Aharoni in Unicode, ya mama

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2009-04-25T01:12:00.001+03:00

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Bye Bye, Blogger

2007-03-14T16:58:00.003+02:00

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People Speaking - Customer

2006-12-27T11:20:00.001+02:00

Someone called my cellphone from the 04 area code, which is Northern Israel. An elderly-sounding man spoke: — "Hello! Are you Amir?" — "Yes." — "Hello! This is Moshe! Do you know Moshe?" — "No, i don't think so..." — "I am Moshe!" — "I see ..." — "I am Moshe! I am Moshe, G.'s father." OK, i now G., whose name will remain private. — "Oh, hello. It's good to talk to you." — "How are you?" — "I'm

Hook

2006-12-06T10:23:00.000+02:00

Sorry about the rare and the disappointing updates. I'm off the hook. No more internet connection at home at least for a few more weeks. A change will do me good. I'm planning a huge pics upload some time soon, and it's not just the wedding. In the meantime, enjoy some vegetarian spam: crash-land lady beetle mole-blindedly Konia-ladik mis-space frame worker quasi-living quasi-living bang beggar

Slower than a motivated cheetah

2006-11-22T10:23:00.000+02:00

In July of 2005, one citizen of the fine city of Sderot spoke to Maariv after a Kassam rocket landed near his house. This is what he said: "Carrying out the disengagement will nullify the motivation to fire Kassam rockets." His name is Amir Peretz and today he is the minister of defense. Israel is supposed to be a democracy, and therefore i am supposed to be his boss. I would like to fire him,

URGENT FUND TRANSFER.. YOUR ACTION REQUIRED

2006-11-13T10:30:00.000+02:00

I received a message on MySpace (spelling mistakes kept, names abbreviated with '): Hello, this may sound a bit strange, but I was wondering if you are related to A' Aharoni from Natanya? If you are, I have been trying to find he and his wife as my husband passed from this life owing them money, and I am trying to settle the debt. It has been troubling me for several years now. They would have

People Speaking - Documentary

2006-11-13T10:23:00.001+02:00

— "Do you have a secure room in your house?" — "No, i don't think so." — "It's the room with the window that can be shut with a metal door." — "No, i don't have it." — "Because I heard that it is very dangerous to use it as a living or sleeping room." — "OK, mama, i don't have such a room, so i probably won't use it like that." — "Do you know why? I saw a documentary about it on the television.

People Speaking - Fairy

2006-11-13T10:18:00.001+02:00

— "Sorry, I couldn't call you back after one minute as I promised, because I went up to the office and that M. was sitting there talking on the phone for a really long time, and talking and talking and talking and yawning all the time as if someone was telling him a children's fairy tale. Stupid asshole."

¡Hoja!

2006-11-13T10:07:00.000+02:00

This semester i finally started studying two very important languages. No, not Armenian and Irish - i'm talking about Spanish and Arabic. Spanish is in huge demand. In fact, i'm still not officially signed up for the course. It is given in five different groups, each with its own days and hours, there's only one that fits me and technically it is full, but the teacher agreed to accept me. This

People Speaking - Spoon

2006-11-03T17:42:00.000+02:00

— "In Ethiopia it is considered polite to feed your guest." — "What, to actually put the spoon in his mouth??" — "No, no. In Ethiopia they eat with their hands."

Plate

2006-11-02T19:51:00.000+02:00

OK, i'm taking this risk and changing the template to some Blogger-beta pre-designed Web 2.0-AJAX-dynamagic thing. All the fun links and gif's on the sidebar around will be updated some time soon. Here we go.

One man come

2006-11-02T19:37:00.000+02:00

What do i have to write about the pride parade in Jerusalem? Nothing much. I think that those parades are kinda pointless, especially in Israel, because in practice gay rights in Israel are in a pretty good shape compared to the rest of the world. And so is the general public tolerance. It's legal to have sex with anyone you want and same-sex civil unions are not defined in law, but they are

Tea Packs

2006-11-02T17:48:00.000+02:00

Throughout the whole day i'm having an urge to drink a bottle of correction fluid that stands on my table. I hid it in a drawer, but the thought just wouldn't go away. A sip of Jack Daniels helped.

