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I read Aleph Shin and enjoyed it. The plot definitely took unexpected turns but at some point I figured out what would happen at the end.
Personally I can’t say how well researched the book was as I am unfamiliar with the streets in Iran, the flight controls on a fighter jet, the different chambers on a submarine and the geological makeup of the ground under the Aswan Dam. I am basing that on what other readers wrote. I did enjoy it and found it addicting.
I did not read the other three books.
In a different thread it was mentioned that the same author (possibly using different names) wrote four books;
1) Aleph Shin,
2) Samsons Lion,
3) Every Man A Slave and
4) Ten Lost.
Supposedly they are very well written and researched and most readers find them very addicting.
If you can’t find it I’ll try to look it up.
My wife reminded me that Pi is the product of at least one irrational. Being that women are never irrational (sorry, don’t know the source) that would mean that I am the irrational one.
Radical Two didn’t go over to well either.
kapusta-
No, he’s not married yet.
A shadchan once called to tell my mother about a girl for me but didn’t say her first name. She explained that we should decide based on her middos and not kill it because of her name.
(I’d post it but I wouldn’t want to offend anyone during Elul. It wasn’t too bad either.)
No, I knew him well enough to know that there was a different reason, and he knew that.
If you knew him you’d understand why he couldn’t simply say no. Nothing in his life is simple.
My wife and I tried setting up a friend of mine with a friend of hers. After doing his research he called me back and said, “thanks Avi, but I’m going to have to let you know that I’m not interested. I just found out that she has two names and by policy I only go out with girls that have only one name”.
In his defense- I know him well enough to know that it means that he did his research and feels that they are not for each other, however he doesn’t feel the need to discuss the reason with anyone else.
Pashuteh Yid-
I know a few families where the wife/ mother wears the tefillin of the house.
How did my wife convince me not to give our son a middle name of Pi? (My favorite constant.)
What about throwing blood on two corners of the Mizbayach?
(From Pesachim- shetayim she’hein arba.)
Also seen on a Rolls “PRE HMO”.
A colleague of mine (Not Frum) said there’s one way to explain the issue- ENTITLEMENT.
(He wasn’t referring to the yeshiva tuition issue but I think it can be applied there as well.)
When he was growing up his parents, European refugees, where just grateful to have their lives and each other, everything else was an added luxury.
They lived in a small apartment in The Bronx with their kids. He told me of a time when his parents had to pick between a phone line and something else (I forgot what)- and they picked the other thing. Cars and vacations were out of the question.
Fast forward to the next generation. When his daughter wanted to go to college, she didn’t want to go to city college (free room and board at home as well as in-state-tuition), she was entitled to the “college experience” at $40,000 + per year. For one semester she wanted to study abroad- well, guess what? She was entitled to it.
What ever happened to having to earn something to be entitled to it? Why is it that people are entitled to everything these days just by being born?
I couldn’t answer his questions.
Corn on the cob?
SJSinNYC-
Not all doctors 🙂
por-
With regard to Boruch Goldstein-
Jewish people have had a connection to the Ma’aras HaMachpelah long before Islam was ever founded. If Boruch Goldstein would have went on a rampage in a place where Jewish people never had any connection and all of the sudden some people wanted to open a shul nearby then I would have some serious issues with it.
Ames-
Welcome back!
Mazel Tov on your daughter. Hope you, your baby and the rest of your family are doing good.
What will it take to make you stay here?
I’m not sure if you read it but we also had a baby (we had a boy).
Can we start some sort of memorial for those who left?
Maybe if they see how much they are missed they’ll come back.
I may be wrong but I think that the TI-89 and the TI-92 PLUS had the same software. I don’t know of it having any such feature.
Can anyone shed some light?
That’s the one, I’ll let my wife know to look out for you.
The TI-89 was able to perform symbolic differentiation and integration as well as first and second order differential equations. It didn’t show the steps though.
Did the TI-92 Plus show the steps to get to the answer or did it just show the answer in symbolic form?
I gather that I’m a few years older than you and I know that there were features added in future releases which were not in the original release. Maybe that was one of the releases?
The other graphing calculator I have is the TI-86 which will give approximate integration values if an upper and lower bound are specified, but it’s bedieved.
SJSinNYC-
“GAW, that website is really entertaining. “
If it’s the same one that my wife got addicted to I have to agree with you on that. From what I hear their moderators aren’t as good as ours so maybe that’s what makes it so entertaining 🙂
Do you go by the same SN over there? I’ll ask my wife to look out for you.
The silver lining is that when my wife is done reading the posts over there she can’t stop thanking me.
Squeak-
I once brought a geshmaka calculus article with me to the dentist. He took one look at it and asked what it’s for.
“Oh, if I read this in the chair I won’t feel any pain” I answered.
He looked at me quizzically and said, “I get lots of pain just from reading the title!”
