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If you’re reading this tonight, Sunday night October 24, you still have time to get to your TV and set your DVR for this show: Sherlock on PBS. Masterpiece Mystery: Sherlock (trailer) And if you are reading this Monday or later and missed it, you can catch one of the many repeats. Which you’ll want …
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SXSWi 2009 – Zombies ahead!, originally uploaded by indigoprime. I saw The Social Network last night, so I would have expected to have dreamt afterwards about technology or Silicon Valley or Cambridge. Instead I had a dream about being in a large hotel/conference center with many people I knew when a zombie apocalypse broke out. …
(This is cross-posted on the Big Big Design blog.) Each year, the Women and Girls Foundation honors a group of women who are “engaged in dynamic work in exciting and challenging career fields in Southwestern Pennsylvania.” This year they are celebrating “Women in Media,” and I’m privileged to have been selected among the honorees. The …
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Oracle Headquarters Redwood Shores, originally uploaded by Håkan Dahlström. This is the headquarters of Oracle Corporation, where I worked from 1991 until 1993. It’s a striking campus, isn’t it? I always thought that the buildings looked like big stacks of coins, a huge pile of money perched between 101 and the San Francisco Bay. It …
I love “stage door” plays and movies, like All About Eve, Singing in the Rain, All That Jazz, and pretty much every movie Fred Astaire made. So I’m particularly excited about the play that opens the Pittsburgh Public Theater’s new season, The Royal Family. Video preview of “The Royal Family” at the Pittsburgh Public Theater” …
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