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Brian Betts

י' באייר ה'תש"ע (April 24, 2010) America

What’s the lowest form of life that exists? I don’t know if middle school gym teachers are actually the lowest, but they are definitely lower than slugs (perhaps higher than single-celled organisms). Brian Betts, however, was a very stark exception. I remember him at Redland Middle School in the early 1990s as a pretty decent [...]

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The Friendsterization of The Facebook

י"ב בסיון ה'תשס"ט (June 4, 2009) Bad

The Facebook is going to get rid of regional networks. Interesting idea. Also totally lame. I wasn’t so keen on the idea of regional networks when they implemented it a few years ago. I thought Facebook was better when used only by people with access to university email addresses (in practice, only by students and [...]

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PictureSync problem

כ' בניסן ה'תשס"ט (April 14, 2009) Bad

Is anyone out there familiar with PictureSync? It’s a small program that I use to upload pictures directly from iPhoto to Facebook albums and to my photo gallery. I’ve been having a problem with it recently – for some reason, it’s not letting me use my Gallery account, giving me the following error message: “No [...]

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America, part 2: endorsements

ט' באדר ה'תשס"ט (March 5, 2009) America

For travel between Manhattan and the DC suburbs: I endorse Tripper Bus. Having previously used Greyhound, all the Chinese companies operating from under the Manhattan Bridge, and Vamoose, as well as Amtrak and some of the airlines, without hesitation my one-way trip to Bethesda via Tripper was the most comfortable voyage I’ve taken from New [...]

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Shutterfool's Urban Annoyances

ב' בטבת ה'תשס"ט (December 29, 2008) Bad

If I ever make a list of reasons why Tel Aviv is the superior city, or at least the best place to live in Israel, I promise not to forget to add this list of Tel Aviv’s problems at the end of it. To address some of them: People on the bus who put their [...]

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On Honking

ב' בכסלו ה'תשס"ט (November 29, 2008) America

Like Dave Johns’ mother, I’d say I’m not much of a honker. That’s partly due to my personality and partly due to the way I learned to drive, which included lessons in defensive driving that emphasized preventing and avoiding collisions instead of just making them noisier. There are situations, however, when honking is very, very [...]

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I like Thanksgiving, but…

כ"ח במרחשון ה'תשס"ט (November 26, 2008) America

I think Thanksgiving is great. In fact, it’s one of the greatest things about America that’s portable to Israel (still working on convincing people here that football is the superior sport). But I will never go to America for Thanksgiving. Why not? Unfortunately, Thanksgiving has been completely swallowed up by the black hole of of [...]

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Tel Aviv sidewalks

ט"ו בתשרי ה'תשס"ט (October 14, 2008) Bad

Bad: restaurants monopolize sidewalk space with their tables and chairs. Actually, this isn’t entirely bad – what’s bad is the sense of entitlement that the restaurant owners, employees and patrons take about the public sidewalk space. A table and chair placed on a sidewalk is, after all, in a thoroughfare meant for pedestrians, and if [...]

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Hey Daddy-o

כ"ג בניסן ה'תשס"ח (April 28, 2008) Bad

1977: I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement 2008: Man Held Daughter Captive In Cellar Guys, I think the Ramones were on to something!

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RIP Cousin Bruce 19??-2008

י"ד באדר ה'תשס"ח (February 20, 2008) Bad

I never actually met Cousin Bruce. In fact, I hardly know anything about him, except that he may either have been involved in some distantly mafia related activity or that he may simply have gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd back in the 1970s, depending on which relative I asked. And I don’t even [...]

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