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Chocolate-Flavored Rambly Bits
(no, I'm not sure why "chocolate flavored"; as a friend of mine used to say, "just smile and nod.")
-- My mother and I were discussing the various and sundry types of things one can use for lighting your Chanukah menorah, and the fact that there are multiple types of wicks out there for people using oil in their menorot. She asked me if I knew anything about the various types, and I said no. What I'd like to see, I told her, was an open-source, editable database of information on the various options. In other words, I want a Wick Wiki.
-- Cambridge now has a community skating rink in Kendall Square. Their Grand Opening Gala is today; they'll be open through 15 March 2007.
-- As a follow up to Monday's poll, I've ordered my swift and ball winder, and both are en-route to me. Thanks to all who voted and gave advice.
-- The icons for the various programs that comprise Office 2004 for the Mac look like Hebrew letters. The Word icon looks like an shin; the Excel icon looks like an aleph, and the PowerPoint icon looks like a kuf. The Entourage icon looks like a backwards peh, but that might just be by association from the other ones.
-- This morning, as I was coming out of the T at Kendall Square, a guy with a suitcase stopped me. "Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to Hampshire St.?" he asked. Now, I know in the abstract where Hampshire St. is from where we were standing, but I was pre-coffee and couldn't recall just how many blocks it was. So I pulled out my handheld and fired up Vindigo. Since I knew where we were, I plugged in the corner of Hampshire & Broadway as my location and pulled up the map to show him, and then showed him where we were, a straight shot down Broadway. "What is that program?" he asked. When I told him, he said, "I have a Blackberry. Do you think it would run on it?" I didn't know the answer, but I encouraged him to check out the website.
-- I'll be putting a poll up today, but I'm not sure on what. Suggestions for poll topics are greatly encouraged.
-- My mother and I were discussing the various and sundry types of things one can use for lighting your Chanukah menorah, and the fact that there are multiple types of wicks out there for people using oil in their menorot. She asked me if I knew anything about the various types, and I said no. What I'd like to see, I told her, was an open-source, editable database of information on the various options. In other words, I want a Wick Wiki.
-- Cambridge now has a community skating rink in Kendall Square. Their Grand Opening Gala is today; they'll be open through 15 March 2007.
-- As a follow up to Monday's poll, I've ordered my swift and ball winder, and both are en-route to me. Thanks to all who voted and gave advice.
-- The icons for the various programs that comprise Office 2004 for the Mac look like Hebrew letters. The Word icon looks like an shin; the Excel icon looks like an aleph, and the PowerPoint icon looks like a kuf. The Entourage icon looks like a backwards peh, but that might just be by association from the other ones.
-- This morning, as I was coming out of the T at Kendall Square, a guy with a suitcase stopped me. "Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to Hampshire St.?" he asked. Now, I know in the abstract where Hampshire St. is from where we were standing, but I was pre-coffee and couldn't recall just how many blocks it was. So I pulled out my handheld and fired up Vindigo. Since I knew where we were, I plugged in the corner of Hampshire & Broadway as my location and pulled up the map to show him, and then showed him where we were, a straight shot down Broadway. "What is that program?" he asked. When I told him, he said, "I have a Blackberry. Do you think it would run on it?" I didn't know the answer, but I encouraged him to check out the website.
-- I'll be putting a poll up today, but I'm not sure on what. Suggestions for poll topics are greatly encouraged.
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How about poll topics?
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I wonder every day why you are not struck down by some deity, I really do. :-)
And I'd thought that about the Office icons also (although without knowing which letters they looked like).
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For the bad puns, or for the potentially sacriligious nature of the puns? :-)
And I'm glad it's not just me who thought that about the icons.
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Also, thanks for the info about the skating rink! Very cool.
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If it was made for really fast information location, it could be a WikiWiki Wick Wiki.
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If they were just complicated, it would be a tricky wikiwiki wick wiki...
But if it was very well done, and you could bookmark it, it would be a slick and sticky wikiwiki wick wiki...
I'm going back to work now. :)
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This is why I adore my friends.
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where do you get a menorah that you can put oil in? because that would be really cool. (and reminds me i need to buy candles....)
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Indeed. :-)
where do you get a menorah that you can put oil in?
The Israel Book Shop sells a whole bunch of them, in different styles.
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You could always get a plush menorah. Then all wick-related puns could at last rest in peace.
Did you choose the metal or the wood?
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Wick-ed awesome! < /bostonian regionalisms>
I went with the wood, since I found a good price on one. And it should be on its way to me sooooon (it's en route, but I left the tracking info at home, so I can't obsessively check its current location on its way to our PO box). The ball winder came in yesterday's mail.