by danya | Jan 9, 2007 | Blog
The 2006 Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards is now taking nominations.
by danya | Jan 8, 2007 | Blog
So this past Shabbat I got to get out of town, which was nice. I’d never been to Masada, so we went down early Friday, took the cable car up (the Shabbos clock was ticking, after all) and had a nice few hours tromping around and looking at all of the history. I...
by danya | Jan 1, 2007 | Blog
Even though at the end of it, my brain is nothing but hot mush. Man, that was a lot of words I cranked out today (5k?) Be interesting to see how many of them I get to keep in the end. Some, at least.
by danya | Jan 1, 2007 | Blog
Crocs plus rudimentary electric space heater? Bad combination. (They’re not melted, just, uh, warped a little.)
by danya | Dec 31, 2006 | Blog
Now, I don’t have any words at this very early juncture about the presidency of the US and all that, but dang, does Barack Obama have something to tell us. I hope he doesn’t shut up any time soon if he’s going to keep talking like he did in this...
by danya | Dec 31, 2006 | Blog
…that’s what they call it around here, since the New Year already happened in September, natch. It seems that the Israelis got the name from the Germans–it comes from the 4th c. pope (Silvester I) who knew Constantine–though evidently the story...
by danya | Dec 28, 2006 | Blog
Time for another update, I reckon. Chapter 7 is almost done, except that I’m still trying to track down some information to help me rework a few paragraphs. If you work in cognitive psychology or cognitive science or have a PhD in psych or something vaguely...
by danya | Dec 28, 2006 | Blog
The view from my kitchen: The view from inside my freezer: You can’t really see the pipe poking out of his mouth (aka a match). You can see that his eye is kind of messed up. He’s kind of like Pirate Mini-Snowman. Arrrr!
by danya | Dec 27, 2006 | Blog
The weather reports were right, it did really snow today. There was nasty, nasty rain all day, and then 2:30ish or 3ish it started coming down in big, fat, wet, fluffy white flakes. Then it turned into hail, then rain, then snow again, and then hail again. Go figure....
by danya | Dec 26, 2006 | Blog
Peggy Orenstein has a very interesting piece in the NYT from a couple of days ago about the the aggressive marketing of “princess” culture to very young girls. I don’t agree with all of her analysis, but it’s definitely worth reading. ETA: Oh,...