Made Me Cry - Matt

2006-11-01T01:18:00.000+02:00

I am a basket case Internet junkie, but more often than not it takes a while until email fads reach me. This one finally did. I mean OK - i cry at greatness. And i love his dance (i should have been more prudent at filming myself jumping on beds in hotels.) But the music! The music! Reminded me of the best moments of Go Home Productions. And Dancer in the Dark too. Just made me cry. Oh (edit):

People Speaking - Spelling

2006-10-31T15:11:00.000+02:00

— "Amir!" — "What?" — "How do you spell gibberish?" — "Ehh ... Brdhklgvdnbrdrbnbnba! Urlelueuleuleula! Bagvnkagadvrbakglbdvdrkgbdruvbla!"

Miron's Space

2006-10-19T01:42:00.000+02:00

I made a very simple page for Miron Tzabari's band at MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/mirontzabari http://www.myspace.com/tzabari It's not so good. It should be in Hebrew, but MySpace doesn't accept Hebrew. It shouldn't have so much ugly advertising. It shouldn't use Flash. But for starters, it's a good way to spread the word. Next in line - stage.co.il and last.fm. www.mirontzabari.com will be a

Coffee in Tel Aviv

2006-10-15T20:41:00.000+02:00

אייס קפה עם קש מרפא זוועות (עמיר לב) That's Hadar and me at Rothschild street in Tel Aviv. Our first date, not including a couple of gigs we seen beforehand, was in a coffee shop nearby.

Cool waves wash over me

2006-10-15T08:33:00.000+02:00

Wedding pictures are coming - as soon as i receive them from the photographer. Stories will come as soon as i write them. In the meantime life goes on and the breaking and wonderful news are that there's heavy rain in the mountains of Jerusalem. I love rain and i love Israeli winter. I just need to drive really carefully.

Funny Love

2006-10-13T23:08:00.000+02:00

I thought that Pucca is Japanese and is mostly a character on notebooks, pens and purses for impressionable teen age girls. Apparently she is Korean - she really looks unusual compared to most Manga. And she has movies too, and they are actually quite good. Look here for some Flesh (sic) animations: Pucca Club (click on "Amusement"). It's not the first time that i notice that Koreans are better

Lord of the Rings

2006-10-12T14:02:00.000+02:00

Aharoni is still in Unicode and still alive. Aharoni is also married and one day soon he will write something more here.

Sign

2006-10-01T16:28:00.000+02:00

Time to get Biblical again. Jonah 1: 4 But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast

Please could you ...

2006-09-28T02:09:00.000+03:00

... tell me why i had the urge to cut down a light post with an axe a few days ago? I know the answer, do you? You laugh - Courts Take quickly, Return slowly. It's late you say, We both stand up, An Arab doctor, a Jewish singer, Hug and go. From the direction of the mountain All is normal, Good October Is about to begin. (Amir Lev) אתה צוחק - בתי המשפט לוקחים מהר, מחזירים לאט. מאוחר אתה אומר,

A Visit to Gaza

2006-09-27T23:16:00.000+03:00

Gross. This is a picture from a children's story at a website called Al-Fateh, which, despite its name, is actually operated by Hamas. OK, let's see - a boy in short pants is riding a rocket painted with Amiga colors. A happy-looking girl is chasing him; she's not dressed too modestly and could be Swedish for all i care. There are two boys on the ground holding the PA flag, one of them wears

Made Me Cry - Russian Hero

2006-09-26T21:55:00.000+03:00

A Russian man died in Utah, trying to save the life of a girl falling from a cliff: in English, по-Русски. "Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him." May God have mercy on his soul and reward his selfless courage.

People Speaking - Mmm ...

2006-09-25T13:26:00.001+03:00

— "Did I lock?" — "Yes." — "Really?" — "Mmm ... No."

People Speaking - Pick

2006-09-25T13:23:00.000+03:00

— "Why are you turning right? You should go on straight ahead." — "Oh, i though that the gas station is to the right. But hey, there are girls to the right." — "Oh yeah! Hot teen age hitchhikers! It's great that they are hitchhiking in the middle of the night - we can pick them up, rape them and through them away in a ditch by the road. Why not?"

