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Mar. 5th, 2007 01:56 pmIn the tradition of the national spelling bee and the national geography bee, there's now a national vocabulary bee. I wonder if there will be middle school kids from the spelling bee moving to the vocabulary bee, since they'll know all sorts of stuff about word roots already.
Google maps is great for the US (and Europe), but the Middle East sucks. The mapped features of Israel are: the boundaries (including the green line), and nothing else. No cities, no roads, nothing, just gray. Mapquest does a lot better, both having cities and streets, but only major roads are named, no matter what level of detail tried, and I know there are at least some little streets that aren't there. The most useful options I found are here, but they're not searchable, and there's only two sizes. There was one searchable site, except that my computer couldn't make it work (I don't know if it's a firewall issue, a font issue, the website itself...). What I'd been hoping I could do was an online pedometer to track my walking, but that isn't available, so I'm contemplating getting a cheap pedometer to give me some approximations (and however cheap, it should last a week before it breaks.).
Silliness from Shabbat dinner: the ultimate in non-junk food drive through would have ordering at one end of the Chunnel, pick-up at the other end, plenty of time for a real meal to be made to your exacting specifications. "Please drive on through."
It looks like there's a time bank in Cambridge through Cambridge College. (Also one in Somerville, and one in Lynn.) Neat.
I'm thinking of getting a/some T-shirt(s), one (or more) of these (with interesting information on the tag, too). They're pricey at $40 Canadian, though. (For more info, scroll down to the December 13 post in Netivat Sofrut, or look here (though the site design is weird, at least to my work machine).) Anyone local interested in going in on an order?
Google maps is great for the US (and Europe), but the Middle East sucks. The mapped features of Israel are: the boundaries (including the green line), and nothing else. No cities, no roads, nothing, just gray. Mapquest does a lot better, both having cities and streets, but only major roads are named, no matter what level of detail tried, and I know there are at least some little streets that aren't there. The most useful options I found are here, but they're not searchable, and there's only two sizes. There was one searchable site, except that my computer couldn't make it work (I don't know if it's a firewall issue, a font issue, the website itself...). What I'd been hoping I could do was an online pedometer to track my walking, but that isn't available, so I'm contemplating getting a cheap pedometer to give me some approximations (and however cheap, it should last a week before it breaks.).
Silliness from Shabbat dinner: the ultimate in non-junk food drive through would have ordering at one end of the Chunnel, pick-up at the other end, plenty of time for a real meal to be made to your exacting specifications. "Please drive on through."
It looks like there's a time bank in Cambridge through Cambridge College. (Also one in Somerville, and one in Lynn.) Neat.
I'm thinking of getting a/some T-shirt(s), one (or more) of these (with interesting information on the tag, too). They're pricey at $40 Canadian, though. (For more info, scroll down to the December 13 post in Netivat Sofrut, or look here (though the site design is weird, at least to my work machine).) Anyone local interested in going in on an order?
