Today at work I was watching a not very useful video about VMware virtual networking. When I looked to see what else YouTube had pulled up as related material, what I saw between NIC teaming and the Cisco Nexus was a surprise.
That little blue ghost in the upper right corner of the screen shot is Ghostery. I recommend giving it a try. So far, it seems to work best with Firefox 4.
On WBZ-Boston radio Monday night laconic, existential comedian Steven Wright chatted with his fellow Emerson College alum, Steve LeVeille. Wright was scheduled to be on for just the first hour, but he stayed for two. (I wasn’t going to sit at the computer any later than that, Samjay!) Here’s the first hour, and I think I got all of the commercials out, but I left in Mike Love singing about pretty trees.
[audio:https://s3.amazonaws.com/dogratcom/Audio/2011/Jun/leveille.mp3|titles=WBZ-Boston: Steve LeVeille with Steven Wright]Thursday night we were in an audience of 10-12, who saw a “special event” at the movies — Stephen Sondheim’s Company, featuring Stephen Colbert, Neil Patrick Harris, and Christina Hendricks. I would hope the showings at theaters closer to cities have been better attended.
Company is 40 years old, and although the show’s themes may be timeless I think its age shows, and I could tell it was written by members of my parents’ generation. Considering that Sondheim was probably working on Company while Woodstock was happening, it’s an interesting contrast to the musicals of the day that have a more obvious hippie influence, such as Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell.
Although I may not be taken with the show itself, the cast obviously had a great time and their enthusiastic performances are what make Company worth seeing. Harris seems to have taken over from Nathan Lane as Broadway’s standard bearer, and he carries his lead role with ease, but Colbert and Hendricks are also excellent. Chryssie Whitehead, who is adorable as Kathy and dynamic in a stand-out dance number, merits special recognition.
Colbert was on Fresh Air with Terry Gross this week to talk about Company, among other things. It’s always fun to hear Stephen conversing when he’s out of character.
There are hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis, but until a mile-wide meteor hits and wipes us out we will persist, thanks to the most powerful force in the world.
I’m not a hockey fan, but the Boston Bruins are playing a wicked good game in Vancouver. They’re in the lead, 3-0, and I’m switching between watching that and Turner Classic Movies, where Chris Isaak is tonight’s guest programmer.
I haven’t seen Isaak live in a few years, but I’m a fan of his and these are exactly the movies I would have expected him to pick. They’re in keeping with the tone of his best known song, Wicked Game.
Well, now I’m sure that Anthony Weiner should quit. He must not have enough blood to supply both of his favorite organs, because he was exchanging messages with a porn star but she wasn’t in the XXX Batman TV show parody.
