Pretty darn good, all things considered.

Got to be a bartender for a Mad Science! themed party. Casey was there, but Andy had to go home to take care of his cat. (Bob was there, too. (It's funny if you read Casey and Andy)). I had a BLAST, but had to call it quits at 2 am, because I had to teach Hebrew school this morning ( Read more... )

Just got an email over the shul email list. It's a holiday party. It's a Latke-Pasta bash. To celebrate Hanukkah. And Ramen-dan. Yeah, it's a Jewish/Pastafarian celebration.

The end of the email is a little ASCII Flying Spaghetti Monster.

_ _(o)_(o)_ _ Flying Spaghetti Monster ( Read more... )

So, on Saturday, we took our friend Akiva Fox out to lunch, partially to say thank you to him for getting us the tickets, to the Marlowe plays, partially because Mom gave us money to take Akiva out to lunch, and mainly because we wanted to see him ( Read more... )

So,. the other day, temima and I saw the Beowulf movie, in IMAX 3-D.

I'm sure most of you have seen Hal Duncan's review of the movie, and, the thing is, while I cannot find a single thing to disagree with him about, I somehow feel that I enjoyed the movie more than he did ( Read more... )

Lis and I were talking a while back that you could make the Gunpowder Plot into a pretty decent season of a historical version of 24. To fit into the format, you'd have to do some time-compression, fitting events that actually took place over several days into one day, and probably even sticking a couple of even earlier events into the time-line ( ( Read more... )

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At the Yom Kippur break-fast, ron_newman told us that there's an XKCD meetup tomorrow in North Cambridge. 2:38 PM, at a park in North Cambridge.

See, it's because of the xkcd comic here. It's possible that the correct time is 1438 UST instead of 1438 local time, but most people are going to try to be there at 2:38 ( Read more... )

Forgot to blog this earlier.

So, yesterday afternoon, the phone rings; I answer it.

"Hello, Uncle Ian."

"Hello, Drew. How are you doing?"

"Uncle Ian, can you do me a favor?"

"Depends what it is. Go ahead and ask."

"Can you answer a question?"

"Sure -- what is it?"

"Why do dragons have gold?"

"I give up -- why do dragons have gold ( Read more... )

Fairies can travel at Mach 49 ( Read more... )