One of my roommates is a big practical joker. Nothing too elaborate but he likes to mess with people just a little. When drunk, the jokes get dumber. Yesterday when we went out he managed to take my cell phone out of my pocket and had me frantically looking for it and believing I lost it for about 10 minutes. When he finally owned up to it, i ( Read more... )

In the spirit of "How I spent my summer vacation", I present "How I spent my Tuesday morning"

Had an enlightening, stimulating, at times seemingly random conversation over AIM with melfairie in which certain limits were tested, truths faced and realizations arrived at but everybody emerged alive on the other end. Work? What work ( Read more... )

Finished scanning the roll from a few weeks ago. The following 9 made the cut.
I like some more than others, which one is your favorite?
***About 300KB in pictures, so only attempt it if you are on a fast connection***
( Pictures and a poll )

I believe it was topi who said something like "the cooking of Jewish grandmothers is our greatest cultural treasure". I am too lazy to go find the exact quote, so I hope this is close. I wholeheartedly agree, and if it wasn't so unhealthy for you, I'd eat that way every day. In a somewhat related vein I just stumbled upon a glossary of Yiddish words ( Read more... )

I am scanning some pictures from a few weeks ago. It's going a lot slower than I imagined. I'll probably post a few of the better ones to b0st0n, but in the meantime, here are some teasers, mostly to help me see which of them look decent on the web.
Edit 04/26/03: I finished scanning the roll and had to move the pictures around my ftp site, so here is ( Read more... )

Obligatory mid-Passover-week food gripe: There comes a time, usually towards the end of the 8 day gastro-intestinal and culinary torture otherwise known as Passover, when I understand why Jews wandering the desert for 40 years looked at manna as a heavenly gift. For those not clued into the science of the Bible, manna has tentatively been ( Read more... )

Today is the 107th running of the Boston Marathon. In addition to the people in suits and dress shoes commuting to work, there were many people on the T wearing jumpsuits and sneakers, heading downtown. I have no idea what it takes to run the marathon, I am pretty sure whatever it is, I don't have it. Just some snippits of conversations ( Read more... )

Finally picked up the roll that MotoPhoto f'ed up. As I learned, this wasn't a first time. They managed to screw up my friend's roll of slides about a month ago. Apparently a month is not enough time to learn how to operate the damn machine. When I asked the girl that works here how often this happens, she said: "It happens. Not often, but once ( Read more... )

An exercise in non-sequitur-ism:

Proof that fad diets don't work: Dr. Atkins is in a coma in a NY Hospital

Yesterday's rant against mediocrity must have been psychic in nature. And mediocrity struck back. I got a call yesterday afternoon from the photolab where I dropped off my film to be developed. Looks like they messed something up and ruined the roll. I should have just turned around and walked out when the kid behind the counter asked me if I ( Read more... )