People Speaking - Box

2006-09-19T22:54:00.000+03:00

— "There is a difference between me and you." — "What is it?" — "I would have never done that." — "What?" — "You touched the rag. Then you touched the food and put it in the fridge." — "I didn't touch the food. I only touched the box it was in." — "You touched the food." — "Do you still love me?" — "It's hard, it's hard ... I'm thinking about all the times you did it and I didn't know ..."

br23

2006-09-10T22:26:00.000+03:00

Some time ago i used to follow a blog by a Belarusian guy who called himself rydel23. I mentioned him here a few times too. Then his blog wasn't updated for a long time. Then it went offline. And then i removed him from my RSS. I still left the link to him, but struck it out. I considered the possibility that this rather well-known dissident was vaporized by Lukashenko's KGB or maybe died. So out

People Speaking - Not Me

2006-09-05T21:08:00.000+03:00

— "Why aren't you speaking? What do you think of this food?" — "I am immobile. I can't do anything, I can't speak and I can't move, because it's too hot. It's too hot, because the air conditioning isn't working. Actually I dreamt a few days ago - such things actually happen sometimes! - I dreamt that I was tasting this food and it was too hot and the air conditioning didn't work and I couldn't

People Speaking - Let

2006-09-03T21:25:00.000+03:00

— "Did you go to sleep?" — "No. Let me sleep."

This one drops the payload

2006-08-27T15:10:00.001+03:00

I gave blood every six months for almost eight years. It gave me a warm feeling of saving people's lives and an insurance that would entitle me to have free blood transfusion in case i would, God forbid, need one. Last time i gave blood, a year ago, i received a letter from the Israeli Blood Bank director, Dr. Eilat Shen'ar. The letter said that a test had shown that i was found positive for

Degree

2006-08-27T09:33:00.001+03:00

I saw an advertisement for an accredited university in which you can earn a masters degree (M.A.) in wonderful subjects, such as Holistic Health and Women Studies. I wonder what are they learning about for M.A. in Women Studies. I suppose that Color Matching, Inexistent Odor Recognition and Wrapping Sandwiches in Cellophane are done at the B.A. level. Maybe fo M.A. they are offering seminars on

Keep it Gangsta!!

2006-08-24T09:55:00.001+03:00

From an email from Larry Wall to the Perl 6 mailing list: Reduce operators only turn infix into list operators. What you really want here is a hyper-fatarrow: my %h = @k »=>« @v; I want to be like Larry. A. E. Aharoni and L. Wall, OSDC 2006, Netanya No, i'm not going to post every single Larry Wall quote from his every email. I just like the word "hyper-fatarrow", which refers to the fat

People Speaking - Two Kinds

2006-08-23T22:48:00.000+03:00

— "Is this thing made in China?" — "Yes. That's the problem. There were two kinds of those and I wanted to pick the one that isn't made in China, but there was none."

Made Me Cry - Firefox Again

2006-08-23T20:12:00.000+03:00

And more about Firefox - i keep reading about it and i can't stop getting fascinated by it. It's a proof that free software works and that it can be used by regular people. It's a proof of Microsoft's lies, dirty tricks and incompetence. There are many astonishing things about Firefox. The dedication of the programmers who developed Firefox to do The Right Thing - to write a free browser which

Firefox Fun

2006-08-23T19:54:00.000+03:00

Firefox fun: אווי, חמווווווווווווד!!!!1 A real-life Firefox Firefox for prom-queen Firefox crop circles More at Firefox tales. I though about it - i see people promoting Firefox out of sheer love for it, which is well-deserved. Would there be anyone to love Internet Explorer so much? Probably not, 'cuz unlike Firefox, IE is just there. But if someone would really want to show his admiration,

Oh Boy Oh Boy

2006-08-23T00:28:00.000+03:00

Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous Person, I appreciate your valuable comments with links to material about Lithuanian and Polish. Can you please tell me who you are? I'm very very curious. If it's a secret, you can send me a private email to amir dоt aharoni аt gmail dоt com. Labas ačiū.

