Random stuff
Dec. 21st, 2008 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidIt started snowing Friday around 1 P.M. (conveniently timed for lots of people to start their weekend early), and hasn't really stopped yet, though it slowed for a while last night. Cambridge is on its second snow emergency of the weekend. I'm not sure exactly how much snow we've gotten, but it's around a foot, minimum: winter's starting with a bang. Unfortunately, the weather sites are predicting rain later, as well as high winds, so there may be a shiny layer of ice over everything by tomorrow's morning ocmmute. And there's more precipitation in the longer-range forecast, too. Fun times.
Someone worked on an old Onion article to see how much came true during the Bush II administration. It's a bit eerie.
A couple of alternates to hotels when traveling: Servas, couch surfing, and Airbed and Breakfast.
Bread and Puppet is going to be in Boston January 26 to February 1:
My kind of adventure travel: Chocolate Week in Belize. There's a 10% discount if you mention the Taza Chocolate Open House, even.
Arrr! Avast, ye mateys! Here's the treasure map. At least, someone's treasure: it's the map of this year's piracy (including attempts).
Realized yet again: erev chag isn't just for Jews. Not only Xmas Eve, but all those leave early Fridays before a holiday weekend, and the day before Thanksgiving, and so on.
Hanukah* starts tonight. I'm pondering latkes for later in the week (I can makes ones that are wholly local!), and hoping to continue my tradition from my second year in Israel, of playing Boggle for the half hour that the candles are lit :-)
* Known aliases include Hanuka, Hanukka, Hannukah, Chanuka, Chanukah, Chanukkah, and Fred. M.O. includes copious use of grease and flames.
Someone worked on an old Onion article to see how much came true during the Bush II administration. It's a bit eerie.
A couple of alternates to hotels when traveling: Servas, couch surfing, and Airbed and Breakfast.
Bread and Puppet is going to be in Boston January 26 to February 1:
The Sourdough Philosophy Spectacle is about the need for human fermentation. Human fermentation concerns those parts of the human body that are not governed by the government, like the guts and the gutsy parts of the brain. In a democracy which teases citizens with the possibility of democracy citizens are raised like military apple orchards, pruned down to their predictable minimums, yielding controlled fruits that lack the ecstasy of nature. Fermented citizens are corrupted by the ecstasy of nature and from that corruption derive strength to corrupt military-orchard citizens.
My kind of adventure travel: Chocolate Week in Belize. There's a 10% discount if you mention the Taza Chocolate Open House, even.
Arrr! Avast, ye mateys! Here's the treasure map. At least, someone's treasure: it's the map of this year's piracy (including attempts).
Realized yet again: erev chag isn't just for Jews. Not only Xmas Eve, but all those leave early Fridays before a holiday weekend, and the day before Thanksgiving, and so on.
Hanukah* starts tonight. I'm pondering latkes for later in the week (I can makes ones that are wholly local!), and hoping to continue my tradition from my second year in Israel, of playing Boggle for the half hour that the candles are lit :-)
* Known aliases include Hanuka, Hanukka, Hannukah, Chanuka, Chanukah, Chanukkah, and Fred. M.O. includes copious use of grease and flames.