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Happy “Aliyaversary” to us!
Tonight (on the Hebrew calendar, the 15th of Av), we’ll have completed 14 years since we moved to the Land. We’ll celebrate with our friends who arrived on the very same plane as we did (and who moved to the same neighborhood in the same town as well). It’s been an interesting journey, that’s for sure!
Esther and I spent some more time working on the garden, primarily weeding and general cleaning-up. But we did also order seeds to get in before the sabbatical year starts. Hopefully, we’ll have some nice home-grown vegetables in addition to our fruit and herbs.
Here and there:
- The ice-cream company “Ben & Jerry’s” this week declared a boycott of “the Occupied Palestinian Territory”, and will no longer allow their expensive product to be sold there. In our town, for instance. The reaction on “social media” came fast and furious, with a number of high-profile people declaring a boycott of B&J’s. As for me, I stopped consuming their product after they honored the despicable Linda Sarsour; but my personal boycott didn’t affect them very much, I’m afraid. However, running afoul of US laws may affect them in a very big way; and in particular, affect their parent company, Unilever. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
- Texas Democrats absconded to DC before a vote, in an attempt to torpedo it. Despite belonging to the “Party of Science™”, at least some of them caught COVID-19 and have since passed it on to various people in DC. No masks, no “social distancing”, no brains.
- We keep hearing how “trans” people are disproportionately murdered (presumably, by all the rabid “transphobes” lurking about). Here’s some analysis of the raw data (admittedly from a couple years ago) which suggests that perhaps “disproportionately-fewer” is more accurate.
- Kevin Williamson opines: Welcome Back, Carter.
- A well-known cryptographer makes a case against security nihilism. Preach it, brother!
I was very busy this week, improving 8th in various ways. My main accomplishment was fixing a long-standing bug related to “large fonts”. Fixing that involved reworking how 8th deals with font-handling, and rewriting portions of the “Nuklear” library it uses for display. Since neither Nuklear nor the font-handling library I use are well or correctly documented, it was more of a challenge than it should have been, and I’m suitably impressed with myself…
The heat abated this week, and we’re currently in a stretch of slightly below-average temperatures for the season. The weekend is supposed to be cooler than usual, which is fine by me!
This shabbat we’re celebrating with our friends. On the menu:
good wine,
seeded sourdough focaccia,
baked chicken,
lamb and okra stew,
roasted yams,
various salatim,
and cake.
Until next time,
shabbat shalom!
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