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Seeming that it’s 50+ degrees out, a white Christmas is out of the question here in NYC.

But in the spirit of the season, some of the best Calvin and Hobbes snowmen strips

Putin to remain leader after leaving Kremlin: senior politician

So what’s a Jewish boy to do on the weekend immediately proceeding Christmas?

Obviously one should avoid retail outlets at all cost. But when you’re in NYC….isn’t that a bit hard to do?

Suggestions are more than welcome!

Kentucky fears loss of traditional critter dish

Now if say there’s a high profile chef who picks up this recipie and starts serving it at their fany restaurant. Would that relevate the dish’s stature?

Yankees Hit With $26 Million Luxury Tax

To offset this, will hot dog and beer prices be raised?

Brain Wave Videogame Championship

Odd yet amusing.

Could this software be used on a more elaborate EEG montage? (e.g. clinical ones)

Can’t say this story about the alma matter comes as much of a surprise, but nonetheless:

Brandeis group pursues Carter visit

The group is probably the same group of far-left professors who like to make noise about every little thing they don’t agree with. Look at all the noise they made about Daniel Pipes and Bernard Lewis visiting Brandeis to speak. (Search my archives for those stories).

Even more ironic, these same professors are some of the ones who led the charge that prevented the late Jeane Kirkpatrick from receiving an honorary degree from BrandeisLGF Thread
Kesher Talk: Carter Criticism Roundup

Some (non-Jewish) co-workers wanted to taste some sort of Hannukah food. The added degree of difficulty was that these co-workers (female) were teasing me about how men can’t cook.

I set out to prove ‘em wrong. Time to make some latkes!

Granted, due to time constraints (and lack of a food processor among other things) I used a premade mix. Plus the fact that I’ve not fried any food in who knows how long?

But prove them wrong I did. I was able to put together a mean batch of Latkes–and they’ll be pleasantly surprised tomorrow at work.

Now if only there was a nice Jewish girl for me to cook for….

Pictures will be forthcoming (probably friday at the earliest).
And of course, credit is due to mom and my grandmas for teaching me my kitchen skills!

New York Retires Last Mechanical Parking Meter

Briefly–holiday party–a lot of fun!
(and that was while people were still sober).

I’ve already been volunteered to make the post-hangover bloody mary’s for the morning tomorrow at the office.

$7,500 Of Loose Change Found Underneath Coasters At Cedar Point

What about Geauga Lake? (just curious)

Tomorrow after work is the annual company “Holiday” Party.

Translation: All of us getting together, not running around (aka sans work) with alcohol. The fun part is that we are a small company, so it’s fun to socialize in that way.

Here’s to some fun!

Time for the return of the favorite scapegoat: Publisher allegedly cited ‘Jewish cabal’

(and if Jews really ran the publishing industry….would Carter’s latest book have been published?)

Islam Based on Epileptic Prophecies, says Book From Iran-Native Neuropsychologist

The Book is titled: Sword & Seizure

This has to be one of the stranger ideas/theories out there.

A quick Googing of the subject, shows that the above claim has been debunked.

But then again, there are those who claim that some of the Old Testament prophets had Epilepsy.

Some even believe that Caesar had epilepsy…so go figure?

The Top Politically inCorrect Words for 2006

If these words are so non-PC…perhaps we should be using them more often! Well…some of ‘em at least.

Is Jewish food on the decline?

I’ll agree to the criticism of impostor bagels–that’s a given. The demise of the Deli on the other hand may be over exaggerated….or so it seems.

Went to work today, then took advantage of the weather to wander around Midtown today.

Went by Rockefeller Center to see the “tree” once and for all. In relaity–it’s not that exciting! It’s the same thing you see on TV. Plus when you’re watching it on TV, you’re not surrounded by tourists who don’t know how to walk on an NYC sidewalk!
(Simple rule for visitors: Stay to one side, don’t block the curb and/or keep moving!)

‘Season’s greetings for Cleveland . America’s poorest city’

The American Greetings card shows a man in a black-and-white photo walking past urban landscape and reads: “Season’s Greetings from Cleveland … America’s Poorest City!” Inside, it says “Happy Holidays.”

What was the designer thinking when s/he made this card? How’d it actually get to store shelves? (Isn’t there a QA/QC process?)

And who’d give this card to anyone anyway?

Apparently the new State fruit of Ohio is the pawpaw (source: The Daily Bellwether via BFD)

What the heck is a pawpaw? If they’re so popular in Ohio–why aren’t they sold at more groceries?

Windows Vista was under development for five years….and in the end it turns out not to work with a major MS buisness application.

Seems so Dilbert-esqe of a thing to occur