Another interesting swimming pool conversation this evening, about the recent Supreme Court decision giving corporations the right to essentially buy as many votes as they want, and the relative quiet now that the health care bill has passed. I got to thinking, why fight the system? And, it’s not really that new that corporations have […]

I just helped some new friends launch a new site for their just-published book, How To Know If It’s Time To Go. It shows how to assess your relationship’s health and/or ill health, and gives good guidance for improving the relationship or moving on in the least painful fashion. I am finding it fascinating and […]

A friend and I were talking about the bailout, and I mentioned an idea I’d heard from a couple of the late night comedians … Instead of giving the $1.5 Trilliion to Wall Street, the banks, and Detroit, we could have given it to ourselves — it would have been about  $50,000 per citizen.  (My […]

It has happened more than once that someone has claimed they can’t find what they’re looking for on the web.  These are some of the strategies I use, by typing directly into the google search box at top right of my browser … concept vs This one pulls up the concepts most commonly compared to […]

In the pool last night, one of my friends made a comment about reversing entropy.  Which led me to tell him about the article I had just read about Stephen Hawking’s recent efforts. Hawking made a bet with Kip Thorne, if you recall, against John Preskill of CalTech that information could not leak out of […]

Last Sunday my son Stefan and I went to IKEA in Brooklyn (Red Hook) to get the desk he had picked out after some weeks of shopping online and in the furniture showrooms.  I was puzzled about why we couldn’t order it online or over the phone until we got there and I saw their […]

I’ve been having so much fun with my son, Stefan, this summer.  He’s 13 1/2 and just entering high school in two weeks. He’s been taking swimming lessons, and we go swimming everyday at the Y.  And building a robot from parts we ordered from a project he found online. He’s also been learning programming […]