Parking garage in Philly. Anyone ever see Black Rain? # Back home, but meetings all day. Day opens with excitement: fumes in the tank. Will I make it to the station? # Meeting has begun. It is a presentation I have already seen…. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
This new feature will establish me as a futurist, one who extrapolates from current trends and practices and then leaps with abandon to postulate what will be. There are already technologies that allow for charging devices without the need of cords, but in the future our electronic devices will be […]
The latest Review of Biblical Literature is out. I wanted to point out a review of my good friend Daniel Falk’s latest work. (We must do something about the price of books….) The Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures among the Dead Sea Scrolls Falk, Daniel K. $110.00 New York: […]
Its not an ego thing (I think) but shouldn’t an honors student realize that a Dean of a College is a "Dr"? # Or at least always defer to the higher title. If you are wrong you will make someone feel good. # Back on the road to Philly. # […]
I like this bit. Marginalia A 15th century Byzantine manuscript with many kabbalistic items. In the margins of Azriel of Gerona’s commentary to Sefer Yetsirah, someone wrote: גוזר אני עליך שלא תלמוד בו עד היותך בן ל’ שניםI forbid you to study this until you are 30 years old. Maybe […]
Andy Ihnatko’s right, this is like a PG Wodehouse plot: Couple barred from living in £1million house for year after protected newts move in after flood By LUKE SALKELD – More by this author » Last updated at 22:14pm on 26th March 2008 Since floods ruined their £1million home, John […]
Meeting is over and now dinner on my own in a hotel restaurant. Is there anything so sad? Call me Willy Lohman (how is that spelt?) # Quite an intnl crowd, Russians, Japanes, Brooklynytes # @colecamplese Thanks for the sympathy. Did some podcasting the other night to pass the time. […]
