Mon 22 Nov 2004
I went to see Michael McDonald at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. last Friday. Whoa! Amazing concert; Michael McDonald has such an amazing range to his voice. He played tunes from his two Motown albums, as well as some Doobie Brothers classics. The venue itself is just fantastic. We also had dinner before the concert at the Terrace restaurant at the top of the Kennedy Center. Delicious!
Fri 12 Nov 2004
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).
Tue 2 Nov 2004
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).
Sun 31 Oct 2004
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. :)
Thu 21 Oct 2004
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]