http://www.acetylene.net Fri, 16 May 2008 14:58:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Isabella Rossellini teaches you about "the mating practices of creepy-crawlies":http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/. http://www.acetylene.net/2008/05/16/green-porno/ Last Fall, I found myself in need of a digital camera. I had previously intended to save up for one of those pseudo-DSLRs (my needs rarely extend into true DSLR territory), but I needed one right away, and I needed it to be portable. I ended up with a "Canon ... http://www.acetylene.net/2008/03/22/glad-i-bought-the-canon/ A while back I managed to get a Beta copy of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. After installing it, I found that I was having a lot of font display problems, particularly on the web and in email: sometimes certain letters were missing; at other times, letters were present but ... http://www.acetylene.net/2008/01/22/font-problems-in-office-2008/ Granted, only about 26,000 of those miles were driven by me, but still ... onward to 200,000! http://www.acetylene.net/2008/01/17/150000/ I picked up a copy of Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story. I'd recommend it, but if the title doesn't get your interest it might not be the book for you. Anyway, I like it a ... http://www.acetylene.net/2008/01/01/shakespeare-and-burbage/ On Christmas Day, Faith and I decided to see a movie. Naturally, being theater geeks, we chose Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street—which, by the way, I can't recommend highly enough. It's a bit abridged from the Broadway production, but still very much worthwhile. So anyway, about halfway ... http://www.acetylene.net/2007/12/26/christmas-cheer/ I was picking up a few essentials at Raley's (at Watt & Marconi in Sacramento) a couple days ago, and the young man bagging my groceries seemed really intent on helping me to my car. Generally I don't accept this sort of help -- in fact, I've _never_ accepted it ... http://www.acetylene.net/2007/12/01/why-do-i-attract-these-people/ As most of you know, I'm the proud owner of an iPhone. What many of you don't know, however, is that I'm currently on my _third_ iPhone. I bought the first one the day they were released -- June 29, 2007 -- but after two or three weeks the rubber ... http://www.acetylene.net/2007/10/21/some-tech-adventures/ Last Saturday, Faith and I went to Berkeley for a performance of my favorite play, _King Lear_ -- good production, by the way. The next day we went to San Francisco to see "Ty":http://blog.myspace.com/neverstagnate and his lovely girlfriend. Getting together with Ty on a Sunday these days means getting invited ... http://www.acetylene.net/2007/10/01/a-religious-experience/ Yeah ... things are definitely looking up. http://www.acetylene.net/2007/09/18/how-i-spent-my-weekend/