Here is an example of why I’m bullish on this projection: TheInfoPro press release. For those who don’t want to click on the link “More than 50% of new servers being installed in 2009 will host virtualization, and future progressive growth indicates 80% by 2012.”
In the process of re-installing this blog, I am using this [...]

Fun, fun, fun, Judaism is cool! What other religion tells you to get drunk, so drunk you can’t tell the difference between Haman (bad guy) and Mordechai (good guy)? In honor of Purim, Nancella, Scott, and I went to American Schmidol at the Bowery Ballroom. This spoof of American Idol was organized by Heeb magazine [...]

I shouldn’t have been so excited to hear Jonathan Lethem speak just because he was recently awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, which is the “genius award” my father used to talk to me about. I had never read any of his books, which include Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, but luckily he didn’t refer to [...]

Do you have childhood memories of a pillow fight? Do you like to engage in public activities others steer away from? If so, then you should have been at the pillow fight in Union Square this Saturday.

Newmindspace organized this event as interactive public art. A Wikidepdia article says this activity fits into the larger social [...]

Once a month a bunch of intellectual Jews gather in the Lower East Side. Surrounded by Soviet propaganda, the evening could have taken place 50 or 100 years ago, but this is New York City circa 2006. Novel Jews is a series of readings by Jewish authors that is organized by Alyssa Abrahamson of the [...]

Yeah, it usually means Jewish American Princess, but that term didn’t define the three black clad women on a Makor panel about “Debunking the Myth of the JAP”. According to Rhonda Lieberman, Isabel Rose, and Alana Newhouse, a JAP is stereotypically spoiled, loves shopping, shallow, high-maintenance, pushy, has disposable income, expressive, opinionated, whiney, narcissistic, and [...]

Starting off the fall lecture season, tonight’s public forum was definitely an example of “deliberative democracy”, as the host Brian Lehrer put it. At least four people were removed from the audience for exercising their First Amendment right to scream, mostly about the trampling of the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches.

The Fahmy family is so much fun! Their hospitality is top notch! Tarek Fahmy is one of my best friends. He invited me to his brother Ziad’s wedding to Kaila. Tarek’s father and mother, Adel and Ferial, reveled in the wedding week’s festivities.

Tarek’s aunt and uncle, Kamal and Zahia, were the de facto wedding planners [...]

I know the origin of the saying, “it’s all Greek to me.” Or is the saying, “it looks “it sounds like Greek? The Greek alphabet is indecipherable at first glance. I took a 3-hour bus ride from the port of Patras to Athens. We drove in to Athens through the port of Piraeus. We passed [...]

As expected, I took a ferry from Venice to Greece, but that is about the only part of my ferry ride that went as planned.

I got to Venice well enough. I got to Venice and it was pouring. I decided that I had to purchase the ferry tickets because I was becoming anxious. I walked [...]