Made Me Cry - Leaving on a jet plane

2006-08-22T17:45:00.000+03:00

Fucking Armageddon is on loop in the labs here. Buscemi in a space suit. Affleck and Buscemi in a space suit singing "leaving on a jet plane." Owen Wilson complaining about people who think that Jethro Tull is a person in a band. Liv talking Japanese (i heard that she had trouble with Quenya, and Japanese is harder as far as i know. Whatever.) Liv making Aharoni cry: — "Promise me you'll come

The Cages and the Cages

2006-08-21T19:29:00.000+03:00

I submitted a patch for Parrot and it was even accepted. Parrot is the codename for the central part of the next version of the Perl language, Perl 6 (it's a dynamic registered-based virtual machine, if you're technically inclined). Because it is called Parrot, there's a role in the development team called "cage cleaners" - the people who do all the little work without diving deeply into the

Bargain buildings, part 1

2006-08-20T16:24:00.001+03:00

There seem to be some strange problems since i moved to the new and "improved" beta Blogger platform. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Not the Same

2006-08-17T17:37:00.000+03:00

Ceasefire. At first i didn't buy it, but now i see photos of the official Lebanese army entering villages in the South, so it's probably good. I still think that it must be some trick, but i hope that i'm wrong. Refugees from Galilee are returning back to their homes (my parents never left). Hotels in the North are reporting that the tourists are coming back. So what, is it like ... Peace? Still,

People Speaking - Tired

2006-08-16T00:24:00.000+03:00

— "Why aren't you going to sleep?" — "Because I'm tired."

Booze

2006-08-14T22:24:00.000+03:00

"I decided to visit it and was reading all the nasty stuff he said about Jews and Booze. Then I found out I was on Mel Gibson's blog by mistake." (A comment on a Slashdot post about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's new blog. Thanks to L. Roz Hubbard for the link.)

Testing

2006-08-13T17:21:00.000+03:00

This is the "Contact us" page of the website of the Israeli Testing Certification Board (ITCB is the Israeli branch of ISTQB; see here). Can you see any problem with it? Hint: You don't need to know Hebrew to find it. Remember that this is no less than the Testing Certification Board. Although it is unlikely that they will ever fix it, i made a screenshot - just in case. Click to enlarge.

Fob

2006-08-13T16:06:00.000+03:00

I studied a new English word! Ya mama! The word is "fob". Definition in Merriam-Webster: 1 : WATCH POCKET 2 : a short strap, ribbon, or chain attached especially to a pocket watch 3 : an ornament attached to a fob chain I learnt it from UK's new airport security measures. It allows "keys (but no electrical key fobs)". Among other things it means that you can't take you disk-on-key a.k.a USB flash

Sense

2006-08-13T15:38:00.000+03:00

This is not for computer people only, although it might look like that in the beginning. You try to install a program on a Windows PC. This application depends on functioning IIS - Microsoft HTTP server software. When you try to start IIS, you get an error - "Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740". This is not very helpful (talk about Microsoft's user-friendliness...), so you search the web with this weird

Jule

2006-08-11T14:31:00.000+03:00

SerbianЈунЈул Hebrewיונייולי RussianИюньИюль EnglishJuneJuly In all languages there's a difference of one letter. So why doesn't English have June and Jule or Juny and July? Oh (edit): I totally forgot the original, which is very important: LatinIūniusIūlius

Bear

2006-08-11T14:25:00.000+03:00

Why the world hates the Jews by Michael Medved It's long, indulgent, apologetical and somewhat one-sided, but largely right.

Made Me Cry Again - Indriķis XIII

2006-08-10T22:37:00.000+03:00

I updated the entry about Indriķis XIII with pictures. Enjoy. This entry will self destruct within some time.

