The above picture is from a Halloween party that Jaime and I attended with a couple of our friends in October 2002. We were dressed up as "Fruit of the Loom".
Welcome to my little corner of the web. I hope that you enjoy your stay. My new email address is my last name @yahoo.com. The reason I am writing it this way is so that computer programs cannot steal my email address to send out more SPAM. I am in the process of revamping my web site, so if you have any comments, feel free to email me.
This web site is all about me. I'm sure that if you've made it here, you'll find something of interest.
I have been taking frequent walks of late. In order to find out how far I've been walking, I found a very nice pedometer web site, powered by Google Maps.
We were just in Hawaii the last 2 weeks of November, 2004. Here are my pictures from our trip. Click here for our Hawaii pictures.
And here are pictures of twins that our friends Nathan and Becky had recently (ok, so it was actually Becky who gave birth, not Nathan). Here are more pictures of Nathan and Becky's twins. And here are pictures of the cute little baby that our friends Eric and Einav recently had (ok, so it was more Einav. :-))
I'm fascinated by just about everything with computers (hence my career as a software engineer). It's particularly interesting to see how Google has been recruiting employees, on this real billboard in California.
Occasionally, I find some really nice parable about life, and here is one that was sent to me recently by Alan Silver:
"A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns." The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.(Keser Chochmah 18:4; Rabbi Pliskin's Gateway to Happiness, p.239)
This funny take on 'stringencies' associated with the Passover holiday is not that funny unless you have been exposed to religious Judaism. Passover is the Jewish holiday mostly associated with freedom, because it commemorates the Biblical exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. Speaking of freedom and Judaism, I found the following article on the website of Chabad-Lubavitch about the Fight Against Terror from a Jewish Perspective.
Thankfully, those of us in the United States live in a country with lots of freedoms, and one of those is the right to vote. I found the following site where you can print a voter registration application for most states -- Register to Vote!!!. There's no time like now to register for the next local elections. Depending on where you live, there may be tax levies or other issues on the ballot as many as 4 times a year.
One political issue that I care deeply about is the right to have decent health care for all Americans. For a comparison of the 2004 Presidential candidates' approaches to this, you may wish to check out AMSA Vote 2004 Campaign. I also care deeply about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the other conflicts going on in the Middle East. However, I have had trouble finding a good web link, so if you know of one, email me.
One of my more recent hobbies is photography. If you're looking to buy a digital camera or even if you already own one, I encourage you to check out this One-Stop Digital Photography Guide. The previous link is intended as a buying guide, but since it is over a year old, the information about specific models is probably obsolete. However, for recommendations about specific models, I would recommend checking out Amazon.com's Camera and Photo store. I have NO relatonship with Amazon.com except as a satisfied customer, but the nice thing about their web site is that it gives unedited user feedback, so that you can find out what other people really think about a product. I own a Nikon Coolpix 3100, and actually bought it at Best Buy, because I preferred to deal with a local retailer.
Here are links to some of my pictures (and also some pictures taken by my wife or others).
So, have you ever heard of the dyslexic rabbi? He walks around saying "Yo" :-)
Here are two gefilte fish jokes, both sent to me by Carl and Adina Sherer in Israel. Gefilte Fish Joke 1 and Gefilte Fish Joke 2 .
The above picture is from a Halloween party that Jaime and I attended with a couple of our friends in October 2002.
We were dressed up as "Fruit of the Loom".
Click here for our honeymoon pictures. We went to Vancouver and Alaska.
Click here for a picture of our house. Our house.
I have collected some Purim Torah. Purim Torah is a unique type of Jewish Humor which parodies serious Judaism in a fun and mocking way. To see my Purim Torah collection, please click here. Updated Feb. 23, 2001.
Even though I have a lot of interesting information here, if you've surfed the net all the way to my page, you will probably enjoy this 404 error humor page. Please read the page carefully, and for added humor, view it in a browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer. Then click the 'back' button in your browser to return here.
