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• Tavolo

  By ljd42 on July 21, 2022

  

  Too hot to cook last night! So we just had to go out to eat at Tavolo. It was quite a sacrifice, but someone had to do it. Unfortunately, they were understaffed. Poor Chris was the only server! But he… Read More ›

• Atrius/Harvard Vanguard acquired by a for-profit company

  By ljd42 on July 19, 2022

  

  Not that I’m worried or anything…I’m sure that the quality of my health care will continue to be just as good, now that the non-profit medical practice I have used for half a century has been acquired by a for-profit… Read More ›

• შემომეჭამა 

  By ljd42 on July 17, 2022

  

  There might be a typo in that title! Did you catch it? No, this not just a bunch of squiggles! It’s a real word, written in a real script, in a real language—one that is spoken by four million real… Read More ›

• Three steamed lobstahs

  By ljd42 on July 15, 2022

  

  Freshly steamed take-out from George at Adams Fish Market. The cats are very curious.

• 224 again (does that make 448?)

  By ljd42 on July 13, 2022

  

  A delicious dinner last night in an outside umbrella’d booth at 224 Boston Street. Barbara started with kung pao calamari, followed by a southwest salad. I started with pork dumplings, followed by a pan-seared duck breast with roasted carrot purée,… Read More ›

• The Oxford Brotherhood

  By ljd42 on July 10, 2022

  

  If you’re interested in academic mysteries, read this novel. If you’re interested in Lewis Carroll, read this novel. If you’re interested in mathematical logic, read this novel. In all these cases, the novel in question is The Oxford Brotherhood, by… Read More ›

• Julia Metraux on “How queer Jews reclaimed Yiddish.”

  By ljd42 on July 8, 2022

  

  My former Weston High School student, Julia Métraux, has published a really interesting article about the reclaiming of Yiddish by queer Jews. As you know, I’ve written several posts that mention Yiddish, most recently one about the Yiddish-German connection. You… Read More ›

• Miriam and Alan explore Scotland.

  By ljd42 on July 6, 2022

  

  Which two actors are these? Yes, Alan is Alan Cumming, as you suspected. And Miriam is Miriam Margolyes, who has appeared in dozens of films but is best known (in certain circles) as Professor Sprout in several of the Harry… Read More ›

• Don’t shoot off fireworks in residential neighborhoods…

  By ljd42 on July 4, 2022

  

  …where they scare cats and dogs, trigger PTSD in war veterans, and are illegal.

• 42: From crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life

  By ljd42 on July 3, 2022

  

  Another exciting book from A.J. Jacobs! 42: From crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life is not the title of the book. As Lewis Carroll might say, it’s not even the name of the book. Nor is it what… Read More ›

• Can you pronounce dBar as one syllable?

  By ljd42 on July 1, 2022

  

  Barbara and I had a lovely dinner at dBar, outside on their beautiful patio…but we forgot to take pictures! ☹️ I suppose that means it didn’t happen. So we’ll settle for a photo from OpenTable. Barbara started with a “jumbo… Read More ›

• And now…I’m back to teaching…

  By ljd42 on June 29, 2022

  

  Ten months ago was when I had most recently taught a class. But that was by Zoom, of course. As was my teaching in the previous summer. So it has really been almost three years since I’ve taught a live… Read More ›

• More and more teachers are leaving the teaching profession.

  By ljd42 on June 27, 2022

  

  Yes, I suppose I’m part of the problem, not part of the solution. But I didn’t exactly leave the teaching profession: I just retired from my position at Weston High School. Being “semi-retired,” I’m still teaching every summer at the… Read More ›

• All four cats…

  By ljd42 on June 26, 2022

  

  companionably eating their dinner together. And should be no fighting over the food bowls, with four bowls for four cats:

• Gender issues: a perspective from a Russian Jewish mathematician

  By ljd42 on June 24, 2022

  

  “My mom used to tell me that most men do not like brainy women,” writes well-known mathematician Tanya Khovanova. Well-known in certain circles, anyway. Female, Russian-American, Jewish—there are a lot of possible identity issues here. I’ve written about Khovanova twice… Read More ›

• What’s an “app crit”? And why should I care?

  By ljd42 on June 22, 2022

  Perhaps for some odd reason you have never looked at a modern edition of an ancient or medieval text—whether in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Old Norse, Sanskrit, Old High German, or whatever. In that case, it’s not too late to start!… Read More ›

• Back when Heinlein was antifa (really!)

  By ljd42 on June 20, 2022

  

  When I was growing up and reading a lot of science fiction, the Holy Trinity of sf writers consisted of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein. Often they were called “The Big Three.” They had a number of… Read More ›

• I finally got to see the world’s finest model railroad, but…

  By ljd42 on June 19, 2022

  

  As I drove along Main Street in Peabody yesterday, the first bad omen was the sight of the old-fashioned parking meters in front of the Franklin & South Manchester Railroad. Quarters only! The problem was that I no longer carry… Read More ›

• Saoirse and Beanie and…[who else?]…add up to…Lady Bird!

  By ljd42 on June 17, 2022

  

  Although I’ve never been to Sacramento, and certainly wasn’t there in 2002, the movie Lady Bird felt very realistic to me. Realistic and convincing. Kudos to director Greta Gerwig! As A.O. Scott in the New York Times put it, “Every… Read More ›

• Happy Bloomsday!

  By ljd42 on June 16, 2022

  

  As you probably know, today is Bloomsday, the annual Irish holiday commemorating the 24-hour period over which James Joyce’s Ulysses took place. As you also know, I had announced in this space last month that I would be (re)reading that… Read More ›

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