Calli

2006-08-10T13:40:00.000+03:00

Ya Mustafa! Look: Arabic-Chinese calligraphy and more Arabic-Chinese calligraphy. Arabic calligraphy is so much more interesting than Hebrew, or any other for that matter. To my taste, Japanese comes second and Chinese third. There hardly is such a thing as Hebrew calligraphy - the script for hand-written Torah scrolls is the same all the time and all the other books are just printed and we are

Em B D->D9 A

2006-08-09T21:26:00.000+03:00

Em B D->D9 A Am Em->Em2 F# Am Em

Creeping Closer

2006-08-08T21:11:00.000+03:00

It is creeping closer to me. The son of someone who works in the office next to mine was killed in Bint Jbeil. He was supposed to get married next month. May the true judge be blessed - ברוך דיין אמת.

People Speaking - Sixth

2006-08-08T17:52:00.000+03:00

— "Can't you see it? We're in the last seven years before the coming of the Messiah. Now it's already the sixth, which according to the prophecy in the Talmud, is the year of the voices. Next year is the seventh, which is the year of the wars." — "So you basically say that the wars has just begun and we ain't seen nothing yet?" — "Oh, yes, of course. There's gonna be the war of Gog and Magog. The

Excruciatingly gray

2006-08-06T23:48:00.000+03:00

Why i don't write in Russian much? Because i type slowly in Russian. If i'd write more, i'd type faster. Парадокс, бля.

Zionist Propaganda

2006-08-06T23:44:00.000+03:00

Israeli Arabs: Finish off Nasrallah (YNet) So, is it Zionist propaganda or popular outcry?

To the Point

2006-08-06T21:15:00.000+03:00

I heard this quote once, i don't remember who said it - Orwell maybe? "The simplest way to end a war is to lose it." It's true, but not for Israel. For Israel loss means death. It's not worth it. So it only leaves one option - to win. And there's only one way to win. To kill Nasrallah. Beirut will be destroyed and he'll say that he won. Two thirds of Lebanon's population will die and he'll say

Your eyes make a circle

2006-08-04T22:03:00.000+03:00

As promised, Hizballah bombed Hadera. But i've got something much better to show you - a picture of a boy the size of a house. Enjoy: Boy. Actually it's an advertisement for a hotel. Oh (edit): Hadar says that the quality of this picture is very high and she doesn't believe me that i took it with a 1 megapixel phone camera.

1337 h4X0r

2006-08-04T18:40:00.000+03:00

Go to the American Bible Society - introduction page. Watch it from the beginning to the end. Don't skip, otherwise it won't work. In the end there's a very neat visual effect. The coolest thing about is that it was not made by a designer or a computer programmer, but by God Almighty (and maybe Holy Ghost too). I hope that you'll notice it and enjoy it as much as i did.

Made My Cry - Faceless Cowards

2006-08-03T19:20:00.000+03:00

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by Nicholas Cage.

Beauty in this place

2006-08-03T12:42:00.000+03:00

Museum of Bad Art.

Beach party tonight (actually on 2006-07-29)

2006-08-02T20:12:00.000+03:00

See, that's a band. Nothing special. See that geek in a BitTorrent t-shirt playing piano on the right? That's Aharoni, ya mama. The lighting died the moment we connected it. We asked our friends to bring any lamps they can find. Miron celebrated his birthday and his second-birth-day - a year since he nearly died in a work related accident. On the morning of the show he had another work related

Pioneer of aerodynamics

2006-08-02T09:49:00.000+03:00

This is for computer people only: Ever heard of the Eiffel programming language? It's supposed to be an super-duper-ultra-elegant object-oriented development platform, and its proponents think that it is superior to Java and C++. But i haven't heard of anyone actually using it. Apparently the canonical implementation of Eiffel, EiffelStudio is moving towards becoming fully Free Software. The IDE

No Nukes, part 4

2006-07-31T10:13:00.000+03:00

Iran is given a deadline to respond to UN demands about its nuclear program. This is not fair. I don't remember Israel responding to any UN demands about its nuclear program. That's right: I know that Iran is a theocratic dictatorship that shows clear intentions to destroy my country and a maybe a bunch of others, like the USA. And Israel is a (perceived) responsible democracy, that too often

I guess we know the score

2006-07-27T09:37:00.000+03:00

Miron scheduled a gig on Friday on a beach between Netanya and Hadera. Nasrallah said that his next bombing target is Netanya. We decided that the show must go on. I just hope that the crowd will come too.

