Tonight, Diane’s Intermediate Hebrew class graduates by reading the Book of Ruth as part of Shabbat evening services.

Tomorrow, Jeffrey’s Daled Hebrew class graduates by leading Shabbat morning services. Then we go to San Jose Rep to see Art.

Sunday, it’s the last day of Sunday School for this school year, followed by a trip to the movies to see Episode II.

And maybe we’ll even make a dent in our TiVo backlog. Or go get some exercise. Or both.

But if I’m smart, what I won’t do is turn on a computer.

Shabbat Shalom!

Today’s Mercury News had a bunch of discouraging headlines and leads:

• Sharks Eliminated in Game 7
• IBM to Lay Off Thousands
• They Can’t Blame Jar Jar for This One

To which I say:

• Wait till next year
• This, too, shall pass (I hope)
• We’re going to see it anyway

Then I get to work and find that, as part of the yearly “nominal adjustments” in cafeteria prices, the cost (including tax) of my morning Starbucks has gone from 75 cents to $1.01. Oy!

Another way to wander the Web

Doc says he’s been getting a lot of visits from URLizer, which converts horrible URLs like this: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/lol/world.html?loc=dwmain/ into more reasonable ones like this: http://urlizer.com/00/420/.

I suspect that changing the numbers in the URLizer-generated URLs might lead to interesting random pages, like this: http://urlizer.com/00/419/ (I have no clue what that page points to; I hope it’s not overtly pornographic).

Yet another way to sense the Web’s zeitgeist and avoid doing real work.