Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

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If you want good brows, you gotta pay!  ;-) (Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

Brilliant quote by Sholem Aleichem: The less you pay for something, the more it costs.  You might think you're getting a bargain by payi...

Awesome Porsche "Teddy Bear"! For Porsche lovers, I think it's mighty hard to resist it.  Now that's a brand that ...

This was a funny sign in an eatery: Our tasting panel samples each item before we buy it. And the picture is of the guy  ready to dig ...

Just thought this was a funny, educational photo. Vendor is selling jewelry on the corner (outside the Metro). They're advertisi...

So I had the opportunity to sit in on a colleague teaching a class in Performance Improvement.  One tool that I really liked from th...

Loved seeing this amazing Indian wedding. The rocking music, the beautiful colorful outfits, the pageantry, and the adorned white ho...

So here's a resolution for all of us for 2017... How about this year be the year of the customer! - Where we care more about doing ...

It was funny at work recently. The team was having some "technical difficulties" getting something done.  It wasn't...

So Parkinson's Law states that " work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. " The more time you hav...

This was a funny advertisement hanging in Hot Topic in the mall.  It says: "Get in our pants"--well, excuse you! Using sexua...

Just a quick lesson I wanted to share from my grandfather. He used to say (or so my dad used to tell me), " You open your eyes ...

Okay, we all like a genie in a bottle (with G-d's help) to grant us our wishes for the good.  A colleague told me that if he had a ge...

I've never seen the great allure of Walmart.  Actually before I moved from NYC to the DC area more than a decade ago, I had never e...

Eleven years after the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Centers, we are still waiting for the new Freedom Tower to go up. Yes, the...

The New Yorker (9 July 2012) has an article on TED Talks.  TED stands for Technology/Entertainment/Design and is a conference venue f...

Ever since the battles of Windows versus Linux, there have been two strong competing philosophies on systems architecture. Many have...

Interesting book review in the Wall Street Journal (18 January 2012) on Standards: Recipes for Reality by Lawrence Busch. Standards ...

TaskRabbi t is a new way to get odd jobs done by simply posting them online for others to bid on and perform them. Browsing the list of ta...