First week

bookending Shabbat with last–minutes–of–vaction play/work

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Sunday blaaahg

A bunch of non–sequiturial Sunday plans

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Middle Eastern Percussion Theory

Searching for “Doumbek Rhythms”, I came across this wealth of information.

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Monday Monday

prayer, fertile ashes, books, Thai food, kids, old friend, yoga, fish, sleep?, ssshhh

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DIY Divorce

A do–it–yourself method of divorce in the State of New York

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Orange–on–seder–plate tale is flawed, feminist says

“They took my idea and put it into a man’s mouth [and] erased the whole idea of the homophobia that needs to be spit out.”

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Gematria of Tu Bishvat

Number–games with Hebrew phrases, praises for the Birthday of the Trees

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Fallacies of Distraction

Each of these fallacies is characterized by the illegitimate use of a logical operator in order to distract the reader from the apparent falsity of a certain proposition.

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Just to say

Back from long Shabbat out in freezing cold (hi 17°F) between UES and BJ and 108th for lunch. Amazing teaching from the Zohar at BJ this afternoon, on “new–ancient”: origin/original find similar word play in Hebrew (makom/makomi), interesting how novelty...

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MLK–day catch–up

drumming, site design, image posting, tech plans

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The Physical Form of Resurrection

It is well known that the 248 positive commandments correspond to the 248 organs of the body, and the 365 negative commandments correpond to its 365 sinews. Each part of the body corresponds to a speific mitzvah.

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Thirteen Petalled Rose

Adin Steinsaltz’s “classic of Jewish mysticism.”

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Rashi — A Light After The Dark Ages–CD-ROM

Rashi–A Light After The Dark Ages, is a one–hour animated historical drama, set in 11th century France. It is about Rashi, a Medieval Rabbi and scholar who lived just before the Crusades reign of terror. This animation seems to be...

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Becoming More Kosher

I’m planning on using separate dishes and utencils come Passover–time

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Fructose: Not So Natural... and Not So Safe

High fructose consumption has been fingered as a causative factor in heart disease. It raises blood levels of cholesterol and another type of fat, triglyceride. It makes blood cells more prone to clotting, and it may also accelerate the aging process.

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Product Search from Google: Froogle

Froogle applies the power of Google’s search technology to a very specific task: locating (online) stores

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Moondays — a typographic lunar phase calendar

The transformation from new moon (thin type) to full moon (heavy bold type) creates a new, individual texture month after month

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Clothing Store of Splendor

A photograph taken in Brooklyn

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Dream and todos

only 6m to type, but it’s been too long since I’ve journaled ideas, trajectories, plans. awkward, vibrant dreaming — two relationships with fabricated female entities (French single–mother, dyed blonde hair) (overweight crazy Israeli Hebrew teacher), the car again, with it’s...

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Digitizing

Rather than keep the paper around, I’m slowly scanning, dating, captioning and posting momenta.

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Upsherin — a three year olds’ first haircut

There is a custom among many Jews to not cut a boys hair until he is three years old. We chose to observe this custom in a Jewish Renewal–ish way.

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Playdough Recipe

How to make playdough.

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