The movie version of “Rent” tentatively opens in one year. (Well, a year from yesterday.)

I bought the “Rent” album during my first year of law school, before I ever saw the show, and I fell in love with it. For a year it was almost the only thing I listened to in my car. A few months after buying the album, I finally saw the show. I got to the theater at 7:00 in the morning to wait on line (this was before they started the lottery; the tickets for the first two rows went to the first 30 or so people on line). I waited all day, made some friends, and saw the show — and it turned out that both Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal were out sick. I was disappointed (I’d especially wanted to see Anthony Rapp), but it was still great to finally see this show I’d listened to for months.

I wonder if the movie will be any good.

These comics are brilliant. I think this is one of my favorites so far. [via MeFi]

Oh, hallelujah.

A few months ago, when I switched my blog to WordPress and also to a new hosting service, I somehow lost the first six months of my blog entries, from January to June 2001. They’d been made with Blogger, so they’d been in a separate directory from everything else, and somehow I’d forgotten to save that directory when switching servers. Six months’ worth of verbal creations and personal history, now completely lost, broken down into random ones and zeroes and scattered irretrievably throughout the universe. All those words and musings… gone.

But no!

I just went to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine — and it’s all there. All six months of it! So I’ve saved it all to my computer and soon I’ll put it back into the archives on my site. My world will be complete again.

I can also revisit my old site design from a few years and a few site designs ago.

I love the Wayback Machine.