E and I grew up in the DC area and one of the things that we both greatly missed in our years outside of the mid-Atlantic region is the change in seasons. Sure the pin-oaks would drop their leaves in spring after the new leaves had grown in and in […]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
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When your school newspaper is called “The Daily Targum” you know you are on a winning team! ESPN – Trick play, Rice’s running leads Rutgers’ upset of No. 2 USF – NCAA College Football Recap (2) South Florida 27, Rutgers 30
I received an email today from our Newsletter website (http://targum.info) asking about general bibliography on the targumim. It will be some time until we can get the biblio up and running on the NTCS site, but in the meantime my old classmate Scott Noegel has had some undergrads working hard […]
Don’t dispair! The cuts will go deeper. From TUAW: Leopard Education pricing update Filed under: Leopard The other day I posted about Apple raising the academic price of Leopard, and while that is true it is only part of the story. Apple has raised the price of Leopard on their […]
I have been looking into this program for a while and now that they will do a “buy one give one” program this November ($399 will get you an XO laptop and give one to a child in a developing country) my interest is piqued again. Coincidentally, as I was […]
Things are still incredibly busy around here. I had to run down to Philly for a dinner Tuesday night (and back by 1 am), meetings almost all day every day, and getting ready for my ordination on Saturday. My folks and grandmother come into town today for my niece’s first […]
Not that I find his work or lectures boring, quite the opposite. But at Columbia a student recently chastised her peers. The lecture, “Dethroning the Son of Man: Daniel and the Antiquity of Christianity,” was mandatory for Columbia College members but the early hours seemed to get to them. Take […]
And Romania just hasn’t been the same since Béla Károlyi moved to the US. The evidence? See this Video.
From a Canadian News Report. The title and a subsequent line in the article presumably (?) meant that it was the first such conference in Canada. (Although I recall a very nice SBL in Toronto not so long ago that featured several, if not all, of the scholars at this […]
ironic |īˈränik| adjective using or characterized by irony • happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this: Ikea has over 120 60 watt light-bulbs burning continuously in their display demonstrating how wasteful incandescent bulbs are.