Mira pointed out before we recorded the Kaddish tonight that we have forty-four more of these to go before completing our lunar year of them on 27 November 2011. We started on 7 November 2011.
Author: erin
daily kaddish: for Dennis Ritchie
Tonight’s Kaddish is for Dennis Ritchie, the father of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system, among other accomplishments, who died yesterday at the age of 70.
daily kaddish: at 1am
Once again a statistical software conference pushes my Kaddish duties into the wee hours.
daily kaddish: at 2am
Sometimes keeping up the daily ritual is a royal pain.
daily kaddish: ein ein sof
Mira opens this Kaddish with a reading from a book the Beit Malkhut study group is working on. I’ll let her explain. —Erin
daily kaddish: the Steve Jobs we didn’t know
I wanted to play another Kaddish for Steve Jobs after reading my friend Lori’s remembrance of him from her days working at Apple.
daily kaddish: the other wrist support
Yesterday I tried playing Kaddish supine while using the black thermoplastic brace that my hand therapist made me. Tonight, I tried again with the thicker, stiffer white brace she also made.
daily kaddish: from the injured bench
This is the first Kaddish recorded supine but using a hand support—the thinner black one. It helped a lot—the horn was still slipping downward, but it didn’t pull my finger out of position when it did so. This is progress.
daily kaddish: for my great aunt, Severine Regine Vang
A kaddish for the common ancestor of me and my second cousin, who’s visiting from Norway.
daily kaddish: for Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ obituary had been written thousands of times before he got around to dying. I think the heap of Apple equipment I listed above will do just fine as mine. Oh, and one more thing—