Shlomik and Nochum

Price Alert - Pomegranate

No minimum purchase
Chicken Drumsticks - $2.99/lb
New Square Milk - $2.49/.5 gallon

$14.99 minimum purchase
Nature's Own Apple Juice - $1.69/64oz
Barbara's Puffins - $2.39/12oz
Paskesz Square Rice Cakes - $.89
Tomatoes and Plum tomatoes - $.79/lb

Check out instant miso soup in ethnic section. I'm looking for people who'll split an order with me.

New Minyan About to Commence

From an email from Harry's Black Hole.

New White House - Washington

So far we have:  

Rahm Emanuel - Chief of Staff - Jewish

David Axelrod - Senior Advisor to the President - Jewish

Ronald Klain - Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States - Jewish

Larry Summers - Economic Advisor to the President - Jewish

Paul Volcker - Economic Advisor to the President, Former Head of Fed Reserve - Jewish

Tim Geithner - Treasury Secetary - Jewish

Peter Orszag - Head of Budget - Jewish

Is Barak assembling an administration or trying to make a minyan?

No Pants Poll

January 10th was the 8th annual No Pants Subway Ride. This year, over 1000 New Yorkers got on the subway, took off their pant and went for a ride.

The event was created by Improv Everywhere and has spread to other states and even other countries.

Unfortunately, the event wasn't held at a Jewish friendly time like, for example, Sunday and I was not able to participate. What I want to know is if the event would be at a Jewish friendly time, would you join? Comment and vote on the left.

The results are in:

WOULD YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE ANNUAL NO PANTS SUBWAY RIDE IF IT WOULD BE ON SUNDAY?

YES!	7 (25%)
NO!	14 (51%)
Only if my friends come too.	5 (18%)
Only if none of my friends see me do it.	1 (3%)

Votes so far: 27 

12, pretty good. Now who's brave enough to say they said yes? ;-)

Star Pirates

For the last couple of months I've been playing an awesome game. It's an MMO but is not even flash, plain html, yet very fun and highly addictive. The game is Star Pirates. It somewhat reminds me of the good old BBS game TradeWars 2002. Yes, I'm that old.

You can play solo or join a fleet. You can play for free or pay or get someone in the game to pay for you. Paying members get certain perks that help you in the game but are not necessary and the price is only $4.50/month. You start out with a small weak ship and a basic weapon. As you earn more money in the game and find items you can use or sell for profit, you upgrade your ship and your equipment. With luck and strategy you can easily end up more powerful than the paying players.

Part of what makes this game fun is the one more turn al a civilization. One more kill to get you to next level, one more research to get your stats high enough to switch to a better paying job. A great evil is that you can only search for loot once an hour and until your level is high enough, this is your only way for finding items and money. This makes you go back to the game every hour in search for that elusive rare find that will spell the difference between winning and defeat. This game is also constantly in development. Gameplay tweaks, new items, holiday specific items and more.

Join the game and unlike me, you wont even have to start at the bottom. If you see that you like the game, message me and I'll provide you with decent, not great, those I need for myself, set of equipment and maybe even some money for a new ship.

Macys Gift Cards

Saturday night we were going to a surprise birthday party.  I was planning on getting a Macys gift card.  I decided to send an email card instead of relying on them to send a mail card on time.  Last time, the card came late.

To make sure the email doesn't get lost, I sent it an hour before the party and immediately got a confirmation that's gonna be sent on, get this, Sunday!  On Sunday, 12PM, I got a phone call which went to voicemail.  10 minutes later I got an email that the order was canceled.  WTF?!!!

I called Macys and was given some bs that since there's a lot of fraud with gift cards, their policy is to confirm all orders and if not confirmed, to immediately cancel.  They were very sorry for all the bs but it's their policy so deal with it.  There was no automated system or separate phone number or even a separate division to deal with this.

The convenience of getting an email gift card from Macys turned out to be very inconvenient.  Next time, I'm using Amazon.  I've had 0 problems ordering Amazon gift cards and they were sent immediately and arrived on time.

Dafina: Revision n+1

Revision n

Layer 1 - Chopped onion and 3 cloves of garlic.

Layer 2 - Lamb breast or lamb stew and a bag of roasted and shelled chestnuts.

Layer 3 - Salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, hot red paprika, cinnamon, cumin, curry powder, at least 1 tbsp of honey.

Layer 4 - Bulgur and rice and/or barley.

Layer 5 - Yams, eggs and either hotdogs, salami or veal tongue.

With water add either a can of beer or a cup of coke.