It's not much more than a year ago since we acquired a large company which, among other things, made software that competed with some of our own products -- and promptly abandoned ours in favor theirs. We have now, in the past week, made another major acquisition, and again this company produces a similar product (although that is a tiny part of ( Read more... )

Hmm... Missed a week, did I?

Round six, as I mentioned earlier, was "auditions." The judges created a mock audition thread with a wide variety of characters, male and female, live and cartoon, human and animal and other. Each contestant could audition for as many or as few characters as he or she desired, but the round was scored cumulatively: 3 ( Read more... )

Yes, that's right. They're back. Girl Scout cookies ( Read more... )

And... season 7 draws to a close with a four-person finale, plus numerous guest performances. Each of us sang three songs: a Johnny Cash song, a Meat Loaf song, and a third song of our choice. Eile-Monty won, and deservedly so.

The next season of Sing It! will probably start in April, and will be all duets. So... I need to find a partner. Hmmm.

This round was one of the funniest in the season: Bad Fanfic. The twelve of us were assigned short stories gleaned from the fanfic sites, and told to read them straight, including author's notes. But even a straight reading can be hilarious when the writing is so bad. Some gems from mine, a Hey, Arnold! story which looks at Helga and Arnold as ( Read more... )

That's what I got from my starter tonight, which was clearly in mourning for my car battery ( Read more... )

Last season, the episodes were largely posted on sites like sendit.com, and vanished after a while, making it impossible for us to listen to whole episodes ever again. Because those of us involved had gotten quite close, this was really sad, so I set out to try to recreate the season. I had a number of full or partial episodes that I had downloaded ( Read more... )

As mentioned last time, this round featured us in roles that were clearly wrong for us. Will Knavison (Nick Petrella) and I were cast as Romy and Michelle, from Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. Working with Nick is always fun for me; I think we work off each other very well, and this scene came out great. Both of us passed to the next round ( Read more... )

It wasn't too bad - I think we only got about ten inches, and working together with my neighbor, we managed to get the cars out in just a couple of hours. Unfortunately, the benefit concert that I was supposed to emcee was canceled, but at least I got some more time to write ( Read more... )

This round was titled. "Double Trouble." Each of us was assigned one song by Dylan and could choose anything else as our second song. Dylan assigned me Luck Be a Lady from Guys and Dolls, a song I sort of knew but had never performed. For my second song, I recorded several ideas, including an english version of Non Piu Andrai from Mozart's Le Nozze ( Read more... )