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Sep 4th (See this week's devar torah)
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Hi again!

Another full week. This time, Sarah got her bagrut scores back -- and we were very pleased with her results (so was she). 93 in math... when she was barely taught math back in the US, is a simply amazing score. Her classes this year are mostly Judaic studies of various kinds, and she's got a lot of them -- but we are sure she'll do well, B"H.

Daniela has been getting back into her studies as well, and she's taking a huge load. But her computer seized up this week, and then the water went off in her building, and the "body conditioning" class was painful... so we wish her an easier time next week. Parental advice: don't worry, you'll be ok.

This coming week, Esther will be undergoing some abdominal surgery. So I'll be working from home to take care of her. Nothing too complex, but it's never fun to have holes cut in you. If you keep her in mind for a refuah shelema, she would appreciate it. Because of the timing with the surgery and hospital stay, I don't know if I'll be able to put out the "blog" next week, so don't be concerned if it doesn't appear. It's also not the best timing, since Rosh Hashana is just one week after the surgery, but you do what you have to do.

I've been given a difficult research task at work involving low-level hardware detection, which will be an important part of our product line going forward. The catch: my code has to work equally well on Mac, Windows and Linux. But then, that's the kind of stuff I like to work on. Not to worry, they keep me mostly busy with the other work I've been doing so I don't have a lot of time to work on this "most important" project.

Geek/tech news:

  • The Vim editor proved its worth this week, when I was asked to make editing changes to a load of files (to correct typos). My boss suggested maybe I write a perl script to do this, to which I replied that I could do it with my editor no problem. Ten minutes later, I was done -- and he was astounded. The moral of the story is not that vim is so great, but rather: pick a powerful tool and really learn it well.
  • Global warming -- the scam of the century! The scientific illiterati who try to shape public opinion (and spend our money) ignore the effect of the sun on global warming. I refer you to a user of my Reva Forth for a quite technical analysis of planetary warming. We may not agree on a lot of topics, but we do on this one. My only complaint regarding his analysis is I don't see any discussion of the 40TW (est.) or so of nucleotide heating of the Earth. Maybe it's insignificant overall, but it would be good to mention it. In any case, that thermonuclear bomb in the heavens is by far the most significant contributor to Earth's overall thermal cycle.

Arab propaganda:

Obamanation:

"Settlements"


Until next week,
Shabbat shalom!


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