ב׳ באב ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 13 July 2010)

George Steinbrenner

ב׳ באב ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 13 July 2010)

George Steinbrenner is dead. I guess it’s weird that I never thought he was the kind of guy who could die. He was just timeless, effortlessly throwing vast amounts of money at some Caribbean immigrant athletes so they’d wear pinstripes; and immortalized in Seinfeld episodes that are starting to feel weirdly out of date. I [...]

AppleJack for Snow Leopard

ב׳ באב ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 13 July 2010)

Do you have a Mac? If so, go now to download AppleJack and install it on your computer. Then forget about it. When something goes terribly wrong with your computer at some date in the distant future – and you can’t access the GUI, don’t have a startup disk, etc., you should then remember that [...]

IB Program

כ״ב בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 4 July 2010)

I did the International Baccalaureate program for high school and graduated with an IB diploma. The New York Times has an an article about IB and that is awesome, since I’ve spent the past 11 years surrounded by people who have no idea what the IB program is and who don’t give a damn about [...]

I missed peach season!

כ׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Friday 2 July 2010)

In Israel, most fruits are available only in season. I understand that this is due to how small our country is and how expensive it would be to import fruits all year long, but damn, it’s extremely annoying. I don’t have freezer space to store all the strawberries I want to eat from about March, [...]