SJSinNYC-
The TI-89 does more than the TI-92, the TI-92 PLUS has comparable functions to the TI-89. I never owned the TI-92 PLUS (ot TI-92) but the only thing I think it has better than the TI-89 is a larger screen size.
You should be careful though, I don’t think either one of them is waterproof 🙂
Squeak-
“I was anticipating the “actually it’s a kohein thing” line (yes, I expect you to believe that), but I still had to hang onto my kishkes when I got to it.”
I was also anticipating it- I was just waiting for the perfect moment.
“I am loving how knocking the iron into YOU gave BOTH of you burns! I guess I should never face you with my back turned :)”
The solder we were using had a melting point of 750 degrees, how long does it need to be in contact with skin to cause a nasty burn? He accidentally knocked the tip into the back of my right hand with the back of his left hand.
“I hate your proof (if you ever meant it seriously)”
I never meant to take it seriously, I meant to give a deserving answer to the question. She did ask for it, didn’t she?
“As for the TI 89, I pegged you as a bit older. I never really had a use for one, though I did get a TI 92 once as a desk copy (mighty unusual for me). Who would have thought of using it to play music back when CD players were larger than the calculator?”
Many professors didn’t allow students to use calculators that had the QWERTY layout- the TI-92 was guilty of this. The TI-92 Plus compared to the TI-89 in functionality.
It definitely takes some creative people to use a TI-89 as an MP3 player. With 1MB of user available memory we only had enough space for a 10 second sound clip that was on a loop!
In that case- do you still suggest taking in a border?
Moderator-80-
There are many moderate Muslim countries where the children are not taught hate. The contents of the text books there are not what makes the news. There are also large Muslim communities in Non-Muslim countries where the Islamic students use whatever text books are used by the rest of the school system.
3 kids in a 1 bedroom?
says who-
If there is someone living in a 1 bedroom apt with three kids then I think they should get more than just a tuition break.
SJSinNYC-
I’d like to respectfully disagree with you on this.
Islam is a religion and as long as they are practicing their religion in a way that doesn’t affect others they should be free to do what they want in the United States.
With that being said, I agree that the vast majority of Muslims want peace and consider Islam to be a religion of peace.
BUT, if they know that there were thousands of innocent people killed right there in the name of their religion- they should show some consideration to the sensitivities of those who lost loved ones and accept an offer of another location.
charliehall-
Please can you share them?
During seder, a couple of days before I went out with her, my chavrusa informed me that he drew up plans for an adapter that would convert our TI-89s into MP3 players. (Keep in mind that when the TI-89 was first released it had about 1MB of memory available to the user.) Nothing, not even a pocket protector, is as cool as walking around college holding a TI-89 attached to a small box while listening to headphones attached to the box.
Then she asked me if, in my personal opinion, before Fermats Last Theorem was proven: did I think it would be proven or disproven. To be honest, I never spent too much time thinking about it but it was time to take her for a ride.
For the record, n = 6 gives 18,446,744,073,709,551,617 which is divisible by 274,177 and 67,280,421,310,721.
It’s been a long time since the last time I rented a car but I used to rent cars to date girls who lives out of town.
I used to take out the extra insurance because I was told that no matter what happened I could just return the keys and be off the hook. If I used the insurance supplied by the CC it would be my responsibility to fight it out with them if there were any issues in the fine print.
There was one time it came in handy, I stopped at a rest area and when I came out the whole drivers side was smashed in. There were no notes left or anything. I made sure the girl never saw that side of the car (didn’t help- she said no anyway) and let the rental place know about it the next morning. The only thing they wanted to know is if everyone is OK.
On the other hand I only rented the car for one day at a time- if you are renting for a week or more the extra $25 can really add up.
SJSinNYC-
That’s what threw me off at first. I also thought you were an electrical engineer.
Anyway, I have to prepare a speech for tomorrow, my wife will have my head if I get up and rant on how the age gap is causing global warming (although AZ will be proud).
Helpful- Feel free to swing by tomorrow and find out first hand.
I think it started when one of them commented that the kids look like they want to be engineers when they grow up by the way they were building. Then the conversation led to “an engineering couple” she knows who met at Polytech, where he is a civil engineer and she works for Con Ed.
When my wife mentioned that she is due on Aug 22nd she said “That’s funny- that’s their anniversary”.
SJSinNYC-
So much to write- so little time to write it.
That math equation was too straight forward (and only worth 2 points). Also there was no way to pinpoint Aug 22nd.
I don’t know who you are, I picked up the information from a conversation I overheard when a neighbor came to bring her kids over and stayed to schmooze. (She is friends with either your sister or sister-in-law, and she mentioned something about you and your husband being engineers, having met at Polytech.) I knew it was a long shot but I decided to post it anyway.
My parents don’t live in Monsey and my fathers brother moved out about 4 years ago. His sisters still live there but they took on their husbands last name when they got married. (I’m also not aware of any shidduchim my parents made.)
