Out There

While surfing around, I found some interesting material I thought you folks might enjoy:

• How Lisa Came to Israel, Part 6:

  Back in January, I pointed you to Lisa’s blog, which had the first five

  installments of the story of how she ended up moving from Canada to

  Israel. She’s been busy, but at last Part 6 has been posted! In case

  you missed them, she’s posted links to earlier installments.

• Someone beat Vanilla Ice to that rhyming couplet! Deenster

  writes about a song she learned

  at the Hasidic day camp she went to

  when she was very young:

  All the animals that we eat

  must chew their cud and have split feet

  but kosher meat just can’t be beat

  i want kosher meat to eat!

  So…Take your ham and take your bacon

  i won’t eat themyou’re mistaken

  I’m a Jew and I’m not fakin’

  I want Kosher meat to eat!

  The

  “bacon / fakin'” rhyme sounded familiar, and moments later, it dawned

  on me: years (probably decades) after the song above was written, we

  got Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby:

  Now that the party is jumping

  With the bass kicked in and the vegas are pumpin’

  Quick to the point to the point no faking

  I’m cooking MC’s like a pound of bacon

  In honour of these songs, here’s a little stanza I wrote called “Asian Dietary Rules”:

  If it’s got four legs and isn’t the table
  Cook it and eat as long as you’re able

  That also reminds me of Dizzy Gillespie’s Hey Pete, Let’s Eat More Meat [Windows Media sample | RealAudio sample].

• Liz “mamamusings” Lawley’s Video Game Store Lament. After a

  terrible experience getting a PlayStation 2 for her son at the local

  video game store, Liz came up with an interesting idea:

  Sometimes I think that what I ought to do is open up the ultimate gaming spot geared towards parents

  as well as their kids. There’s not much out there that targets tweens,

  really. The hands-on museums are for the younger set. The game stores

  and arcades are more for the teenagers (and the parents hate being

  there). So why not create a place that tweens will love, and that their

  parents won’t mind taking them?

  One

  of the projects we’re working on here at the Research and Innovation

  department of Tucows is games, so this sort of this is interesting and

  relevant to my work. I’ll write more about it in the upcoming weeks.

• Somebody actually tried it! Julie Leung read my posting about deep-fried Oreos and actually made them. (Yeah, it’s a post from a while back, but I’ve meaning meaning to point to it for so long.)