Avital is visiting from Boston this weekend. We went to Amoeba Music in Hollywood and got a handful of used CDs. Here’s what I got: Loveboat – Erasure Other People’s Songs – Erasure Acoustic – Everything But The Girl Sleepyhead – The Brothers Creegan Stop All The World Now – Howie Day I looked for […]
New BNL album: Everything to Everyone
The new Barenaked Ladies album Everything to Everyone came out today. It would be nice to have the CD for my collection, but that requires a trip to the store or a 2-day wait while Amazon ships it to me. Maybe I’ll just buy it on iTunes. Instant gratification!
Attending PHPCon West 2003
I’m at PHPCon West 2003 this week. I didn’t make it to the Code Sprint today, but Andrei was leading one of the sections, so I’ll get the skinny from him. I really dig the idea — get programmers to pay for the opportunity to contribute their brainpower to an Open Source project.
Friday afternoon music
They Might Be Giants released 3 new free MP3s today for download. They sound even better when you play them in iTunes for Windows. Oh, how I love iTunes. It’s da bibbidy bomb.
Joining the Sisterhood
A new anthology entitled Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives went on sale this week. One of the co-editors, Julie Pelc, is a friend of ours. She has been working on this book for several years. It’s great news that it’s finally available for sale! Looks like it’s initially availabe in hardcover, […]
LA Restaurant Watch
I got email from the owner of RestaurantWatch.com asking me to link to his website. I took a look, and it definitely got some good content. I was surprised to discover that 98% of restaurants get a rating of A or B from the Health Department. Either Los Angeles retaurants are really very healthy or […]
My new Web Hosting ISP
I love DreamHost, my new ISP. I now have most of my domain names (hebcal.com, shtibl.com, and the rather stale utf-8.com) hosted there now. JR convinced me to switch last month. Even though I’ve been absurdly busy with Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot, I’m happy I initiated the switch. For about the same price, […]
Updated reading list
Looking back at the 17 books I planned to read this year, it looks like I haven’t made much progress. I’ve finished four of them (Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!; Crossing the Chasm; The Cathedral and the Bazaar; and most recently The Diamond Age). The Diamond Age was good, but not as enjoyable as Snow […]
Bubba Ho-tep
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 […]
The Goal by Eli Goldratt
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 […]