ו׳ בשבט ה׳תשס״ט (Saturday 31 January 2009)

Help wanted

ו׳ בשבט ה׳תשס״ט (Saturday 31 January 2009)

This is the best job listing I’ve seen in months.

Write More Often – Life Is A Highway

ג׳ בשבט ה׳תשס״ט (Wednesday 28 January 2009)

Beach weather

ג׳ בשבט ה׳תשס״ט (Wednesday 28 January 2009)

It’s the last week in January and today’s temperature is in the mid 70s Fahrenheit – I couldn’t say what that equals in fake degrees – and I’m walking the dog in a t-shirt (I’m wearing the t-shirt; Sharav is nude). To the person who recently asked me if I don’t find life in Israel [...]

Fringe

ג׳ בשבט ה׳תשס״ט (Wednesday 28 January 2009)

Start with X-FIles. Age Mulder by about 35 years, halve his sanity and double his intelligence. Make Scully younger, blonder, more credulous and less intelligent. Combine Skinner and Il Fumadore and turn them both into Lost’s Matthew Abbadon. Insert Pacey from Dawson’s Creek, aged a decade but no less a smartass. Hang weird computer generated [...]

25 years of Mac

כ״ח בטבת ה׳תשס״ט (Saturday 24 January 2009)

The Macintosh computer is 25 years old, and in its honor I want to share my memories of the different Macs I’ve used. Way back in the 1980s, I was in elementary school and my family’s computer was a Mac Plus. The Mac Plus was a hell of a machine for its day, though I [...]

Funny place names

כ״ח בטבת ה׳תשס״ט (Saturday 24 January 2009)

There are some funny place names in the UK, I’ll admit, but can any location in the world be funnier than the intersection of Morningwood and Headwaters in Olney, Maryland? I don’t think so.

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