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I went and saw Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential philosophical play ‘No Exit’ at Imago Theatre.  It was really, really great.

It is a play about 3 people who are in hell; and hell consists of a room on a tilting floor.  A 17′ stage floor is suspended at one central point.  When one actor moves, the whole set tips and the other players must counteract that move to keep the floor balanced.  It’s so very cleaver a play because there is great dialog, but there is just as much communication going on through the fact actors moving around raise each other up, balance each other, or sink depending on how they are in relation to each other on the floor.  It’s only open until this weekend, but I would highly recommend it.

Wow, what an excellent bit of coding!  One of the guys on the hilltop got one of these little gadgets as a present and it’s been traveling around the hilltop and amazing people.  It’s a new take on the 20 questions game.  This game comes as a web version, but also has a handheld version and is almost uncanny in its ability to correctly pick things even when the questions it asks seem so unlikely.

Try it and be surprised.  I was thinking about how one might code up such a tool, and had some great ideas of how to automatically generate such a device…  Makes me think of the old glory days of coding. Do I smell a personal