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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
Casting Call
This is it! No turning back after this evening. Tonight is the first night of auditions for TWO's production of Picasso at the Lapin Agile (hereafter know only as Picasso - this is show business custom, to shorten the show's name to one word.)
More to follow...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Calling an audible... (I can't resist...)
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Places please!
I have been asked to direct Picasso at the Lapin Agile for the Theatre Workshop of Owensboro (TWO). This is a radical departure for me. In a previous life I was the behind the scenes technical guru. So to come out of the theatrical backstage darkness into the stark lime light is both exhilarating and a bit daunting.
These past 2 weeks have been split between meetings with Theater management and script reading. Script analysis for thematic ebb and flow. Detailed reading of dialog to feel the interactions of characters. Budget considerations discussed. Preliminary scenic design reviewed. Tentative rehearsal schedules. And the list just keeps on going...
BTW: His full name is Pablo Diego José Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y Picasso. - Wikipedia: Picasso
Thursday, March 08, 2007
[Posted out of time] He doesn't know me...
...but Stowe Boyd sure knows how to kick my ... attention span. And I like it.
In high school, in an open field, with three old tennis balls I taught myself to juggle. Nothing fancy, just keeping three balls in motion. Then I tried to explain to my best friend Gary how to do it... Right there I ran into a brick wall. Here was something I could do but there was no way I could explain what I was doing. Sure, I could talk coherently about the mechanic that I employed. I could speak to the relative timing of events. I could describe the flowing pattern. I could not explain what it was that I was doing that allowed me to juggle.
Stowe Boyd ...
How do jugglers juggle? They don't focus on the balls, the movements, or timing. They unfocus: it is a field of all three dimensions and their attention is distributed. Good jugglers can also sing or tell jokes while juggling. Unfocus....and this is truly liberating... I thought I was just being rude...
In an era of flow you can ignore things that don't look threatening or critical. Important stuff will be signalled in a bunch of ways: critical breaking news stories will show in Twitter tweets, RSS, emails, IM. But you can just ignore transient stuff. That's why etiquette around IM has to be based on 'it's ok to ignore IMs' because otherwise it becomes a chore demanding foreground attention.This will take a bit of Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching perspective to get my head around...
The network is mostly connections. The connections matter, give it value, not the nodes.
What return do I get on my saving?
Daylight Saving Time
... Troy James makes an excellent point about DST:
Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Similar examples would be a mind expanding book or a man eating tiger. Saving is used in the same way as saving a ball game, rather than as a savings account.Troy also went on to point out that no actual daylight has been saved as a result of this policy ...
Sooooooo, somebody s'plain to me 'xactly what I get for allowing my clocks to be jostled about twice a year? ('Cept a headache from trying to keep all this time changing straight.)
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Drown out the hate
Elizabeth Edwards, responding to Miss Coulter's off-color remark about John Edwards, Presidential Candidate ...
Now it is our turn to drown out the hate. Find a way -- whether it is contribution here that sends a message to Miss Coulter and those who applauded her (which, of course, I prefer) or whether it is a statement on this blog or others or all of the above -- but please find a way not to sit silent in acceptance. It doesn't change until we say we will not be silent when this happens.That anyone, in this day and age, would applaud the remarks made by Miss Coulter is unconscionable. For Miss Coulter to stoop so low as to insult the gay population of this great country by associating it with a known politician is reprehensible. Perhaps, just perhaps, this is a sad case of the pot calling the kettle black?
(NOTICE: For any humor-challenged readers in my small audience, please, please see the ironic juxtaposition in my choice of words and know it to be a pure intellectual fabrication.)
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Dude! Get slow.
The Slow Movement.
Do NOT scan this web site. Do not speed read it. Do not just subscribe to its RSS feed.
Take some time out of your busy life and carefully read this site. Don't try and read it all at once. Read a chunk of it and then take a deep breath. Read an article and then go sit on the porch in the sunshine for a few minutes.
Get slow...
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Sunday Morning Script Analysis
Reading and rereading the script for Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Developing the 'movie' in my head. Trying to draw all the disparate parts together to form some continuous flow. Steve Martin playfully violates the time-space continuum and then expects regular folks like us to just follow along. 'Along for the ride' is more like it.
