Head of the Acquisitions Dept., Paul Carino
Former Computer Lab Manager, Mary Arnold
Head of Law School Computer Services, Shyam Nair
And some guy
I'm only kidding. It's Dan Henderson and he's a great guy.
Here are Paul Carino, Eva Benenson (my mother), and I at the Law Library's Cruise Ship Party in celebration of National Library Week on April 19, 2002
Here is most of the Law Library staff at the same party. Left to right are Rose Endozo, me, Steve Pavlo, Jeff Gechman, Ethel Fiderer, Mary Arnold, John Necci, Janice McDonnell, and Noa Kaumeheiwa.
I'm Jewish and encourage all Jews to realize how
important it is to take their Judaism seriously. Don't take an "all
or nothing" attitude by thinking that, if you can't be "perfect" and keep
all
the mitzvoth
all the time, you shouldn't try to keep any
of them. Do what you can. If you feel motivated to increase
your level of observance, all the better. Maven
is a sort of "Jewish Yahoo" ("JewHoo"?) with lots of links to sites of
Jewish interest. Another great site is Chabad.org.
And for a great selection of Jewish literature, be sure to visit Artscroll.com.
I love music, especially rock 'n' roll, and especially
doo-wop,
but I find much to enjoy in almost all forms of music. For example, I can't
think of any music I like more than the score of Les
Miserables. I also have a very soft spot in my heart for the late
Laura Nyro, whose work gave me a great deal of pleasure in the late '60's
and '70's. There is an official Laura
Nyro website . For a wide-ranging site covering many aspects of the
Philly music scene,
click here.
I'm a big fan of television, as well. Some of
my favorite shows are The Simpsons,
King
of the Hill, Futurama, Family
Guy, and
The Drew
Carey Show. I'm also a fan of Star Trek in all its
incarnations, but, since there must be as many Star Trek websites as there
are light-years from the Delta Quadrant to the corner of Broad & Montgomery,
I won't give any links here to them. TV
Guide has a very good website where you can find listings, articles,
games, and links to Fox and other Rupert Murdoch-owned properties.
I do, however, want to give special mention to a site honoring one of the
wackiest and most entertaining shows ever: The
Uncle Floyd Show. I'm proud to say I once had a picture I
sent in displayed on the "Voice of the Viewers" display board for all of
New Jersey and the surrounding states to see! Of course I was only
34 1/2 back then.
I also spend a good deal of time listening to
the radio and am a big fan of Howard Stern,
the King of All Media.
Here's me in June 2000 with Stuttering John, Beetlejuice, and Gary Dell'abate:
Jackie "the Jokeman"
Martling, Howard's former chief writer (maybe I'm the only one, but
I miss him) and recipient of far more insults than he deserves, has a great
website, too. WMGK morning DJ,
John
DeBella has a very interesting and funny page.
A good way to locate all the stations
in your listening area is to log on to Radio-Locator.
You can just put in your Zip Code and get a list of all stations that come
in fairly well in your immediate neighborhood. Be sure to check the
box that lets you include translator stations. That's how I discovered
W246AR (97.1 FM), which carries WRDV-FM
in Warminster. That station
broadcasts at 89.3, but is too weak to reach my Northeast Phila. neighborhood.
97.1 is in Bensalem and comes in reasonably well. They also
broadcast
on 107.3 from a transmitter in West Phila. It's pretty weak, but
you can pick it up in parts of West and North Philly and, at least, the
western half of Center City. They also broadcast out of Bristol on
91.7. The reason I'm devoting so much space to this station is that
they carry some great vocal group harmony shows on the weekends.
Check them out through most of Saturday and after 12:00 Noon on Sunday.
Other times they broadcast a lot of big band music and a wide variety of
other music throughout their schedule. It's non-commercial,
too. If you love radio nostalgia, check out another great radio
site as well: Classic Philadelphia
Radio.
Another thing I enjoy is beer. I especially like to patronize local and regional
breweries and brewpubs.
Yards, Flying Fish, the Nodding Head Brewpub, Manayunk Brewing Co., and
Victory
(out
in Downingtown) are some local breweries with fine products. A good
comprehensive beer lover's site is
Beer Is My Life with many links to other beer-related websites as well.
I'm also a sports fan, but not a fanatic. My favorite
is baseball and, although I was born in the Bronx and grew up a Yankee
fan, I decided many years ago that it's no fun rooting for an out-of-town
team, so I became a Phillies fan in 1971 and have had a lot of misery and
occasional pleasure ever since. Here's the Phillies
website.
Like most people, I like to travel and I've been
to Europe and the Caribbean a few times, as well as other parts of the
U.S. and Canada, but I never get tired of the Jersey Shore, especially
the Wildwoods, where I go for two weeks almost every summer. Here's
a link to tourist information.
One of my favorite websites has hundreds of links
and is especially useful for consumer-oriented information. It's
Consumer
World. Another website with a lot of useful links to sources of news
and information is CEO Express.
A good search engine that is, perhaps, not as well known as some of the
others is Starting Point.
In case you can't tell, this page is rather primitive.
I've never attempted a web page before, so this will be a long, painful
process. I hope to add some more graphics and otherwise make things a bit
more attractive. As for the little I've been able to accomplish, I want
to thank my past and present co-workers Dan
Henderson, Carol Siler, Patrick Speelman, and Ethel Fiderer for all
their help and patience. By the way, check out Ethel's
web page. And, for all you Angry
Bear fans, here's a link to his creator herself,
Noa
Kaumeheiwa!
Here are some more frighteningpictures:
My LCB card photo (taken 6/17/70)
And here I am in Aruba in 1999
And again in 2002
If you've somehow stumbled upon this page, I'd
be grateful for an e-mail reply, if only to find out that someone's actually
seen this. pj@temple.edu
