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A long time ago when I used iTunes on my WinXP laptop I was able to subscribe to the Too Jewish with Rabbi Sam Cohon & Friends podcast through the iTunes Store. Since my main desktop runs Ubuntu Linux 9.04 and the RhythmBox Music Player is unable to retrieve podcast from the iTunes Store, I was at a loss as to how to listen to the podcast.
I sent numerous emails to the webmasters at toojewishradio@yahoo.com requesting a RSS feed of the podcast to no avail. So… I wrote a small Perl application to create two RSS feeds:
- All Episodes
- Last 10 Episodes
Please note that I’m only generating and hosting the RSS feeds and NOT the podcast files. The podcast is a product of Temple Emanu-El.
Update: The source code is available at Source code for scraping the website of Too Jewish Radio program to create two RSS feeds (audio podcast)
Most of you know my husband, Jason. Well, I’ve been trying to figure him out for more than a few years now, and I think I’ve come pretty close.
He either suffers from ADHD, or Asperger’s Syndrome.
Wait, don’t laugh. Hear me out.
When he is focused on something, it is with laserlike intensity. A bomb could go off 3 feet from him, and he’d never even notice. I’ve seen Miriam put things in his ear, but if he’s trying to figure out some new code, he doesn’t notice at all. Hours later he wonders why he has cracker bits on his collar. His social skills are, how to put this gently, not his strongest suit. He’d much rather sit home in front of his computer, coding, than interact with people. For years, he got along just fine with zero involvement with the opposite sex, at least of a romantic nature. He just wasn’t interested in, or looking for, a relationship. Hence, the thinking he might, if a child today, be diagnosed with Asperger’s. Also, from talking to his mother, I’ve learned that he didn’t talk until he was 3, and barely engaged in imaginative play. He was far more interested in building and sorting things as a small child, and being alone on his computer once older. Seems to fit, no?
But, when something doesn’t have his laser focus, he has the attention span of a squirel who has just downed a 6 pack of Mountain Dew. He is the most easily distracted, forgetful man I’ve ever known. He’ll be half way through a sentence, and completely forget not only what he was going to say next, but the entire topic at hand, and even that he was involved in a conversation. Something else will have caught his eye for half a second, and his brain is gone.
I’ve talked to his coworkers, and he’s the same way at work. Sometimes, he’ll drop words, or even sentences from a paragraph (that he is speaking!) and not even notice that 1/2 of it is missing. You look at him, and have no choice but to say “huh?” and his response? “I forget”.
Seriously, squirel. Hence thinking he has ADHD.
So, I’m torn. Does he fall under the autism spectrum, or the attention deficit hyperactivity spectrum?
Perhaps it is both.
Either way, having children with this man I’ve realized one thing: I’m totally screwed.
– Rebecca
