My Home in Israel

Overheard in the office does it again….

2PM Your President Asked the Same Thing!
Teacher: This is David from Israel. Do you have any questions for David?
Senior student: Yes. Do you have air conditioning in your tents?

High School
Houston, Texas

Overheard by: IsraeliTexan
via Overheard in the Office, Aug 8, 2008

Even though I don’t always understand him, sometimes he is too funny!

11AM In the Meantime, Play Fetch with the Virtual Dog
Office lady on phone to son: I don't know, I think we have it on tape… on tape. Video tape. No, not DVD, video tape. It's black and rectangular, and you put it in the VCR to watch movies. The VCR?… It's… look, just wait till I get home, okay?

Picktown, Ohio

Overheard by: trying not to laugh
via Overheard in the Office, Aug 15, 2008

Thank you again Overheard in the Office. By the way, I work with even odder tapes… U-Matics, BetaMax and S-VHS.

If you have bothered to look at the URL of my blog, you will see that it is blogsome and not blogspot. I don’t use blogger for my blog. I’m not sure exactly why I switched, but I’ve been very happy with blogsome. I’ll admit, I don’t have the fanciest template, and it seems as though adding categories is a bit of a hassle, but it is good for me. Take a look!

• On the needles: Sock #2 for me Tidal Wave

(Benji says you need a catchy title to draw people to your posts)

Well, last night was the First(?) International Jewish Blogger Conference. They had a meat buffet, Bibi Netanyahu spoke, and a good time was had by most.

Some interesting points:

• I met some people that I really wanted to meet, and visit (however briefly) with others who I haven’t seen in a while.
• I agree wholeheartedly with Gil who said that Jewish bloggers aren’t a “community” but “people who share the same hobby”….although there are people in every community that you want nothing to do with, and the Jewish bloggers have those types as well.
• The speaker from the Foreign Ministry spoke too long, and only got to an interesting point in the last three minutes. I wish she had known her audience better.
• Bibi Netanyahu is a wonderful speaker, I’d love to see him as Foreign Minister or Finance Minister. (Notice, I didn’t say Prime Minister.)
• I was happy that Carl gave a shout out (well, really just a mention) to Tachlis. It was there way before NbN existed.
• Nefesh B’Nefesh has a new website for asking questions and answers are voted on. If they don’t hyper-moderate, and they allow honest but not pro-aliyah answers, this could be a good thing.
• I’m kicking myself for not talking to The Big Felafel. She has done such a great job in such a short period of time. (Plus she is a crafter…what more can you ask for?)
• You can accomplish quite a bit of sock knitting while listening to bloggers speak.

Please see some other blogs for a more detailed summary.

In conclusion, I enjoyed myself, and I hope this will inspire me to spend more time blogging.

Here is another video which I love…it definitely shows my age (it is from 1980).

Sorry I disappointed my readership with my mafia story. I guess you just had to be there…

I’m updating my list of geeky websites that I use and would like to see who I know who uses them. Here is the list…if there is anything that you are on which you think we should connect, let me know in an e-mail or a comment. If there is anything I haven’t listed, but I should try out, please let me know as well.

Note…this isn’t necessarily an endorsement of the sites below, I just am trying some of them to see if they are worth my while.

facebook.com
ning.com
twitter.com (and twittermap.com)
meebo.com
linkedin.com
myspace.com (ick….)
gmail.com (google reader, google docs, etc…)

Thats all for now…have a good evening.

UPDATE:
goodreads.com
netvibes.com
30boxes.com

One of the youngest bloggers out there has some great quotes on aliyah…..

And I guess you’ve all come to expect my trenchant commentary on the events of the day, so I’m going to bring your attention to the just-released statistics that immigration to Israel is down 9 percent this year! As the baby of immigrants, this concerns me. Do you fat, lazy Galut shtetl Jews think just because astoundingly cute sabras like me are born here every day, you can keep guiltlessly packing on pounds in your 4 bed, 3 and a half bath palaces in Exile? I’m spitting up right now. A spit-up of contempt. Israel is a special place. Make aliyah! Can your American baby telepathically blog, or does he just sit there like a lumpy sack of potatoes with regular bowel movements? I think you know.

Remember it didn’t come from me, but from a one week old *wink*.

Sometimes you find a blogger that you just like for one area, and then you realise that they have other facets to their writing which also speak to you.

Flea is a pediatrician in the Northeast US who has been very enjoyable to read and helped me realize what makes a good doctor.

He is also Jewish and has posted an interesting post on the Holocaust and Holocaust education.

Take a look…

Dear David,

Why oh why did you have to direct me to Book of Joe? I am now pining for both the measuring cups and the suction cups.

I can’t start ordering these things, but if I lived in the US, I would have.

If anyone wants to buy me a gift, the measuring cups are the first preference.

Robin