it's not Nissin, it's Maruchan.

I think the Nissin is much better.

Now I want noodles.

We don't have Nissin in the brick form in our local Safeway, but we have Nissin in the cup noodles form.

We sell Koyo, Gimme, Jade Pearl and Mike's Mighty Good. Bet it's none of those....

I might be mis-remembering but I feel like Campbell’s was in the ramen game several years ago with a healthier baked ramen. They were pretty bad and expensive for a ramen IIRC.

After living on Ramen in school, I'm still not ready...

I think it's all Maruchan in my local Giant.

Meanwhile in the depths of my filthy mind....

A BBC headline is giving me an eyebrow lift

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-...where-50628310

Ha!

Today is National :corn: Day.

That is all.

I like weed.

Me also.

Ok, you and weed...

:lol2:

After so many years........We have a winner! http://www.cellar.org/showpost.php?p...75&postcount=3

How did he manage to post nothing? Usually I get a warning that my post is too short.

ETA: Which, now that I think of it, conflicts with previous reports of "It's just the right size."
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