It’s April 30 — a date which has the number 3 in it. Hence — time for a list. And it will be the last list you’ll see from me for a while — at least until another date with a 3 appears in the Gregorian calendar. Which happens to be May 3. [...]

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I’m sure most of you know about the phenomenon known as “RickRolling.” For those of you who are unfamiliar, it’s when someone posts a link on a blog or a website which is purported to be something interesting and enticing to click — but instead, it actually links to a video of actor Rick [...]

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The greatness that is springtime in DC:

April 16 – right outside of our front door. Blossoms are just coming out.

April 21 – full force bloomin’…

April 21 – getting the mail has never been as… pink!
(all pictures were taken with a not-so-impressive camera phone)
Well, the party of pinkness is almost gone, as the petals have fallen [...]

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We’re drawing to the end of the Passover holiday which, according to many, ends this evening. (That in itself is a long story: the holiday is prescribed Biblically for seven days, and many traditional Jews not currently residing in Israel keep it for one extra day “just to be sure.” (That’s over-simplifying it, I know.) [...]

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Today as I was walking into our generic, large-scale, technology office park, I noticed that there were quite a few kids on their way into work. Sure enough — I had completely forgotten that today was National Take Our Children to Work Day. There weren’t too many kids in my workplace — mostly [...]

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“What’s the deal with knishes?”
“Do your people really revere Barbra Streisand in a god-like fashion?”
“Can you get me a good deal on these shoes from your Uncle Murray in Teaneck who buys them wholesale?”
“What are matzah balls — and do you get them from self-abuse involving unleavened bread?”
All of these are questions you could ask [...]

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Today is April 23 — and since it’s a date with a number “3″ in it, I present yet another list! The next appearance will be on April 30, then on May 3, and so on and so forth until the year 2013 — when I will be forced to write a list every [...]

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My birthday in a nutshell:
12:00am – A hotel room somewhere in New Jersey — relatively close to my brother’s place. We had just returned from Passover Seder #2. Exhausted after a full day. Kid is already asleep in the rollaway bed next to ours. I get a “Happy birthday, honey!” from socKs. And a kiss.  [...]

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I turned 36 today. So — yes. I’m gonna bitch about the birthday thing.
I never really understood the obsession with people’s personalities being aligned with astrological forces just because they were born on a specific date regardless of the time zone. According to many, I’m a “Taurus,” and I’m also “on the [...]

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Just a few odds-and-ends:
* Passover begins at sundown! Inasmuch as the dietary restrictions of the holiday can be quite taxing, this remains my favorite Jewish holiday because of the Seder. The educational component through the Seder is what I like to consider an archaic example of a multimedia experience — where one gets to taste [...]

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