I have a bad thing about shoes: I hate them. Partly this is because my feet are slightly different sizes, partly because my right foot has a deformed fourth metatarsal (ie, my right foot’s topography looks like that of the San Fernando Valley in relief), partly because my feet are so wide that it’s [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2008
Neal Peart’s “Traveling Music”
Back from a true week of vacation: thanks to the hotel’s internet service provider’s inability to maintain IP addresses consistently during a 24-hour period, I had almost no IMAP service and therefore no email. A week of bakery-fueled breakfasts, days of reading by the pool, and some random boogie boarding were a huge [...]
3rd Annual Israel Ice Hockey Tournament
It’s not a joke; it’s an annual gathering of Jewish puck heads in the sole ice sheet with Jewish soul. The Israel Ice Hockey Tournament is a chance to play hockey in the northern town of Metulla, at the Israel Canada Center (home of various Olympic figure skaters and the Israeli national ice hockey [...]
Olympic Proportions
I’m regularly blown away by the comparative “regular guy” nature of hockey players, from kids to adult beer leaguers to professionals who will stop to talk, meet fans, and sign anything (or anyone) at just about anytime.
Today’s coolness: I’m on my way to San Francisco, in Newark airport for a flight delay that is [...]
Trip Eights: Beijing Begins
With a tip of the propeller hat to the Beijing Olympics, I wore a USA hockey jersey to a training class today (I was one of the co-instructors; we all wore hockey jerseys representing USA, Russia and the Ukraine). Right theme, wrong Olympics, but for some reason I’m finding it hard to get [...]
Deconstructing My Cell Phone
I suffer from information sprawl in a bad way. Partly this is due to loving paper notes, partly due to the proliferation of devices in tow, partly due to just not having the incentive to consolidate and clean up. My address book is a virtual data center in miniature: a little bit of [...]
