Review – “Line Notes” by Thank You 5
Paper pushing and theatre productions seem to go hand in hand. There are myriads of things that go into a production, everything from audition forms and cast lists to sign-in sheets and line notes. As a relative novice to theatre and a seasoned professional in the software industry I began a search to find a [...]
Why I CAN’T Keep My Business Local
For those of you that do not know, I live outside a small Washington town in northern Steven’s Country called Colville. The town is large enough to have our Super WalMat as a very nice compliment of small businesses. To support our local economy I try to buy as much as I can locally. In [...]
Sand Art – Kseniya Simonova
What do you get when you take a large light box, sand, dramatic music, passion, a story to tell, and an incredible artist? You have the video below. Kseniya Simonova is an incredibly talented artist that as you watch tells a visual story with sand and light. In this video Kseniya tells of the German [...]
Spokane Civic Theatre – State Competition
Local community theatre in Spokane is alive! My wife and I have been doing a little volunteer work at the Spokane Civic Theatre this year and recently had an opportunity to watch a dress rehearsal of the competition version of the production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. So what is a competition [...]
On This Independance Day
Some words of Wisdom to all of us from a great man… “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is [...]
Amateur Astronomer – Your Recommendations…
For years I have been intrigued by the stars. Last summer at the lake house we would have nights that would be so extremely clear and dark that the number of stars you could see were absolutely mesmerizing. There were a couple of times that you could see the shadows of our arm of the [...]
Vacation Video – Yellowstone Park
What’s could be worse than forcing your friends to watch family slides of your vacation? How ’bout putting those slides to music and making them available for the entire world to view? I was cleaning up one of my old computers and found a Windows Movie I made that is a compilation of pictures from [...]
Random Thoughts #1 – Stumbleupon
Stumbleupon is one of the many many social bookmark sites that are available to the Internet surfer. These bookmark sites allow you to save/remember sites and posts that you have visited or read. You can then share those posts with others on the same network and in some cases offer additional insight about the post. [...]
A Story to Tell
Do you have a story to tell? Do you want to get it published? Maybe Self Publishing is the answer! Many years ago my mother wrote a children’s book. I just loved this book. It was a take on “Row Row Row Your Boat” and was a journey that the child was taking down the [...]
Guam – Hafa Adai…
Hafa Adia (Pronounced: Half A Day, Means: Hello, Language: Chamorro) from Guam! My recent business trip took me to the island of Guam. It wouldn’t have been that bad if getting there were just a bit more convenient. Our flights took us from Spokane, to Seattle to Japan’s Narita airport and then finally Guam. All total [...]
