I guess PowerPoint is good for something, after all.

(Thanks to kottke.org.)

posted: 1:46:30 PM  

Medium Lobster offers perhaps the only appropriate response to the misguided "Academic Freedom Bill of Rights," proposed in Florida,

(Thanks to Brad DeLong.)

posted: 1:46:29 PM  

A new largest Mersenne prime number has been identified, 2^25,964,951-1, by Nowak, Woltman, Kurowski, et al. You can order a poster with all the number's decimal digits printed in teeny-teeny type.

posted: 9:45:51 AM  

We built light cues and sound cues tonight, and then ran the actors through the show cue to cue. Lights are not too complicated for this show, but we found once we were running that we needed to build ghost-light cues so that the actors could clear offstage safely and swiftly.

I walked the sound techs (Christina and Bill) through the cues that Nick had provided, along with the scene transition music that Eileen and I had selected—we asked the actors to bring in four songs that represented or commented on each character, and then we selected about 12 of them for transitions. Some of the juxtapositions are fiendishly creepy; for instance, the scene between Evelyn and Jo with the "Mommie Dearest" overtones ends with Elvis singing "Love Me Tender."

We got a lot done this evening, but we didn't need the actors for much of the time, and (actor that I am) I regret calling them for the evening. Eileen and I didn't slot a dry tech (no actors) evening into the schedule, and that was a mistake.

posted: 1:33:46 AM