Elad’s blog

Celebrating the new year, I sat with my brother at a nice pub yesterday. My brother is a very unique character, and - among many other things he does at his spare time - some time ago he attended a course to educate himself as a bartender, just for the fun of it. Somehow we got to a point where he told me two principle facts about beer, that I was not previousely aware of.

(more…)

This is what I have in mind for October, you are all welcomed to join!

(more…)

It’s not me. Really.
Someone asked me last weekend about occasions in which my life were at risk. Then I read on Eran’s blog about people who risk their lives doing adventurous things. It made me reflect a bit on occasions in the past when my life expectancy could have seemed shorter then desired. The list paints me as a man totally different from who I really am. Here are my top five entries, and one extra. The funny thing is, that I am really really totally different then what you’d imagine reading this list. You simply can’t imagine how much.

(more…)

Many things in the Eilat weekend did not go as planned, to say the least. One of them is that we never got to see the binaric palms that hide just behind the city. I wanted to show them to some people, but it didn’t work out. So for those who may be interested, here are some pictures that I made a few years ago, when I last visited that place. Maybe next time we’ll get there so more people will feel the atmosphere of that unique place, which is more than half the experience there - but can’t be photographed.

(more…)

As planned, I’m going to Eilat tommorow for a diving weekend. This morning I called my newspaper to tell them not to bring it this Friday.

(more…)

Just the obvious.
(more…)

This time, an amuzing note from the linguistic field: have you noticed how different languages term the word “bodyguard”?

(more…)

This is to memorize the fish I had for four days, and explore possible reasons for its immature death.

(more…)

Here is a nice logic riddle. I asked it one of my friends a few weeks ago, and because he didn’t solve it immediately I thought it would be nice to ask it here. It deals with an Elephant.

(more…)

for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Genesis 3:19

Just a small conversation I had had with Oded earlier this evening. I got somewhat drunk, and somehow some poets and some poems were mentioned, and - I don’t know how we got to that point - I tried to quote one memorial-day style song written by Yehuda Amichai and couldn’t remember the exact words (I was really too drunk, this is quite a famous poem).
(more…)