April 9, 2008

• Serendipitous Search Engine Synchronicity

  In today’s news, I learned that Daniel Radcliffe is scheduled to open on Broadway in September, in a revival of Peter Schaffer’s play, Equus.

  That’s today.  Yesterday, just yesterday, I learned that he had a hit in the same role in London last summer.

  Here’s how far out of touch I am:  when I happened upon a black and white version of the top image in the triptych below, while searching for something quite unrelated (search terms “too much information”), I didn’t recognize the young man in the photo.

  

  His face was familiar, and if I had seen then the image at lower left, I might have known who he was.  As it was, the vague familiarity of that face caused me to call Doug over to see if he could put a name to it.  He, too, said he looked familiar, but he didn’t know who it was. 

  The image I saw was identified only as “Equus,” so I started a new search for that term, and this led me to an identification of the young man as Daniel Radcliffe, which still didn’t mean anything to absent minded me, until I said it aloud to Doug and he said, “Harry Potter.”

  The second search also brought me a fuller frontal shot, and several blogs and forum threads where various presumably teen-or-younger people of both sexes expressed their delight or horror at the pictures, and their disbelief that Harry Potter would appear nude, or that the pictures were genuine.

  Beautiful, isn’t he?  And we know he can act.  I guess we will be seeing more of him in more roles in times to come.

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  In older news, Lance Mackey brought Zorro home:

  Mackey said Zorro, even at age 9, still might have had another year or two or racing in him. He finished in Mackey’s winning Quest team this year and was also in his starting Iditarod team before suffering an injury in a fight with his brother, Larry.

  “He was one of my best dogs,” Mackey said of Zorro.

  While Mackey has talked to the driver of the snowmachine that hit him and said the driver will help pay for some of Zorro’s vet bills, as well as a new sled, he still has declined to reveal the driver’s name or pursue a criminal case against him.

  “I think it’s been rough enough as it is on him,” Mackey said of the snowmachine driver, whom the musher said was intoxicated. “I just want him to make right with the vet bills and the sled.”

  Zorro’s vet bills are now more than $8,700, Mackey said. The dog still needs help walking and requires medication several times a day.

  Mackey said he contacted Alaska State Troopers after the accident but was told the most that troopers could do after the fact was pursue reckless driving charges against the man. Mackey said he’s not interested in making a big deal about the actions of the snowmachiner, even though some people “would like to hang him up by his toes.”

  “Accidents happen every day, and it just so happened to me,” Mackey said.

  full story at newsminer.com

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  I’m still having fun with my Xanga Footprints.  Today, one of them revealed that someone in France likes my moogle pictures, and someone in Germany had somehow found and accessed my post from about this time last year, on Twenty-three and the Law of Fives.  I reread it and decided it was worth placing a link in the “…and then” module down on the left on my main page.  It had been part of a set, so I also linked to Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories.

  

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