September 2006

In which I cry UNCLE and admit to being defeated by code…

I’ve given up.  Maybe if I hadn’t taken a full-time job (for the first time years), I would have been able to fasten my slightly damaged brain around the intricacies of code.  But I can’t.  I know what I want my web site to look like and do.  I even have said site established at […]

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The truth about growing up

Formerly, when I was a reasonably young person, there were certain things about reasonably older people that I could not understand.  Like, the slipping eyeliner bit.  A well-groomed woman of a certain age, who was bandbox (i.e., model) perfect–except that the eyeliner on that one eye was askew.  Just a bit, but enough to notice. How could she? Didn’t […]

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Ugly Betty, a review of sorts

  It’s thirtyfive minutes into the first show and I’ve got the sound turned off.  That’s my review.  Don’t we have enough nastiness in the world, what with Darfur and Iraq and Pakistan and Fundamentalists of all stripes, without TV producing another 60 minutes or so? 

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L’shana tova…

Here I am in the land of almost-no-Jews and at work on Friday, I felt compelled to go around and say to various people “Happy New Year to me!”  Some just looked blank; a few said, ‘Yeah, yeah, it’s that holiday for you, isn’t it.”  Yeah, yeah, it is.  I found a nice little synagogue […]

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Potpourri – Fall version

1. I got suckered into attending a Christians for Israel evening on Sunday, and I’m still mad.  At myself, mostly, for not trusting my instinct that the whole thing was a disgusting right-wing, fundamentalist scam.  Which it was and is.  Blech!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2.  I’m trying to be more present in my life.  Doesn’t that sound disgustingly […]

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