Ron at 04:18, 22 August 2025

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Family, friends, and associates: I present to you the one and only [https://ronware.org/img/frankenlamp.jpeg FrankenLamp™]! Gaze upon its sleek beauty! The base is a repurposed (broken) IKEA mirror (whose glass I removed), painted black. The electronics housing is a repurposed hard-disk enclosure. The power brick is from an old, discarded, laptop. The wooden supports were cut from remainders of a chest-of-drawers of my mom’s a”h, then lacquered. The knobs are random bits from a collection of such paraphernalia of my dad’s a”h.

Waste not, want not!

Because it was ''most unnaturally hot'' this week, we stayed inside most of the time, with the A/C on. I would like to give special thanks to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Carrier Mr. Willis Carrier], the patron saint of air-conditioning, for his service to humanity.

The heat wave was accompanied by vast amounts of dust. On the morning Esther drives into the office, she discovered the car was engulfed in dust to such an extent she couldn’t see out the windows. So I was engaged to rinse it off; and by end-of-day it was dust-covered once more. There’s a moral in there somewhere…

Amongst the rubble:

* Cheryl spies with her little eye [https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1953712881817547169 part four].
* On the [https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-demonisation-of-israeli-settlers/ demonisation of Israeli] “settlers”.
* Erin Molan [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrJzLUS3tJQ congratulates Hamas] and all other terrorists, since AU is set to recognize a “Palestinian state”.
* Preston Stewart [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaOOi-d-bOU doesn’t know how] to cover the IL/Gaza conflict, any more.
* Bill Gates — you know, the man who wants to reduce the planet’s human population? — is backing [https://www.msn.com/en-us/food-and-drink/recipes/butter-made-from-carbon-tastes-like-the-real-thing-gets-backing-from-bill-gates/ar-AA1K3IER butter made from carbon]. Quite apart from the fact I wouldn’t let anything B. Gates approved anywhere near my “precious bodily fluids”, it’s hard to imagine the overall energy footprint is better than churning old Bessie’s output into butter.
* Gates isn’t alone in trying to bury the poors. Here’s a bit on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ5wOGseB4M the asinine idea of “earthscrapers”].
* “Uncle Roger” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnxaHyC-Fxw on MSG].
* and from my friend, a lovely [https://penamacorrespondent.blog/allt-the-weeping-they-will-do/ stroll down memory lane].

My ''shiur'' this week on “halakhic measurements” was one of the best I’ve given. If you’re so inclined, you can [https://mechon-mamre.org/shiurim.htm read the PDF] online (or listen to my manly, yet sultry, voice [https://www.youtube.com/@mechon_mamre on YouTube]).

It was [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-864093 unbearably hot] this week, reaching as high as 43.5C (110.3F) here at our place. We ''did not'' request that! Fortunately, the temperatures are supposed to be back to seasonal norms for ''shabbat'' and at least into the start of the week.

This ''shabbat'' the menu contains (at least):
 
homemade ''ḥalla'',
chicken with potatoes,
roasted vegetables,
other things most likely,
various ''salatim'',
and cookies.
 

Until next time, 
''shabbat shalom''! 

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Ron at 04:18, 22 August 2025

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