Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Israel Part II
Continuing from before. These are the graves from some of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Don't know much about them.
Russian Orthodox Cathedral
View from the graves looking back to the old city and the city wall.
Interesting to see the "decay" to this sign. Different than the sort of weathering we are used to.
View across the way. Pretty interesting to see they use the hill side for refuse.
When I go shopping on a Friday night, I usually bring an M16 too. This was in an American style outdoor mall. You had Nike, Gap, Columbia Sportswear, etc.
Nativities from Jerusalem often have a palm tree in them which was fairly weird to me. But seeing that there are palms growing around the city wall (I guess or hope it is native), maybe that is what they think of as normal for them.
Herod's gate on Friday after call to prayer. So the Muslims are leaving the mosque and this impromptu market set up outside the old city.
Not only this sign, but a lot of signs were trilingual. Getting around wasn't too bad since English was everywhere (as well as Hebrew and Arabic). Also interesting was that there were very few people here since Christianity is a distant third to Jews and Muslims in the area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Tomb
This wikipedia entry is quite interesting about the Garden Tomb. So it is possibly the actual tomb, but it appears to be more recent and some other details you can read about at the wiki. This is the face of the skull. You can read about why it matters in the wiki too.
Not sure if this was up to code
Russian Orthodox Cathedral
View from the graves looking back to the old city and the city wall. 
Interesting to see the "decay" to this sign. Different than the sort of weathering we are used to.
View across the way. Pretty interesting to see they use the hill side for refuse.
When I go shopping on a Friday night, I usually bring an M16 too. This was in an American style outdoor mall. You had Nike, Gap, Columbia Sportswear, etc.
Nativities from Jerusalem often have a palm tree in them which was fairly weird to me. But seeing that there are palms growing around the city wall (I guess or hope it is native), maybe that is what they think of as normal for them. 
Herod's gate on Friday after call to prayer. So the Muslims are leaving the mosque and this impromptu market set up outside the old city.
Not only this sign, but a lot of signs were trilingual. Getting around wasn't too bad since English was everywhere (as well as Hebrew and Arabic). Also interesting was that there were very few people here since Christianity is a distant third to Jews and Muslims in the area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_TombThis wikipedia entry is quite interesting about the Garden Tomb. So it is possibly the actual tomb, but it appears to be more recent and some other details you can read about at the wiki. This is the face of the skull. You can read about why it matters in the wiki too.
Not sure if this was up to code
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Israel Visit
First week of December, I had a work trip to Israel. There is quite a bit of high tech over there surprisingly. I worked up north in Haifa for the week. Intel campus is on the beach. Google and Microsoft are also near by.
View from my hotel room
View of Jerusalem
Hillside of Jeruslaem
This is pretty interesting. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is where the "Catholic" religions believe the cross and the tomb was located. (Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Sepulchre). Most protestants think it was the Garden Tomb. But below the women kiss the stone that they believe was where Joseph of Arimathea prepared Christ's body for burial.
Inside the old city almost getting run over by a tractor. Funny being in such an ancient city and then having a tractor drive past you.
Inside the Old City as shops started to open.
Read more about this here, but on their forehead are phylacteries or tefillin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin). Based on scriptures like this, Jews wear these on their forehead and arm (next picture) during prayer:
Which also gives meaning to the scriptures which talk about making them large to be seen of men:
This is the room of the last supper. Quite the buzz of people coming and going all the time. Whereas the site of the tomb is somewhat up in the air, this site is a lot more definite.
You can see the Wailing Wall below. We weren't allowed to go to the Dome of the Rock because it was the Muslim's Holy Day and only Muslims are allowed in.
More to come soon...
View from my hotel room
View of Jerusalem
Hillside of Jeruslaem
This is pretty interesting. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is where the "Catholic" religions believe the cross and the tomb was located. (Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Sepulchre). Most protestants think it was the Garden Tomb. But below the women kiss the stone that they believe was where Joseph of Arimathea prepared Christ's body for burial.
Inside the old city almost getting run over by a tractor. Funny being in such an ancient city and then having a tractor drive past you.
Inside the Old City as shops started to open.
Read more about this here, but on their forehead are phylacteries or tefillin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin). Based on scriptures like this, Jews wear these on their forehead and arm (next picture) during prayer:And it shall be for a sign for you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand did the Lord bring you out of Egypt.
Which also gives meaning to the scriptures which talk about making them large to be seen of men:But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, (Matt 23:5)
This is the room of the last supper. Quite the buzz of people coming and going all the time. Whereas the site of the tomb is somewhat up in the air, this site is a lot more definite.
You can see the Wailing Wall below. We weren't allowed to go to the Dome of the Rock because it was the Muslim's Holy Day and only Muslims are allowed in.
More to come soon...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Latest Happenings
There are a lot of great things in this post. If you find a lot of the pictures in the blog fairly mundane and sort of feel "thanks for wasting my time," well I hope this one makes up for it.
Pais wanted me to draw some hearts and circles around her eyes. Then she said she would do the same for Spence.
Meet the artist.
I have no idea where she gets this from. Is she going to turn out like the weird kid or will she be a comedian? I have no idea. But Ash and her workout and she runs in the back and puts on this outfit. She had on a leotard to workout, then added a tie, hat, socks on her hands, underwear over her leotard, and bloomers on her head. 100% on her own (we were both in the living room the whole time). Let me know at which age, I need to worry.
Close up.
Watching a video on the ipod. Works great when the kids get up early and you don't want to get up. :)
One night we told her to put on pajamas. She ran to her room and put this on. We told her it was immodest.
So to make it modest, she hiked her pants up a bit.
Great Saturday and we're teaching them young. They know when it is time to watch college football.
Pais wanted me to draw some hearts and circles around her eyes. Then she said she would do the same for Spence.
Meet the artist.
I have no idea where she gets this from. Is she going to turn out like the weird kid or will she be a comedian? I have no idea. But Ash and her workout and she runs in the back and puts on this outfit. She had on a leotard to workout, then added a tie, hat, socks on her hands, underwear over her leotard, and bloomers on her head. 100% on her own (we were both in the living room the whole time). Let me know at which age, I need to worry.
Close up.
Watching a video on the ipod. Works great when the kids get up early and you don't want to get up. :)
One night we told her to put on pajamas. She ran to her room and put this on. We told her it was immodest.
So to make it modest, she hiked her pants up a bit.
Great Saturday and we're teaching them young. They know when it is time to watch college football.
Sunday, January 01, 2012
Final Random
Watching a movie. I like how the laptop is so big on her.
Early climbing days.
One Saturday, Pais got ready and told me time to go to work and that she was going with me. She put on my backpack and we walked 100 yards down the road. She really was intent on walking with me to work.
You might need to open the full resolution version of this photo to appreciate this.
She is very popular.
They did this on their own on one of our roadtrips.
She really wanted to ride her bike which consisted of me pushing her and her not even moving the pedals.
Early climbing days.
One Saturday, Pais got ready and told me time to go to work and that she was going with me. She put on my backpack and we walked 100 yards down the road. She really was intent on walking with me to work. 
You might need to open the full resolution version of this photo to appreciate this.
She is very popular.
They did this on their own on one of our roadtrips.
She really wanted to ride her bike which consisted of me pushing her and her not even moving the pedals.
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