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America in 140 characters or fewer

ו' באדר ה'תש"ע (February 20, 2010) America

Last month I went to visit America for a couple weeks and I recorded the entire trip on the Twitter. Here are all my tweets, from the minute my vacation began to when I got back home. Sorry they’re in reverse order – I can’t find a tool that will export them from first to [...]

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Making yourself dumb

כ"ד בסיון ה'תשס"ט (June 16, 2009) America

Very much in line with my belief that everything in life looks cooler when graphed, which led me to Graph Jam, here are two of the coolest little websites I’ve seen in a long while: Books That Make You Dumb and, for people who don’t like to read, Music That Makes You Dumb. The idea [...]

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Little Prince movie

י"ח בסיון ה'תשס"ט (June 10, 2009) Books

Did you know that there’s a film adaptation of The Little Prince? Neither did I, until I randomly downloaded it and watched it today. Here is my judgment on it: everything about it is splendidly perfect except for the kid’s hair. His hair is really, really bad. It is 80s rock star bad. Even worse, [...]

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Missing!

ט"ז בניסן ה'תשס"ט (April 10, 2009) Books

If you’re the person who borrowed my book How The Hebrew Language Grew, at least half a year ago or longer, I want it back, so now would be a great time to return it. Thanks! Please also return my copies of Josephus’ The Jewish Wars, Mao’s Little Red Book, Hoffman’s Steal This Book, and [...]

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Yay me.

ט' בניסן ה'תשס"ט (April 3, 2009) Books

I just added space for two more shelves in my bookshelf by reorganizing my books by size! Next step: bring hundreds more books from America.

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America, part 1: at a glance

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

Ever wondered what I do when I go to America? So have I. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of how I spent my winter vacation. Day 1: JFK, Reagan, AT&T, T-Mobile, Chipotle, Costco, CVS, Lenscrafters, chicken tenders, cookies, Benny Lava Day 2: pancakes, online glasses shopping, Kohl’s, Popeye’s, Goodwill, AT&T, Buca di Beppo Day 3: Costco, [...]

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The Prestige

י"ח בטבת ה'תשס"ט (January 14, 2009) Books

The Prestige is not a bad movie. But it is boring. It’s not even boring in a good way, like Jim Jarmusch’s movies, which have to keep a slow pace because they’re serious. It’s boring in a bad way, like a talented author’s first novel that he planned to write for a decade and falls [...]

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Where I be (at)

כ"ב בסיון ה'תשס"ח (June 25, 2008) Aliyah

Where have I been for the past few months? Let’s see… As many people know, my job moved to Ra’anana last January, and as some people know, I’ve given notice to my employer that I’ll be leaving, at the end of next week, for a new job in Tel Aviv. The new job is also [...]

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World's first PORTABLE bible!

ט"ז בטבת ה'תשס"ח (December 25, 2007) Books

After all that time, year after dreadful, agonizing year, with all my incessant complaining that the bible is just too god damn big, scientists have finally created a bible small enough for me to carry around under my finger nail. I mean, what took them so long, anyway?

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college (part deux)

ז' במרחשון ה'תשס"ז (October 29, 2006) Aliyah

It’s official. For the first time in more years than I’d like to believe, I am a college student. This time around, I’m doing it at the Raphael Recanati International School, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. The degree: a three-year BA program in Middle East Security Studies, Counter-Terrorism and International Relations offered by the Lauder School of [...]

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