March, 2007
Sounds of the T
Sat, 2007-03-24 17:52 — KonstantinToday on the way to South Station in Boston, the train (naturally) stopped at Park Street. There, while the doors were open, we could hear someone with a musical accompaniment singing something along the lines of:
And that's Charles/MGH, a good place to have a baby,
You might also head over there if you've got rabies.... if you want to get out of town, you want to take the Blue line...
Life takes after satire
Tue, 2007-03-13 11:21 — KonstantinThe Onion, February 27, 2007:
Viacom Demands YouTube Pull 400,000 Ex-TV Viewers From Its Site
NEW YORK—In a cease-and-desist letter sent to Google's attorneys last week, media conglomerate Viacom demanded that YouTube immediately pull 400,000 ex-TV viewers from its industry-leading video-sharing site. [. . .]
The New York Times, March 13, 2007:
A bit of etymology
Sat, 2007-03-10 11:40 — KonstantinA few years ago, I remember reading במה מדליקין (“With what do we light?”) during Kaballat Shabbat, and noticing something unusual. The passage talks about materials that can and can’t be used for lighting Shabbat candles, and one word that naturally was mentioned a few times was פתילה (p`tilah – a wick).
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