And on the flat-screen we kill and we're killed again

2006-07-26T14:15:00.000+03:00

My parents left to a vacation in Karlovy Vary. It was planned before the war, so they are not "refugees". But before he left, my father said: — "If they bomb our home in Nesher, call us. We'll fly to Moscow." It was a joke, of course. Still, i can't escape the thought that that's just what our enemy wants us to do - to go back to Moscow. I was born in Moscow and lived

Canada

2006-07-24T12:05:00.000+03:00

In a parallel universe i am an expat, a chemist and a father. It’s getting harder and harder to tell what came first.

No Nukes, part 3

2006-07-23T13:34:00.000+03:00

In a bold marketing move Microsoft announced that it will release a portable digital music player called "Fucking". That's right - the meaning of the word "Zune" (זיון) in Hebrew is "fucking". Imagine, if you will, this dialog: — "Hello, i'd like to buy Microsoft Fucking for my grandson. How much is it?" — "Let's see ... 689.95 NIS for the Fucking Device ... 59.95 NIS for a monthly subscription

Haifa: 2 killed in rocket attacks - News from Israel, Ynetnews

2006-07-23T13:15:00.000+03:00

A Katyusha rocket just hit a house one block away from my parents.

Amir E. Aharoni vs. Shalom Gad

2006-07-18T23:46:00.000+03:00

He buys a seven hundred channels mixer, Connects the microphones, Connects left to left, Connects right to right, Connects to electricity, Finds the red button And presses It. May the temple be built. (from "Alcohol and Cigarettes" by Shalom Gad) הוא קונה מיקסר שבע מאות ערוצים מחבר מיקרופונים מחבר לפט ללפט מחבר רייט לרייט מחבר לחשמל מוצא את הכפתור האדום

Vodka

2006-07-18T22:51:00.000+03:00

This just in: Vodka goes very well with ice cream. Makes sense - it's like a five dollar milkshake. I'm writing a paper about languages of three peoples that have a long historical argument about the very hard question, "Who invented vodka?" I'm talking about Russian, Belarusian and Lithuanian. I may throw Polish in at some stage, too.

Vegan Spam

2006-07-18T08:48:00.000+03:00

Here you go: X-Gmail-Received: af5da61812e6f0b5e7f7133d607317213a97b783 Delivered-To: amir.aharoni@gmail.com Received: by 10.65.248.15 with SMTP id a15cs102679qbs; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:42:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.41.18 with SMTP id t18mr336896nfj; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:42:20 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from F246A7D4ECFC4A2 ([210.75.200.85

Made Me Cry - Bianca (UPDATED LINK)

2006-07-18T08:42:00.000+03:00

Bianca Ryan This is the cheesiest entry ever. You've been warned. I hope that it's natural too. Oh (edit): I suddenly realized that Bianca is the Italian word for "white". Coincidence? Oh (edit) 2: The previous link died due to copyright restrictions. If you haven't seen it yet, see it now, before this one dies too.

R.I.P. Robert H. Brooks

2006-07-18T00:48:00.000+03:00

"Being female is reasonably necessary". Brooks A lifelong fighter for women's rights, Robert H. Brooks died at a very good age. I salute him, even though he sold meat (hey, i even bought some). As a vegetarian, i should frown at his title "World Wide Wing Commander", but i suck.

Ahimsa

2006-07-16T11:02:00.000+03:00

BBC finally noticed that Israeli civilians die in this war too. My father works right there in the chemical factories at the Haifa Bay. I couldn't talk to him, but mama said that they are busy transporting dangerous chemicals to a safer place or something. Maybe she's making it up. I wonder: Nasrallah must know that we can wipe him and most of his army off the face of the Earth minutes after our

Hizballah Kills Israeli Civilians

2006-07-15T17:11:00.000+03:00

This is the BBC News RSS feed. Can anyone try to find in this picture: Did the Hizballah kill anyone lately? Were any Israeli houses hit by rockets lately? Answers: Hizballah killed Israeli citizens - i counted at least five. It's less than the number of the Lebanese we killed, but they are people too. I couldn't find them mentioned anywhere at BBC news. Searching for Naharia yields very old

