Frank B.
Preferences
I just finished reading another article about how “preference engines” are brilliantly anticipating my tastes and future purchases. I’ve been reading this sort of stuff for years, but I have yet to really experience it. Amazon only recently stopped recommending Chutes and Ladders because I bought Candyland for my son back in 2001. Currently they […]
There’s more honest debate in Israel about Israeli policy than there is here in the United States. Obama seems to have bought into conventional wisdom. This is a good organization to consider, especially if you’ve got any Jewish guilt to assuage.
Today’s Parade Magazine…
…contained this quote from Henry Winkler, on the phrase ‘jumping the shark’: “I also ‘jumped the shark’ on Arrested Development. To be fair, writing 22 sitcom episodes each season is harder than climbing Everest without clothes”. I must confess I don’t understand this quote. (Several pages later is our old friend the Amish Miracle Heater […]
The Yule Log
We were happily watching the Yule Log on local KCAL Channel 9, when John told us there was something better. The Hi-Def Yule Log.
Under Pressure
For the second time, while getting my hair done at the salon on the corner, “Under Pressure” came on the radio. Both times (with different staff) someone said, “Who sings this?” So I interjected (last time and again today) with, “Ok, how about name ONE person who sings this song. There are two.” “Um. Vanilla […]
Signature Dining Measurements
A lot has changed in hospital care over the years. At UCLA Medical Center, one doesn’t just get a hospital tray, one has a ‘Signature Dining’ Menu (delivered by a Nutritional Care Assistant). When I was a kid my teachers in school kept insisting our country would and should be metric by the time we […]
The Elevator at UCLA medical center
One can only imagine the things said that caused this sign to be created.
Jack Silbert, curator