Comedian Dan Ahdoot performed tonight at the Michigan Union for Hillel students. Dan was a finalist on Last Comic Standing and he also writes for Comedy Central’s Crank Yankers.
I just landed in Amsterdam (on my way to Ukraine with 15 University of Michigan students) and it’s very rainy. The architecture is beautiful and the people seem very nice. I’ll be leaving for Kiev in a few hours to spend the day there and then it is off to Kharkov to meet the 15…
October 14, 2004 Google Introduces Search Program for Hard Drives By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. on Thursday became the first tech heavyweight to tackle the daunting task of uncluttering computers, introducing a program that quickly scours hard drives for documents, e-mails, instant messages and past Web searches. With the…
I’m actually in Texas right now for a Synaplex meeting and thus far I am happy to report that I have not been directly hit by VP Dick Cheney. Unfortunately Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old lawyer, was not as lucky. Cheney actually shot his fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets. See the…
Students Mobilize to Defeat Anti-Israel Resolution at University of Michigan On March 15th, the University of Michigan Student Assembly soundly voted down (25-11) a proposal to create a committee to investigate the university’s investments in companies doing business with Israel. Kudos go to Alana Kuhn and Jessie Risch, co-chairs of the American Movement for Israel,…
When I took my son Josh to his first Detroit Pistons basketball game at the Palace of Auburn Hills back in December 2005 everyone soon knew about it. It was Christmas Day, but the Detroit Jewish Federation arranged for a special Hanukkah celebration on the court following the game since it was also Erev Hanukkah….
Sadly, Harold Ramis passed away yesterday at the early age of 69. Famous for so many great movies including Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Analyze This, National Lampoon’s Vacation and Stripes. Ramis also acted and appeared in such films as Knocked Up, As Good As It Gets, Airheads and Walk Hard: The…