Ah. I was driving when I was listening to this, and seem to have misheard something ;) I thought the story said seven years ;)
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected] > wrote: > > Yep. A client got me a $100 seat on the second level off the corner, stage > facing and 4th row. very nice seats. Could see the speakers but not make > out the details of their faces. The jumbtrons were fantastic though. The > energy there was very positive and the speakers were amazing. I'm still > looking for an 'official' video of the speakers. > > As the Daf Yomi started in 1923, I think tablets were definitely not > prevalent. :) > I have yet to see anyone using a tablet to do the Daf but that does not > mean that people don't do so. Of course, a tablet is a problem on Shabbos > and holidays so the physical books are the standard. Another problem with a > tablet is that we're talking 2,711 very large pages with a LOT of > commentary, some of which is in small print and in at least 3 different > fonts. A tablet user would be scrolling back and forth between parts of the > page and that would be a major distraction. I'd rather carry around a large > 12"x8.5" book with me to learn. Luckily, most Shuls have a few copies of > each volume (73 in total). > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I heard about that on NPR. You were in that? That's kinda cool. One of > the > > points the NPR story made was that mobile computing has made it much > easier > > to carry the Talmud around so that you have it for your reading group, > but > > mobile wasn't so prevalent back when that started so I don't know how > valid > > that is as a surmise. > > > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Michael Dinowitz < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I was thinking on how to write an article about an event I went to last > > > week. I thought: > > > "What do you call 95,000 Jews in a single football stadium? A good end > > and > > > a good start" > > > Unfortunately, the chances of it getting badly interpreted just stopped > > me > > > from using it. But I thought I'd share. > > > > > > The event was a celebration upon the completion of a 7.5 year learning > > > program where people learn a page of the Talmud a day. This was the > 12th > > > cycle since the program was started and while there were a number of > > > celebrations around the world, the major one in the NY area was in the > > Met > > > Life stadium over in NJ. 93,000 tickets sold with about another 2,000 > > > invitees. It was sweet. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353498 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
