Recent Comments

  • NG: Don’t know the film, but if you still haven’t gotten Advil by mid-April, let me know.
  • Ben-Yehudah: B”H It must have been frickin’ freezing out there (Mr. Bigglesworth – name that film!)...
  • Eric: The reason people arrive early to get into Costco when it opens, I believe, is because they run restaurants or...
  • NG: You can of course do the open collar, as long as you’re wearing something under it or over it.
  • Vicki: I love the Israeli dress code. I wish I were a guy just so I could do the open collar.

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@natges

    My Apartment Search

    I went to see an apartment last Friday afternoon. It wasn’t really in my preferred neighborhood, but when I got there, I really liked it. The size and layout were just right, and I could definitely see myself putting a lot of work into it and staying for a long time.

    I tried to appeal to [...]

    America in 140 characters or fewer

    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 [...]

    Shirt Collars

    If nerd packs and belt hangdowns instantly imply prole leanings, there are other signs almost as clear. When you’re wearing a shirt with a sweater or jacket over it but omitting a necktie, what do you do with the shirt collar? Keeping all of it inside both sweater and jacket is upper- or upper-middle-class, partly, [...]

    Just give me gas

    Tuesday: I returned home from vacation and, without delay, went grocery shopping and cooked meals in advance so I could prepare them for dinners in the coming days.

    Wednesday: In the middle of preparing my dinner, the gas went out. Damn it. I called the gas company, Paz Gaz (that’s right, English speakers, an Israeli gas [...]

    Ezra in a Cave

    I took this picture in 2001. We were in a cave and through a hole in the ceiling (ground level) light came in and illuminated just a small area. Ezra was standing in it, so I snapped this shot by reading the light meter from the lit area, but standing far back in the unlit [...]

    iPhone OS 3.x Messed Up My Data Plan!

    Though I previously reported that I’d upgraded my iPhone’s firmware to 3.1.2 and that it was good, it was not actually working perfectly for me: Apple did one of their annoying moves and messed up access to cellular data plans on unlocked iPhones in OS 3.1. Consequently, I lost my connectivity when I went from [...]

    Chicken Shnitzel

    Read it and weep, people. Here I am in The Atlantic, holding forth on one of my favorite topics: chicken shnitzel.

    My contention is, and has been on many occasions, that chicken shnitzel is the authentic Israeli cuisine because it is the only notable dish invented by Jews in Israel that’s culturally accessible to all [...]

    Skatalites

    I took this picture when the Skatalites came to Tel Aviv in September. I never thought they’d come to perform in Israel, so it was a special treat to see them play at the Barby. I was not so surprised that they put on a fantastic show, since I’d seen them also in New York [...]

    Yunis

    I’ve always loved this picture (by the way, it’s not done with HDR). I took it in March or April 2005 at the end of a work day at the Temple Mount Antiquities Salvage Operation, an archeological excavation of material from the Temple Mount that had been dumped in 1999. The man in the picture [...]

    Jerusalem Wreck