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U.S. criminal law and blogging
Just finished reading the N.Y. Times article, “At the Uneasy Intersection of Bloggers and the Law.” For those of you blogging in the US, you should read this article. It talks about a recent attempt to gather the real identities of people blogging anonymously, without their knowledge. The subpoena said that anyone disclosing information about […]
July 14th, 2008 by alephnaught
Tattoos can be kosher
Aviva pointed out an interesting article in the NY Times on Jews and tattoos, “For Some Jews, It Only Sounds Like ‘Taboo’.” Since I got my tattoo, I’ve been thinking about what effect that might have on my post-death options, so this article helped; for example: “The eight rabbinical scholars interviewed for this article, from […]
July 12th, 2008 by alephnaught
MOCA, The Grove and Buddha’s Belly
We dropped off the dog at a new dog sitter, and decided to kick around Hollywood and West Hollywood (for a change). First we drove down to MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art. We had to walk through the Pacific Design Center to get there; unfortunately the Design Center was closed. A view of the […]
July 11th, 2008 by alephnaught
Dinner at Chopan Kebab House
We really liked the two Afghan restaurants we tried in Chicago, so we went looking for some in LA. We didn’t find any initially, but Aviva turned one up near us call Chopan Kebab House, so we gave it a try. It is a hole in the wall from its looks – a natty restaurant […]
July 9th, 2008 by alephnaught
Visit to my new dentist
I went to my new dentist today; they call themselves Couture Smiles, and my dentist is Armen Terteryan. Paula did my cleaning – she was very nice, talked a lot, and really cleaned my teeth; reasonably painless, even for a late appointment (I’d been seven months since my last cleaning). No cavities, gums are fine, […]
July 8th, 2008 by alephnaught
Things to see and do in Los Angeles
I’ve decided to organize all the web related stuff we find useful on Los Angeles into one place on my web site. This will include pages on places we’ve been (including links to blog entries), as well as links to other sites with information we found useful on LA. Hopefully that will make it easier […]
July 5th, 2008 by alephnaught
Shopping in West Hollywood
Aviva found a store called Necromance in the Not For Tourists guide for LA; their claim to fame is selling taxidermy specimens, skulls, bones, x-rays, old medical instruments, and other things that are way off the wall. So, we headed out to West Hollywood and went to Necromance. They have two storefronts that are five […]
July 4th, 2008 by alephnaught
My birthday gift: a Hercules Beetle
Aviva gave me a Kikkerland Hercules Beetle plastic puzzle for my birthday. I already have their snail kit. This is so cool! Here are some pictures: The wingspan is over a foot; very very cool!
July 3rd, 2008 by alephnaught
Today was a good day
Today was a pretty good day it was just over 100 degrees F with bright sunshine, I think I fixed Twitter Tools, while not the way I would prefer, but good enough for now, I’m using ScribeFox to write this post; it seems to work okay but I need to spend more time on image […]
July 3rd, 2008 by alephnaught
I’m doing a bunch of stuff I should have been doing all along
Time, the enemy of humankind. United Online gave all employees an extra day off for the 4th of July holiday, so I’ve got some unexpected free time. I’m doing a few things…. First, working on my WordPress blog – I want to try to fix the Twitter Tools plugin, it doesn’t know about the local […]
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+Bob Hays
- I'm a father and husband, have two schipperkes, like to read, compose music, travel. And I manage a couple software development teams at DIRECTV.
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July 15th, 2008 by alephnaught