IgNobels

[chanaleh]

Dude! The IgNobel Awards are this Thursday night at Harvard. (When I'll be at rehearsal.)

And there are also the IgInformal Lectures at MIT, Saturday afternoon at 1pm. (Right about when I'll be co-sponsoring birthday kiddush in the shul sukkah with gilana. Oh well.)

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[tpau]

i have been looking for a while for a shul to join. i am wondering if you could recomend me something... i am conservative trad, though i can deal with egal if i have to. i want a shul where i can take classes to learn more about the halaha and other stuff, iam severely lacking in the knowledge department... and i'd rather it was not hugely expencive, though iam sure i coudl get my folks to shell out for membership.
i live in waltham, buti am willing to drive on holidays since there is nothign too exciting in the actual walking distance form me...

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[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

It's tangentially related :-)

At Tremont St. we have a Trad minyan, except that at the moment they're experimenting with having a mechitza (and both our Trad *and* Egal minyans have always used the Birnbaum siddur, which is considered an Orthodox usage), so I'm not sure what actually distinguishes it from an Orthodox minyan at this point.

However, we don't offer a whole lot in the way of classes most of the time. I think KI does, but they don't seem to publish an actual list.

You should still come check us out, though :-)

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[tpau]

i might. i am a true newbie, i have semi-random smatterings of knowledge, mostly from Young Judeia and from a religious day school. wish i was paying more attention while at brandeis...

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[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

We have a posse of Brandeisians at TBS, actually :-)

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[tpau]

ooh i wonder if it is anyone i know...

in november my life will ahve gotten un-insane enough to think about shul. i think i will go then.

is TBS orthodox enough tat people will think iam nuts if i say drive to alewife and take the t to shul?

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[gilana]

And a posse of ex-Judaeans! And no, no one cares how you get to shul. Definitely come check us out.

[adamosity.livejournal.com]

i'd love to go to that. sadly, i'm a bit far away.

yay for ignobel!

[navrins]

And the presidential debate. Which I'll be TiVoing, on account of there's also a big giant rehearsal for the Act I finale.

Hm...

Go away, Cheney,
I should say, Cheney,
You display, Cheney,
Shocking taste...

(well, "Bush" doesn't scan.)

[mattblum.livejournal.com]

How about "Dubya?"

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

The music (in the Act I finale of Iolanthe) goes pretty fast at that point. Even counting "Dubya" as elided to two syllables, it's awkward to get out at that speed, especially when followed directly by another vowel. :-)

[bluepapercup]

areyou looking for folks to go with? I want to go again!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Oh -- sadly, no, as navrins mentions above, I do also have rehearsal Thursday night. :-}

[bluepapercup]

ARGH! agg! Skip it!

*pout*

I don't know who I'm going to go with. Both the boys are sufficently un-scientific that they aren't interested in going, everyone else is doing jew-stuff or is busy. And jencallisto's in san fran. *sigh*

PLEASE STOP, I'M BORED!

[cheesyhill.livejournal.com]

I went last year and it was pretty funny. I'd definitely be up for tagging along with a posse to this year's.

Re: PLEASE STOP, I'M BORED!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Simple. ablock should organize the posse, thereby also earning brownie points with bluepapercup ;-)

[cheesyhill.livejournal.com]

Ahh, that saves me having to embarass myself by asking bluepapercup to accompany me ;)

Please imagine I know how to do the magic handwaving to add the icon to her name.

[coraline]

<lj user="bluepapercup">

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

No, see, what we're really expected to imagine is that Mr. Hotshot Coder *cares* enough to implement the magic handwaving ;-)

[cheesyhill.livejournal.com]

Now listen you, if I'd known how wave my hands, I would have! Otherwise, I'm sat here looking like a dork. See? You see me looking like a dork?

[Un]fortunately for me, I have not invested any time in learning how to make LJ go, so I guess I'll just go back to my incredibly complex C++ instead. Or something.

So there :-p

[bluepapercup]

Please, let's all be embarassed together!

and it's easy... < lj user="xyz" > (without those spaces between the < and the "

:)

[cheesyhill.livejournal.com]

You should probably poll ablock. He does indeed seem to be organising a posse though.

(See? I waved my hands!)

[cheesyhill.livejournal.com]

Boo, you lamed out!

You missed the inventor of Karaoke [receive a standing ovation] and a surprising amount of singing...

[bluepapercup]

Yes, well, I also had to work.

I am sorry I missed it, but I'm sure I'll watch the video on the web at some point. *sniff*

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

gnomi and I were really looking forward to going to the Igs again this year; last year, when I spoke to Marc, he mentioned that they try to stay away from the Jewish holidays.

I guess he forgot about Sukkot. We can't go due to the yom tov. Hope others enjoy in our stead.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Yikes. $28. I must be really old, I remember when they were nearly free.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

We should try to get to that one of these years...

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

... when it's not on yom tov! :-)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that too... :-)