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About Me :
I'm a grownup nerd living in the Boston burbs. I write computer programs for a living and plays for fun.
I'm married to a wonderful woman, and we share a nice little house with our daughter and our cats.
I'm a humanist, a technologist, an artist, and an idealist. I believe in reason, freedom, love, equality,
and democracy. (Did I mention that I'm
an idealist? I did, OK.)
I'm also a pragmatist and an empiricist. I reject ideology and dogma, especially when they conflict with
practical facts (i.e., pretty much always). I particularly hate willful ignorance, which tends to go hand-in-hand
with ideology and dogma.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Hack the Vote at Pregnant Chad 2004
My new short play Hack the Vote (a.k.a. Red State, White Hat, Blue Screen) has been accepted into the Pregnant Chad 2004 Festival, sponsored by the Stormy Weather Players of New Windsor, NY. The festival will be held from August 11-14, 2004, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York (it was originally scheduled to be held from May 5-8). I wasn't able to make it to New York to see the 2003 Chad festival, in which my play dog_eat_dog.com was performed, so I am doubly determined to get out there this year!
I was particularly hoping that Hack the Vote would be accepted into the 2004 Chad, simply because its theme (the electronic voting-machine mess) made such a nice mesh with the name of the festival. I'm happy that it's come to pass.
The big surprise on learning the roster of playwrights for the 2004 Chad was the representation of Boston playwrights in the lineup. In a slate of 20 plays, there are (at least) six Boston playwrights! Three of the pieces were first tried out at Playwrights' Platform.
My new short play Hack the Vote (a.k.a. Red State, White Hat, Blue Screen) has been accepted into the Pregnant Chad 2004 Festival, sponsored by the Stormy Weather Players of New Windsor, NY. The festival will be held from August 11-14, 2004, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York (it was originally scheduled to be held from May 5-8). I wasn't able to make it to New York to see the 2003 Chad festival, in which my play dog_eat_dog.com was performed, so I am doubly determined to get out there this year!
I was particularly hoping that Hack the Vote would be accepted into the 2004 Chad, simply because its theme (the electronic voting-machine mess) made such a nice mesh with the name of the festival. I'm happy that it's come to pass.
The big surprise on learning the roster of playwrights for the 2004 Chad was the representation of Boston playwrights in the lineup. In a slate of 20 plays, there are (at least) six Boston playwrights! Three of the pieces were first tried out at Playwrights' Platform.
