Blog/April 2012/Apr 13th - Revision history

https://ronware.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Blog%2FApril_2012%2FApr_13th Blog/April 2012/Apr 13th - Revision history 2026-04-22T06:56:38Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.35.1 https://ronware.org/w/index.php?title=Blog/April_2012/Apr_13th&diff=7924&oldid=prev Ron at 12:31, 20 April 2012 2012-04-20T12:31:21Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left diff-editfont-monospace" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:31, 20 April 2012</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l42" >Line 42:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 42:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''ḥag sameaḥ'' and ''shabbat shalom''!</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''ḥag sameaḥ'' and ''shabbat shalom''!</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{nav|Blog|Blog|Blog/April 2012/Apr 6th|Apr 6th||}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{nav|Blog|Blog|Blog/April 2012/Apr 6th|Apr 6th|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Blog/April 2012/Apr 20th</ins>|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Apr 20th</ins>}}</div></td></tr> </table>

Ron https://ronware.org/w/index.php?title=Blog/April_2012/Apr_13th&diff=7920&oldid=prev Ron at 10:05, 12 April 2012 2012-04-12T10:05:21Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left diff-editfont-monospace" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:05, 12 April 2012</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l15" >Line 15:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 15:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Apparently people used to travel through there, stopping</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Apparently people used to travel through there, stopping</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://ronware.org/esther-khan.jpeg <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">other helpful </del>at the khan] to refresh themselves. Despite the arid and (very!) hot climate, [http://ronware.org/kotsim.jpeg there are plants] and close-by was a somewhat stagnant-looking body of water. It was an interesting trip, but a very long an hot one; I don't think we need to revisit the place any time soon. It was 32C at home, but 43C at the Makhtesh! </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://ronware.org/esther-khan.jpeg <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>at the khan] to refresh themselves. Despite the arid and (very!) hot climate, [http://ronware.org/kotsim.jpeg there are plants] and close-by was a somewhat stagnant-looking body of water. It was an interesting trip, but a very long an hot one; I don't think we need to revisit the place any time soon. It was 32C at home, but 43C at the Makhtesh! </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The next day, we took it easy and were joined by a friend of mine and his family. They stayed several hours and partook of our ''asado'' (not a ''real'' one, since we didn't have time to cook properly -- it was a faster-paced ''asado'' than is really required... but the food was good!). </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The next day, we took it easy and were joined by a friend of mine and his family. They stayed several hours and partook of our ''asado'' (not a ''real'' one, since we didn't have time to cook properly -- it was a faster-paced ''asado'' than is really required... but the food was good!). </div></td></tr> </table>

Ron https://ronware.org/w/index.php?title=Blog/April_2012/Apr_13th&diff=7917&oldid=prev Ron: Created page with " {{blog}} {{bheadernew|Apr 13th|http://ronware.org/devar/shemini5772.pdf}} Hi, again! <center>{{hebs|חג פסח כשר ושמח לכולם!}}</cente..." 2012-04-12T08:42:44Z

<p>Created page with " {{blog}} {{bheadernew|Apr 13th|http://ronware.org/devar/shemini5772.pdf}} Hi, again! <center>{{hebs|חג פסח כשר ושמח לכולם!}}</cente..."</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> <br /> {{blog}}<br /> {{bheadernew|Apr 13th|http://ronware.org/devar/shemini5772.pdf}}<br /> <br /> Hi, again!<br /> <br /> <center>{{hebs|חג פסח כשר ושמח לכולם!}}</center><br /> <center>A ''kasher'' and happy ''pesaḥ'' holiday to all of you!</center><br /> <br /> We're rounding up a week of ''mo`ed'', the intermediate days of the ''pesaḥ'' holiday, so the blog is coming out a day ahead of schedule. I hope you don't mind! As you can tell, we weren't exactly [http://ronware.org/deprivation.jpeg deprived] during our ''mo`ed''. The ''seder'' was as pleasant as usual, and I think our guests from the Olde Country enjoyed themselves.<br /> <br /> At the beginning of the week it was very hot, so Esther and I decided to make a trip outside the Land. We went to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhtesh_Ramon Makhtesh Ramon], which is about an hour and a half south of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersheba Be'er Sheva`] (outside the Biblical limits of the Land). We figured it would take us about two and a half hours to get there, but it took us four instead. Partly because the site we were going to was "off the road", on a really bad dirt road. And partly because the road-sign for "highway 6 southbound" were notably missing and we were delayed twenty minutes trying to figure out how to get onto 6 going south! We did find [http://ronware.org/camels-on-road.jpeg other helpful road-signs] though.<br /> <br /> Apparently people used to travel through there, stopping<br /> [http://ronware.org/esther-khan.jpeg other helpful at the khan] to refresh themselves. Despite the arid and (very!) hot climate, [http://ronware.org/kotsim.jpeg there are plants] and close-by was a somewhat stagnant-looking body of water. It was an interesting trip, but a very long an hot one; I don't think we need to revisit the place any time soon. It was 32C at home, but 43C at the Makhtesh! <br /> <br /> The next day, we took it easy and were joined by a friend of mine and his family. They stayed several hours and partook of our ''asado'' (not a ''real'' one, since we didn't have time to cook properly -- it was a faster-paced ''asado'' than is really required... but the food was good!). <br /> <br /> Yesterday we went on another long and grueling trip -- a whole 20 minutes from home -- to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_Qelt Naḥal Perat]. This is one of the most beautiful well-kept secrets around. A real oasis in the middle of the desert. Here's Esther and I [http://ronware.org/feet.jpeg dipping our feet] in the cool, refreshing water. There's actually [http://ronware.org/waterfall.jpeg a waterfall], and here Esther is again, [http://ronware.org/in-the-stream.jpeg in the stream]. I highly recommend the place to anyone visiting the area, and most particularly to those who think a desert has no water at all. We were there a couple hours, walking in and hiking around the stream; and there were a lot of other people there along with us, but it wasn't especially crowded.<br /> <br /> I also was able to make serious progress on my ''zemanim'' Android application. I gave it to a couple people to check, and they gave me valuable feedback -- including discovering a few bugs which resulted from using the application in a way I had not yet done. So I anticipate releasing it next week. Here you can take a peek at [http://ronware.org/zemanim.png what it looks like], running on my phone.<br /> <br /> This week the last day of ''pesaḥ'' is on Friday, so we effectively have a two-day "yom-tov" just like our friends and family in the Exile. We'll have guests for two of the six upcoming festive meals, who will have some combination of:<br /> egg salad,<br /> ''schnitzel'',<br /> ''salatim'',<br /> brisket,<br /> chicken soup,<br /> leek ''kefta'',<br /> chicken salad,<br /> smoked fish,<br /> eggplant, <br /> homemade ice cream,<br /> chocolate brownies,<br /> and chocolate covered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon macaroons] (our penance for not having sufficient deserts last week...)<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Until next week,<br><br /> ''ḥag sameaḥ'' and ''shabbat shalom''!<br /> <br /> {{nav|Blog|Blog|Blog/April 2012/Apr 6th|Apr 6th||}}</div>

Ron