Monthly Archives: November 2007

Quality time, and Spider-Man 3 pre-review

Posted on November 13, 2007 by howdoyoujew

We spent time tonight with E and S, good friends with whom we have a weekly dinner, rotating between our two houses. We were scheduled to go up to their house, but S called to let us know their laundry … Continue reading →


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How to forget about your daily troubles in 3 easy days

Posted on November 11, 2007 by howdoyoujew

OK, actually they’re 3 rather hard days, either of walking 60 miles (about 20 miles each day) or working as a volunteer to support the thousands of people walking, but getting involved in the Breast Cancer 3Day does make it … Continue reading →


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The origin of this domain name

Posted on November 10, 2007 by howdoyoujew

When I first started posting here in April 2006, I put up some divrei Torah I’d delivered over the last few years, and then I very briefly talked about why I got the domain and how I planned to start … Continue reading →


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Oy, what a (3)day!

Posted on November 9, 2007 by howdoyoujew

As noted yesterday, our day started before dawn, with Hadarya’s wonderful babysitter/master teacher arriving at our house before 4 AM to take over while we went up to do our part in finding a cure for breast cancer. Hadarya’s day … Continue reading →


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The 3Day, Opus 5

Posted on November 8, 2007 by howdoyoujew

In our first year of marriage, we chose a “cause” and joined a massive community of people working to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease. The Breast Cancer 3Day 60-Mile Walk benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure has … Continue reading →


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Comics 2.0

Posted on November 7, 2007 by howdoyoujew

I’m pretty tired of the 2.0 thing, but I figure it’s good for search engine bots, and I’m not above using the technology to my advantage. The first section I always used to turn to in the paper (and still … Continue reading →


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This blog is all over the place, can you tell?

Posted on November 6, 2007 by howdoyoujew

Jewish stuff, family stuff, all sorts of other stuff. I don’t discriminate. Here’s French President Nicolas Sarkozy explaining why he walked out of the 60 Minutes interview broadcast in late October: not


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Google is awesome. Google is also a little scary.

Posted on November 5, 2007 by howdoyoujew

I need not elaborate on Google’s awesomeness. The scariness: crawling my blog within five minutes of my posting last night’s entry. MY site!? I knew it had been crawled before, when I first got the domain and started blogging, but … Continue reading →


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Parenting, literally and figuratively.

Posted on November 4, 2007 by howdoyoujew

Parenting is hard. I’m not complaining, mind you, just stating a fact. Allow me to illustrate with two anecdotes. Having a fever of 102°F sucks. Being less than 13 months old with a fever of 102°F sucks a couple of … Continue reading →


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Movie review: 28 Days Later

Posted on November 3, 2007 by howdoyoujew

Yeah, I know it ain’t a recent release, but I just watched it on DVD and I need to post about something, so here it is. Well done, visually astonishing suspense/thriller/horror movie. Very well paced and acted, which is saying … Continue reading →


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