November wrapup
November 27th, 2007 Jason Posted in geek, pubcon, theatre |
Here’s hoping that everyone in the US had a fine, safe, and happy Thanksgiving holiday.
November has gone in a flash. Thanksgiving found us with 10 people around a not-quite-big-enough table, most of whom had absolutely zero sense of tradition surrounding the meal because they’re Brits. But it was tasty.
The UncleFromGermany is visiting, and it has been a crazy week of living London-style: six shows in 7 nights, taking Saturday off only for the making of the large meal. In order: The Country Wife at the Haymarket (totally fun), Billy Elliot (uncle’s choice), Parade at the Donmar (fantastic), a sneak preview of Kenneth Branagh’s film version of The Magic Flute (could have been so much better, could have been so much worse), the RSC’s King Lear (with Sir Ian McKellan, outstanding), and another version of The Magic Flute as done by a South African company tonight. Some would say this is why we moved here.
In more geeky news, I’ve spent some time this month trying to do a facebook app as a work-related experiment, with little success thus far. As in, I can’t get their basic ‘Hello world’ to work. I’m sure I’m doing something dumb. I hope to be making more progress on that as the week goes on.
I’ll be in Las Vegas next week for PubCon. For those of you who know me through other channels, this is a big search engine marketing thing. Assuming I can get out of bed in the morning, which assumes I’ll be getting to bed at all, there are definitely a number of good-looking sessions. I haven’t been to a conference like this in quite a while, and certainly not in this field, so it will be quite an experience, I’m sure. Not to mention…Vegas, baby!
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