Challenges & Choices
Every so often I forget a CD in a PC that I'm working on. Recently I bought an ASUS DVD/CD burner for a client and in unwrapping it to install it, a small package fell out on the table. In it were two items. A instruction sheet and a small piece of metal.
Apparently it's for those too weak or too stupid to simply fold open a paper clip. Until recently this was the only known way to retreive a CD from an Apple branded computer since Apple in its wisdom didn't even give you a button to push with your finger. The seriousness of wording is a bit concerning. (
Remember you can click on any picture to make it BIGGER.)Using the
Emergency
Eject
Pin or
E.E.P. as we like to call them around this bastion of techno geekdom can be dangerous. Feel free to copy the picture and print it. If you don't have your own
EEP find a paper clip and summon your intellect and strength and make it straight.
In another humorous package we find that Dell Computers has figured out a way to cut costs. Refurbishing screwdrivers. Seriously we get parts in to repair Dell laptops and they come with "refurbished" screwdrivers. If you read the label carefully it tells you when they got refurbished. Go figure......
Finally any guys out there in the dating scene ? Well if you spot one of these in her kitchen you might want to "RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY".
Have a great weekend
ba
RUR Opens to plaudits
The first newsrag review is in......
Neil Novelli wrote a review of R.U.R. in the Syracuse Post Standard in which he says, "
Appleseed continues its creative ways with the premiere of a new adaptation of a 20th-century classic, "R.U.R.," by Karel Capek. Director William Edward White and a talented cast give the script a sharp mounting, with strong performances." To read the rest of his review, click
HERE.
Ty Marshall also had some kind words posted at www.cnytheater.com. Click
HERE for the link.
I'm going to throw caution to the wind and put up a bigger slideshow or rehearsal pictures so click
HERE. Use Internet Explorer for best results and it may take a few minutes to load the index pages depending on your connection speed so be patient.
ba
Randomania
Just some random stuff again today. When I get busy I guess I fall back on finding or taking odd pictures to share with the loyal readers of this expression of balaams_ass. So here's lookin at them....
Not sure what's going to be happening to this poor pooch who was on the surgery table at my friends vet clinic but I'm pretty sure I don't want to have it happen to me.
This next picture is that of a traffic jam that happened in the P&C parking lot in Mytown, NY. I was wandering out of P&C and watched as the drivers of two cars sat and honked their horns at these two ducks for what seemed like 2 or 3 minutes before a kindly pedestrian shoe'd them into the nearby handicap parking space. The
ducks were no doubt quacking up inside, I know I was.
Finally I eat at a health food restaurant once in awhile. Not because I care so much about being a militant whole earth
raw food vegan but because I like the
Chicken Caesar Wrap. Normally there isn't any entertainment provided while I wait in line anywhere let alone at a health food resturant. I've suggested for years that D.M.V. offices, banks, supermarkets (don't get me started on 12 items or less lane) and the in-laws bath room should have TV's in them. Please don't try tell me you've never spent more time then necessary in the in-laws
necessary ? This day at
Syra-juice Juice Bar and Eatery when I surreptiously took this pictures was an exception.
The joys of working near a large U.... Where else do you get a
belly dance with your wrap ?
ba
RUR Sneak Peek
You've asked and begged for a sneak peek at R.U.R. No really someone did.
ASIDE I want to end the sentence there, right after the R.U.R. so should I put an extra period in like this R.U.R.. or is the one period that indicates that R.U.R. stands for Rossums Universal Robots enough ? Help me out here will ya ?I give you a digital picture of the back stage monitor used to watch the show so visual cues can be done.
Remember that double clicking on the picture may make it bigger.
Note the trademark red arrows indicating Josh and Cara on stage. Rehearsals are going well and I'm looking forward to opening this Friday. We've been told that Lee Shackleford the playwright that wrote this adaptation is traveling up from Alabama to attend a performance. Good thing my character drinks alot......
** UPDATE**
We took a few more pics at last nights rehearsal so here are two more stage shots.
ba
Wedded Bliss
Hope your weekend was nice, my was okay except I noticed another transition in life. Not one I was counting on this early either but it is yet another example of balaams_ass getting old. It involved a wedding and my oldest daughter and a wedding and my youngest daughter. Yes it seems I'm finally old enough to be going to weddings of my children's friends.
The first wedding was in Walton, NY at the
Rainbow Lodge which coincidentially is for sale click on the link and scroll down to # 1103C. It's about 60 miles mostly east and a little north of Binghamton and the second was in at the
Cyprian Keyes Golf Club in Boylston, MA just north and east of Worcester. On our way to the Boylston wedding we bumped into this sign outside a church. Please note that the correct quote was on the other side but since I didn't bother with a picture I'll provide it for you. "You shall have no other gods before me." Exodus 20:2-3 It's of course the first commandment. While it is sketchy English to begin with I can't be sure if they were meaning positionally (as in on left or right) or other then me ? I suspect they ran out of letters or ideas. Either way it goes to affirm my thought that any information source that people expect to change had better change. Please if the three or four of you that read this blog ever see a similar thing happening here.... Pull my plug.
The second thing happened at the reception hall of the other wedding at the Rainbow Lodge. Pictured to the right is two urinals filled to the brim with ice. Now I've seen this phenomena before and like crop circles, and why men have nipples, I could never understand how or why there was ice in urinals. I did a dinner theater show at a reasonably snooty place in the area and noticed every night ice in the urinal. My friend Kyle finally provided the answer drawing on his years of experience in the food service industry or his even greater ability to make stuff up off the top of his head. It acts as a natural odor eliminator. Gives a whole new meaning to please don't eat the mint.
Finally I leave you with the most offensive thing I have had to deal with in recent memory. I shudder and recoil at the thought of relating this to you but feel compelled to press on. Those of you that know me know that I have a distaste for 3 inches of head on my draft beer. Well picture an inch or more of head on the mug pictured below. Notice anything odd about it ?
I give you the 10oz beer mug masquerading as a 16oz beer mug. Notice how the bottom of the mug is above the lower handle ? Were it not for my wife and children I would have stormed out in disgust. Don't mess with my beer.
ba
Yeah sorry site was down :(
I forgot to pay the domain fees. The hosting fees are automatically deducted from one of my credit cards but I don't think about the domain bill and they are not automatic.
Ive' been busy getting ready for
R.U.R. For the first time I've been involved with set construction and some of the technical aspects of the show. It's a fairly technical set with video monitors and active computer screens where the
(R trademark) red arrows point. This is an early model. Sorta like a directors fantasy made out of foam. Don't forget you can usually make any picture larger by clicking on it.
Another one of the directors fantasies is to somehow use this manaquin in the show. Not sure what he's thinking but we had fun driving it around in my pickup truck.
Finally someone should call that Tom Hanks - Fed-Ex guy cause this dog found his ball.
ba
Apparently it's for those too weak or too stupid to simply fold open a paper clip. Until recently this was the only known way to retreive a CD from an Apple branded computer since Apple in its wisdom didn't even give you a button to push with your finger. The seriousness of wording is a bit concerning. (Remember you can click on any picture to make it BIGGER.)
In another humorous package we find that Dell Computers has figured out a way to cut costs. Refurbishing screwdrivers. Seriously we get parts in to repair Dell laptops and they come with "refurbished" screwdrivers. If you read the label carefully it tells you when they got refurbished. Go figure......
Finally any guys out there in the dating scene ? Well if you spot one of these in her kitchen you might want to "RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY".
