This Off-Broadway tale of two people is rather interesting in that the two people involved, a con man named George Love (played by Maxwell Caulfield from Grease 2) and his latest love interest Adelaide, alternate the telling.

At one moment they narrate from outside the story, as if they are explaining what is happening, and the next moment they are telling the story in a more normal fashion, acting it out as it happens.

In the same vein as Tony n' Tina's Wedding, this show aims to make you part of the experience. We found that as part of the wedding party, you were made to feel a little more at home. While in both cases the cast members didn't really step out of their roles, the cast of this show had a tendency to treat you like an audience rather than as a guest. It's really a subtle difference, and perhaps others will have a different experience, but it just seems that the prior show had a more immersive experience.

Reading articles likes this one makes me glad that we live nowhere near the coast. One homeowner in Key West, Florida last year had a wind storm premium for her 1500 square foot home of $14,472. That is absolutely insane, but it's apparently not unusual.

Yesterday I arrived in New York City after a relatively eventful trip. The flight left Charlotte after just a couple minute delay, then we sat on the runway for about fifteen minutes behind some other planes. The flight itself was okay, and the landing was very nice, but then we sat on the La Guardia runway for at least thirty minutes because of ground congestion. That was horrible.

Once inside, the process sped considerably. It actually took less time for me to get from the gate to the ground transportation desk to the shutle the the hotel in Manhattan than it did from the end of the runway to the gate. Absolutely insane. Now I'm in the Westin Times Square at the Six Apart Business Blogging Seminar listening to Anil speak. Back home next week unless there's more ground congestion.

When we visited New York City recently we stayed at this hotel, just across the street from United Nations Headquarters. This was both good and bad. Good because there weren't too many tourist-types in the area, and bad because it was a small walk to get to the subway (Grand Central was about five blocks away).

The hotel itself was nice, the room was well furnished and the view was excellent, looking over the East River. The only complaint is that our room was so high (we were on the 34th floor) that I was unable to get a decent cellular or Internet signal. However, if I went to the lobby both worked fine. The hotel did offer a wired Internet connection for - I believe - $10 per day, but I didn't use it, so I can't speak to the quality.

It looks like Cedar Fair has offered to purchase the amusement parks from CBS, and that includes Carowinds.

No word on whether the current licensing deals (including the Borg and Top Gun) will be extended, or if new ones will take their place. I just hope it means we get some new roller coasters. Cedar Fair's parks are pretty well regarded by both the industry and the fans as the leaders in developing new thrill rides (specifically roller coasters). That would be sweet.

With the release of the movie version of The Da Vinci Code today, a story has hit the wire where a spokesman for the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation complains about how many albino villains there are in movies, saying "The problem is there has been no balance. There are no realistic, sympathetic or heroic characters with albinism that you can find in movies or popular culture."

Stumbled across this link somewhere. It uses the Technorati API, and calculates the value of your blog, based on the value of links, according to the AOL purchase of Weblogs, Inc. in October of 2005. This blog is currently worth $47,985.90, according to the script.

Anyone have their checkbook ready?

Update: While browsing, I also came across LeapFish, which values your domain names. For cxliv.org, it returned an estimated base value of $372, and an estimated actual value of $23,064. For everitz.com, the numbers were $297 and $14,072, respectively. I have no idea if either of these are in any way useful, but I thought they were interesting, to say the least. I think that I'll hold out for the $48K from the earlier estimate..

I've watched a lot of Twilight Zone episodes (at least 98 have been documented at this writing, out of 156, I'm sure I've seen more). I'm starting to draw some conclusions. One of those is that the people who created Bewitched must have been fans of the show.

I'm in the process of moving servers, and one of the casualties is the individual archives. For some reason they are causing a PHP memory error. You should be able to read things via the main page, and the other archives seem to be working fine too - but the individual archive isn't working just right. The other sites seem to be working okay as well. Hopefully everything should be straightened out shortly.

Update 5/16: Let me know if you're still seeing a problem. I've revereted to the old server for the time being as I work on some database issues.

Update 5/17: I think it's done. I'm now running on a new host (pair), and am thus far very happy with the performance of the sites (they are very fast). In the interim I went through another host (Host Gator), and while the performance was okay, as was the support, I couldn't do some things that I wanted to do (notably a shell). They also have restrictive email policies and restricted my php scripts so that I could not run MT in dynamic mode. Ayway, everything should be working again. Let me know if you see any problems.

Update 5/17: I just received a phone call from someone at Hostland, where you can sign up up to 5000 sites for $50 per month with no credit card. Interesting. Anyway, he apparently wanted to know if I was interested in being an affiliate because he found out I was an affiliate for Host Gator. This, perhaps two days after I signed up with some interest in Host Gator's affiliate program (he didn't seem to know how he got my phone number). Draw your own conclusions here, but it's safe to say I won't be returning to Host Gator at this point.

Update 5/17: If you have made the unfortunate choice of signing up for Host Gator's affiliate program, they do have an "update" link which not only allows you to opt out of emails, but also allows you to remove your phone information from your profile and delete your account entirely. This may or may not prevent your information from being passed on, but if you get to it quickly enough, perhaps it will help. Good luck.

It appears that ABC has really upped the ante for this off-season with their new advertising blitz for Lost. Dubbed The Lost Experience, to capitalize on the fact that users who choose to participate will really feel immersed in the whole thing, as if they are actually experiencing it for themselves, it started with an advertisement show during a Lost episode, and has blossomed across the Internet, taking discussion boards and email boxes by storm. I have now collected comments and submissions into one place, and I will continue to update this entry as needed as the Experience progresses.