Boneless Chuck roast has been slowly bubbling away in the oven since before 9:AM. Garlic, onion, salt, pepper and a flour rub then both sides seared. Then chopped onions and celery, caramelized. Nearly a quart of beef broth and a long slow oven. Pan gravy over fresh mashed spuds and butter-brown sugar glazed carrots round out the plate.
The last of the Columbian from the french press is still good cold. Probably will have to make another pot.
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Saturday, March 03, 2007
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Words, words, between the lines of age...
This is one of those 'print-it-out-and-put-it-up' kinda quotes.
Thanks Frank
Commonplaces
February 28th, 2007 ·
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
– Gandhi
Schneier on Security: Boston Police Blow Up Traffic Counter
Boston PD: Putting the "error" in "terror."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/03/boston_police_b.html
On Privacy: dmiessler.com | study | hide_ip
Repeat after me... it is unrealistic to expect privacy when using the internet... repeat after me ... it is unrealistic...
Just remember that proxies aren't magical; they simply add extra hops in the middle. Each person still has an address (you, your buddy, and the pizza place). So don't think of it as "hiding" or "becoming invisible"; this isn't how the Internet works. The Internet needs to know your exact location or else you can't use it. If you were truly hidden, nobody would be able to bring you the stuff you asked for -- whether that something was a pizza or an email from a friend.: http://dmiessler.com/study/hiding_your_ip/
Get a Life!
Escape From Cubicle Nation
This woman, again, has brought into sharp focus a means of freeing ourselves. THANKS!
Don't know what you want? A picture paints a thousand words
In my coaching practice, a big part of what I do is help people come up with a compelling vision for their life or business. A lot of people get stuck trying to craft words about a life that they cannot quite picture. Instead of painfully searching for words, try these visual tactics to discover your vision.
In this month's ezine, I describe a number of tactics to discover your creative vision including:http://ganas.com/ezine/february07/
- Purchase a large bulletin board or piece of foamcore.
- Go to the bookstore and buy your favorite 6 magazines.
- Imagine that you are a photojournalist that has the assignment of capturing images that reveal your ideal life.
- If you are a bit of a (closet) exhibitionist, participate in the wildly popular art blog PostSecret.
- Create a personal deck of soul-tending cards using Soul Collage.
- Search for stimulating pictures in online photo directories such as iStockphoto.com.
- For the technically savvy, create a Powerpoint or Flash presentation with key images and words.
- Paint your picture - literally!
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
This is good and RIght and GOOD!
This concept; The Water Park, reported by Good Magazine, is just what the global village needs. Innovation that does not include silicon chips or cellular towers but rather down to earth human-needs based solutions.
Sign up today for a Good Magazine.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
He walks into your office...
Over the years I have employed a 'Management Style' that has served me well ... and generally PO'ed the folks that have been subjected to it. Sorry...
He walks into your office, sets this (_Blog::Errantmind_) on the corner of your desk and says, "Here, read this."Suffice it to say, it is much more efficient for both of us to do it this way. The content of, in this case Errantmind, is self evident and worthy.
As a society we need to stop allowing the lawyers to settle the wrongs that we feel we have suffered allegedly at the hands of society. Instead I suggest a measure of common sense.
- Lawyers, like every other business practice, are driven not by morality but by profit. This leaves Lawyers in the unenviable position of subjugating what they know is Right for what they will eventually be paid for.
- Lawyers, while 'working' with Laws, do so in the arena of the courts. Our judicial system was designed to respond to social situations by interpreting the laws. Nowhere in our system of government are the Courts, at any level, allowed to make Laws.
I , in this writing, will not suggest whether the 'control of recreational dancing' is a legitimate social concern worthy of a local ordinance. I can state that most localities have similar statutes on the books. Predicated on such a historical precedent I am willing to assume that such statutes did or do serve some aspect of the social good.
If it is determined by the will of the people that such statutes do not server the public good then the people should change the law(s) in the same way that the laws were enacted originally. We should be a society of the people and not subject to the minority of monied interests that can afford to keep and feed Lawyers.
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