Ganked from @gaal, this video shows what it's like to try to ride on Tel Aviv's new "bike paths". For those of you not from around here, that darker gray lane at the edge of the sidewalk is supposed to be a bike path. Yup. Mmmhmmm...

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Bike Road Challenge from Gig op on Vimeo.

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to You! Happy Biiiiiiirthday to YoooooooouuuuuuuuU!

Love and lots of hugs to my little, bitty boy whose gone off and turned 19 today. OMGs!!!

Happy Birthday, byrophyta!

This morning I woke up at 6 in the morning to go out to the Port of Tel Aviv, have coffee and a croissant with friends and get a quick interview with Jeff Pulver for Crictor.co.il before his Tel Aviv Social Breakfast. I don't do mornings. Even with the coffee and the sugar, I still don't do mornings. Even with the sea right there, which certainly ( Read more... )

There is something very compelling to me about faith-based activism. It is the polar opposite of dead, purposeless religion. It takes philosophy and theology and puts it to work. Faith-based activism, in its best form, says that there is hope for this world when we as individuals and as communities make a commitment to improve things ( Read more... )

I haven't seen anything in the news about the continuing earthquakes in China, but I hear about them through Twitter. A 6.0 is not a huge quake, but neither is it a small tremor. It's big enough that you can feel it, generally, and you'll see lights swaying and maybe a picture frame will fall over. They're still having lots of those. Take a look at ( Read more... )

I had been trying very hard to avoid having to do a nested query, but in the end, I really couldn't figure out a way around it. This is the query that gets the job done:

mysql> select tnid from fr_strings where sid NOT IN (SELECT sid from fr_tr_by_uid where uid = 1 and language = 'es');
If you have a non-nested solution for this problem, I'd ( Read more... )

I'm having a hellish time with a sql statement. I need to get nodes ("tnid" here) where a given user (uid = 1) has not translated a given language (language = "he", or rather, != as you'll see ( Read more... )

On one of the local bus company websites, there are some kind of funny translations in the English version. (http://dan.co.il/englishRead more... )

(ǝsn ɟo ǝsɐǝ ɹoɟ ʇɥƃıɹdn ʇɟǝl s,lɹn ( Read more... )

I've heard really great things about the current production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv, and today eumelia posted this YouTube video from the June 8, 2008 performance. I thought that many of you would enjoy this as well.

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