The talmudic discussion has turned to renting property ( Read more... )

If you've ever commented in a journal (like mine) that's ever been imported to Dreamwidth, then Dreamwidth has a stub pseudo-account with your name on it, with a name of the form username.livejournal.com. This is, I presume, so that if you use your LiveJournal OpenID to log in to Dreamwidth, you'll be able to see protected entries and suchlike ( Read more... )

The mishna teaches: if a man borrows a cow and borrows or hires its owner ( Read more... )

I'm posting this from Dreamwidth, with hopes that it will also show up on LJ. Let's find out ( Read more... )

I have seen credible reports that the LiveJournal servers have been moved to Moscow, where they are now subject to Russian rather than US law. This does not give me warm fuzzy feelings for LJ's already-shaky future ( Read more... )

Our kitchen came with a wall oven, rather than a range (oven + cooktop together). And it's too small and some things don't work right, but every conversation that started with "we should replace that" ended with talk of remodeling the kitchen ( Read more... )

The talmud has been discussing feeding workers, which led to a discussion ( Read more... )

The mishna says: if a man hires a team (cow + plow + handlers) to ( Read more... )

No supermoon here; the Pittsburgh sky is a giant snow-cloud. I'll just have to wait to see others' pictures.

While today's snow is not the first snow of the season, it was the first snow on a weekday during commuting hours. The roads were fine; other drivers were the usual beginning-of-season challenge. Ah, winter.

The mishna teaches: a man must not fix a price for produce until the ( Read more... )