For an interesting perspective on the current Middle East conflict, check out Virtual Jerusalem or else keep scrolling down on my homepage.
So that you can get to know me a bit, please allow me to take you in a time capsule. You will be surprised to know that in 1970 when I was born, the U.S. portion of the internet (known then as the ArpaNet) was already one year old, and by the time I was one year old in 1971, the Internet had 23 computers connected to it. For more information on the history of the internet, you can click here.
I grew up in Beachwood, Ohio, which is a surburb of Cleveland. If you're planning a trip to Cleveland or are looking for something new to do there, please check out my Mom's Cleveland travel page. If you are looking for information on Jewish Cleveland, please check out WWW.JewishCleveland.org.
If you are not a geek, you might want to skip the following paragraph by clicking here. Otherwise, read on.
In my grade school and middle school years, I quickly developed an interest in computing, one that has lasted until this day. One of the first computers that I learned to program on was the TRS-80, and I used a language called BASIC. If you know how to program in BASIC (not Visual Basic, but plain vanilla BASIC), you might be interested in the TRS-80 Basic Interpreter which is written entirely in Java, and can be accessed without downloading any software to your computer. If you're a Java programmer and are interested in the source code, it can also be downloaded from the site.
If you are interested in old computers, you might enjoy viewing the Obsolete Computer Museum, or perhaps you would enjoy viewing IBM History highlights page or Yahoo's History of Computing page. I'm still young, but for a perspective on the history of computing that predates me by a few years, you might want to check out Bernie's Mom and Computers.
Before I get off the subject of computers:
There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed a desire to become a great writer. When asked to define great he said: "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, wail, howl in pain, desperation and anger!"He now works for Microsoft writing error messages.
I graduated from Beachwood High School in 1989. While in High School, I ran track and cross country, was editor-in-chief of the award winning Beachcomber, played on the chess club, and was in JCWA which is a club that participates in Model United Nations.
I attended The Ohio State University from 1989-1993 and again from 1995-1999 and obtained a Bachelor's Degree from the Department of Computer Science and a Master's Degree from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. I was active at OSU Hillel and at OSU Chabad House.
I currently work as a computer programmer doing web programming, Windows programming, and Oracle programming. If you want to check out some of the work I've done for my employer, please check out ProjectGrid.com or check out PMS 4.0 product brochure. I live in Columbus, Ohio. You can also check out The Columbus Pages for more information about Columbus.
I enjoy surfing on the internet. To see some inspiring stories that I've collected, please click here. I added new inspiring stories on November 7, 1999.
I also enjoy more serious Torah study. Whether you are Jewish or nonJewish, observant or nonobservant, Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, or unaffiliated, I think you will appreciate this story:
A gentile approached Rabbi Shammai (of ancient times) and asked him to explain the entire Torah on one foot. Rabbi Shammai sent him away. The gentile then approached Rabbi Hillel and Hillel told him "Do not do unto your neighbor what you would not want done unto you. Now go and Study!!!"In this spirit, I highly encourage you to check out my Mom's rendition of Rabbi Hillel. There is a link to return here after you have checked it out. My Mom's answer to the gentile on one foot. (added December 18, 1998).
-- Gemara
We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers... For more information, please click to see The Paradox of Our Age. Ironically, this anonymous piece was written and even put on my web page WAY before September 11, 2001.
I have devoted a whole section of my homepage to the cause of Jewish Unity. Please click here to read more, including my thoughts, some feedback that I have received, and some official positions from Orthodox organizations. Jewish Unity Section
Several years ago, I started doing Chitas. If you don't know what Chitas is, click here to find out more. Although I am not so rigid about doing Chitas, I still know where you can find the information about it, and have updated my bookmarks on this page modified April 12, 2002.
