{"id":5664,"date":"2012-04-13T11:42:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5664"},"modified":"2012-04-13T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:42:20","slug":"some-link-stew-to-end-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5664","title":{"rendered":"Some Link Stew to End The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5003\" title=\"userpic=mood-swings\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicmood-swings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"96\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>What a week! From making a decision regarding Erin&#8217;s college (UC Berkeley, meaning a whirlwind one-day trip to visit the campus tomorrow), to a last-minute birthday dinner for my mother-in-law, to my back going out and being beat up by a chiropractor, to learning this morning that my step-mother had a small stroke (don&#8217;t worry; my understanding is that the prognosis is a full recovery) &#8212; it&#8217;s been a roller-coaster ride. Add to this having a load of material to review at work, and I didn&#8217;t get much chance to catch up on the news. Still, I saved a few items of note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Origin of Doritos<\/strong>. One of the more fascinating history articles this week has to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocweekly.com\/2012-04-05\/food\/taco-usa-how-mexican-food-conquered-america-doritos-disneyland\/\">the creation of Doritos<\/a>. It turns out they were created at Disneyland, as a by-product of leftover tortillas at the Fritos restaurant.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Myths of the Future.<\/strong> Two articles relate to things that, in the future, might be subjects for Mythbusters. The first is whether <a href=\"http:\/\/la.curbed.com\/archives\/2012\/04\/awesome_theory_alert_the_carmageddon_baby_boom.php\">carmageddon (that is, when I-405 was closed for an entire weekend) resulted in a local baby-boomlet<\/a>. The second has to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/04\/weightlifters-dumbbell-shoots-bullet.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lanowblog+%28L.A.+Now%29\">a weightlifter, who supposedly dropped a dumbbell on a bullet lying on the floor of his apartment, shooting himself in his shoulder<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Antisemitism in Northridge&#8230; and unlikely heroes<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t know if it made the national news, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/community\/article\/girls_admit_to_syrup_swastikas_mother_could_face_charge_20120410\/\">there was an antisemitic incident here in Northridge<\/a>, where a women&#8217;s house had swastikas drawn on their driveway in maple syrup, and feces thrown at the house. Some teen girls admitted doing the prank, which wasn&#8217;t a hate crime because there was no permanent damage. The mother who drove them to the house has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. What is interesting is who brought this story to the attention of the media, and who got the girl&#8217;s school to take action against the girls who did it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/keepingthefaith\/item\/hating_jews_is_not_cool_with_jon_lovitz_20120411\/#When:07:07:05Z\">the comedian Jon Lovitz<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Art from Unexpected Objects<\/strong>. An interesting mental floss piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/122798\">11 works of art made with road maps<\/a>. Prefer comic books instead? Look at the website of our congregation&#8217;s Mr. Lucky*, who does <a href=\"http:\/\/isaacb2.blogspot.com\/\">really neat Judaic art from cut up comic books<\/a>. (*: Why &#8220;Mr. Lucky&#8221;? When I was at Temple Beth Torah with Rabbi Sheryl, someone once asked Ari, her husband, what we should call him. His answer: &#8220;Lucky&#8221;. TAS&#8217;s Mr. Lucky is the husband of Rabbi Shawna.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>High School Costs<\/strong>. This is an expensive year, what with yearbooks, college applications, upcoming college fees, and, oh yes, prom. USA Today is reporting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/retail\/story\/2012-04-12\/high-school-prom-spending\/54224068\/1\">that prom spending is now almost averaging $1,100 per person<\/a>. Ouch!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> <em>Debbie Does Dallas<\/em> (2002 Original Off-Broadway Cast): The Tennis Court<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a week! From making a decision regarding Erin&#8217;s college (UC Berkeley, meaning a whirlwind one-day trip to visit the campus tomorrow), to a last-minute birthday dinner for my mother-in-law, to my back going out and being beat up by a chiropractor, to learning this morning that my step-mother had a small stroke (don&#8217;t worry; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5664\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5667,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}