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[Nov. 16th, 2009|06:04 pm] |
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שלום לכולכם, מה נשמע?רציתי רק להודיע שביום שישי ה27 לחודש אני עושה את מסיבת היומולדת שלי, אלא אם כן מרפי יחליט לערוך התערבות אכזרית יותר מהרגיל.ועכשיו לפרטים:
מה יהיה? משחקי לוח, אנשים, חטיפים ו(בתקווה)מצב רוח טוב.איפה יהיה?אצל שירי, בדרך השלום 47(כי אצלי אין מקום).מתי יהיה?משבע וחצי עד שנחליט לבעוט את האחרון מכם החוצה או שהוא יעזוב מרצונו החופשי.מה להביא? משחקים מדליקים, שתיה אלכוהולית, אם אתם רוצים אותה,הרבה מצב רוח טוב וסיבולת גבוהה לחנונים:)
אז מי מגיע?
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| FirstWorldcon day report |
[Aug. 7th, 2009|09:21 pm] |
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So yesterday was great. It started for me at 1pm with sushi and kibitzing on the japanese live battleship game, which I need to get the rules to and introduce into Bigor, and then continues in a fun panel about "what the hell *is* consciousness" led by Peter Watts, that got to the firm conclusion "we don't have a clue!", then I went to the filk Trivia and learned all kinds of fun facts(there is a book with filk in it from the 1940's!Seanan MGuire has been bitten by a Komodo Dragon!). Then to a panel about the singularity that contained Peter Watts and several other folks, including a lady who has been doing science journalism for Rei Kurzweil for the last five years, and that panel has gotten to the conclusion we've probably undergone at least one incremental singularity and the hell they know what'll happen in a Vinge type singularity.At last I got to filking and it was nice and wild, me and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) adrianna_r began pretty quiet but then the woman beside us sang something inspired by a visit to Israel(which caused everybody to know we were from Israel) so we sang them Dana's Catapult Song which, after we explained it a bit, evoked gales of laughter, and somehow led, by way of The Boogie Knights' "On Top of The Wall", to a filk about lutefisk to Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham".
All in all much fun was had and much thought provoked.I'll tell you about today when I have a bit more time. |
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[Aug. 5th, 2009|07:53 am] |
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To all people iterested: Yanshuf Books will be having a sale on the 14/8, selling lots of books at 10NIS a piece. I won't be able to enjoy it but I hope some of you will |
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| Kyoto- an antirecommendation |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|11:41 am] |
So yesterday I was at adrianna_r's going away party in Kyoto restaurant. The company and food were great, and I truly enjoyed myself. We then continued to a close gelateria, since Max Brenner hadn't enough space for 15 people, naturally, and ate ice cream and talked for two more hours, or thereabout. I hope great fun was had by all, I surely had some:)
Now to the anti-recommendation: I was looking forward to eating at Kyoto, having read some good reviews about the place, unfortunately I was very much disappointed. The food was good, if a bit overpriced, but the service well and truly sucked. It sucked so much that it was collectively decided, at my suggestion, to leave the waitresses a tip of exactly 0.5 NIS for the whole table, so they'd understand how badly they fucked up. If anybody on my f-list considers going there- don't do that to yourself. |
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| David Eddings is dead |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|07:58 pm] |
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And I'm sad. Yes, the guy wasn't close to Nobel Prize material, he wrote tropes, but he wrote them well and his books were so readable that they're probably still the most reread books I own. I think this obituary on the net says almost everything I want to say except, maybe, the awkward words of a teenage boy who liked the books so much that when Eddings released the Rivan Codex(his book about writing the books with all kinds of world details) he bought it without a moment's hesitation. There was a time these books were the only things keeping me sane in the children's insane asylum that some call "school". |
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| The best bet I lost to date |
[Apr. 16th, 2009|10:53 pm] |
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So I bet someone I'm on an RPG campaign with sushi dinner on who is the mystery suitor of a third players' character. I lost, as you can surmise, and tonight was me paying up:). I had a terrific discount in place called "Okinawa" (1+1 on all the special rolls) so I decided we go there- final count was 4: me, Shiri(my SO), Didi(the other player) and Eli(her SO). And if you don't mind sitting on a bar the place is terrific- good service and sushi on par with Onami's(to non Israeli people- one of the top 10 sushi places in Israel). Dessert was tiramisu which was good but not nearly the quality of the sushi, and with the 1+1 it was about 200 NIS altogether. Great dinner, good price and terrific company, all in all a very enjoyable evening. |
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| Apparently I'm a Lynx |
[Apr. 9th, 2009|01:58 pm] |
| You Are a Lynx |  You are a quiet observer of the world around you. Your wisdom comes from listening carefully.
