I just wanted to use the words “live blogging.” Here I am in the atrium looking all important on my laptop. (If holding a shawarma in one hand while looking at ESPN looks important.) No time for graphics….WE HAVE A FLIGHT TO CATCH! I just checked in incredibly quickly. I love the post-aliyah Israel flight [...]
Archive | August, 2008
Lions and Tigers and Chul, OH MY!
Tonight, I’m off to chul* for 3 weeks to see family and friends. I’ve heard that each trip over the years becomes progressively weirder and weirder which I believe already. While I am excited to walk about SuperTarget with my jaw on the floor, I’m also waiting for someone to go nuts when I put [...]
Looks Like the Orthodox Youth Movements Need to Get the Word Out
So I’m in my department director’s office which doubles as our department lunchroom, courtesy of his big conference room table. Most days, several members of the department eat lunch together which always blows me away. In the States, I would usually eat lunch alone at my desk while I caught up on the news or [...]
Sort of Like Christmas in July But Different
Just doing a little housecleaning and came across this golden falafel ball from my Purim trip to Sderot… Ahhh, Purim. A time to dress up and get silly. Whether or not you can distinguish good from evil, it sure is fun to dress up. I remember my favorite costumes from childhood: Mordechai….Superman….a Kassam rocket. This [...]
EXCLUSIVE: The Real Olympic Wrap-Up
Well, my loyal readers, the Olympics have come and gone once again. With the Chinese government cracking down on the free release of information and the TV networks keeping the video coverage off the internet, staying up-to-date on all the events was difficult. I however spent the last 2 weeks in Beijing covering the Israeli [...]
In Case You Didn’t Hear, There Was a Blogging Conference. No, Seriously.
That was for the bloggers. Just a few more thoughts regarding the NBN Jewish blogger conference (in addition to what I already wrote here…) Since this will mostly interest those who were actually in attendance (either physically or virtually) and everything has already been written to death, I’ll keep it short (always a relative term [...]
Just Like the Day After the Oscars (With Fewer Celebrity Arrests)
So Bloggerooza 2008 (or as one friend of mine called it, “the Star Trek convention”) came and went last night and you wouldn’t BELIEVE what happened! (Ok, they served cold cuts. What, you were expecting Snoop Dogg to pop in?) The Oscars has the red carpet and after-parties. WE HAD SPRITE, BABY!!! And seriously, bloggers [...]
