What's cookin'?

Since Joah and I found out that we both like to cook, we started cooking and buying cooking books like crazy. Must say that for 4 pounds ingredients you get a 15 pounds dish, and it tastes even better!

In any case, I was just cruising (as usual) on the Apple site and I saw this cute application which might help us - It might help you, too! (Even though I'm sure that it being posted on Apple's main download page is better than posting it here, but I'm helping where I can)

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First try of Painter = PlayNerd v0.1

So, fiddling a bit with Painter made this ugly picture from this scanned, hand-drawed one.

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Doom

Joah and I bought the game Doom - The Board Game. We bought it mostly because we want to kick each other's asses and shooting little figurines to their death seemed like a good start at that. Now, I've seen Joah playing Doom the Computer Game. I've seen her dodge, swerve and strife to avoid her enemies while shooting back with all power, reaching peaks of joy as she hears a monster going "Aaaarrggh". When we started playing, we chose that I would be the invaders and she would be the marine**. When she played the marine, she decided that a hand-to-hand combat with a giant demon pig would be a good idea.

No way, babah! She got fragged sooner than you could say "Jack Robinson", and you can guess by that who's the happy winner!

** Chose is a too strong word. We actually decided that she would be the invaders, but once she realised it means she has to set the board she delegated that role to yours truly.

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Mac Drawings

On my flight here I drew some self-intrepertations of the Mac Logo. Joah will soon draw them up and we'll post more about it when it's ready.

Hope you're as anxious to see it as I am!

iProduct

Now, I've heard some laughs about iProduct, not to mention heard about the company, but this is too much!

Bluetooth Cellphones

So I'm in the Apple Store, looking at some features on the Mac. I wanted to check out Bluetooth support for Headsets, and while looking at the Bluetooth options I noticed it supported keyboards, mice, cellphones, headsets, printers.. Well, childishly I clicked every one of them - And when I reached cellphones I think I hit some sort of a Jackpot!

A picture is worth more than a thousand words, but let me just say that I closed the window after taking the photo. I think it doesn't matter much in reality - The phone needs to enable communication as well. But it was amusing just the same.

Back to England

It has been a while since I've been to England. 3 months and 14 days since I left last time, to be exact, but who's counting anyway?

What I would like to talk about though is the first coming-back-to-England culinar experience I had: England Homus.

Just trying to describe it brings back a memory of some light brown, scentless, watery and rather tasteless chic-pea salad.

I don't like English food. At first I couldn't understand how Britons could cope with such food and then my grandmother told me a story about the first time she came back to Romania after three years of being in The Land. She told me that when she saw all the people waiting in the bread queues, remembering how my grandfather used to wait in hem and her waiting in the ice queue (as there were no refrigirators), she couldn't believe she used to live like that. But when she lived there her whole life, it seemed like the most reasonable thing to do.

I guess it's the same with the English food. If they just all moved to France or Italy for a year.. Or better yet, to Israel! Have some proper Homus!

I don't think they'd make it though. No proper tea. And by proper tea I mean bitter, nightmare black tea, obviously.

Wishlist

Even though I know everyone took a cruise to my Wishlist at Froogle, I decided to post it in the blog itself.

To answer your imminent question of "Why", I would have to say it's mainly for Joah: She just can't avoid my Wishlist any longer! *wink* *wink*

Wishlist

Newest Skype for Mac

Ahh, my two favorite things (After Joah, of course - Nothing beats The Joah!): Skype and Mac. Skype released a new version for the Mac, namely 1.3.0.8. In addition, they released the cutest Widget (for Tiger), which can help you make a quick dial to a Skype or normal number. If you choose to dial to a normal number, it would instantly tell you the calling rates for this number. Can't say I didn't want that feature to exist for a long time - It's hard going through Skype's rating page!

Anyway, I guess this is time to say: Keep up the good work!

Skype
Macintosh

Blog Readers

One of the things I found exciting about a Blog is that I can write a lot of nonsense and some other random people read that and find it amusing (or not).

What I'd like to know is, who are you people? I invite everyone who read this blog, this post, this headline, to post a comment and tell us who you are.

Happy Commenting!

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Apple Store in Israel?

