Back from the grave

Well, I've been silent for so long that some might think I gave up on this blog. Those phantom people who actually read it :)

Anyway, the reason for the long silence is that I was really busy. I started my PhD in the University of Nebraska and was plowing through literature on the subject of my research. In the meanwhile I also did some translations.

I have to say that this period was rather satisfying. I had perfect freedom to look for anything I thought relevant, think on the subject of the project and write my thoughts down. I also had the chance to see what it takes to publish a scientific paper. On this front, I have to say, the picture isn't too pretty. Apart from several papers (out of about 60 I went through) most of the papers were somewhat superficial and left plenty of open questions. All the better for me to answer them :)

I also talked to my professor and though he narrowed the field for me somewhat, I still have a lot of latitude. I think the next years are going to be fun :)

Anyway, apart from that, our lives are going and advancing. My wife goes to conferences with the regularity of approximately once a month. The weather isn't much better than in Israel at this time of year, but could be worse.

I hope I am going to update more often from now on.

Spring or not

I was about to post how strange it was that most of the snow disappeared within a week. As far as I can remember from my childhood in Ukraine, this usually took much longer. Anyway, this post was foiled by a relatively heavy snow falling since this morning. Go figure.

Recap

Hi there. I started writing several posts before I actually started a blog,and posted them on my website. Now, that I have a blog, I will repost them here.

January 7th, 2010

10:00 It's really cold outside. The sun makes some small effort to appear, but not too much. After yesterday's storm I expected to shovel all through the morning. Thankfully, some good soul cleared our building's driveway before me. The last two times were fun, because it was relatively warm, but today it would have been a real drag. So, I am raising my cup of coffee for that soul.

Maccabi plays today and I am yet to figure out how the live tv on the Euroleague's site works. Well, they qualified, so I wouldn't miss too much, but I better figure this out before the next round.

The dude from London hadn't answered yet. I hope he does. The work seems interesting and pays well.

I am going to get the parts of this site in Hebrew and Russian up and running today. Wish me luck (if there is anybody reading this :) )

Tuning off for now

15:00

Well, Maccabi had won. A pretty good game in the second half. But what's the deal with the free throws. I think some guys had a better percentage from the three than from the free throw line.

For the money Euroleague.tv charges they sure give a pretty shitty picture. I'll have to look for an alternative. I have to say that I also miss Niv Raskin and Ofer Shelach.

You'll have to excuse me (if there is anybody reading this), I am still trying to get used to this thing and improve it.

Attempts to make the Hebrew and Russian parts of the site up and running had failed so far. I'll try again later.

I am planning to finish editing "Something for Nothing" for the On the Premises magazine. Hopefu, next week I am going to start editing "The Gathering Clouds" again, and maybe writing some of the stories I somewhat abandoned due to the relocation and the job from Simanim.