Alice in InfoLand

Dinner and the theater -- an ongoing pleasure made SO much easier these days thanks to the Web:

• Tickets ordered via Telecharge for the wonderful revival of South Pacific at Lincoln Center.
• From NJ, we took the NJ Turnpike to the Holland Tunnel (inbound traffic checked via webcam on my Palm Centro), to pick up our son in the East Village.
• He'd already made reservations for dinner at Il Violino after checking their menu online.
• His wife took the subway crosstown to meet us at the restaurant, after emailing her menu selection to his phone in case she was late.
• On the drive home, my husband and I compared this production to our memories of the original show and movie. We couldn't remember who played Bloody Mary, so I checked the Internet Broadway DataBase -- it was Juanita Hall, the first African-American to win a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress.
  

And thanks to Youtube, I was able to share some of the highlights of the show with my elderly mom the next day. NONE of those cyber-connections were possible just five years ago!!

Meredith Farkas posted recently about the impact the Web has had on her life.
Well, I'm old enough to be Meredith's mother, and Oh, the Changes I Have Seen... and enjoyed!!