7 things about me

I saw Charlie Kalech’s “7 things about me” note this morning and like the inevitability of a bad sequel following a good movie or armed resistance following occupation, I knew my time in the darkness is counting down and sure enough by 15:55 EST I was tapped by Yael Beeri which btw is also my daughter’s name (13), sister to Jonathan (17) and daughter to Ofra (ageless) aka @ofratessler and that was the first of the seven.

I was born in Haifa, grew up in Jerusalem, spent almost three years in London, was a kibbutz member at Misgav Am, moved to Tel Aviv, to Los Angeles, to Yahud to Ramat Hasharon to Tel Monde and now in Atlanta for the longest period in one address as an adult(? )(5 years) and that is the second thing.

Third, I was fortunate enough to rub elbows with some of the greatest personalities ever: a day with Yigal Alon in his home in Genosar; A seminar with Yishayahu Leibovitch (http://hafooch.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/stuff-that-stays-with-you-forever/), asking Meir Pail a question that made him break a glass, learning guitar from Matti Caspi (sorry, non-Israelis – I know these names probably don’t mean much to you) and more.

Greek music makes me melancholic and that can only be relieved by Ouzo and Tzaziki. The only music I can work out with is Heavy Metal and progressive rock (yes, elp, dream theater, old genesis, gordian knot, king crimson, porcupine tree etc.) is what catches my attention the most(4th)

Fifth – I’m proud to announce that I have stopped watching television except for live sports. I try to watch 3 – 7 movies a week on dvd (netflix) or internet. The two blogs that make me laugh are Criggo (http://criggo.wordpress.com) and Johnny Truant’s “The economy isn’t happening” (http://www.theeconomyisnthappening.com) Sixth -

My knee jerk reaction answer when people ask me what are you up to or what have you been doing and such is “Drugs, Sex and Rock-n-Roll” (two out of three ain’t bad) and last – I am so used that people think differently then I do that when someone agrees with me, I instinctively check if maybe I am mistaken.

I tap: Melanie Brandt @melaniebrandt, Elizabeth Cohen @elizcohencnn, Yarin Hochman @yarinhochman, Lisa Damast @lild184, Guy Eliav @guyeliav, Adrian Levine fka @adrianlevine, Laurie Baird @lawd

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Looking my Home Screen in the Mirror

 Lying in bed this after Halloween morning and organizing my home screen Icons, I realised that this is a snapshot of my current existance and probably says a lot about what I do and who I am as much as a detailed bio. 

Tomorrow’s priorities will be different and there are other apps from my other four screens and new ones that will make their way up to Home while others will be downgraded as life moves on. Recent suprising downgrade was the You Tube app which was a past pride and joy.

So here it is from bottom left to top (aka order of importance).

1. Phone – still is the most important function
2. Email – Work, Gmail, Yahoo
3. Ipod 
4. Browser
5. Vitalist – ToDo app
6. Twinkle – Twitter app (newcommer from page 2 – becomming more and more prominent)
7. Evernote – notes and stuff (I rarely use paper to take notes anymore)
8. Pandora Radio – mainly for workout music
9. Calculator - 
10. Settings – to turn wifi on and off (they should have a seperate button for that)
11. Remote – to get my son’s attention when his music is blasting
12. Fring – for IMs
13. Camera
14. Maps – GPS
15. Say Who – Voice Dailer
16. Clock – my one and only wakeup device
17. Google – mainly for the RSS reader
18. SMS
19. Calendar
20. Photos

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