2007-12-04 About Israel

On the right you can see a wiggly picture of my X-ray photograph. Sorry I couldn't come up with better quality, but this should be good enough to prove two things: (a) I'm the opposite of spineless and (b) I have a big heart. Oh, and I don't have tuberculosis, which is also good.

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When I was a kid we learned in school that when Jews send invitations to, let's say a bar mitzvah, they don't write directly where it's going to take place. Instead, they write something like this:
"The celebrations will be in Israel on October 9th. If, for some reasons, we won't be in Israel until then, it's going to be at our place in 42, John Q. Public Avenue."
They use that phrase even if they are not actually planning to move to Israel anytime soon. (Or at least that's what we've been told.) For them, Israel is the symbol of a bright and shiny future where all problems will be solved.

That's the reason why I made a fake poster for the Israel edition of the software we develop at the office: better, faster, simpler, more features and less buggy. It's hanging at my desk as I type. Of course now everybody asks me what I mean by that. Not a problem, I love explaining things that I consider a good idea. On second thoughts, however, maybe I should have taken it down before the clients from Syria stopped by...