David Geary's Weblog<p>I'll scratch a hole in my life<br/>So everyone can see<p>It Never Occurred to Us...- December 27, 2005 From an article titled Out of the Fyer, Into the Lights in the Dining In section of the New York Times, Wednesday, Dec. 23rd: We all learned in Hebrew school that the reason we eat latkes on Hanukkah was because they were cooked in oil, to remind us of the miracle of the oil that lasted eight days instead of one," Ms. Goldman said. "It never occurred to us that you could eat other fried things until some Israelis in our congregation introduced us to sufganiyot (jelly donuts). Surely this is..http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/it_never_occurred_to_us Nerd fest!- December 21, 2005 I have no idea who Ms. Mama is, but this is great! I hope you had a good time at the conference, Mr. P! I don't think I can handle this A cloudy day in Metropolis I think I'll talk to my analyst Jimmy Olsen's Blues from Pocket Full of Kryptonite by Spin Doctorshttp://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/nerd_fest The Rails Caf- December 19, 2005 Like you, I practically live in cafs. Someone once told me there's a psychiatric disorder for people who spend so much time in cafs, but if that's the case then I'm okay with it because a lot of my friends do the same and, as a group, we seem normal enough. I've been frequenting the Java Caf now for more than ten years. I remember when it was a little Mom and Pop shop on Oak Street before it was bought out&8212some say sold out, but I don't cotton to that particular conspiracy theory&8212by...http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/the_rails_caf%C3%A9 JavaPolis 2005- December 18, 2005 Forgive me for dropping out of sight for awhile, but I've been so overwhelmed the past few months with JSF consultingtrainingspeaking work that I haven't had time to finish a single blog entry. Not that I haven't tried&8212I've got a half-dozen entries that I started but didn't have time to finish. Maybe later for those... But now I'm sitting in bed in a Hotel in Antwerp, Belgium, with nothing to do other than watch a dubbed episode of Dragnet on French TV. I'm a firm believer that some...http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/javapolis_2005 |