tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504827047542759744.post7664735769403349317..comments2024-02-09T06:08:18.431-05:00Comments on Blam's Blog: Mxy BusinessBlamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504827047542759744.post-80600707622640999932012-10-11T10:46:53.154-04:002012-10-11T10:46:53.154-04:00I too have found Twitter to be a hideous time suck...I too have found Twitter to be a hideous time suck, so I made the decision to not concern myself with reading EVERYTHING in my feed. Now I just tweet when I have something to say and read my feed when I need to kill some time, rather than making the time to stay current on it at all times. <br /><br />The trade off is that I'm sure I'm missing some great exchanges or witty comments, but at least it frees up some time for other things (it also helps that I can just throw up my feed on a monitor at work, and thus stay quasi-current at least during working hours).<br /><br />Also, you're right: Colin Mochrie is definitely Mr. Mxyzptlk. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504827047542759744.post-62492310524925520002012-10-07T22:59:42.311-04:002012-10-07T22:59:42.311-04:00I think you're just jealous that the screen go...I think you're just jealous that the screen got licked instead of you. ^_^El Quéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01853255978667966997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504827047542759744.post-53380931255778337842012-10-07T20:30:28.701-04:002012-10-07T20:30:28.701-04:00@Arben: Your refurbished logo is great, too, by th...<br>@Arben: <i>Your refurbished logo is great, too, by the way. The dropshadow and tighter kerning are both great choices.</i><br /><br />I like it, and thanks... Without any serious graphics applications on this laptop, it's a lot harder to manipulate text like I'm used to — there's no simple kerning or leading adjustment, for instance; I have to treat the text as graphics and cut/paste/move stuff.<br /><br />@LK: <i>I licked the screen and it's definitely not wet paint.</i><br /><br />You know, I believe you.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504827047542759744.post-7525024309070593732012-10-03T02:22:58.735-04:002012-10-03T02:22:58.735-04:00@Joan: Look at this goy
And turn to stone? No than...@Joan: <i>Look at this goy</i><br />And turn to stone? No thank you!<br />@Blam: <i> I've just formally joined a synagogue for the first time in my adult life</i><br />Mazel tov, boychik!<br />@Arben: <i>the blue letters are so bright (in a good way) they look like wet paint</i><br />I licked the screen and it's definitely not wet paint. Nice logo spiffin', though, <i>mein kleiner Blammer</i>, I agree!El Quéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01853255978667966997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504827047542759744.post-11629650446041097752012-09-30T12:42:27.127-04:002012-09-30T12:42:27.127-04:00That screencap is totally awesome.
I'm sorry ...That screencap is totally awesome.<br /><br />I'm sorry you're off Twitter, because I think that it's a good promotional tool <i>and</i> because I enjoy your more random Twitticisms, but I totally understand the time-suck thing.<br /><br />Your refurbished logo is great, too, by the way. The dropshadow and tighter kerning are both great choices. Maybe it's a slightly brighter color or maybe it's just the dropshadow making it pop, but the blue letters are so bright (in a good way) they look like wet paint.Arbenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366836660775218956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504827047542759744.post-1272301851843484372012-09-29T23:36:54.237-04:002012-09-29T23:36:54.237-04:00The phrases "bar mitzvah" (for boys) and...<br>The phrases "bar mitzvah" (for boys) and "bat mitzvah" (for girls) are used both ways. <br /><br />Since "bar" and "bat" mean "son" and "daughter" respectively — although "son" in Hebrew is actually "ben"; "bar" comes from Aramaic — the names technically, albeit metaphorically, refer to the kids who are becoming adults in the eyes of Jewish law rather than to the ceremony itself: "Please join us when our son David is called as a bar mitzvah." They've long since ended up as shorthand for the ceremonies, too, however.<br /><br />Now that I think about it, too, when the phrase is used to refer to the ceremony in casual speak it's Anglicized as "bar/bat <i>mitz</i>-vuh" but when it's used more formally to refer to the honoree him/herself, at least in my experience, it's given the Hebrew pronunciation of "bar/bat meetz-<i>vah</i>."<br /><br />The word "mitzvah" has meanings of both "commandment" and "good deed". You might hear it used in the latter sense when someone says "It's a mitzvah" about somebody doing something kind for someone else, whereas in the phrase "bar/bat mitzvah" it connotes a child reaching adulthood in Jewish law and becoming responsible for observing the commandments in the Torah. Kids who aren't yet a bar or bat mitzvah — or who haven't yet been bar- or bat-mitzvah'd, as is more commonly said in English, per your confusion — aren't expected to fast on Yom Kippur, for instance.<br /><br />I've just formally joined a synagogue for the first time in my adult life, but none of the above should be considered more than a casual explanation from a largely secular Jew who's really only interested in the religion that he inherited as a matter of tradition and community. <br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504827047542759744.post-65483196831856058102012-09-29T19:33:01.565-04:002012-09-29T19:33:01.565-04:00Oh, I never knew that the kid was the "bat-mi...Oh, I never knew that the kid was the "bat-mitzvah". I thought the bat-mitzvah was the ceremony. Look at this goy, sorta learning stuff.Joan Crawfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04513335615114222374noreply@blogger.com