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Millions of babies, the Holocaust, and gender segregation. It’s the weekend!

January 31, 2010

I spent this Saturday morning being told I was the byproduct of a silent Holocaust, so my weekend went really well. It started when our friends had a baby, which, amongst other things, caused my mom to shift into overdrive: Our friends just had a very cute baby girl and they invited us to the Hebrew naming ceremony at an Orthodox-ish synagogue.  I immediately sensed that this would be a bad experience from the minute we walked in and I ...

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Movie Review: Amreeka

September 27, 2009

Go see this movie. As soon as possible. Amreeka (America in Arabic) is the story of how a Christian Palestinian single mom, Muna, and her son, Fadi,  get a visa to go to America from the West Bank town of Bethlehem because it is clear that there is not much future in the territories for them. They arrive in snowy Illinois to stay with Muna’s sister and her family.  So starts Muna’s process of getting on her feet as an ...

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Mom’s birthday

August 17, 2009

It’s my mom’s birthday. To celebrate, I came up with a list of ten reasons why she is my favorite mom. 10.  She has a pair of Elie Tahari sandals that she bought by accident (because she never buys brand name shoes), and always tells everyone that she has brand name shoes, but when they ask her which brand, she doesn’t remember, so she says Pavarotti, and starts singing opera. 9.   She loves Mr. B and cooks him lots of ...

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Visualizing the National Defecit

July 9, 2009

I’ve really gotten into data visualization lately as a way of conceptualizing the volumes of data I deal with on a daily basis. So far, I’m only observing others who visualize data.  Not by actually doing any, but I’d like to in the future.  For now, I’m just reading blogs that have to do with data visualization. So I was really excited when Mr. B sent me this link.  The guy who runs this site basically takes stuff in the ...

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The Kids Aren’t Alright

June 23, 2009

I was listening to Mary Poppins post-workout yesterday. The point is not that I’m 22 and listen to Julie Andrews to cool down.  The point is that kids are given crappy movie-watching choices these days.  Or maybe there are movies as good as Mary Poppins with songs of the same quality (i.e. Wall-e,) but there is an uneven distribution of the majority of songs being crap in the childrens’ song market.  Disney Channel, I’m looking at you.  Why are you ...

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