I was looking through the google analytics stats for my sites and noticed something very peculiar. Someone ended up on my main site by searching for "digital picture frames on shabbos". What I really want to know is the reason someone might search for this. Did some frummy decide that for some insane reason picture frames might be a problem on shabbos? Why would it be a problem? I can't even come up with a bad excuse, forget about a good one. Air conditioner is not a problem, neither is the crock pot or water urn. So what's wrong with a digital frame?
I have a digital frame which I turn on specifically for shabbos. Once I started using a digital camera, I don't make prints anymore. After everyone's been complaining on and on about no pictures of my son from the day he was born, I decided that a digital picture frame is cheaper and more innovative than printing pictures. After I bought the frame, I bought frames for our parents so they would also get off my back and stop asking me to print pictures for them.
A digital picture frame is a great gadget to have. Buy one, at least 7", loaded with pictures and place it within view of your shabbos table!
But then again it could be he wanted it for shabbos so that's why he searched for it that way. As if it's a special one made for shabbos.
ReplyDeleteI've seen them before and they look like a great investment.
Care to explain what's so special about it other than it being sold in Judaica stores for double the price and probably having worse interface.
ReplyDeletepeople need to take upon themselves crazy chumras, and frummies need business...so they come up with Shabbos Digital Picture frames.
ReplyDeleteYou just gave me a great idea. The Kosher Frame! Preloaded with pictures of gedolim!
ReplyDeleteA one time deal for only $250! Get them while they last!
ReplyDeleteOf all the useless kosher inventions, The Kosher Clock is my favorite. A cheap Chinese alarm clock with the kosher feature being that the alarm turns itself off automatically. What is it now, $19.99?
ReplyDeleteWish I'd thought of that gravy train.
^ That was me. Forgot to use my blog name. Blogger being with google annoys me because as I'm always signed into iGoogle it uses that as the blogger standard and won't let me set and forget to frumpunk.
ReplyDeleteput a link to your blog on your profile.
ReplyDeleteI have a cd/radio alarm. Radio turns off after 2 hours. Long enough for me to catch Paul Harvey on 770.
"And now you know the rest of they story."
About Shabbos Alarm clocks, they sell them in the drug store for a few dollars, their not called shabbos Alarm clocks but they serve the purpose, they are low enough so they can't be heard in another room and only last 30 seconds so that you have to set a few if you want the "snooze" option.
ReplyDeleteBut about the digital frame, yea so just cause it has a Jewish concept to it doesn't make it good. But then it could be like a "brand name". Like when people go to drug stores, they could get the generic company which is the same as the other ones. But then they like the name. So same here, people might like the sound of "Shabbos" Digital frame, even though it could be the same exact thing and just cost more. You pay for the name.
babysitter, makes it pointless then. It's not even gonna wake me up. They sell them in Judaica on M and I'm sure for not even close to real price.
ReplyDeleteJewish versions of electronics are usually much lower quality. This is because those brand name companies have established factories and even though they're also in China, the quality control is higher.
Well it depends. By me all I need is a short noise and the I'm up. The first vibrating ring from my cell wakes me up. But yea for deep sleepers it wouldn't work. But then with the loud long alarm clocks you might wake up your wife.
ReplyDeleteOk, I'm not so sure about that. But if you say so... then ok.
Well, my son's crying from the other room will wake me up. Other than that, even my wife's pretty loud alarm doesn't wake me up.
ReplyDeleteI don't get it...did anyone actually answer how a shabbos digital picture frame would differ from a regular digital picture frame? Any innovative ideas, besides the frame with Gedolim?
ReplyDeletefrumpunk - BTW great idea, you should do it! If the iPod with shiurim took off the way it did, then you never know with the frame.
My husband actually had an idea a few years ago about a key chain type kashrus alarm clock that would beep 1,3,4,5,6...hours after you click a button so you would know when you can have dairy again.
Everyone laughed at him, but now I think they sell it at you local Judaica store.
realistic viewer: I love that idea that your husband came up with. You should totally go through with it. Everybody would buy it for their children, this way they could press a button after they have meat and then it will ring when they can have dairy so they don't have to try to remember when was the last time they eat meat. It's a brilliant idea!
ReplyDeleteRealistic viewer: That is by far the most brilliant idea. Its such a stupid/lazy person concept, but its brilliant beyond brilliant. I mean, now the yeshivishe guys who don't know how to count (because they consider math "secular") will be able to know when they can eat dairy! YAY! :)
ReplyDeleteOk, this is not related to digital picture frames, but rather the Cholov Yisroel chumra. I mean I'd understand if you'd get a decent product for paying about fifty cents more for half a gallon (cholov stam going now for about $1.99 vs. cholov yisroel for $2.49), and if you feel passionately about the issue. However, cholov yisroel milk is usually so nasty that it spoils even before the expiration date. People who run these businesses are in my perspective pure ganovim who don't give a rat's ass about Choshen Mishpat. By extension, they profane G-d's name and reputation of Orthodox Jews before goyim, as in Jewish-dominated areas plenty of non-Jews buy cholov Yisroel milk. A tremendous godol said that cholov stam is acceptable in America, and, particularly in the light of the above, I'll stick with it for now. Alan
ReplyDelete"However, cholov yisroel milk is usually so nasty that it spoils even before the expiration date. People who run these businesses are in my perspective pure ganovim who don't give a rat's ass about Choshen Mishpat. "
ReplyDeleteI'm not one to keep cholov yisroal (I like the freedom of going everywhere), but in defense of the people who "run these businesses", its the kosher stores that actually make the milk spoil. According to what I read the cholov yisroal milk gets delivered in the middle of the night, and is left outside. It is therefore not refrigerated. Which means it will expire sooner. The non-Jewish stores have better accommadations for such deliveries.
I never tested this out. Like I have no idea if the cholov yisroal milk in 24hr stores taste better, but its what I heard. But I just feel the cholov yisroal people should be defended.
Dear frumskeptic,
ReplyDeleteI do appreciate you standing up for the cholov yisroel business enterprise. However, I strongly believe that there is no reason why deliveries cannot be made during working hours to serve consumers that are paying more money for the product the best way possible. Why should we give them any slack in this regard?
ok, this is not funny anymore.
ReplyDeleteToday someone searched for "digital frame shabbos".
And this post is #1 on google for that phrase!
yea, but even more ridiculous is this: I need a job Hashem please help me
ReplyDeleteWell, it's about time we switched to the new medium.
ReplyDeleteSome smart guy should set up a service where people can email him and for a fee he'll print teh email and put it into teh wall.
they actually have that, I'm not sure if its by mail or e-mail, where you pay and they put them in the wall for you. Then they have other things where you pay for a Rabbi to go to Israel for you or something, I forgot.
ReplyDeletethey actually have the letter int eh wall service for free on aish.com, they just have a suggested donation.
ReplyDeleteI got an idea for a hoax. Send an email that says someone, using Torah codes, found that if you email a wish and it gets forwarded to 600,000 people, it'll come true.
ReplyDeletefunny but I doubt it would work.
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