Dan Posluns

I’ve been tinkering with this blog and its features, and have tricked it out with a bunch of plug-ins and even already created my own (for the random tagline at the top of this blog). I’m considering developing a plug-in that would let me make private, friends-only posts a la LiveJournal but I don’t know yet if it’d be worth the effort.

I’ve installed a plug-in that lets me embed photos from my gallery… let’s try it out with the ducks from last post:

Hm, not bad. And so very cute!

We’ve finally broken into the hot, hot summer weather that I both welcome and deplore. It’s gorgeous out but it’s hard to keep my condo from getting stuffy without air conditioning.

This past weekend was a good one for improv. Saturday I did three shows in a row… the first was kind of mediocre but a good lesson in the importance of reading your audience and playing to what they’re looking for, and not just going through the motions of your repertoire. The second was another Spoken longform, and easily one of the more successful and entertaining ones I’ve been involved in. Then Theatresports that night wasn’t exceptional but was just plain fun both for the performers and the audience, which is all anyone can ask for.

Sunday I had rehearsal with SecondStory for their improv show, and I was given numerous opportunities to show some leadership and for us to actually work instead of just play, which was nice. Then that evening we had the Dust-Up, an exciting new monthly event where improvisers from all around Seattle are randomly thrown into teams together and given the chance to do whatever form of improv they please, so long as it’s a form they’ve invented right there on the spot. Extremely cool.

I managed to get a DVD of the production of Urinetown that I was in. I want to share clips from it but I don’t think I can safely/legally post it on YouTube. I am looking into a way around this…

Dan.

I wish I had something more ceremonious around which to mark this turn of events… my landmark 300th post would’ve been coming up a few months from now, and the fourth anniversary of my starting a blog was only a few months ago. As it happened it was just time for me to switch hosting companies, and when I did I took the opportunity to switch to new blogging software. BBlog served me as well as I suppose it could, but as blogging software goes it’s long-dead now and buried in an undead zombie graveyard overflowing with comment spammers, and it was driving me seriously batty. Sometimes you just bet on the wrong horse, ya know?

So I’ve restored my old blog and you can access it from the links at the right, but I’ve shut down new comments and it doesn’t exist as anything more than archival of what once was. Long live WordPress…! (At least I hope so.) Please be patient with me as I figure out the kinks of this new system.

In other news, I saw WALL-E today. I had every expectation of it being like other Pixar epics: beautiful and heartwrenching. I was not disappointed. *shakes fist at Pixar*

As the geese go through their disgusting adolescence, a reprieve comes in the form of a family of ducks that’s moved into the area at work… a mother and the most adorable little hatchlings that I caught on my cameraphone as I edged my way closer and closer to them on my belly in the grass, mosquitoes and goosepoop be damned.

On the subject of my phone, I mentioned in my last post on my former blog how I was considering getting the new iPhone… well it seems that decision has now been cinched for me, as Helio has announced its acquisition by Virgin Mobile. Virgin is the company whose billionaire playboy owner/CEO Richard Branson called net neutrality a load of bollocks, so I’m perfectly happy allowing his purchase of my wireless carrier to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Come July, say hello, iPhone!

Dan.