Archive for November, 2006

Ashkenazic or Sephardic?

November 17, 2006

Jdate is a dating website that caters to Jewish singles. A buddy of mine and I like to browse through the women’s ads every once in a while, look at their pictures and their profiles. Now in Jdate, like many other similar dating websites, the profile contains various bits of information about the person, incuding [...]

The Matzo Box

November 16, 2006

I have several boxes of matzos sitting on my floor in my apartment. One day I went to visit my parents, who live in the Bronx. My parents tend to buy things in bulk and store them in the dining room. Anyway, I come home and I see what appeared to be about a hundred [...]

I ♥ New York T-shirt

November 15, 2006

I was dating a Jewish girl from Long Island (Long Gyland) who got a kick out of the fact that I was taking a course in Hebrew. So she gave me this t-shirt to wear:
Now, I found myself quite skeptical of the Hebrew words on this t-shirt. This t-shirt is the kind that one finds [...]

Technorati Blog Claim

November 14, 2006

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The Hebrew Hacker sticker

November 14, 2006

Well, what’d you know?
I did a search on google for “hebrew hacker” to see if my site appeared and this is what I found:

Yes, it says “hacker”. I’ll take this as a good sign.
The aleph is silent. But I wonder why it was put there?
 

The Dumpster

November 14, 2006

The following photo is a sign pasted on the side of a waste dumpster at a construction site in Brooklyn. It was taken with my LG camera cell phone.

Introduction to The Hebrew Hacker

November 14, 2006

The Hebrew Hacker is a pun on the title of a 2003 movie called The Hebrew Hammer , starring Adam Goldberg and Judy Greer. It’s a good movie to watch when you have nothing to do on a weekend afternoon, even if you’re not Jewish. It parodies and satirizes common Jewish stereotypes (Jewish mothers, the [...]