Ariella and I saw Bubba Ho-tep at the Nuart last night. Bruce Campbell is incredible. Don Coscarelli is a genius. Basically, the plot involves Elvis Presley, JFK, and an undead Egyptian mummy. Brilliant. Campbell appeared in person to introduce the Friday night show. Too bad he didn’t make it last night. I would’ve liked to […]
I finished reading The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt back at the end of July, but only now (at 30,000 feet on my way back to LAX) have I finally found a free moment to sit down and write about it. Although the book was originally written almost 20 years ago, it does a great […]
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, begins tonight at sundown. I wish you and your family a year filled with sweetness, joy, success and good health. And make sure you eat lots of apples and honey!
We bought a Uniden TRU5885-2 5.8 GHz cordless phone yesterday. For the past couple of years we’ve been using a 2.4 GHz phone and have been suffering from interference with our 802.11b Wi-Fi home network. Picking up a phone call would sometimes disrupt the wireless Internet connection and our SSH sessions would terminate. When our […]
Mazel Tov! The wedding was amazing. The bubble tea was quite good, too!
Tomorrow morning we’re heading off to Minneapolis for the wedding of my dear friends Gabriel and Rachel. I have been given the great kavod (honor) of being the mesader kiddushin, the person who performs the wedding ceremony. I’ve never done this before, but I’ve been reading up on it quite a bit the past couple […]
I’m feeling much better after a dose of some broad-spectrum antibiotics. I took 750 mg of Cipro on Friday and kissed Montezuma goodbye. In related news, the nurse from Kaiser Permanente (“Good people, Good medicine”) said she had no record of my lab results, so perhaps we’ll never know what the cause of the illness […]
Ariella and I had a great time in Puerto Vallarta last week. Swimming, strolling along the beach, scuba diving, horesback riding, chips & guacamole, margaritas. The good life. That is, until we got back home. On Friday morning I had the runs. Saturday brought a 101 degree fever. I’ve been shivering/sweating for the past 6 […]
I saw this photo on the front page of Yahoo! today: “The MTV Video Music Awards turned into a red-hot, all-girl smooch-fest last night as Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera performed a raunchy, bump-and-grind dance routine that ended in explicit, open-mouth kisses.” I’m glad to see we still have our editorial integrity. 🙂
Back in July we went Kayaking on the Willamette River in downtown Portland with the Portland River Company. Ray finally got around to posting his digital pics from the trip. Here is my favorite (click for full-size): View image