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Knock knock?
Just passing through. Still missing the vibe this place used to have. FB never had it, and is getting worse by the day.
Still missing some LJ friends that have vanished into time and the internet fog.
If you see this drop me an email at shmuelakam@gmail.com
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Perpetual Interview "Meme"
I've been meaning to do this for some time now (mostly since some awesome discussions with spider88 and qatar), but keep on forgetting. It was qatar's last question [link removed], that "forced my hand".
The damn-fool interview meme keeps on coming around every 6 to 8 months or so, and I generally ignore it, because I really hate the lame "What's your favorite ( Read more... ) -
Providence
Like most of our neighbors we usually do the big weekly shopping on thursday night, at the big Rami Levi in Pardes Hannah, which is a 25-30 minutes drive away. Two weeks ago on thursday we were in the middle of a rather severe thunderstorm. It was pretty miserable outside. We have no car at the moment. As I usually meet many neighbors there, I ( Read more... ) -
Magical Moment
The other day, I went on a 4 Km walk (~2.5 miles). It's a nice triangular root along two roads and through the local forest (I did NOT follow the road shown across the top, rather I took the white dirt just south of it). I started at sunset, and as it took a bit longer than I expected, by the time I got to the forest it was rather dark. As I was ( Read more... ) -
Market of Ideas
Xplace is a pretty good online market for local Freelancers ( Read more... ) -
Creativity
CNN "asks" (and makes a good point proving) "Is there a bias against creativity?"They completely overlook the primary reason for the bias. Long before it gets to the "fear of uncertainty" stage, people object to it because they fail to UNDERSTAND Creativity (this feeds the fear of course). This is because they are incapable to do so, whether due to ( Read more... ) -
The Heart of the matter
Lately, weekends are the time to have nightmares and totally weird dreams. For this reason alone, I'd try to altogether avoid taking a nap on Shabbat afternoon. If only I wasn't so tired. So last week I had two real heart-thumpers.
I was in a large nebulous room, with many people I knew, all just doing their thing. As I was wandering around, I ( Read more... ) -
Political Comedy, the non-PC type
CNN asks an interesting question: Is political comedy inherently leftist? and gives a completely wrong answer.
Their answer is wrong in so many ways (as to be typical of CNN). To begin with, their panel was far too Politically Correct: "But comedians shouldn't take a political stance when trying to be funny." Why because some people might be ( Read more... ) -
Purim 5772 (2012 for you fureners)
IIRC (questionable given circumstances), I had (at least ( Read more... ) -
Endings
I don't know what's with me, but I seem to have lately developed an aversion to "endings". It may have to do with fear of resolution, confrontation.- I was watching a very cute movie, about an impossible bi-sexual love-hate triangle - Puccini for Beginners, in daily 10-15 minute bites, but put off the last 25 minutes or so, for over a week. This ( Read more... )