Or my next home entertainment system? (Not that I have one now…) This review is convincing me that for $600 I just might get this Mac not for my computer but to run my entertainment media! Read it and consider the possibilities… AND this link as well.
REMINDER: The Deadline is Tonight at Midnight (Eastern US time, I assume) I want to remind everyone that the call is now out for papers for SBL. I was asked this year to chair the Aramaic studies section, so be sure to get your submission in before the February 28th […]
Apple announces new Mac mini with Intel Core Duo | MacMinute News: February 28, 2006 – 14:14 EST Apple today officially announced the new Mac mini with the Intel Core Duo processor, ‘delivering performance up to four times faster than its predecessor and providing even greater expansion in the same […]
Today is the day. We are off to see the Rex parade downtown. Today, of course, is the last day of feasting before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of fasting and abstinence for Lent. Yeah, right. 🙂 Actually, there are more people than you might expect in NO who usually […]
Why you ask? “The president maintained his hunger strike for 11 days but was forced to end it for health reasons.” For health reasons. Ok.
This blog is by a Fr. Wauck who is himslef of the Opus Dei Prelature. Get his take on the Da Vinci Code and Opus Dei. Hat tip to Jim Davila. I will try and compile various sites and blogs on the silly Da Vinci Code later today.
I still hate the name and I won’t be getting one any time soon for lots of reasons (2,499 of them, to be precise) but I am very glad to read that the MacBook Pro is a solid machine and working well. Pros: Classic design; runs Universal applications quickly; bright […]
Tonight we went to our first parade of the Mardi Gras season (they actually started last week). It was sparse on the North Shore but a lot of fun and Izzy came home with three bags of beads and stuffed animals. I caught one of this year’s primo throws:
For those students of mine who wonder what life was like back in the day, I present the blue couch. One of my old roommates posted this blog as an homage to the couch that my grandmother gave us for dorm room use. The last word I have is that […]
Today Brill sent me a copy of the first (and only, so far as I know) review of my book The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations by W. Th. Van Peursen. I believe this link is correct, but I do not have a subscription to Ancient Near Eastern Studies. It is […]