Unboxing Cory Doctorow’s “With A Little Help”
I have just experienced the anticipation, excitement and fascination equivalence of a few Christmas mornings, a major birthday, and discovering the VIctoria’s Secret catalog, all rolled into one. If you’ve never believed “book lingerie” could be used in a sentence, read on about my experience unboxing a hand-bound, hand-finished copy of Cory Doctorow’s With A [...]
Devils and The Playoffs: A Numbers Game
The Devils have played 32 games, won 9 and lost 2 in overtime, good for 20 points. They are earning 0.625 points per game, or about 31% of the possible points. To put that in perspective, the last few playoff spots in the Eastern Conference go to teams with between 86-94 points. More specifically, to [...]
Yahoo Is Still Not Delicious
Yahoo’s financial mess has led it to kill the bookmark sharing site Del.icio.us. And reactions range from “Oh noes, make it open source so the Internet can take care of it” to “It’s like burning a library”. I should say “all of the bad reactions.” Delicious is dying because it’s not generating revenue for Yahoo, [...]
Hanukah and Christmas and Hockey
For as long as I’ve been around “hockey people”, I’ve known them to be the most passionate and most personable people. This is true at the youth level, in high school, and in the NHL. It’s why parents will drive two hours on a rainy Sunday morning to a rink with only two walls to [...]
Taking Lazy To A New Level
The Devils are not going to make the playoffs because they are a lazy team. Even if they get a few wins in a row, it’s not enough to offset the institutional laziness that has become acceptable on the ice. Exhibit A: Ilya Kovulchuk does not skate hard to the end boards with four minutes [...]
Cloud Computing and P=NP
A sports betting friend once advised me to “never take the under.” It’s good, practical thinking – when you play the under (betting that fewer goals, points, or touchdowns will be scored than the Vegas line indicates) you’re betting on something not to happen. I’m a big believer in never betting against potential. Which is [...]
What I Learned From George
In the preface of a book, I acknowledged a former customer named George who became a mentor and friend. He was a truly outstanding person who died of cancer just shy of his 50th birthday. One of his close family members found that preface and asked me how George and I met. I provided the [...]
Why Men Don’t Bake
Backstory: Last year I bought a “Gingerbread Coffee Cup Cake” package as part of a fundraiser for my niece’s school. It sat, unloved, in our pantry until today when I decided that I was going to spend the afternoon applying heat. I used the soldering iron, did some last-minute Hanukah menorah cleanup, and figured I’d [...]
Kevin Youkilis Does Not Eat Bacon
Part two of my Israeli travelogue. Tuesday morning, Toby and I were invited to volunteer at the Ben Gurion elementary school in Bat Yam, Israel. Our route to school was a cab ride to Elana’s apartment, walking half a kilometer to the #19 bus stop (picking up my morning soofganiya – Hanukah jelly donut – [...]
You Know You Are In Israel When…
You know you are in Israel when: You experience the complete dynamic range of feelings – you laugh, cry tears of joy, yell in frustration, cry tears of remembrance, are shocked at the intensity of flavors in food and people, are prouder than you can ever believe, are comfortable and safe yet cautious and alert [...]