Jon Newman's Home Page
Latest updates:
- 6/17/03: SIFF 2004 reviews are now available!
- 1/10/04: Married to a wonderful woman,
Naomi Weiss,
originally from Portland OR. Wedding and other details pending.
- 12/03/03: Movie reviews: Love
Actually, Under the Tuscan
Sun, Pieces of April,
Lost In Translation
- 9/4/03: SIFF 2003 reviews are now available!
- 6/30/03: Jon Newman and Naomi Weiss were engaged to be married on June 23,
2003.
- 5/6/03: Watch
this
space for SIFF 2003 reviews!
- 2/24/03: Movie reviews: The Quiet
American, Chicago
- 12/25/02: Movie reviews: Lord
of the Rings: The Two Towers,
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
Far From Heaven,
Star Trek: Nemesis
- 12/04/02: Movie review: Die
Another Day
- 10/22/02: Squashing Chain Petitions
- 6/22/02: My SIFF 2002 reviews are online.
- 6/13/02: The hosting service for jonnewman.com is expected to
experience service outages of unknown duration between 6/20/02 and 6/24/02.
- 05/13/02: Capsule reviews:
Spiderman, Artificial Intelligence: A. I.
(video)
- 04/14/02: Capsule reviews:
Monster's Ball, The Royal
Tenenbaums, Wit,
Panic Room,
Monsoon Wedding,
Life as a House,
Italian for Beginners
- 04/05/02: Movie review: No Man's Land
- 12/23/01: Movie review: Lord of the
Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
- 11/30/01: Movie reviews: Amelie,
Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer's Stone
- 11/26/01: Movie reviews: Shackleton's
Antarctic Adventure, Waking Life
- 06/26/01: Service restored after extended outage due to failure of service
provider IBD.NET
- 02/28/01: Split off Wandering Jews
website
- 09/28/00: My laser eye surgery went fine.
Thanks to everyone who offered their best wishes, and to Dr. Glaze of Bellevue
Vision Clinic and Dr. Ford of Pacific
Cataract and Laser Institute.
- 05/01/00: Great links: I-am-Canadian,
I-am-not-Canadian
- 04/26/00: New home: http://jonnewman.com
Three sites I manage:
- The Wandering Jews is an outdoors club for Jews and friends of Jews in
the Western Washington (primarily Puget Sound) area. We hike, bike,
ski, paddle, and schmooze throughout the year. Most participants are
Jews in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Activities are scheduled
irregularly.
-
Congregation Eitz Or is a
Jewish Renewal congregation which meets in Wedgewood (north of the
U-District). We practice Torah (study), Avodah (service),
and G’milut Hasidim (acts of lovingkindness) by engaging in real issues that affect
our lives.
- Fool Serious web site: Fool Serious is a loose organization of Seattle International Film Festival full series
and other (platinum, press, staff) pass holders. The name is a pun. "Full
Series" -- "Fool Serious" -- get it? Anyhow, we watch movies, we hang out,
and we are absolutely not associated with SIFF, Cinema
Seattle, Landmark Theaters, or any
film industry anything.
and some I don't:
- January 2004
- Married to a wonderful woman,
Naomi Weiss,
originally from Portland OR. Wedding and other details pending.
- September 1989
- Joined the Systems Division at Microsoft. It's
been a wild ride! Please don't ask me for technical support, that's not my job.
- June 1989
- MS Computer Science, Stanford University. Yes,
like Doctor Science, I know more than you do ... because I have a Master's Degree ... in
Science!
- June 1988
- BS Computer Systems Engineering, Stanford University
- June 1983
- Graduated Phillips Exeter Academy, as preppy as it
gets (but it didn't take)
- Cooking
- I'm not much of a cook but I have a few killer recipes, check out Guacamole,
Aunt Gertie's Noodle Kugel and Other
Recipes.
- Dancing
- I have learned some East Coast Swing and Lindy Hop. I haven't been out
dancing for a while but I plan to get back to it soon!
- Hiking and Skiing
- Seattle is a great place if you enjoy the outdoors. Sure it rains, but hey, I'm
waterproof! Contact me for more information on
The
Wandering Jews, a mellow hiking club (i.e. not the Mountaineers)
of mostly Jews, mostly in their twenties and thirties.
- Jewish Renewal
- My family is non-observant, but I have been exploring this side of my heritage with
the support of my congregation, Congregation Eitz Or.
- Movies
- The Seattle International Film Festival
(or SIFF) is, in my humble opinion, the greatest film festival in the whole world (so
there). I review everything, check out Movie Reviews. I have a
series pass every year, so if you are reading this between mid-May and early June, you'll
know where to find me. Here are my evaluations of the
movie theaters in the Seattle area. And check out the fledgling web page for Fool
Serious, the absolutely unofficial organization of SIFF full series pass holders.
- Recreational Computing
- Sure, I play computer games, so sue me. I'm always up for a game of the
latest multiplayer hits (except third-person shooters, they make me
motion-sick).
Electronic mail address
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Web address
http://jonnewman.com
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Last revised:
July 05, 2004.