A book club selection, that I quite enjoyed. A boy loses his mother at a young age and has a rough go at life. A quick read, but not light as it tackles some pretty hefty subjects like self mutilation and incest. Here’s a more complete review.
Last month I visited Chicago with N. We had a great visit, tourist-ing it up. We took the requisite Boat Tour (confession: i napped), a Food tour (underwhelming) and even took in a Cubs game at Wrigley Field. A true highlight for me was my City Running Tour. Last year I was lucky enough to […]
I imagine most folks that read this blog already have heard the news via twitter or facebook or my loud mouth, but I feel like it’s worth a post anyway. Last week as the festivities for the Jewish New Year came to an end, and Mom was celebrating pulling off yet another delish lunch for […]
as i’ve mentioned, updating my site yesterday was more painful than it could have been. i’m going to document some of my mistakes so that if folks google something about updating from wordpress 2.0.X to 3.0.1 they might find this helpful. I’m using a click through for the body of the post because it’s long, […]
i decided i wanted to be able to keep a reading log as a “sub-blog” since i have a hard time keeping track of what i’ve read and it’s only getting worse with age. that was pretty easy to configure using wordpress, but when looking at the API i realized how out of date my […]
I decided to start a reading log to keep track of the books I’ve read. This is because I often have hazy recollections of reading a particular book which leads to me reading it again. While I fancy myself quite clever that I know everything that’s going to happen before it’s done, I’d like to […]
I still take out some books from the Library in paper form when I can’t get them digitally and don’t want to buy them. It keeps my wrists strong since I have to hold up the heavy book instead of the light kobo. Haha. One thing that always strikes me as odd is how long […]
This post is longer than it should be because I haven’t written in awhile, my code is taking a long time to compile these days, and it’s my blog so I’ll do what I want. I put headings so you can skip to the actual review part if you so choose Part 1: Where I […]
I got all my sisters Originally uploaded by Pen for Hire My cousin Marlee’s Bat Mitzvah was a few weeks ago. We celebrated in style. And even had a flash mob. Yes, my little sis choreographed a little ditty to we are family which Marlee and all her friends performed. And me. And my sis. […]
So, I have grown out of using the word “like” as my filler word when I speak. Its replacement: So. And it turns out I’m not alone – according to an article in the NY Times, my use of the word is one of the [few] ways I’m a stereotypical Software Developer So it is […]