short takes

[cellio]

I'm reading torah tomorrow, and my portion starts in the middle of a paragraph. Finding the beginning is usually a challenge in that case (remember: no punctuation), so I asked if I could look at it after minyan last night so I wouldn't be fumbling with it at the last minute. My portion begins a new column -- first word of the column is my first word. From a navigational perspective it doesn't get much easier than that!

velveteenrabbi wrote an interesting article, Blog is my Copilot: The Rise of Religion Online. (It's fairly short.) I had not previously heard the term "godblog".

This morning I found myself behind a police car that made several turns without signalling. While it's naive, I prefer law-abiding behavior from those who enforce the law.

A woman who had a baby at a gas station was driving herself to the hospital immediately after when the police stopped her. The part that got my attention was that after they cleared up the traffic stop, "Officers sent Coleman on and let the hospital know she was coming". Um, isn't this the point where many officers would have offered to drive her there? *boggle*

April Fool's comment from mortuus: "may your pranks be merry and may your victims not sue". Ah, life in America. :-)

I was reminded recently of some LISP limericks that I saw, by either Guy Steele or Scott Fahlman I think, in the early 80s. They were limericks in code, though some creativity in reading them was called for. This was long before I had a personal hard drive on which to lose such stuff, and Google isn't turning them up for me. Does this ring any bells with anyone else?

Comments

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Yes, the police should have driven her. and is it just me or shouldn't they have made sure the baby was in an infant car seat?

[cellio]

I'd actually cut some slack on the car seat for a just-born infant still attached to mom. But she shouldn't have had to drive the rest of the way to the hospital herself!

[grouchyoldcoot.livejournal.com]

Damn straight! If I remember the story correctly, she stopped at a gas station on the way to deliver. Surely someone else at the station could have taken over driving at that point.