Other relatives who came over at different times took on different spellings of the name- Pfeffer, Feiffer… Are they Kohanim? (If they’re not Kohanim they’re not related.)
Gotta go now and I’m going to be really busy today so don’t hold your breath waiting for a response.
SJSinNYC-
2 points if you figure it out on your own.
Actually, let’s make it 5 points since it’s kind of wacky.
Mazel Tov!
We’re trying to get all the minhagim and kibbudim in order for one bris, a double bris is probably much more complicated.
Sorry I can’t help you with the minhagim though.
Best of luck and may you be zoche to see much nachas from your whole family.
Moderator-80-
There is an extra code to access the account which even my wife doesn’t know (although I’d tell her if she wanted to know). I get a text message from Verizon every month saying what the bill is and I don’t check the bill if it is within a dollar of the previous cycle.
Our kids are too young to have cell phones and I only use it for phone calls or texting my wife (or close friends on rare occasion), so I’m no expert on the extra features. I did however disable Internet capabilities from all phones on my plan and only I am able to enable it. I also know that there is an option to disable texting (which I had to do once and it worked).
How are kids able to get around these blocks?
SJSinNYC-
There’s a stigma for a guy to marry a girl that is older than him, but it’s much easier for him to reject a name on paper than a person he met. I don’t know how well the singles weekend idea will fly but I do agree that if it worked there will be more guys marrying girls older than them.
By the way- How’d you celebrate your anniversary?
I grew up keeping Cholov Yisroel, my wife did not.
Before we got married my wife chose to accept it upon herself. We decided that we would not force our kids keep Cholov Yisroel and let them decide for themselves when they get older.
This is just our personal opinion but we both agreed that we didn’t want out kids to see friends and family eating something which they are told is forbidden to eat.
We do bring Cholov Stam into the house and our older kids are starting to learn which treats they can and can not share with us.
oomis1105-
Thanks for catching that- it should have read “an equal number of brothers and sister”.
Enjoy the tuna bagel with your husband today!
Have a Gut Shabbos!
Squeak-
No, Odds of twins are 1 in 90 so single births are more common. Wednesday night she had two sisters and one brother, when she woke up Thursday morning she had two brothers and two sisters.
For the answer to have been twin boys the scenario would have to have been that my oldest daughter had four sisters and two brothers. While this is possible it is not the most likely scenario.
(By the way, I took your advice and didn’t tell my supervisor “in confidence” that my wife was expecting. As you may recall from the FLT thread I’m busy at work training in some people to try and fill in for me for the days that I’ll be out. I’m also busy preparing a speech for the bris but afterwards I’ll bli neder continue with the proof.)
mbachur-
Head over to the riddle thread and see if you can also figure it out.
Originally I was going to make it much tougher and base it on knowing that my previous child was a girl (also mentioned in the riddle thread) just to amuse “I Can Only Try”, but he went AWOL. Glad to see he’s back though.
smartcookie-
It’s not a secret, head over to the riddle thread and see if you can figure it out yourself.
Originally I was going to make it much tougher and base it on knowing that my previous child was a girl (also mentioned in the riddle thread) just to amuse “I Can Only Try”, but he went AWOL. Glad to see he’s back though.
This morning when the nurse handed me my five minute old baby to hold for the first time.
When my oldest went to sleep last night she had twice as many sisters as brothers. When she woke up this morning she had the same amount of brothers and sisters.
What is the most likely explanation?
AZ-
Welcome back!
apushatayid-
My favorite is when the boys parents asked the girls parents straight out how much they are willing to support.
“Send him over so I can give him a faher and see how much he’s worth!” her father replied.
basmelech-
You finally got me to post a story I’ve been restraining myself from writing for who knows how long.
The shadchan was a close family friend for many years, before I was even born. She mentions an out of town girl with all the maalos a guy can only dream of. I agreed with out doing any research since I trusted her so much, but I did run her name by a friend who lived near her.
Until I started dating I never had any reason to know what sizes meant or who is what size, so when I heard that she is a size 26 I just assumed it meant a 26″ waistline, considerably smaller than mine at 34″ and consistent with the description of her being very slim.
Well, I figured out pretty fast that it meant something else.
oomis1105-
In all fairness to the mother we were warned that she and some of her children- although not the girl or her father- suffer from some sort of severe emotional disorder.
The shadchan, through sheer negligence, told the girl I agreed to go out with her before I gave an answer. When I told the shadchan I wasn’t interested she said it was too late because she already told the girl that I was interested.
After I told my friend what happened; the girls mother called him for information. As hard as he tried to get her to say no, it didn’t work.
I asked my Rebbe if I should go out with her anyway in order to not hurt her feelings but he said that since I never committed it was the responsibility of the shadchan to let the girl know in a sensitive manner.