ח׳ בניסן ה׳תשס״ד (Tuesday 30 March 2004)

Spammin' Scott

ח׳ בניסן ה׳תשס״ד (Tuesday 30 March 2004)

On the Daily Show they’re doing a segment about a spammer named Scott Richter. The email address they gave for him is scottrichter422@yahoo.com I figure it can’t hurt to post it here, since google’s bot visits frequently enough.

Can't breathe

ז׳ בניסן ה׳תשס״ד (Monday 29 March 2004)

At work we’re getting a new phone system installed. The new phones have been sitting on our desks, next to our old phones, since last week. Today some functionality was added to the new phones. One of my coworkers began to experiment with her new phone. In response, another one of my coworkers said: “She’s [...]

Welcome home, Brood X!

ו׳ בניסן ה׳תשס״ד (Sunday 28 March 2004)

I remember spring 1987. I was six years old then, and finishing kindergarten. Most of what I remember about that spring is the cicadas. I’ve waited 17 years, but finally Brood X is preparing to return, much to my delight. I think six years old is the perfect age to be visited by humongous swarms [...]

1000 Reasons to hate Metro

כ״ה באדר ה׳תשס״ד (Thursday 18 March 2004)

I’m at the house right now, not on the way to work, because Metro sucks. Today it’s a fire on the tracks; yesterday afternoon it was Metro running fewer trains to accommodate the crowds of disgusting drunk college students celebrating St Patricks day during rush hour; Monday morning it was a broken train at Van [...]

NBN Meeting was fantastic

כ״ג באדר ה׳תשס״ד (Tuesday 16 March 2004)

I just got back from the Nefesh b’Nefesh Aliyah Seminar in Baltimore. I went with my parents and we brought Beth, who also lives in the area and intends to make Aliyah with NBN this summer. The meeting went pretty well. The crowd was definitely larger than I expected, but demographically it was predictable: lots [...]

Jon Stewart gets Schumed

כ״ב באדר ה׳תשס״ד (Monday 15 March 2004)

On the Daily Show just now, Jon Stewart was making fun of a recent riot in the Korean Congress with the senior Senator from New York, when Mr. Schumer said that it’s happened here too – in 1860. He further reported that “someone” beat “Sumner” with a cane, but couldn’t name who it was or [...]