There's a songbird who sings

2006-07-15T11:02:00.000+03:00

I dreamt that a friend of mine took a piece of cake i was eating and threw it to the trash. I got unbelievably mad and tried to explain to him that let alone the robbery, i totally hate throwing food to the trash. He was quite indifferent and said that the cake was disgusting. I had to make a point, though, so i spilled a little water on his head. The funny thing is that a similar thing actually

Eldad Regev

2006-07-14T11:11:00.000+03:00

I wrote: > > But don't expect any significant changes as long as Hamas and > > Hizballah and PLO exist. MeahevServi wrote: > Are you saying the peace in Israel is in hands of Palestinian extremists > who have to cease to exist in order to make place for those [Palestinians] > who are ready for compromise? I didn't say peace, i said "significant change". > That sounds sound, to some extent, but

Hyper

2006-07-13T22:13:00.000+03:00

A rocket killed two people in Haifa. It's the first time. It could have been my parents. Oh (edit): I swear that the article said that two people were killed when i posted it. Thank God that it's wrong.

Ehud Goldwasser

2006-07-13T20:20:00.000+03:00

(This was supposed to be a comment reply, but as usual, it grew too long and even acquired a quote from the Vulgate that i saw on a painting in my doctor's office). Dear N., First of all, thanks for teaching me the word tightfisted. I wholeheartedly appreciate it. The "Dear N." part was directed at you, of course, the rest was mostly a response to my new crazy fan MeahevServi. At first i thought

Gilad Shalit

2006-07-12T11:39:00.000+03:00

Gilad Shalit! Haled Mashal! Convergence! Gaza! Ehud Olmert! Kassam! Sderot! Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Now seriously: If you know me, you know that i don't like to repeat other people's opinions and news commentary. That's why i didn't want to write anything about these current events in Gaza - no-one needs me

Rest in Peace, You Crazy Diamond

2006-07-11T17:44:00.000+03:00

Syd Barrett passed away to other universes. Just today i thought how cool it would be to see the the original four-piece perform the whole of Piper from start to finish. Well, we're left with Rockfour now, they do Astronomy Domine and See Emily Play damn well.

Verbed! (UPDATED)

2006-07-11T09:54:00.000+03:00

BBC verbed "fileshare". It's not just someone - it's the BBC. There are over 800,000 Google results for fileshare. I looked at 30 or so, and didn't find any that use it as a verb, but rather as a proper name or a technical term (often FileShare). P.S.: The words verbed and fileshare are not recognized by the spellchecker. P.S. II: The word spellchecker is recognized by Microsoft's spellchecker,

Wrong

2006-07-10T12:07:00.000+03:00

There's a Canadian guy who traded a paperclip for a two-story house. It looks like a true story. All he needed was a blog and a crazy idea. There's an Israeli law school graduate who writes a blog in Hebrew about law, free software and most of all leftist politics (he left Meretz, because Meretz wasn't left enough for him; pun intended). It's fine, but not much that you can't read in Haaretz or

Applied Syntagmatics - Worth Nothing

2006-07-06T13:09:00.000+03:00

Disclaimer: Unlike "People Speaking", "Applied Syntagmatics" entries are not supposed to be funny or enlightening in any way. They are supposed to be a deliberation on linguistics. If you don't care about linguistics, don't expect to find them interesting, but they may show a little of what scientific linguistics is about. It's not rocket science, it's the way we speak. But then, it may be even

Soviet Antisemitism - a Joke

2006-07-03T10:30:00.000+03:00

(I hope you get it.) A Jew walks into the HR department of a factory in Soviet Union and asks: — "Do you accept people whose last names have mann to the job?" — "Ehh ... no." — "And people whose last names have stein?" — "No." — "And people whose last names have fein?" — "No." — "And people whose last names have ko?" — "Yes, why not." — "Cohen! Come on in, I found you a job."

