How Do You Jew

Category: random

  • Two broken things in one day

    I don’t remember if I became a fan of Mark Hurst because of his Good Experience Games or This is Broken or some other aspect of his good user experience work, but I am a big fan, as I’ve mentioned before. Re: This is Broken, I ran into two egregious examples today: this packaging disaster,…

  • The Spirit of Christmas

    No, not the animated short that spawned South Park. I’m bringing you this silly marketing gimmick from Travelodge in the UK: Hotel chain offers a room at the inn for Marys and Josephs …”The ‘gift’ of a free night’s stay is to make up for the hotel industry not having any rooms left on Christmas…

  • Holiday wish list

    Dear Santa/Hannukah Harry (can’t be too safe), I think I’ve been pretty good this year. Here’s my entirely unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky, lottery-winner’s gift list, in no particular order: Crosley Director Record Player/CD Recorder (Target exclusive, on sale now!) iPod Touch 16GB (Costco’s got ’em at a few bucks off most everyone else; I don’t know who…

  • Messing around with themes

    I’ll be poking around and trying to find a new theme (design) for the site over the next few days (weeks?), so if you visit and it suddenly looks unfamiliar, fear not. The content will be as engrossing and fascinating as always; it’s simply the container that will change its appearance. This one is called…

  • This blog is all over the place, can you tell?

    Jewish stuff, family stuff, all sorts of other stuff. I don’t discriminate. Here’s French President Nicolas Sarkozy explaining why he walked out of the 60 Minutes interview broadcast in late October: not

  • One-a-day, like vitamins.

    Thanks to my lovely wife‘s pointing it out to me, courtesy of our lovely friend Aaryn posting about it, I’ve joined in the madness that is National Blog Posting Month, affectionately known as NaBloPoMo. Perhaps this will prompt me to establish a regular posting schedule, which in turn will drive me closer to my ultimate…

  • Random thoughts

    I ought to be blogging more. edited to add: and I ought to fix/edit my sidebar contents. I had a productive day at work today, with a “third time’s a charm” situation regarding videotaping a presentation given by our esteemed young employer relations specialist and a rep from SDG&E. Then the day was made more…

  • I’m an Israeli man. Why don’t they write stuff like this about me?

    Oh, right, because I didn’t WRESTLE A LEOPARD TO THE GROUND IN MY BEDROOM! JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli man wrestled a leopard to the ground after it entered his bedroom in a desert college and tried to make a meal of his pet cat. “He jumped on the leopard and pinned him to the…

  • Things I hear while wearing a kippah, #1

    I’m thinking this is a good idea for a new website, but in the meantime, here’s my first entry: Last night, in the parking lot at Costco while putting my purchases in the car, a man who was in line with me stops and says, I’m glad… I’m glad you celebrate your Jew-ry. I think…