Click here for a good Torah learning site, offering a huge variety of text classes. For classes on a more elementary level, check out Aish Hatorah. For a huge variety of Chassidic classes, click here Chabad. For audio classes and also Jewish music, click here. For a new site with some interesting Orthodox Jewish perspectives and Chassidic audio classes and also music, check out ThinkJewish. Click here for Virtual Jerusalem. Click here for Arutz-7 Israeli Radio.
If you want to see what is currently happening at the Western Wall, please check out picture of the Western Wall in Jerusalem is updated every 60 seconds.
Whether you're a 13-year old preparing for your Bar Mitzvah, or you're a bit rusty and you've been asked to fill in as a Torah reader or to give a d'var Torah, I highly recommend ORT's Bible site with full instructions in English, Spanish, and Russian, and a full Hebrew Tikun, broken down by parsha and by calendar date.
If you have a burning question about Jewish knowledge or thought, please check out Ask-the-Rabbi web site. The team of rabbis answers each question they are asked, usually within less than a week. Sometimes their web site is down, so for faster service email your questions directly to The Rabbis' mailbox (info@ohr.org.il). Put ASK-THE-RABBI in the subject line to ensure a prompt answer. If you can connect to their web site, you can view an archive of some of the more popular questions that have been answered. You can also subscribe to a very entertaining and informative weekly column of theirs from their web page.
One of the most useful pages I have found on the web is Havienu L'Shalom's 2000 year + Jewish calendar, including candlelighting times for any incorporated U.S. city and many international locations, also including Jewish/Gregorian calendar convertor.
I have found this site of useful expressions and greetings in 26 languages (including many in transliteration) to be useful. It is courtesy of the New York Public Library. Other good translation sites include Altavista Babelfish, Google Language Tools, and Yahoo's directory of Online Language Translators. I used to have a link to a now-obsolete translation site, which reminds me that there are a lot of sites that disappear from the web. For an interesting page about 'ghost' sites, check out Ghost Sites: Where Dead Web Sites Live On.
For a weekly Torah column out of Atlanta, please go to Torah from Dixie
Click here for places where you can download free software for Windows, Macintosh, and other computer platforms, including IRC software.
Check out my political philosophy by clicking here, or check your own political philosophy by clicking here.
Can you believe it? Major League Hockey has come to Columbus since 2000. And you called us a cow town (ok, so there was a one-year break because of the work stoppage)? For more information on this - and other stories happening in Columbus, OH, check out the Columbus Dispatch home page at Columbus Dispatch home page.
Columbus has a vibrant Jewish community. I now have a whole new section of my homepage devoted entirely to Jewish resources in Columbus, including kosher eats, synagogues, Judaism at OSU, Jewish learning, and more... Click here to check out the Columbus Jewry section of my homepage.
For some genealogy information about my family, click on Schubach genealogy
I adore my two nephews. Alan was born March 23, 1996. Joel was born April 11, 1998.
They have such Life and Vitality and are so smart, cute, friendly,
and GOOD kids! :-)
Some of my friends who have home pages are:
Some of my coworkers who also host pages on the Resource server,
Nathan Morse,
Leora aka Cloudee aka Eeyore,
AND Levi Capland's Appliance Store.
I maintain the following mailing lists:
If you're interested in joining any of these lists, just mail me, at:
schubach.1@osu.edu
:-) I like smileys, but I always use the boring kind with two eyes, a nose
and a smile, and shown above. If you can think of a better kind, and
I honor you enough to use it, then you should be honored, because I've
seen lots of smileyes, and really like the above one. Here is a note that
I received from Michael Alexander on February 13, 1997, featuring lots of
cool smilies. Even better, here is a link that
I found on Michael Alexander's page which is the
ultimate smiley's page. I guarantee that you'll be amused by it.
This page is under
I love getting email. To send me mail, click on my email address:
schubach.1@osu.edu
Here is a Jewish Web Ring.
, so please check back in a few days.
people have visited
this site since August 15, 1996, including you!
, for the tally,
and to my employer Resource International for hosting this web page.