Fake-a-breakdown, part II

2006-06-30T09:02:00.000+03:00

We kept arguing about places for the wedding and i was ready to give up when suddenly Hadar said that she agrees to go for place A, which is actually called Arca. But she made me promise that i won't say a word about make-up, DJ, food selection, dress, design, flowers etc. So on the fourth of October i'm gonnnnnnnnnnnnnna get marrrrrrrrrrried. A selection of other things, good and bad, that

Fake-a-breakdown

2006-06-27T11:05:00.000+03:00

We're about to make the final decision about the wedding hall. There are two finalists now, let's call them A and O. The price is the same, and it's pretty high. A is better designed and maintained and offers a significantly larger selection of quality alcohol. O is closer to the seashore, but its level of design and maintenance resembles that of a fish

Made Me Cry - The part of being tough

2006-06-21T12:13:00.000+03:00

Pitchfork Media published a list of "100 Awesome Music Videos", with links to actual videos. It is not exactly numbered from 100 to 1, but Yo La Tengo's "Sugarcube" is the next to last on page 10, which makes it a virtual number two out of hundred, which is not bad. By the same count, number one is ZZ-Top's "Legs", which is rather good too. The list has many masterpieces - The Jacksons' "Can You

Ctrl-T

2006-06-20T17:54:00.000+03:00

Opera 9.0 is out and i decided to give it another chance, after i dismissed it earlier. In this new version Ctrl-T opens a new tab, which is nice. It also has hot drug-using chicks on the installer splashscreen. It is still unlikely that i'll adopt it as my primary browser, as there is a good option which is free.

People Speaking - Blood

2006-06-18T11:28:00.000+03:00

— "There's a problem with this cooking show. They are breaking eggs straight into the casserole without checking them for blood. Is this program shot in the Land of Israel or in exile?" — "In Israel." — "How do you know?" — "I know that girl on the right." — "Send her an email. Tell her she needs to check the eggs for blood."

People Speaking - Quote

2006-06-15T17:54:00.000+03:00

— "They quote Rabbi Akiva? Do they know what Rabbi Akiva thinks about them?"

2006-06-15T08:59:00.000+03:00

Religious advertising: A children's book: "A Tabernacle of Peace - the commandment of pilgrimage in Sukkot (Tabernacles). A family makes a pilgrimage in the time of the Third Temple (in a train that was scanned in advance for impurities), brings its offerings and participates in the feasts of Beit-Hashoeva." Health insurance: "Saying all of Book of Psalms all the day in your right. '

People Speaking - Grass

2006-06-14T23:49:00.000+03:00

— "Tablehopping - like a grasshopper from table to table." (Thanks to N.)

No Clipping

2006-06-14T18:58:00.000+03:00

I'm trying to bring my nail-clipping routine to some kind of order. Once a week should be fine. Now that i wrote that, there's only one thing that this blog is really missing.

Break

2006-06-14T09:52:00.000+03:00

I am a Wikipedia contributor. I do it very little compared to some others. Many contributors are doing in one day the amount of work that i've done in a year. I don't know what else they are doing in their life, but i respect their work. I may be naïve, but i really think that this project is doing something good for humanity. As for myself - i need a break from it. It can handle without me for

My cheeks are turning yellow

2006-06-11T10:45:00.000+03:00

A friend of mine, a student of criminology and psychology, emailed me a couple of questionnaires for a paper she's writing to my GMail address. The email and the questionnaires were in Hebrew. GMail's advertising engine analyzed them and presented me with four commercial messages: Two about job seeking services, one about

People Speaking - Plum

2006-06-10T11:14:00.000+03:00

Restaurant smalltalk: — "Children learn English better." — "Yes, especially from other children. A cousin from Canada visited me and brought her family along, and after a few days my daughter was speaking fluent English." — "Children always understand each other, no matter what language they speak." — "All people can understand each other! At the institution in which I work there's one guy that

Intellectual Property - Rock N' Roll

2006-06-07T11:46:00.000+03:00

Panties on Tuesdays only. Jess Fink I once found this lovely drawing somewhere on the web. Can anyone please remind me where?

A Club That I Can Join!

2006-06-07T11:43:00.000+03:00

International Paruresis Association Home Page Thanks to Scott Adams for raising the awareness on the issue!