We’ve been packing up our house for the last three weeks, more or less. It’s been a huge amount of work, and it’s highlighted that we’re both packrats willing to acquire and store as much stuff as our surroundings will allow. Clearly the only option left to us is to live aboard a [...]
I’m on a five-day junket through Germany with my dad, his sister, and her kids. (Aunt Noa, Gilat, and Shaul all live in Tel Aviv.) We’re primarily here to put a headstone on Grandpa Franz’s grave (he died here in 1981) and take care of some family business near Dresden.
We arrived in Berlin [...]
I realized the other day that I’m reading more daily than I ever have before,
but that I hadn’t opened a book in about 2 weeks. For this I blame both
my own inclinations and the technology which enables me to pursue them: RSS
feeds, or more prosaically, blogs.
When I first began seriously working in technology, I [...]
… spent the weekend down in Maryland, just outside of D.C. and can safely report that it’s freakin’ hot down there.
As to the Whimsy Problem, I realized at the last minute that I’d brought back Indian formalwear from my trip to Bangalore, two (three?) years ago, and had never had such a great chance to [...]
We’re sitting in an internet cafe in Christchurch on a grey day, and I’m fumbling with this non-Dvorak keyboard, much to Kate’s amusement/horror. Christchurch is a really pretty, small, city, and except for the crazy drive-on-the-wrong-side thing, feels very familiar. Our B&B is very charming (and is rekindling fantasies of running one ourselves, [...]