2012 in review, meme-style

First sentence of each month from 2012:

A few years ago Dani bought a copy of American Megafauna, which I have written about before.

Today's daf talks about precision in language.

We have been discussing the substitution of animals for offerings.

Shefa Gold, a prominent rabbi in the Renewal movement, was in Pittsburgh this weekend.

Maybe today we have Internet access for more than 15 minutes at a time?

More from that parlor game (7 things) (yeah, I still owe some of those, oops)

Rabbi Donniel Hartman gave a fascinating talk called "Faith and Reason".

Today is the last day of the seven-and-a-half-year cycle of studying a page of talmud a day.

Air Canada sold me a ticket that couldn't possibly work, treated me badly, and cost me two days, and then they refused to compensate me (there's way more there that I haven't published, ending with them telling me to get lost).

R. Abin ha-Levi said: when a man takes leave of his fellow he should not say to him "go in peace" but rather "go to peace".

The torah tells us that it is forbidden to kindle fire on Shabbat, and the rabbis understand this to apply to extinguishing a flame as well.

It appears that, sometime in the past, someone either taught Giovanni to be a shoulder-and-neck-sitter or declined to discourage the behavior.

In 2013 I'll see if I can increase the variety of entries here. But no promises. :-)