You have probably heard by now (unless you were outside shoveling) that it snowed over much of the mid-Atlantic region. We got hit with about 16 inches in Happy Valley. The folks (and my folks) in DC were getting hammered pretty hard, they are expecting a whopping 3o inches! Jim […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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My brother and Tony Pittman were kind enough to allow me to join them for the latest Real Tech podcast where we discussed the iPad at great length. As you know if you read this blog regularly, I had reservations (and still have a few) about the iPad but by […]
The Washington Post ran a very interesting exposé-type piece on Sunday by Martha Wezler revealing that a Torah rescuing Rabbi’s miraculous claims about his discoveries may be less than true. Rabbi to the Rescue: Menachem Youlus is called the Indiana Jones of Torah recovery and restoration. But there are doubts […]
I received the following email today. It seems the Qumran Institute at the University of Groningen is looking for a candidate. Dear colleagues, The Qumran Institute is looking for a PhD candidate for the project ‘The Jewish Revolt against Rome: Religious Groups and the Shaping of Identities in First-Century Judaea’. […]
iPad UPDATE: I now have my iPad and as suspected there is no Hebrew support. I can’t imagine that this would be omitted for long, given that it is already in the iPhone OS, but it is odd. Perhaps the larger keyboard layout of some of these languages was a […]
John Hobbins has an excellent post problematizing myth, “There are (no) myths in the Bible.” It would be useless to try and summarize it here, please go and read it in full, but I think the nubbins are here: Mythological narrative narrowly defined is relatively hard to come by in […]
A week ago I wrote about my concerns about the new Apple tablet and why I might not buy it. Well, today Apple announced the iPad and while I still have questions, I will place my order as soon as they open up the doors. So a few initial thoughts […]
I have been more than a little under the weather this weekend, but decided to break out of the funk by helping Da Mackster set up more of his LEGOs for a photo shoot. These are from the LEGO City set. Here you can see his firehouse and the Chief […]
You would think that at some point in the Paris Fashion Show, “Ready to Wear” section, someone would have called BS on this. Be sure to see the whole gallery.