If I make a vow to not eat pizza, what can I not eat?
On the one hand, it would seem that bread with sauce and cheese on it is called pizza, as that is what they give you in a pizza shop when you order a slice of pizza.
However, it is implied otherwise in the bagel-bites commercial song:
Pi...
@HodofHod I don't know if we can get custom badges, but you could add one to your gravatar. :-)
@YEZ there's no time limit. It'll happen. Coincidentally, I just got Famous Question over on Travel for a question I asked in 2012 -- I'm not active there and had no idea the question was that popular! (I don't remember when its Notable Question came in, but a while ago.)
It's unlikely that you'll have to wait 2 years for 2 more views, though. :-)
@GeminiMan Thanks. When I set up these weeks' community bulletin items, there were no tzav-tagged questions, so I didn't put it in the bulletin. Now thereare, so I've just added it. Alas, that removes meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/q/1994 from the bulletin.
@GeminiMan Yeah. There are so many related tags that I figured it shouldn't link only to purim-tagged questions: the wiki lists them.
Come to think of it, I guess we don't need the Zachor tag linked to in the bulletin: it's in the list in that wiki. And removing it would make room in the bulletin for meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/q/1994.
I find this ironinc: for this answer which took me 25 seconds and no critical thinking, I got 115 reputation and a silver badge judaism.stackexchange.com/a/36035/4794 and for this answer which took me close to 20 minutes and involved putting a lot together I got 10 reputation points judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/28379/…
@YEZ That happens a lot. Part of it, I'm guessing, is that you posted the former soon after the question, so people looking at the new-question list saw it.
@YEZ It's a definite rule - I know almost for certain now that an answer which takes me about a minute's work will gain me a fair amount of rep., but if it takes me an hour of work I'll get very little. It's happened many times already.
@YEZ Anyway, you get votes over time if the question+answers are found a lot. (That is, if they has an interesting topic and search-engine-friendly text.)
@YEZ Yep. :-)
@Ethan Welcome! Nope, but you're free to ask any homotopy theory questions you like.
Sometimes my "quickie" answers get votes because the reason they were quick is that they're verifiable -- so I looked something up and voters confirmed that it's correct. Often in the answers that involve more work, that work comes in laying out a chain of reasoning, which may or may not be correct.
@YEZ the answer to a great many voting/view/etc puzzles is "wait longer". I sometimes get stray upvotes on very old posts, ones that haven't been active in months or sometimes years, so somebody's looking at them.
I apologise in advance if this is not the place to ask this question.
Is "reputation scoring" against the spirit of Pirkei Ovos 4 (5) "Rabbi Tzaddok would say: Do not make the Torah a crown to magnify yourself with, ...."
@MonicaCellio Yes, and I even have studied a little bit of homotopy theory beyond the first homotopy group, but I don't remember it besides the general notion (what homotopy is).
My degree is in topology (not homotopy theory, though), so I've mentioned it to people many times. I've had many people ask me "isn't that marking mountains on maps?" (topography) but never before topiary. :-)
@JonBeardsley None that I can think of offhand. But see judaism.stackexchange.com/q/10443 for some application to Judaism of basic Euclidean geometry / trig.
Someone once came to R' YB Soloveitchik to get a mesorah in shechita. He asked him "whats an ogeres (which is a nick in the knife)?" He answered "a dried fig." So he asked "OK then what's a grogeres (a dried fig)?" and he answered "A girl over the age of 13" so he asked him "OK what's a bogeres (A girl over the age of 13)?" to which the guy replied "I came here to get a mesora in shechita, not for a test on kol haTorah kula!"
hahaha, well, perhaps in the world of academia. he's certainly well respected as foundational, and brilliant, but set theory is highly specialized these days
and struggles to find applications to other areas of math
@JonBeardsley Numerology is like a spice. It's good as an additive in small quantities. By itself it's not very tasty. (Not my analogy. (Gematria ~= numerology.))
Seriously, please promote Purim - Mi Yodeya? (s.tk/miyodeya) however you can. Many people will be shopping for Mishloach Manot supplies on Sunday, and the more of them that have heard of our stuff by then, the better.
Feel free to poach announcement-y language from my blog post about the book, anybody, if that's helpful. (My blog is general-audience, which affected my choice of sample questions.)
@IsaacMoses Morse doesn't distinguish lowercase, but S.TK/MIYODEYA doesn't work. The reason I tell you this is to stop you from telegraphing the URL to your friends and family, something I know you were planning to do.
Could some moderately modish moderator modify the haftarah, which makes no sense, to haftorah - or make the haftorah the main one and the other an erroneous synonym. Thank you.
@GeminiMan Why doesn't it make sense? There is one patach and two kamatzes in the word, so either haftarah or haftoroh make sense to me. I'm not sure how haftorah isn't inconsistent.
@DoubleAA I thought everyone said 'haftorah', being that I am very parochial, so I thought 'haftarah' was a mistake, but I see from wikipedia that this is only the Ashkenazi pronunciation - Go us!
@DoubleAA On a diff. subject - this question of mine judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/36117/… is getting an unusually large number of hits, and it's not a particularly unusual question - is there any way of knowing why?
If I make a vow to not eat pizza, what can I not eat?
On the one hand, it would seem that bread with sauce and cheese on it is called pizza, as that is what they give you in a pizza shop when you order a slice of pizza.
However, it is implied otherwise in the bagel-bites commercial song:
Pi...
I apologise in advance if this is not the place to ask this question.
Is "reputation scoring" against the spirit of Pirkei Ovos 4 (5) "Rabbi Tzaddok would say: Do not make the Torah a crown to magnify yourself with, ...."
What is the function of the 'Frequent' sorting option on the Questions tab?
