Category: Etcetera

After a few weeks of pleading with my cell phone carrier, they have finally resolved a billing error. This is a good thing for both of us. Good for me, because I generally like my calling plan and would hate to give it up, and good for them, because they will continue to get my […]

It drives me crazy when I read a headline that says “3 die in bombing” and it turns out that one of the three people was the suicide bomber himself. Instead, how about “2 killed,” or better yet, “2 murdered?” The press often writes headlines in a way that imply that the suicide bomber just […]

I registered the domain name mvhs93.com today for my 10-year high school reunion. I’m not a web design expert, so we’ve hired classmate German Fabella‘s design firm Launchpad Studio to make it look prettier than my lame save the date web page.

Laura sent a couple of photos from last week’s snowstorm in Jerusalem.

Becky called yesterday to share the news. Whoo-hoo! Congratulations, Gil & Becky! I wish you both a lifetime of happiness together.

Anil sent me a link to Patrick Combs’ $95,093.35 Adventure yesterday. Hilarious. I didn’t see it when it first came out almost 8 years ago.

My friend Ray Sun, longtime MSFT employee and all-around kewl guy, now has a blog. I set him up with my tool of choice: MovableType. I didn’t even bother to run uname -a or perl -v. I just unpacked it, tweaked mt.cfg, and the thing just worked. Ray used to be a program manager for […]

Former co-worker Derek Balling writes, “You know you’ve made it in the world when NPR quotes ya…” Derek, sign me up! To make it a little easier for you, I’ve reset our the combination to our safe to 9-24-66 (YAHOO). 🙂

Here’s something stunning: Nine New Visions: Architects Propose Soaring Buildings, Somber Parks For WTC Site. Check out the video. (From YudelLine)

I was having an IM conversation with a co-worker this evening and somehow we managed to get a little off-topic. In talking about my my alma mater, I was reminded of the book Ivy League Stripper by Heidi Mattson, who started stripping to pay her college tuition. Brown University — the ultimate small-town girl’s dream […]