RISE FRANKENLUMP!!! good now go kill some villagers.

I felt that it was only appropriate to post at night. MWAHH HA HA HA!!!!! Ok now that that is out of the way I can get to a normal post. On this blog we have had a couple of posts about graffiti in different places (mostly places Yoni/Jonathon has been with his camera). I am happy to say I did not take pictures of the urinal graffiti at Rutgers however I will tell you what the best one says. An arrow points at an empty bit of wall and says “Look human potential just waiting to hatch!!!” I realize that you might not find this particular bit funny, however if u saw the quality of most of the rest of the wall you would laugh as well. However I found the best bit of graffiti I have seen I quite some time on the desk I was sitting at in my physics recitation. I copied it to paper and then to the computer. I hope you enjoy, you can calculate your level of geekyness based upon how long it takes you to get the joke.

*NOTE: IF YOU MEASURED THE TIME IT TOOK YOU TO GET THIS JOKE IN PICO, NANO OR MICRO SECONDS YOUR ARE A HELPLESS CASE.

Protest on parliament

Say you have nothing planned one Sunday, and then someone offers you a free trip to the center of London, T-Shirt included; who wouldn't join a student protest against higher tuition fees?!


This student in particular feels very strongly for the cause.

(No, I don't have a camera phone, but my wide angle lens put him outside the cameras aim, but well in the picture)


3 months later, some old lady in France wonders why she has a thousand flat balloons in her backyard.

One last thing must be said: Protests are much bigger in America.

Why Yoni did not post today

In case you have noticed, Yoni has not yet posted today. And it is now 2:04AM (on Monday!) in England, so I doubt he'll be posting on Sunday. As such, and to avoid a postless Sunday, I feel that it's appropriate to share "Rule #2 of Yoni Blogging," as conveyed to me via email from Yoni himself:

Rule # 2 of Yoni blogging. If he doesn't blog its because:
- He's doing something
- His Blogger.com isn't working
- He forgot

Don't cry for me

ARGENTINA!!!
Three YU physics professors, with the help of the National Science Foundation (NSF), are organizing an international conference on complex systems in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Part of their grant proposal was to bring a few YU students along to the conference. I am one of the three physics students invited to attend, so Stacy and I will be going to Argentina this December! And note, that since they're upside-down there on the southern hemisphere, not only do I get a chance to see an entirely different night sky, it will be warm in December.

Yeah!!! Family Reunions!!!

This Sunday my mother’s family had a reunion, and to make this one even better the whole thing had a genealogy purpose. Now I personally have about a 5-10 minute threshold for genealogy things, so after I learned that they had traced my mother’s, father’s family back to the 1840 in Lithuania I left. Eventually my cousin Aliza showed me her potter’s wheel. Now I had always wanted to use a potter’s wheel, so she gave me a lesson. The pictures below don’t really need an explanation.

Virgin Mobile

I have one of those Pay as you go plans for my phone, since my phone won't work for me in England I stopped the Paying and soon after my phone stopped the Going. I thought it was funny how V-Mobile decided to let me know in an e-mail:

"Hi Jonathan, "Did you notice that you can't make calls from your Virgin Mobile phone? That's because your balance is almost down to zero. . . ."

I took the liberty of checking my balance, and the folks over there are right, my balance had worked its way down to $0.01
I am curious if they will eventually send me a check for this amount.

Puzzling Profanities

As it's been a while since we had a post with profanity in it, I figure it's about time for another. Having lived in Washington Heights for some time, I've noticed a fairly bizarre phrase commonly used among local residents. Whilst complaining about something they feel is rediculous or something they think it's crazy for them to do they often exclaim: "F_ck that sh_t!" Now, most profanities are, well, profane (and I really don't understand why people use them when a simple "Filibuster that sea-gherkin" will make do) but this one is really quite repulsive. I wonder if people realized what it is they're suggesting they'd still use that phrase.

What Will Aryeh Not Do To Make a Fool of Himself?

This is a question that I don’t think we will ever have an answer to, however on this blog we have seen numerous amusing pictures of me doing silly things. This post will be no exception. As you all know Eli got married a month ago, what not all of you know is the shtick that I did there. Most of them will not interest you so I will skip right to the good bit. I danced for Eli and Stacy while wearing a KILT and playing BAGPIPES. Since you probably want to see the pictures of me doing this, I will not disappoint you.



And of course a very special thanks to Mrs. Wasserman for the pictures. I will try and get better pictures but that happens when the photographer gets the proofs to Eli and Stacy.

On Sapotoxins and the existence of LeicesterFolk

In another victory for the human tongue, I'm still alive. See there is this beautiful chestnut tree outside my building that's just brimming with nuts. Naturally I microwave a few only to find they taste horrible and don't eat a single one. Looking it up I tasted a poisonous horse-chestnut filled with sapotoxins, which will explain the sore throat.
Remaining symptoms: none.

And here's a curious character, a brit indeed.