You've always been extra sensitive and aware. And it's made it difficult for you to fit in.
You see past people's outward personas. You are able to penetrate a stranger's soul.
What you've learned about people is both beautiful and ugly. And you keep these secrets to yourself. |
Also, I'm currently suffering from COLD OF DOOM. |
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| When Aikido goe wrong |
[Mar. 31st, 2009|03:22 pm] |
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(This should have gone up yesterday but didn't due to lack of time)
Well, just had an intense example why doing Aikido the wrong way is unhealthy. Sunday evening we did a teaching exercise centered on rolls and during one of them my fear of falling got me and I almost literally froze midway through the exercise. Since I was in the air at the time this was quite unhealthy to my shoulder, although not nearly as much as it could be. I had a few tense moments before one of the advanced students who's a physiotherapist checked me out and told me that it wasn't dislocation, just "deep bruise". Which means I'll probably be back to class in a week or so and should ice the shoulder every few hours, and that the damned thing hurts like hell if I strain it even a little bit- even lifting a small(nearly empty) folder hurts if I do it in the wrong fashion. |
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| I fail at making sushi rice |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|06:34 pm] |
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Well, had a sushi evening with my little sister last night, and it was agreed that I would make the rice since I could make it then leave it to cool around noon(rather then ~7 am). So I made the rice, and in retrospect probably put too much rice vinegar in it- it became very very sticky, and about the consistency of plasticine/play-dough. Which means the rolls weren't great, but they didn't fall apart either:). So we made two rolls with carrot, cucumber, radish and smoked salmon, and another shortened one(torn seaweed) with bell pepper instead of radish. I didn't eat the last one because I can't stand bell peppers, but the other two were pretty good. We also made white wine jello with strawberries for dessert which came out tasty but failed to get out of the forms well enough so my sister was a bit miffed. All in all a good dinner, in spite of the various point failures. |
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| שאלון אוכל |
[Mar. 7th, 2009|10:37 pm] |
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[Mar. 7th, 2009|06:00 pm] |
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A question for all the people who prepare sushi:Will sushi rice be still good for use in sushi if it's prepared a day in advance, or does it lose some essential attribute? |
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[Feb. 8th, 2009|09:20 pm] |
So in two days me and several million other Israelis are going to the polling stations for the elections.These elections are so fucked up that it's nearly unbelievable- we have three clones at the heads of the large parties, and a fascist at the head of the other large party.Our politics are so internecine and byzantine they could probably give a headache to anybody who tried to understand them without a flowchart and a few years' study.In spite of that I tell all my f-list people for whom it is relevant:Go and vote.Find a party you believe in(like I found תי"מ) and vote for it.You can even get some nice benefits if you photograph yourself voting(go check rest.co.il for details).
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| And this is why I despise the extreme left |
[Feb. 5th, 2009|11:32 am] |
The article Gideon Levi wrote in today's edition of Ha'aretz.
[rant]Let's see:the poor Palestinians aren't to blame for anything, it's all big bad Israel's fault.All the last 16 years the Palestinians would gladly give us peace, if we would only have been reasonable.Well, I don't think our governments didn't make mistakes, or that some didn't try to stop peace- but there were people who tried to make peace with the Palestinians, and they were either rebuffed or bluffed.Denying this harms both sides- the Israelis because they get all the blame and the Palestinians because their moral agency is revoked:it dehumanizes Palestinians at least as much as the extreme right opinions painting them all as murderers thirsty for Israeli blood.It's just that the extreme left doesn't do it as obviously, nor as conciously- I'm sure many on that side of the map don't intend that effect: but you know, that's what you're saying, in effect.So decide whether you want to treat the Palestinians as grown people or just as some abused kid.Because I suspect that's the reason a lot of people won't identify as "left" today- because the public face of that are on the political map tend to use a rhetoric that shifts all of the blame onto the Israeli side of the equation, without showing the other side.And people feel the lopsidedness of that and go in the other direction[/rant]
( the article, for people who don't like links )
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[Feb. 1st, 2009|03:39 pm] |
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the only problem with fMRI analysis is the interminable time until MATLAB finishes computing stuff.Even with the nifty computers my lab has. |
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