I just spoke with a guy from Sarig1 and asked him about an iBook. I also mentioned I saw on their site that they were in motion to open an Apple Store in Israel!

Apparantly it won't be as big as the London Regent St. Store, but it will be something special, and in The City, unlike Yeda who are in some offset variation of the center called Rosh HaAyin (my apologies to everyone who live there - I have friends there as well, it's just very far off for a shop!)

Apple
Israel

University

I registered myself to the courses of the coming Semester. It wasn't too hard, it was easier than say, lifting a fridge all by myself.

I noticed that Google offers a University Search, the Technion included there.

I just wish my university would have a page on the university search as well. Would have made yesterday's hide and seek with information much easier...

University

Using tags

I've decided that I should use Technorati Tags in the blog. It's my decision alone, even though I ask Joah to do it as well: It's not hard.

Hopefully it would serve two purposes: Bring some order to the posts and get more people seeing the blog!

Tags

More associations

I told Joah today that we could join or create the "Automated Annoying Shift Key Holder For Your
Assistance", after Windows XP did that thing to me again. Thing is I encounter some strange bug where the StickyKeys won't let go - And after a lot of fooling around with the control panel I manage to get it back to normal. I heard it doesn't happen only to me, so I am led to believe I am not just insane.

Joah responded by saying that if there is a TBA, there could be anything, including my futuristic AASKHFY Association.

Also, we both decided to attend this convention. It's better than iCon.

Firefox preventing Shmutz

Take a look at this:

“Firefox?” The Rabbi stops and thinks for a minute, rubbing his beard. “Ah yes! The one that blocks all the schmutz.”

Apple got the egg

After reading Joah's post, I had to check out what Apple had in store. First reports I read said something about a new generation of iPod - And the news from Apple didn't come too late after: iPod Nano. Closing the iPod Mini line (at least it doesn't appear on their site anymore, only on the store), they are now selling this Nano machine. Extremely small, carries 2GB or 4GB of songs and photos. To compare it with iPod Shuffle, I'd say:

• It's definitely bigger, but not significantly bigger. You can still carry it on your neck and it's smaller than a cell phone.
• It has an LCD screen. You can choose your songs, you have the Click Wheel, life is great.
  
• The LCD is colourful - In that sense, it's a small iPod Photo, it seems to me.
• You don't have the cool Shuffle button.
• It can't have gizmos plugged in like iTrip, just like the Shuffle can't.
• It doesn't plug in directly - It needs a cable, like regular iPods do.

I must say, since I already have an iPod, I can safely say I don't really need this. It's smaller in size but in capacity as well. I'd rather have an iPod Photo.

Word Verification

I hate blog marketers. Since this blog has encountered a few (not many, but still enough to get me and Joah upset), I decided to start the Word Verification Service.

So, I am sorry, but you will have to write some letters with every comment. Hope it isn't too inconvinient.

Spaceward Ho!

It's not a new game, but it is a new version! Spaceward Ho! is a cool, turn based game that brings back gaming to computer games (and unfortunately, takes out graphics from it).

Also, there's a Palm version! (I can hear Joah screaming Nooooo from afar)

Oh My iGod

Coming from this blog I found BiblePod and BiblePlayer. If it ain't horrible enough, I decided to quote as well: "Free download. Jesus was downloaded so that we can be uploaded".

A Weird Sense of Ending

Even though my contract is far from being over (I still have another year for that to happen), I get the weird sense of "The end is nigh", and I don't mean armaggedon.

It's a weird sense. On one hand, I do want the project to succeed and will do what it takes to see it through it's completion. On the other, I feel my personal life, the life I am building with Joey, is taking a place in my life stream I didn't know of before.

If I would take a rewind back to a couple of years ago, when I first got to the department and started this contract, nothing was more important than "the work". I really did everything and gave everything. I still do - But what is different? It's hard to say. It's a feeling. It's remembering to make that phone call to Issta. It's not diving into work too much without checking my email and send a funny mail or a response to Joey while she's working. It's much more than that, and I would stop now because I feel like I'm writing a "Love is.." book.

Sigh... And I guess I also finally starting to feel the need to get out of the contract, something I haven't felt for the years I was in it.