gods & monsters

  • Happy Cheesecake Day

    Yes, for Jews all over the world this is Cheesecake day! The day where you’re obliged to eat Cheesecake or Blintzes, Shavuot, the festival of, uh, cheese. Wikipedia has this explanation of “the night before the Torah was given, the Jews went to sleep to be well-rested for the big day ahead. However, they failed

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  • Dave Gilbert ? The Shivah

    Dave Gilbert: The Shivah Glorious little rabinical mini-game I’ve been looking at. Will have to give it a go and report back. I’m also playing Kudos at the moment, a life-simulator by the maker of the excellent election/re-election sim Democracy where you start off as a 20 year-old and have to achieve success by your

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  • You are talking to Russian Theatregoer

    I promised a mate I’d put this in, despite its mediocrity… You are talking to Russian Theatregoer Russian Theatregoer says: update your blog you bastard! Chalk on Glass =_= says: doh. will do when I get a mo’ Russian Theatregoer says: you’re severely inconveniencing me. I’ve got no-one to live my life through… Chalk on

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  • Ideal/Perfect

    My ideal of the perfect person then. And my ideal of what I can achieve. I’m sure Aristotle says something about this in the Nichomachean Ethics, something about there being two best lives that should be lived, that which is the true best life, only livable by gods, and the best life for a man.

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