splitting the adam

'Cause you gotta have faith...

A CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western  Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a  long, long time. So she went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site. She watched him pray. After 45 minutes, he turned to leave using a cane, moving very slowly. She approached him for an interview.

"Pardon me, sir, I'm  Rebecca Smith of CNN. What's your name?"

"Morris Feinberg," he replied.

"How long have you been coming to the Western Wall praying?"  

"60  years."

"60 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"

"For peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims. I pray for all the wars and hatred to stop. I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults, and to love their fellow man."

"How do you feel after doing  this for 60 years?"

"Like I'm talking to a fucking wall."

Tip o' the hat to my dad...

Rarer than a blue moon...

...is, it seems, a truly funny episode of Saturday Night Live. Last night's episode, hosted by Mad Men's Jon Hamm, only stumbled a few times, and offered a surprising number of laugh-out-loud moments. The best bit? In my opinion, this sketch, which also showed that the velvety-voiced Michael Buble has pretty good comedy chops, too...

Quote of the week...

"I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested."

Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory

iPhone redux...

Yes, I did get a new iPhone 3GS--and sold my old iPhone 3G on Gazelle--but it's a bit early for a review. In the meantime, Woot offered up a hilarious list of 'bugs' in the new 3.0 operating system...

• Multimedia messaging does not support sculpture, macrame, or interpretive dance.
• Voice memo recordings totally don't sound like me. I don't sound like that, do I? Seriously?
• Turned on adult content filter but everybody in my videos still has their clothes on.
• Adding a task to calendar did not result in task getting done.
• Clicked this blue "compass" icon but kept getting some stupid web browser.
• Still no apps to cure the nagging feeling that I should've bought a Palm Pre.
• The touchscreen is now on the back of the phone instead of the front.
• Gone to the bathroom four times already today, and Remote Wipe hasn't worked once.
• Spotlight search crashed with memory overload error trying to index my Harry Potter cosplay photo collection.
• Tried out tethering, but I think I broke my finger smacking that phone around the pole.
• Apple still hasn't fixed the no-hardware-keyboard bug.
• "Cut" function does not apply to monthly AT&T bill.

Is there a handyman in the house?

I'll be the first to confess I'm not exactly Mr Fix-It around here, but I think anything I'd dare to attempt wouldn't be quite as bad as some of the stuff shown at There. I Fixed It. A couple of choice images below; thanks to Gizmodo for the heads-up...

Umm... hungry?

Would you buy these for the gang at the office...?

"It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping!"

On the eve of the launch of the iPhone 3GS*, a look at a fictional phone in a brilliantly executed website and video that does even more than Apple's wunderkind: the Pomegranate NS08. Thanks to Gizmodo for the find...

* No, I haven't quite decided if I'm getting the new hardware, as Apple's fascist policies have done a one-eighty since last summer. While I was able to upgrade from the regular iPhone to the 3G at the subsidized price, that is not the case this year. I'll play with the new OS and see how that works...

We can send a man to the moon...

...but apparently we can't teach our technology to be more politically correct. Thanks to Gizmodo for the heads-up...

So this old Jew walks into a bar...

...and starts telling some hilarious jokes. That's the premise behind Old Jews Telling Jokes, a delightful site that has real, honest-to-God 'old Jews' (not that old, really--it appears you have to be at least eligible for AARP to 'qualify) telling some classic (and occasionally NSFW) jokes. New jokes are added Tuesdays and Thursdays, and there's an RSS feed if you want to keep up with the latest and greatest.

Anyone up for a little action...?

I've said Hollywood seems to be pretty desperate these days, but I don't think they're ready to sink to this level--yet...