06. November 2014 · Comments Off on Amusing (and informative!) interview at UWM · Categories: Uncategorized

Amusing and informative interview with Prof. Michael Nosonovsky at the UWM Jewish Studies center. We look like brothers. It seems like something filmed in Minsk or Kiev for Soviet television, circa 1987, except for the fact that we’re speaking in English and smiling. My mother would have loved it!

28. May 2014 · Comments Off on I’ve started to tweet · Categories: Uncategorized

You can follow my jokes and what I’m up to here. @stuartetc

22. March 2014 · Comments Off on The selling begins · Categories: Uncategorized

Here’s the one sheet from the catalog. I get a readers guide (wonder what it’s going to say) and a five-city tour. Amazing. I’m very grateful. No audio version yet, but one can always dream.
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04. December 2013 · Comments Off on It’s getting close to grading time at universities · Categories: Uncategorized

If you’re a prof at Harvard (and at many other private schools), grading is easy nowadays.  Just go down the roster and type the letter A. No mess, no fuss, no thinking. You don’t even have to give final exams. The late Clark Kerr used to joke that the three purposes of a university were “to provide sex for the students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.” It’s not a joke anymore.

14. October 2013 · Comments Off on Topaz’s 16th birthday pâté cake · Categories: Uncategorized

She wanted a Ferrari. She had a little trouble blowing out the candle. Ah, these life events. There was her Cat Mitzvah. Now her sweet sixteen.
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05. September 2013 · Comments Off on Nerd Jewish New Year humor · Categories: Olio, Uncategorized

An homage to the auto correct feature on my cell phone.  And by the way, Happy New Year.

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