Archive for February, 2010

This morning I was to have an extremely important doctor’s appointment, one I’ve been looking forward to for months. Last night I hardly slept, waking up every couple of hours afraid I’d not heard the alarm going off. I got up and checked and re-checked that I had all my documents in order. I saw my doctor on Thursday and everything was running perfectly on schedule for today. It was raining outside in torrents as I got ready to leave and I braved the nearly blinding, driving rain and waded across a street flooded to my knees. The umbrella proved More >

There is a new iceberg adrift in the ocean the size of the country of Luxembourg. No, it wasn’t global warming that caused it to break free in Antarctica but rather being slammed full on by the long adrift B9B iceberg of nearly the same size. The collision caused quite a shake-up, causing half of the floating tongue of the Mertz Glacier to sheer off. The B9B “gave it a pretty big nudge. They are now floating right next to each other.”

Experts say the shearing off of the ice tongue and the presence of the new Mertz and old More >

I posted like a week ago about the fact that it was really laughable that the Mossad was behind the hit in Dubai because they were reporting that at least 11 and perhaps as many as 14 people were involved and the Mossad, as every single known incident of operation has shown, uses very small teams in its operations –the largest number being 7, with the majority of the agents not “on site” but rather giving technical support etc from distant locales. Even in the capture of the notorious genocidal maniac Eichmann only a handful of agents were involved. And if More >

There is always something special about the start of a new semester. I felt this as a student and maybe even more now as a Professor. As a student, I was always excited about the world that was going to be opened up to me (I hoped) in my classes –the new perspectives, the new knowledge I’d gain. I’d go to the bookstore at the earliest opportunity and come home full of excitement with the piles of books we were required to purchase for classes (kids don’t buy any books here) and spread them out on my bed, leafing through More >

Well this is lovely. It seems someone has decided to send quite a few letter bombs by post here in the country. Mail didn’t come today, at least to my apartment, because two packages containing bombs turned up at a post office in Migdal HaEmek. They put out a notice that all package collection and so forth would be suspended until further notice (meaning if my biology and chemistry books have arrived in country it could be a while before I see them). There was a false alarm in Beit Shemesh, causing an evacuation there. Now, there is a suspicious More >