User:DRosenbach

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Shalom, Shalom, and welcome to the homepage of Dale Rosenbach.

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This user values third opinions and occasionally provides one.

YU	This user is a Yeshiva University graduate.

NJDS

This user is a student, faculty or staff member, or alumnus/alumna at New Jersey Dental School.

כשרות

This user keeps Kosher.

This user makes kiddush on Shabbos and Yom Tov.

NYC	This user believes that anything west of the Hudson is significant only in relation to New York.

This user

davens with Rabbi Yonason Sacks

at AYOPP

Surely, You're Joking...

This user not only admires Richard Feynman, but is also a big fan.

NJ=6

This user believes in earnest that the State of New Jersey is actually the sixth borough of New York City.

This user ties his own tzitzis.

G&M

This user is a former employee of what used to be G&M Kosher Caterers at 41 Essex St. on the Lower East Side.

77 WABC

This user appreciates the passionate opinions and stimulating talk of Curtis Sliwa, George Webber, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Mark Simone and John Gambling. This user also appreciated the passionate opinions and stimulating talk of Ron Kuby, and was quite disappointed when he was displaced by the nearly worthless and utterly vacant spewing of the annoying Don Imus.

This user is a member of the Dentistry WikiProject.

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1 CV
2 Some of my favorite quotes
3 Favorite current example of an invalid argument
4 Wikipedia

[edit] CV

2007-2008: General Practice Residency - PGY-1; Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center

2003-2007: New Jersey Dental School

2000-2003: Yeshiva University

1999-2000: Ohr Yerushalayim

1996-1999: The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy

1987-1995: Manhattan Day School

1985-1987: Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim

[edit] Some of my favorite quotes

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled," ~Richard Feynman, criticizing NASA’s management for their serious deficiencies, in his appendix to the Rogers Commission Report.

"Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be. But half the bee has got to be vis a vis his entity - d'you see? But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee when half the bee is not a bee due to some ancient injury?" ~Eric Idle, Monty Python

"Put your hand on a hot stovetop for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. Now that's relativity." ~Albert Einstein

"All we know is that we don’t know," ~Noel Gallagher, Oasis, The Masterplan

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education," ~Mark Twain

"It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how" ~ Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat

If you're a bird, be an early early bird,

to catch that worm for you dinner plate.

If you're a bird, be an early early bird,

but if you're a worm, sleep late. ~Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

"Thank God I'm an atheist!" ~ Ron Kuby, The Curtis and Kuby Show, WABC

"It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything." ~ Stephen Colbert, explaining truthiness.

I wonder why. I wonder why.

I wonder why I wonder.

I wonder why I wonder

why I wonder why I wonder. ~Richard Feynman

"Well, this is nothing new. Never in the past have you ever taken this gentle suggestion to move on. But, Heaven forbid, suppose just this once you thought that this expression of a few sick people, actually expressed the conviction of all the people in this wonderful land of ours and all of you started to pack your bags and leave for parts unknown. However, just before you go, would you do me a favor? Would you leave your formula for the Salk and Sabin vaccine with me before you depart? You wouldn’t be so heartless as to let my children contract polio? And, would you please leave your knack for government and politics, science and technology, and literature, and good food, and fun and love, good films, and plays, music, dance, and all those things so useful and enjoyable, and would you please leave with me the secret of your drive to succeed? Please? And please, have pity on us, show us the secret of how to develop more such geniuses as Einstein, Freud, Steinmetz, Spinoza and oh so many others who have helped us all. After all, we owe you for the atomic bomb, most of our rocket research and perhaps the fact that we are alive today, instead of looking up from our chains and from our graves to see an ageing, happy Hitler drive by slowly in one of our Cadillacs. On your way out, Jews, will you do me just one more favor? Will you please drive by my house and pick me up also? I’m just not sure I could live too well in a land where you were not around to give us as much as you have given us. If you ever have to leave, love goes with you, democracy goes with you, everything my buddies and I fought for in World War II goes with you. God goes with you too. Just pull up in front of my house, slow down and honk, because, so help me, I’m going with you too. ~Editorial in the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph by William Aiken in response to the revival of the slogan "Jews Go Home"

[edit] Favorite current example of an invalid argument

Subaru commercials assert that there are more Subarus sold in New York than in any other state, and they go on to state, "that's why, in our opinion, Subaru is the official car of New York." This faulty logic probably impresses the weak-minded, but a careful analysis reveals a striking invalidity.

Let's assume, as a given, that first premise is in fact true -- that more Subarus are sold in New York State than in any other state. This makes a claim about Subaru sales in New York relative to those in other states, such as New Jersey or Alabama, but does not make any claims about comparative automotive sales within New York.

The advertisement then makes an invalid argument, concluding that, because the majority of Subarus are sold in New York, New York has a great afinity for Subarus. In reality, though, the aforementioned sales claim asserts only that the majority of Subarus are sold in New York; this is very different from Subarus being the most bought car in New York. This latter claim, if it were made (and true) could possibly be used to substantiate Subaru's claim to be the official car of New York -- but this is not the claim.